Philosophical question about "what is exercise"

[devilc]

Does the last 45 minutes of food-poisoning triggered abdominal spasming/clenching and repeated sprinting to the toilet count as a workout?

Comments

[iosonochesono]

I would vote yes after my last bout of food poisoning.

[rydra_wong]

It's a floor wax and a dessert topping! It's a core workout and Tabata sprints!

(Sympathies. Food poisoning is one of the quintessentially non-fun experiences.)

[lyorn]

I see "exercise" mostly as "practise, training", not the real thing, but something you do to be able to do the real thing better.

So that would have been the real thing, i.e. not exercise, when it comes to the effects of food poisoning. However, if your abs were doing some serious work there and now to *other* things better, it counts as exercise :-]

While exercise can be a pain in the whatever, your day sounds miserable even by the dreaded gym teachers' scale of miserable ("If it does not hurt, it does not count; if you are having fun you are doing it wrong.") Hope you feel better now (or at least, soon)!

[iosonochesono]

IME, most vomiting comes with a serious ab workout. Lol, I could barely move for days after I got over the actual throwing up.