I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. – Mark Twain
I exercise so I don’t end up in a nursing home. Dying suddenly at hone would be fine, but I have been in too many nursing homes over the years and watched people waste away. One of the biggest things leading to life in a nursing home is loss of leg strength. I don’t care about looks or competition or any of that, but if keeping my legs strong will keep me out of a nursing home, it’s worth it to me.
Then there’s the school of thought that you have a specific number of heart beats before you die and exercise speeds up the heart therefore using them up too quickly.
20 minutes a day at 4 MPH on the dreadmill will result in an extra 30 minutes per day of life when I’m old, useless, and mainly in pain. (Maybe I haven’t thought this through)
There are two things I hate – exercise and doctors!
One must be embraced so the other can be, at all costs, avoided. The 45 minutes I spend every day working out is worth the fortune saved by keeping me out of the clutches of the medicos!
I haven’t needed to see a doctor for anything for a couple of years now – and the last time was to only have a cyst removed from my back – and at 77, I intend to keep it that way and the only meds I take will be taking is the occasional aspirin!
It’s funny as a joke, but sad when people actually believe it. People that don’t take care of themselves spend more time sick and miserable in their short lives than people eating healthy food during a long life.
This 90-year-old couple dies in a car accident. St. Peter is showing them around heaven. He shows them the streets of gold, and the man shakes his head. He shows them their mansion, and the man mutters to himself. He shows them the glorious presence of their Savior, and the man shakes his head and mutters again. His wife says, “What are you grousing about?” And the man says, “You and your oat bran … we could have been here 20 years ago!”
BasilBruce about 2 years ago
This is a pretty dark version of their “What good is a long life full of broccoli and exercise” routine.
BE THIS GUY about 2 years ago
Whether Pig exercises or not should depend on how lean you like your pork.
ronaldspence about 2 years ago
circular logic…
marilynnbyerly about 2 years ago
Here’s the problem. Exercise keeps your body from failing so utterly that you wish you were dead.
B UTTONS about 2 years ago
Pig without exercise would become the best bacon sold except in California where pigs are required to have room to exercise.
pearlsbs about 2 years ago
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. – Mark Twain
David_the_CAD about 2 years ago
They say that people who exercise and people who eat vegetarian diets live longer.
I wonder if they actually live longer, or if it is that their lives are so miserable that they just seem to be longer.
baddawg1989 about 2 years ago
If my body’s ever found dead on a jogging trail, just know I was murdered elsewhere and dumped there. :-D
gbars70 about 2 years ago
Take that, exercise gurus!
salakfarm Premium Member about 2 years ago
I agree with Pig’s philosophy. As Dr Johnson famously said, “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it passes.”
cdward about 2 years ago
I exercise so I don’t end up in a nursing home. Dying suddenly at hone would be fine, but I have been in too many nursing homes over the years and watched people waste away. One of the biggest things leading to life in a nursing home is loss of leg strength. I don’t care about looks or competition or any of that, but if keeping my legs strong will keep me out of a nursing home, it’s worth it to me.
Kayak_Brian about 2 years ago
If exercising and being a vegetarian for 5 years allowed you to live to be 150, would you do it?
jel354 about 2 years ago
Vicious cycle.
monya_43 about 2 years ago
Eat healthy and exercise . . .die anyway . . .nobody gets out alive. It’s all an evil plot.
[Traveler] Premium Member about 2 years ago
Then there’s the school of thought that you have a specific number of heart beats before you die and exercise speeds up the heart therefore using them up too quickly.
Wirepuncher about 2 years ago
The sooner you die pig, the quicker you become bacon.
Gameguy49 Premium Member about 2 years ago
20 minutes a day at 4 MPH on the dreadmill will result in an extra 30 minutes per day of life when I’m old, useless, and mainly in pain. (Maybe I haven’t thought this through)
Ellis97 about 2 years ago
Pigs only got twelve years anyways.
Zebrastripes about 2 years ago
Exercise and yoga are not for everyone! Yuk
aerotica69 about 2 years ago
If only there were truth in the phrase “working your a$$ off”.
LaughterIsJoyMuliplied about 2 years ago
Pig can see the plus side of almost anything.
edstiles about 2 years ago
I really feel sorry for Goat. What he goes through with friends like those….
diskus Premium Member about 2 years ago
I dont mind th excercise, its all the other crap that gets in the way
Linguist about 2 years ago
There are two things I hate – exercise and doctors!
One must be embraced so the other can be, at all costs, avoided. The 45 minutes I spend every day working out is worth the fortune saved by keeping me out of the clutches of the medicos!I haven’t needed to see a doctor for anything for a couple of years now – and the last time was to only have a cyst removed from my back – and at 77, I intend to keep it that way and the only meds I take will be taking is the occasional aspirin!
Alberta Oil Premium Member about 2 years ago
Sure but your bacon will be second grade at best. Having " His bacon was mostly fat" is not something you want to leave on your tombstone.
NELS BALWIT Premium Member about 2 years ago
The trick is to do things that are fun and get your body moving. I go to the Y 3 times a week and swim. Swimming is not exercise it is fun.
raybarb44 about 2 years ago
In this life, you might just have….
Goat from PBS about 2 years ago
Fun fact: being healthy is the longest possible way of dying.
Howie Vasive Premium Member about 2 years ago
Our hearts have a finite number of beats. I see no point exercising and using them up quicker.
zeexenon about 2 years ago
See you there, you, you dirty rat….
198.23.5.11 about 2 years ago
Donald Trump never exercises,and look how HE turned out.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member about 2 years ago
I’m on board. Everybody dies; not everyone exercises.
Bilan about 2 years ago
It’s funny as a joke, but sad when people actually believe it. People that don’t take care of themselves spend more time sick and miserable in their short lives than people eating healthy food during a long life.
The one and only Eldest Arc (now at peace) about 2 years ago
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2007/11/16
DrDavy2000 about 2 years ago
This 90-year-old couple dies in a car accident. St. Peter is showing them around heaven. He shows them the streets of gold, and the man shakes his head. He shows them their mansion, and the man mutters to himself. He shows them the glorious presence of their Savior, and the man shakes his head and mutters again. His wife says, “What are you grousing about?” And the man says, “You and your oat bran … we could have been here 20 years ago!”
Baucuva about 2 years ago
I don’t expect to live any longer because I exercise. I think that’s mostly genetics. But I feel better while I’m here!
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 years ago
Pig logic.
Sisyphos about 2 years ago
Pig does have a point. Bring on the bacon!
aardvark86au about 2 years ago
Don’t exercise for the health benefit. Exercise so that when you’re on your deathbed, you can think “at least I don’t have to exercise any more!”
donut reply about 2 years ago
What if the time spent exercising take two years of your life, but you only live two years longer?