Healthiest Thing You Do?

[00 mod]

My wife brought up that I don't do anything healthy so I decided to look up how many calories an hour you burn while fishing. Sitting on a boat and fishing burns 216 calories an hour and I don't sit all the time and I'm pretty sure bass fishing is more strenuous than say bream/crappie fishing. So on the low end of 215 calories an hour on a 6 hour fishing trip you would burn 1290 calories at a minimum. I think fishing is the healthiest thing I do so I petitioned her that I do more. What do y'all think?

Jeff.

[SDoolittle]

Where did you come up with 216 calories per hour?

[NateFollmer]

Wading.... Kills your lower body! I fly fish a lot and I'm constantly moving and fighting current.

[roadwarrior]

Filtered cigarettes

[preach4bass]

Filtered cigarettes

Funniest thing I've read in a while! Thanks RW!

[Long Mike]

Wine, instead of the hard stuff.

[Hi Salenity]

8 miles of still water yesterday on the kayak yesterday was 1 heck of a workout.

[FD.]

I mountain bike about 10 miles a week so I can smoke filtered cigarettes and drink light beer.

[00 mod]

Where did you come up with 216 calories per hour?

http://www.eddieoneverything.com/sports/how-many-calories-does-activity-x-burn.php

[Bassn Blvd]

I use sugar free Redman chew.I eat a piece of fruit everyday and go poop 2x a week. Can't get any healthier than that.

[NoBassPro]

I think she should get you a rowboat for Christmas

[SirSnookalot]

My average fishing day is walking and casting from beaches and canals, I don't think it compares to walking 18 holes and carrying your clubs which I did several times a week.

Once I discovered I was diabetic and changed my diet all my vitals are within acceptable range, my energy and strength have increased, I never get tired or from fishing, Fishing offshore is a workout for me, I stand pretty much the entire outing and keeping my balance with a 3-5' chop sometimes tires me out after awhile, but I'm 66 it comes with that territory.

[Bassn Blvd]

Making the wife happy.

[Fishing Rhino]

Sexercise.

[deaknh03]

Work out 5 times a week, weights and cardio, eat mostly local, organic foods, and play with my kids as much as possible, then throw in some fishing when possible. I have no health insurance, so taking care of myself is cheaper than going to the hospital when somethings wrong, and less painful.

[boystcroix]

Check out where fishing sizes up on ESPN's list of sports difficulty http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

[00 mod]

Check out where fishing sizes up on ESPN's list of sports difficulty http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

LOL!! Maybe she was right, but I'm still saying I should just fish more!!

Jeff

[Dan:]

According to that website, walking at a slow pace burns about the same amount of calories as fishing. I don't think you can really argue that fishing is really any sort of exercise.

[roadwarrior]

I don't know...12 oz curls might tip the scale.

:rolleyes:

[SirSnookalot]

I never did consider fishing any kind of a workout, it does help keep you limber by walking and casting( compared to a sedentary lifestyle), but an exercise, I don't think so. I was surprised golf had a higher ranking than cheerleading.

[Lund Explorer]

IMHO, I don't think it makes a bit of difference how much exercise a person either does or avoids in life if that person doesn't learns to control the most important thing to do with health. That is STRESS! It doesn't matter if you're tied down in high school with problems centered on grades and girls, or if you've made it all the way to retirement with the worries that brings, a person just needs to learn how to take as much stress out of life as possible.

From the time I was in my early 30's up until about the time I was rapidly approaching the Big 50, I tried my level best to make sure that I piled as much stress on myself as I could find. Tons of work with long hours and little rest, I proudly displayed the giant bottle of Rollaids on my desk. By the time each tax season ended, the irritable bowel syndrome I'd developed would stay with me until the 4th of July. By the end of the year, I was busy trying to plan ahead for the next year's plans. The goal always seemed to be to find a bigger bottle of antacids! Probably the only two things that kept me from turning into a walking six foot tall ulcer was fishing and the ability to find humor and laugh at many of life's situations.

Eight years ago I came to the realization that having all the money in the world didn't mean a thing if I wasn't around to decide which grandchild was going to inherit it. I've slowed down tremendously, fished more and worked less. I gave up 3/4 of my client base to someone else to worry over, and still don't feel bad when I tell a problem child client to find someone else to burden today.

While I'm still too young to know if this plan of mine is going to lead to a long life, at least the life I have today is a whole lot more pleasant to live. So my advice for healthy living is this:

Learn to laugh when you need to, learn to cry when you want to, don't sweat the small stuff, and find joy and happiness in the things that really matter the most. A harsh word cures nothing, but a smile can enrich everyone you give it to.

BTW, I also agree with RW's 12oz curls!

[llPa1nll]

IMHO, I don't think it makes a bit of difference how much exercise a person either does or avoids in life if that person doesn't learns to control the most important thing to do with health. That is STRESS! It doesn't matter if you're tied down in high school with problems centered on grades and girls, or if you've made it all the way to retirement with the worries that brings, a person just needs to learn how to take as much stress out of life as possible.

From the time I was in my early 30's up until about the time I was rapidly approaching the Big 50, I tried my level best to make sure that I piled as much stress on myself as I could find. Tons of work with long hours and little rest, I proudly displayed the giant bottle of Rollaids on my desk. By the time each tax season ended, the irritable bowel syndrome I'd developed would stay with me until the 4th of July. By the end of the year, I was busy trying to plan ahead for the next year's plans. The goal always seemed to be to find a bigger bottle of antacids! Probably the only two things that kept me from turning into a walking six foot tall ulcer was fishing and the ability to find humor and laugh at many of life's situations.

Eight years ago I came to the realization that having all the money in the world didn't mean a thing if I wasn't around to decide which grandchild was going to inherit it. I've slowed down tremendously, fished more and worked less. I gave up 3/4 of my client base to someone else to worry over, and still don't feel bad when I tell a problem child client to find someone else to burden today.

While I'm still too young to know if this plan of mine is going to lead to a long life, at least the life I have today is a whole lot more pleasant to live. So my advice for healthy living is this:

Learn to laugh when you need to, learn to cry when you want to, don't sweat the small stuff, and find joy and happiness in the things that really matter the most. A harsh word cures nothing, but a smile can enrich everyone you give it to.

BTW, I also agree with RW's 12oz curls!

Well put Lund Explorer, I couldn't agree with you more.

:bravo-009:

[GrundleLove]

@Topic

Healthiest thing i do is when I drop a cheeto on the ground and DONT pick it up to eat it.

[Sam]

I try to swim.

Work keeps me away or I just don't feel like it so I don't swim as often as I should.

I go to an indoor pool that is kept at 92* and it is heaven.

I need to lose 30 pounds to continue my quest to be thin and happy.

Easier said than done. I think I will go and eat some ice cream while I think about it.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

I would say weight lifting, but I'm not too sure what effects my get huge chems will have on me later on.