Last night, for the first time in a while, I went to the gym. While running on the treadmill, I noticed this middle age guy over on another treadmill who was walking at an extremely leisurely pace. He was going so slow that if he were walking along a sidewalk or in a mall it would be awkward to walk next him. There was absolutely no way he was coming close to breaking a sweat or increasing his heart rate. It wasn't like he was just cooling off either because he was walking for the 30 minutes that I was running. He probably walked only 1 mile in that half hour.
My question is what is a person like that trying to achieve or what is their motivation to get to the gym? Are they just trying to get their mind off things? If that is the case I can think of a lot more things that I would do to relax other than creep along on a treadmill.
