Why Punishing People With Exercise Is Stupid

Gizmo j · 2025-02-05T15:30:32-0500

In the military, and sometimes in schools, people often punish people by making them do exercises such as pushups.

The reason that's stupid is because you're teaching them to hate exercise, you should teach them to ENJOY exercise!

(Instructor) "If anyone gives me any backtalk, your going to go to the corner a do pushups!

(Student) "backtalks"

(Instructor) Go to the corner and do pushups! Let that be an example for the rest of you! If you don't want to do pushups you shouldn't backtalk me!

(Second Student) I actually WANT to do pushups because I'm an athlete and trying to become stronger for my sport, so I'm going to do pushups alongside the first student who's being punished

(Instructor) WHY ARE YOU DOING PUSHUPS WHEN YOU'RE NOT BEING PUNISHED!?

(Second Student) because I want to become stronger...

(Instructor) YOUR MAKING ME LOOK BAD!

IF YOU DO PUSHUPS WHEN NOT BEING PUNISHED IT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE ITS NOT A PUNISHMENT! YOU SHOULD BE TRYING TO "AVOID" DOING PUSHUPS!

[DHT]Osiris · 2025-02-05T17:34:21-0500

'if I can't make you smart I will make you strong' was the reasoning my MTI gave us.

dave_the_nerd · 2025-02-05T17:44:09-0500

It's not about the exercise, it's about social consequences of having to go do something else while everybody else does [something more interesting.]

[DHT]Osiris · 2025-02-05T17:49:33-0500

dave_the_nerd said:
It's not about the exercise, it's about social consequences of having to go do something else while everybody else does [something more interesting.]

Well let's be clear, usually in basic at least everyone gets punished for the actions of one. Everyone fucks up so you avoid the individual consequence from the group, but understand the suffering that everyone goes through so you tend to learn real quick.

nakedfrog · 2025-02-05T18:08:25-0500

[DHT]Osiris said:
'if I can't make you smart I will make you strong' was the reasoning my MTI gave us.

I don't think I ever saw ours dole out push-ups as a punishment. I think some people had to do laps? IDK, I tried to stay invisible, I think I had to give up a 341 once.
Funny enough, I can do more push-ups now than I could when I got out of basic.

lxskllr · 2025-02-05T18:09:57-0500

None of those situations are plausible. Anyone dumb enough to play those games has a good chance of going 1v1 with sensei. You do your pushups, you enjoy them, and you don't screwup again.

[DHT]Osiris · 2025-02-05T18:29:04-0500

nakedfrog said:
I don't think I ever saw ours dole out push-ups as a punishment. I think some people had to do laps? IDK, I tried to stay invisible, I think I had to give up a 341 once.
Funny enough, I can do more push-ups now than I could when I got out of basic.

Only 341 I gave up was from my MTI mistaking me for someone else, then getting mad for wasting her time. I was a ghost in basic.

Red Squirrel · 2025-02-05T18:44:15-0500

The trick is you're suppose to refuse, and then punch the drill sergeant. That shows that you have a strong stance of dominance and that you're a baller. Bonus if you refer to the drill sergeant as "bro" and tell him you slept with his wife.

pmv · 2025-02-05T18:53:41-0500

Reminiscent of the Tory policy of "short sharp shock" - sending offenders to 'tough' jails where they have to do lots of exercise. Just produced lots of very fit, strong criminals, who could outrun and outfight the cops. Would have been better to sentence them to sitting on the sofa all day while eating chips and biscuits.

sandorski · 2025-02-05T19:17:11-0500

Next time instead of a Ban, maybe you will have to have to Login by striking a key 120 strokes/min for 5 minutes.

Good luck.

Dr. Detroit · 2025-02-06T01:41:46-0500

I did Combat Arms in the Army - physical exercise punishment was doled out incessantly. At any given moment someone was being singled out and getting smoked which would then turn into our entire Platoon getting smoked repetitively.

I watched soldiers get smoked on the range, we got smoked in-line to eat within the mess hall, during fire watch, in line to get our heads shaved...
Push-ups were appreciated, get-up-get-down burpee esque exercises were miserable.

The PT never stopped, we'd run at 5am, we'd run after chow at 7pm. My final PT score coming out of basic was ~270. Maxed the push-ups & sit-ups but my 2-mile run was in the 13's and I needed under 12-minutes for a 100pts.

Mentally you grew to enjoy it, appreciate it, and embraced the suck.

DAPUNISHER · 2025-02-06T02:24:19-0500

My philosophy: It's not about the exercise, It's about doing something you like to do; exercise is simply an unavoidable ancillary benefit. I have never engaged in different forms of sportsball, surfing, skateboarding, mountain biking, martial arts/combat sports, tennis, racketball, hacky sack, disc golf, or anything else to get exercise. Do them because they are fun and you get a dopamine fix.

Strength training is the only thing I do I don't always enjoy. Sometimes mixing it up with weights is deeply satisfying, other times it is pure druggery. But the payoff is that it makes all the things I do like doing more fun.

That military training seems to go one of 2 ways. You are an athlete for the rest of your life. Or you become the Pillsbury Dough Boy. My friend's kid was a good athlete growing up. Joined the Marines in HS. Once he got out he turned into Poppin Fresh. 🤣 My bro-in-law was a Ranger/Green Beret in 'Nam, retired at colonel. He is in his 70s and could probably still beat the breaks off of most 25 year olds.

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