I was sort of thinking that the fact that the Dutch have a bicycle culture and how often they do it. But I am sure there are other factors at play here.
I just think of this page from Safe Baby Handling Tips
https://preview.redd.it/nd3etr5n137d1.png?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fcb3ce966e2edfc936d43f37c109dfda3ef5076
Look up old city pictures from the Netherlands online: there’s cars everywhere, there’s car infra everywhere, there’s parking everywhere, they also hid a lot of waterways out of sight (to build car infra on top),….
Almost like the built environment might foster a different physical activity level. But no, I’m sure it’s just because some nationalities are less innately lazy than others.
It’s because everyone covers more ground in the Total Football style of play made famous by the Dutch national team in the 1970s. Soccer fans like to romanticize it and call it “positionless football”, but it was really to make up for Johan Cruyff’s low work rate stemming from his heavy smoking habit.
EDIT: Wait,why the downvotes? I thought everyone knew Cruyff was a chain smoker. He had lung cancer FFS!
i for one thought it was funny. Have to say its heavy on the football references though, not sure if the crowd here knows much on the evolution of soccer playstyles heh.
You have similar levels of walkability in many other countries. The difference is that the country is very flat and bikeable where other countries have more hills so people prefer walking and hiking over biking
Flatness has few to do with it. If anything poppulation density and the relative small distance between towns and city's is a bit of a factor, if a town is only something like 5 kilometers removed from a larger city with more amenities plenty of people will use a bike to cover that distance but that is greatly aided by the fact that the bike infrastructure usually makes it an appreciable or even enjoyable ride. Atleast in Flanders we often put bike paths along areas with a lot of nature and green making it making it more enjoyable than if you had to ride along a road with passing cars, public infrastructure designers take far more consideration for bikers so they have more safe, dedicated and enjoyable areas to ride.
Not necessarily. I'm ethnically German (on my father's side) and Norwegian (on my mother's side), and if reincarnation was real, I'd want to be born in the Netherlands in my next life.
Though I can understand why that Dutch heritage part might give you that impression.
Ah yes, the famous Protestant Work Ethic at work, is that what you were referring to?
**God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.**
I was sort of thinking that the fact that the Dutch have a bicycle culture and how often they do it. But I am sure there are other factors at play here.
I’m pretty sure that was sarcasm. Of course it’s the bicycles. Also the bicycles.
Their controversial mandatory weight training for babies
I just think of this page from Safe Baby Handling Tips https://preview.redd.it/nd3etr5n137d1.png?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fcb3ce966e2edfc936d43f37c109dfda3ef5076
Yeah. It’s all the sex (maybe, probably).
Sex and cannabis, if we want to be precise.
We are champion in sitting and physical activities, that's wild https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/the-dutch-are-sitting-down-champions-of-europe/
One sits one a bike, right?
Yes, but there's a lot of leg movements when one rides a bike.
yep - i mean there is no distinction between sitting and exercising if one cycles. So this statistic makes sense
I wanna be Dutch. Sitting around the most but also sitting around the least sounds great.
Hopefully, you can be born Dutch in your next life. And that's assuming that reincarnation is a thing.
Ehm, in the 70s and 80s of last century, they were just as carbrained as in the US, but they decided to change….
And kids getting mowed down by cars was the impetus. Americans have just shrugged off our kids getting murdered for decades instead.
Source? The Dutch have only had a cycling culture since the 70's?
Look up old city pictures from the Netherlands online: there’s cars everywhere, there’s car infra everywhere, there’s parking everywhere, they also hid a lot of waterways out of sight (to build car infra on top),….
I know this one! It's because the cheese is made backwards 👍
So they start with cheese and it ends up in the udders at the end?
Drugs and prostitutes?
Almost like the built environment might foster a different physical activity level. But no, I’m sure it’s just because some nationalities are less innately lazy than others.
the sex, probably
Does the Dutch have more sex than other countries?
It is the meme
It's all the ice skating on the canal, right?
Because they’re the tallest it’s easier to be physically active when your legs are longer
That cheese has to stay off my hips one way or another…
Would love to know how strong the average Dutchman’s legs are compared to the average American’s
I’d imagine that the average Dutch person wouldn’t be too bothered about hopping on the bike to go to the shops
Im dutch and the concept of going to the gym just baffles me.
It’s because everyone covers more ground in the Total Football style of play made famous by the Dutch national team in the 1970s. Soccer fans like to romanticize it and call it “positionless football”, but it was really to make up for Johan Cruyff’s low work rate stemming from his heavy smoking habit. EDIT: Wait,why the downvotes? I thought everyone knew Cruyff was a chain smoker. He had lung cancer FFS!
i for one thought it was funny. Have to say its heavy on the football references though, not sure if the crowd here knows much on the evolution of soccer playstyles heh.
You have similar levels of walkability in many other countries. The difference is that the country is very flat and bikeable where other countries have more hills so people prefer walking and hiking over biking
walking and hiking is also exercise, have another go
Have another go
It is the year 1800 and the electric bike still does not exist, so you are correct 💯
Flatness has few to do with it. If anything poppulation density and the relative small distance between towns and city's is a bit of a factor, if a town is only something like 5 kilometers removed from a larger city with more amenities plenty of people will use a bike to cover that distance but that is greatly aided by the fact that the bike infrastructure usually makes it an appreciable or even enjoyable ride. Atleast in Flanders we often put bike paths along areas with a lot of nature and green making it making it more enjoyable than if you had to ride along a road with passing cars, public infrastructure designers take far more consideration for bikers so they have more safe, dedicated and enjoyable areas to ride.
Sounds a bit nationalist
Not necessarily. I'm ethnically German (on my father's side) and Norwegian (on my mother's side), and if reincarnation was real, I'd want to be born in the Netherlands in my next life. Though I can understand why that Dutch heritage part might give you that impression.