That sounds like a good alternative for anyone who doesn’t have access to a hike/bike trail, woods, and other places to exercise outdoors.
I could not do without having a place where you can run/walk over uneven terrain among the trees in the quiet, away from motorized vehicles-there was a 5+ miles long greenbelt/wilderness area park behind the neighborhood we lived in in the city-you could barely hear the traffic noise when you were in there...
I’m with you. I NEED to be outdoors each day. I love seeing the wildlife and my regular friends, some with dogs, walking, jogging, skating, and biking. I go crazy when I have to use the treadmill for inclement weather.
I much prefer outdoors as well. I do the speed walk in place outside while walking the dog, too. Don’t walk in the woods...that’s where the bears are when not walking through my neighborhood.