u/thefringeseanmachine

I'm asking because I'm watching a 2 A.M. infomercial for some tiny bicycle exercise machine, but I think something like it would be genuinely useful for my (73 yo) dad.

for context he needed both hips replaced, but after his first surgery he ended up throwing a few blood clots and almost died. I knew he wasn't doing his after-care exercises, but I just couldn't cajole him into doing them. but after that experience he's not going under the knife again.

problem is that his knees are fucked. he tries to downplay it but walking further than a 1/4 mile will put him on his ass for a whole day, and it sounds incredibly painful.

to wrap up this wall of text, are there any low-impact exercise machines that could help him out? like I said he walks regularly, but he seems to be going downhill.

most of what I "know" comes from what I've seen in media, but from what I understand cooking was relegated to "women's work." issue is, what did bachelors do? I remember Barney Fife cooking chili in his room, but you can't survive on that.

I'm asking because I'm watching the *fantastic* documentary, "The Automat" (2021) and wondered if it's that's how men in the city survived, how did men in more rural areas? did they go to the same diner three times per day? I know prices aren't what they once were, but that would be prohibitively expensive, right?