The below video shows me playing while I’m waiting for a train. (Note — this is from 2015).
It’s a fairly pure video: I put my phone camera on a tripod and filmed myself waiting for a train for twelve minutes. Filming can mess with the purity of something, as you are now performing for camera instead of just doing the thing, but filming the whole thing avoided most of this, and I’ve done similar things while not filming too!
On some occasions I get told off for this sort of thing, though thankfully not on this day. One station employee shouted at me to “get down off there” because “it’s not a playground”; on another occasion a conductor told me to “get down” (but didn’t really explain why) and then objected when I carried on doing cartwheels on flat ground. People don’t often seem to be polite about it, seeing something “different” as something “dangerous” and (sadly) jumping to anger or orders instead of curiosity and friendly engagement.
I like to make use of my time, sometimes that means catching up on emails, sometimes that means stretching, sometimes that means parkour, sometimes it means reading a book, or sometimes it’s taking the time to be present and with thoughts. In this mindset, delays don’t matter. It no longer matters if you have to wait for a train, needn’t be an emotional bother. With parkour people, I’ve had actual ‘training sessions’ at stations. And on the train, on quieter ones or when there is space I have found floorspace and done some stretching.
If your movement is limited to only being at a gym or on a yoga mat at home, that’s still only 10% of the time that the body is doing anything that isn’t sitting or a bit of walking -– I discuss this further in my post Take the Stairs, that we need to move as much as possible and have that as part of our day-to-day.