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Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by grk »

ptn wrote: post #64
city41 wrote: post #28

I ride my bicycle just about everywhere: to the office, grocery store, restaurants, everywhere. It's a great way to get exercise and doesn't cut into your schedule all that much, because due to traffic lights you can often get to where you are going on a bike only slightly slower than in a car. Also starting the day after my 7 mile commute is fantastic, my brain is rocking and ready.

My problem with riding my bike to the office is that I arrive all sweaty. I can change my T-shirt (I don't have to wear a suit), but I'll still smell afterwards.

The more you use your bike, the less tired you will be after your commute. It took me ~6 months to go from really sweaty after 7km to barely breaking a sweat. Just keep in mind that you have to take off some of your clothes on the way once you warm up.

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by Evgeny »

papa wrote: post #69
euccastro wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may be doing it worse by just avoiding fat. You should worry more about sugar, to begin with.

For a sobering look at the impact of dietary sugar in the American diet (particularly fructose), check out this informative lecture by UCSF Professor Dr. Robert H. Lustig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM (argues that current U.S. obesity epidemic is largely the result of low-fat, high sugar diet)

Add to that "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes and that's a start!

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by sheena »

Radiolab's "Stress" episode (http://www.radiolab.org/2007/apr/09/) mentions rat studies in which experimenters made rats sick by subjecting them to extreme physical stressors (cold, treadmills, forcing them to swim for hours until exhaustion, etc.). Other rats merely had their food put out and taken away at the last minute a couple of times. Amazingly, the researchers could make the rats equally sick by simply frustrating them. I thought that was a powerful reminder of the real physical effects of stress.

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Post by DanielH »

keyle wrote: post #39

90 minutes gym sessions? That's ridiculous. 45 and you should be out of there! You're on the way to over train which will lead to negative results on your body. 45 max and you will feel so much more energized. Not to mention that there is no way a geek can keep up with 90 minutes of gym 3 or 4 times a week without loosing his mind and dropping the idea. Also dropping carbs is a very bad idea, reducing it is good. But…

"Have you seen europeans? Do they look fat to you?"

Well you should check out this one, it seems Europeans are not that far behind...

http://www.iaso.org/

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by Tyrannosaurs »

tomjen3 wrote: post #85
dgallagher wrote: post #48

Exercise is basic necessary maintenance required by the human body. You either do it and have a happy/healthy body, or you don't. Eating healthy is just as important, separated into two categories: overall caloric intake, and nutritional content. Car analogies are a dime a dozen in computing, but they apply here as well. Not exercising is like changing the oil in your car every 10,000-15,000 miles, instead of every 3…

I don't exercise for one simple reason - its a temporary solution to a permanent problem and as a geek I hate, hate, hate those with a passion. I don't mind things that are hard, or things that are difficult or things that take a long time or even things that are all three; what I hate is things that doesn't last - once you learned to drive, you can drive, etc. Combine that with the fact that it sucks doing exercise…

"I don't exercise for one simple reason - its a temporary solution to a permanent problem"

Why are you viewing it as a temporary solution?

I'd agree that exercise binges to get into shape aren't ideal but generally what people are talking about is regular exercise which should be seen as an integral part of a healthy life style.

Exercise doesn't have to be sports or going to the gym, it can be walking or cycling to get about or in some other way swapping sedentary activity for something more demanding, but whatever you choose it should be seen as something long term and on-going.

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by ckuehne »

city41 wrote: post #28

I ride my bicycle just about everywhere: to the office, grocery store, restaurants, everywhere. It's a great way to get exercise and doesn't cut into your schedule all that much, because due to traffic lights you can often get to where you are going on a bike only slightly slower than in a car. Also starting the day after my 7 mile commute is fantastic, my brain is rocking and ready.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9n_V6XDrL8. Couldn't resist.

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by access_denied »

danilocampos wrote: post #2

This could have easily been titled "Staying Healthy and Sane." Useful ideas all around. In particular, business on meditation is interesting to me. I do all my best thinking in the shower. I suspect this is because without meaning to be, I'm in a meditative state there. Every time I have a really hard problem to ponder, I find a shower has the power to jolt me in the direction of the solution. I'd like to find a way…

> I'd like to find a way to harness this in a more convenient way

David Allen's Geting Things Done is basically about this. Though, to get it you should read the book carefully and not glance over it to extract some todo-list building tips like obviously most authors of those shoddy 'productivity' blogs have done. The 'natural planning model' as described in the book, combined with a 'complete inventory of your work' updated regularly as described in the book, gives you essentially that.

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by c00p3r »

c00p3r wrote: post #80

Exercise (physical work) + diet (same organic food each day) + meditation + regime (the same routines each day) = monastery or village life in Asia. Why 174 up-votes for a turning back to the basics?

Stupid fucking down voters, you never have seen a Nepaly mountaineering guide, who are going to claim an above six thousand meters peak twice a week just as a routine, or Tibetan yakmen and horsemen, who just going several thousand meters up and down with their caravan, but you're so fast in pushing a buttons. The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow. ^_^

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by DTrejo »

colonelxc wrote: post #81
DTrejo wrote: post #40

And don't forget to use streak.ly for all those habits you want to do daily ;)

"Streak.ly is coming soon." Maybe you should promote it after it launches.

Oh, it's not mine. But in any case, I think there's a special invite link:

http://streak.ly/auth/twitter/start?secret=showhn

Re: Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

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Post by guyute »

I go every day at lunch and workout for an hour. At first people viewed it as wasted time. Now about half my team leaves for an hour at some point during the day to workout. As soon as people feel low energy they leave. The change in their output has been remarkable. What we found was that people have low energy at some point and the change in energy level after causes them to be more productive and clear headed.
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