Changing Your Life In 2011 - Fitness Hacks
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Changing Your Life In 2011 - Fitness Hacks
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#2Fitness should be easy for nerds. We must only understand one concept: being healthy is smart. Not only for longevity, but cause it actually will make you smart. And when we're on the frontlines of tech business - we need to be as smart as possible. Eating healthy and regular exercise is, to me, a strategy for being; and maintaining intelligence. And in that context it's not only easy, but it's compelling, to do these things.
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#3Fitness should be easy for nerds. We must only understand one concept: being healthy is smart. Not only for longevity, but cause it actually will make you smart. And when we're on the frontlines of tech business - we need to be as smart as possible. Eating healthy and regular exercise is, to me, a strategy for being; and maintaining intelligence. And in that context it's not only easy, but it's compelling, to do thes…
Very well said! I couldn't agree more.
I really have a passion for getting nerds in shape and showing them that it's not hard to live a healthy lifestyle.
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#4It makes sense that pizza and Mtn Dew became the defacto standard for codemonkeys...they're quick, cheap and tasty. But over time the quickfoods diet becomes counter-productive. The sugar/caffeine crash and greasy fats slow everything down.
I started working out a year or so ago and it is now a pretty core part of my week. I haven't tried p90x yet but several of my friends have had good things to say and I want to jump into it in January.
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#5Either that, or someone needs to hurry up and make the tech that allows us to download our brain/personality to hardware already so we can do without those annoying wetware limitations of requiring sleep, food and exercise. :-)
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#6Either that, or someone needs to hurry up and make the tech that allows us to download our brain/personality to hardware already so we can do without those annoying wetware limitations of requiring sleep, food and exercise. :-)
lol "wetware"
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#7P90X is an ok starting point for people new to fitness, if you can handle the over-the-top fitness narrators on there. But it WILL stop being effective after about 4 months.
The reason it gets such rave reviews is that people who never worked out start using it and seeing results after 2-3 months. This will hold true for nearly any workout program initially, because and untrained body is much more susceptible to losing weight and/or gaining muscle. If you are serious about wanting to be in shape and have fitness be a part of your life in the long run, I suggest going to an actual gym and doing some resistance exercises with REAL weights - you not only burn fat at a much higher weight, but you also build muscle as well.
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#8P90X is an ok starting point for people new to fitness, if you can handle the over-the-top fitness narrators on there. But it WILL stop being effective after about 4 months. The reason it gets such rave reviews is that people who never worked out start using it and seeing results after 2-3 months. This will hold true for nearly any workout program initially, because and untrained body is much more susceptible to losi…
I totally understand what you are saying, and sort of touch on that in the article. I don't think P90X is the best long term solution, buts it's great for people that are just learning how to become fit as it's an all-in-one solution.
After completing my first 90 days, I bought a weight bench/smith machine, started lifting, and started running.
Many people get intimidated by just hitting the gym without much fitness knowledge (the people, the equipment, the possible embarrassment, etc...).
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#9Either that, or someone needs to hurry up and make the tech that allows us to download our brain/personality to hardware already so we can do without those annoying wetware limitations of requiring sleep, food and exercise. :-)
lol "wetware"
Wow, talk about wetware: Here's the basis of a bio-neural computer! Immortal human cells. The ultimate "wetware" infrastructure: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/05/there-was-on...
(found on HN home page)
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#10Great tips for staying motivated on there. It sounds simple, but I find the easiest thing to do is just not buy the crap food. I find it very easy to resist the purchase, but much harder to resist eating if I know something is in the cupboard - so the supermarket trip becomes the most important thing!
We are currently building a community at http://www.skinnyo.com to help with the other side of keeping yourself motivated - getting friends and others involved and even competing with them. It's obviously much harder to do these things alone..