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Post by PieSquared »

gcv wrote: post #8

I must be one of those people Linus wants to kick. Too bad for him. I love taking a break from staring at a screen, and I feel way better, physically and mentally, after a good run or a good rowing session. My lower back starts to feel stiff and cramped if I go for more than a day or so without exercise. Also, I can't imagine life without skiing, and that requires a pretty decent degree of fitness. Anyone who doesn't…

I have to agree. Both skiing (and snowboarding, which tends to have a bad reputation among older folk, sometimes for good reason) are something that everyone should experience at some point in their life. Going 6 to 8 hours without seeing a computer screen, just you and the snow, is amazing. Those who haven't tried it - I strongly suggest you do! If you want fast results, try snowboarding. Snowboarding tends to be faster to learn initially, and harder to improve once you're good, while skiing is rather difficult at first but then is easier once you're past a certain point.

Disclaimer: These are, of course, just my opinions. I've been skiing for 10 or 11 years and snowboarding for 4 or 5 years.

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Post by pavelludiq »

I always enjoyed running around in the woods like an 8 year old. That burns most of my junk food diet, so i don't have any weight problems. Recently i started some other types of exercises, till now everything i tried, except running, got boring, but we'll see if i can actually stick to a regime or not. Apparently Linus has the same problem, but i at least found one thing that doesn't bore/frustrate me. He could try soccer, that kept my interest for the whole summer until it got boring last month.

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Post by scott_s »

jcromartie wrote: post #6

The only sort of exercise I can tolerate is the type where it's you versus a landscape or individuals. I hate team sports of all types, and running faster or lifting more to beat my personal best doesn't keep me interested either. I think most geeks are this way. The most enjoyable sports for me end up being hiking, climbing, exploring in general, biking, boating, and racing.

Most geeks feel that way? I think you're generalizing your own feelings onto a group that you self-identify, assuming that if you have this in common, you probably have that in common.

If you've ever gotten satisfaction out of improving your skills in a videogame, or from a team-based multiplayer game, then you have the "enjoys self-improvement and team based competition" part of the brain. It's just the physical aspect you don't enjoy.

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Post by scott_s »

a-priori wrote: post #3

For weight maintainence, healthy eating is definitely more important than exercise. It takes a hell of a lot more effort to burn 500 calories than to cut 500 calories from your diet. I'm no exercise nut, but I do a lot of cycling (70-75km/week this summer). I don't find it relaxing; if anything, it's the most stressful part of my day. But, it wakes me up in the mornings and forces me back into the real world at the e…

Around age 30, we start losing muscle mass if we don't use it. As we lose muscle mass, weight maintainence becomes even harder.

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Post by wumi »

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/09/inactivity-and...

overweight predicts inactivity but inactivity does not predict overweight. With the usual caveat that these are just associations, this is not consistent with the idea that inactivity causes overweight. It is consistent with the idea that overweight causes inactivity, or they are both caused by something else.

overweight is largely caused by diet composition. If that's the case, then changing diet composition is obviously going to be a more effective treatment than exercise, which doesn't address the root cause of the problem. This idea is supported by numerous diet intervention trials.

challenge your assumptions. I did.

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Post by charlesju »

I have lost 20 lbs in the last 6 months, so I have just recently gotten into the exercise craze. I run 10 miles a week, and do 30 minutes of ellipticals on my off days. It sounds painful as heck but there are really 3 major reasons for exercising on a daily basis.

1. You'll look better.

2. You'll feel better.

3. You'll think better.

Ultimately, it's about making a conscious choice in life, do you want to sit around waiting for magic pills to get you in shape, or do you want to take control of your life. I've taken the latter, and I highly recommend it.

As a side note, I recently became a vegetarian too, that has really helped me maintain my weight, and I can still eat all the good stuff (Chocolate, Ice Cream, etc.)

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Post by gaius »

iigs wrote: post #10

Sure, some people apparently get a runners high and really enjoy exercise, and they'll say how much people like me are "missing". My dad is apparently one of those freaks, as is my wife. I'm not. I have never in my life felt like exercise has made me feel that way. The diet and exercise comment isn't like the Amazon suggestions of the type "If you love being healthy you'll also enjoy good diet and regular exercise",…

As my Crossfit coach once said, if you squat when you're young, when you're 80 you'll be able to go to the bathroom without someone to hold your hand.

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Post by shard »

He sure is whiny sometimes.

First of all, there are things everyone should do even though they don't like to do it. Suck it up. Financial planning is boring, but hey it beats outliving your money. Dental work is painful, but it's certainly better than trying to chew steak with your gums. Wearing a condom is so not spontaneous, but I prefer it to having my penis fall off. Writing documentation sucks, but I have to do it if I want more than 3 people to use my code.

Second, using drugs as opposed to a natural method often gives a suboptimal result, and not just in a holistic / living closer to the earth kind of way.

Third, if you want to be fat, all the drug is going to do is give you permission to eat even more, similar to the way people take more risks when driving as cars became safer.

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