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Exercise just makes me feel good. To me, that's enough. Its not about a routine, or how I look, it's eustress.
I want a substance that tricks my mind into feeling this way about exercise. hold up gym bros! I don't want your technique. I want a drug like Ozympic that alters my behavior towards that lifestyle change.
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You are describing forming a stable routine I don't think GP meant "routine" as in an elaborate set of exercises, but rather the daily/weekly routine of doing any exercise at all.
Maybe. I'm more describing making this important enough to you that you start looking for places to slot it into your day. Yes, a routine will likely form out of that but I think it's secondary to getting you to want to do the thing, which is harder (at least for me).
I get where you’re coming from, and I think you’re missing the point. Executive dysfunction (for me at least) means I can “want to do the thing” a LOT, heck I can even have the motivation, but getting my brain and body to actually do the damn thing can feel insurmountable. There are certainly ways to work with and around executive dysfunction, it’s just difficult that one of the key aspects of it is that it makes the act of executing feel incredibly difficult.
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The standard deviation referred to in the article is the effect size, and not the standard error of that estimate, which is what would be used to determine its significance.
No, that's just wrong. See the original source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9280.t01-1...
> Point estimates for effect size on all cognitive tasks were 0.164 > (SE = 0.028, n = 96, p = .05) for control groups and 0.478 (SE = > 0.029, n = 101, p = .01) for exercisers, suggesting that both groups > improved between Times 1 and 2. However, the control groups’ im- > provement was about 1/8 a standard deviation, whereas the exercise > groups’ improvement was nearly 1/2 a standard deviation, on average. > Both values are significantly different from zero, and from each other > (see Table 1).
Earlier in the paper they define their effect size as:
g = (M_Post - M_Pre )/SD_P , where M_Pre is the preintervention mean task performance, M_Post is the postintervention mean, and SD_P is the pooled standard deviation.
I think the standard deviation mentioned is relative to overall population spread of cognitive performance, given that standard errors of the effect size are given separately?
> Maximal effects were found for tasks related to executive functions, (i.e., aspects of higher cognition principally associated with the functions of prefrontal cortex). Oh good, exactly what I'm looking for. If only the executive dysfunction didn't mess with my ability to form any kind of stable exercise routine.
> Maximal effects were found for tasks related to executive functions, (i.e., aspects of higher cognition principally associated with the functions of prefrontal cortex). Oh good, exactly what I'm looking for. If only the executive dysfunction didn't mess with my ability to form any kind of stable exercise routine.
I moved from being mostly sedentary to being able to run 10km, swimming regularly, joining a field hockey team, doing archery. I also do hiit 3 times a week. Still my schedule is fucking chaotic, so beside the field hockey training which is on a fixed date, the other activities are done at, let's say, interesting and random time.
> Maximal effects were found for tasks related to executive functions, (i.e., aspects of higher cognition principally associated with the functions of prefrontal cortex). Oh good, exactly what I'm looking for. If only the executive dysfunction didn't mess with my ability to form any kind of stable exercise routine.
I don't say this to sound dismissive, which I think is all too common in discussions like this. If we're talking about aerobic exercise, you don't need to "form" anything. It's a monostructural movement. Buy a treadmill and jog on it for 20 minutes when you wake up. Buy a rower and do 5k every morning, or evening, or over lunch. Get a stationary bike and do 10 minutes on that whenever you remember to do it. This isn'…
> Maximal effects were found for tasks related to executive functions, (i.e., aspects of higher cognition principally associated with the functions of prefrontal cortex). Oh good, exactly what I'm looking for. If only the executive dysfunction didn't mess with my ability to form any kind of stable exercise routine.
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your response is proof once again, HN will go through any amount of mental gymnastics to avoid common sense on diet and exercise
I'm pretty sure that HN skews far fatter than average, which is insane to think about since the average tech bro is far LESS fat than the average person. I imagine the average HN user to look like Richard Stallman.