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Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by vouaobrasil »

BossingAround wrote: post #2

Why do we need a "programmer's perspective"? Exercise has nothing to do with programming or engineering specifically. Exercise (ideally, some form of exercise that strengthens muscles that atrophy while sitting) should be a thing for everyone who sits behind for 40+ hours a week.

Well, it might be useful because programmers are likely to spend even more time in front of a screen than the average person, and thus examples from other programmers might encourage them to exercise more. Other who sit for work find computers a necessary evil and prefer to do other things instead of working with them.

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by akhileshwar09 »

strength training is very essential part of life. it makes your mind think more effectively. as a computer programmer i'd love to do pushups like around 50( that means 20 per set). to make my physique strong and muscular..this is ultimately effects your health.. so a healthy body have an healthy mind.

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by akhileshwar09 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #11
BossingAround wrote: post #2

Why do we need a "programmer's perspective"? Exercise has nothing to do with programming or engineering specifically. Exercise (ideally, some form of exercise that strengthens muscles that atrophy while sitting) should be a thing for everyone who sits behind for 40+ hours a week.

Well, it might be useful because programmers are likely to spend even more time in front of a screen than the average person, and thus examples from other programmers might encourage them to exercise more. Other who sit for work find computers a necessary evil and prefer to do other things instead of working with them.

well we people just do all kind of stuff and that stuff never ends.. we feel like just few minutes but the reality is the time keep ticking and our eyes just stick to screens... and at that moment we dont even think about the health and body .

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by akhileshwar09 »

blitzar wrote: post #8
begueradj wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A cleaner walking 5 hours a day, and a programmer sitting 8 hours a day: that's 2 different perspectives to exercising. Actually all forms of sports are always a personal perspective. Why ? Because we are all unique biologically and psychologically. Your own perspective to sports changes over age and other factors (sickness, weight, private life ...etc). That's why you won't run 15 km tomorrow the way you did today.

99% of workers who sit at a desk for 8 (or more) hours a day are not programmers.

if they work on some sort of error handling then they might take longer hours ig.

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by Temporary_31337 »

begueradj wrote: post #6
BossingAround wrote: post #2

Why do we need a "programmer's perspective"? Exercise has nothing to do with programming or engineering specifically. Exercise (ideally, some form of exercise that strengthens muscles that atrophy while sitting) should be a thing for everyone who sits behind for 40+ hours a week.

A cleaner walking 5 hours a day, and a programmer sitting 8 hours a day: that's 2 different perspectives to exercising. Actually all forms of sports are always a personal perspective. Why ? Because we are all unique biologically and psychologically. Your own perspective to sports changes over age and other factors (sickness, weight, private life ...etc). That's why you won't run 15 km tomorrow the way you did today.

Actually that’s a common misconception too - you will not get fit from having a physical job like cleaning you will just be tired. So I really appreciate that I can exercise both the brain at work and muscles at the gym. I see some people in the gym who do physical work or night shifts and it’s much harder for them to manage fatigue immunity and make gains (you need proper rest time to rejuvenate).

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by jchw »

BossingAround wrote: post #2

Why do we need a "programmer's perspective"? Exercise has nothing to do with programming or engineering specifically. Exercise (ideally, some form of exercise that strengthens muscles that atrophy while sitting) should be a thing for everyone who sits behind for 40+ hours a week.

You're overthinking it. It's a "programmer's perspective" because the author is a programmer. There isn't anything more to it, and as far as I can tell there's no insinuation that it is particularly special.

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by notjustanymike »

I found the FitBod app during Covid and had a similar journey. I'd previously been a runner and also did some bouldering, and found that strength training was vastly more beneficial to my overall health. Strength, combined with some cardio (rowing), creates a stable system. Like focusing on full stack, instead of only frontend.

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by meiraleal »

BossingAround wrote: post #2

Why do we need a "programmer's perspective"? Exercise has nothing to do with programming or engineering specifically. Exercise (ideally, some form of exercise that strengthens muscles that atrophy while sitting) should be a thing for everyone who sits behind for 40+ hours a week.

You might disagree, but the most important skill of a programmer is problem-solving skills/mindset and a rational approach. A programmer's perspective of many things will be different than the average person perspective that doesn't use those skills to make decisions.

He even wrote about that if you had the time to read the article before commenting:

  As a software engineer I though, If I should "pick boring    tech", maybe I should also "pick boring sports". So I decided to pick something boring. Something old, 1000s of years old. My rationale being that for older sports there would be more easily available knowledge, failure modes would be better known, and I would be able to better understand if I was doing it wrong.

Re: Why strength training? A programmer's perspective

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Post by jf22 »

Sakos wrote: post #4

While I've had many physical hobbies, weight lifting has been the one that has been most beneficial to my health and my overall level of fitness. That said, don't skimp on cardio. If any bro tries to tell you that it'll impact your gains, ignore them.

Cardio will impact your gains but that shouldn't matter to you unless you're trying to maximize muscle growth.
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