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You are downvoted as I write this reply, but I do that as well. If you look at my sibling comment, you'll see how controversial it is when I point out that thi

You are downvoted as I write this reply, but I do that as well. If you look at my sibling comment, you'll see how controversial it is when I point out that this is possible. People are always like "but you don't know me nor how much time I have" but the vast majority of people can sneak in some exercise if we really wanted to. It's just inconvenient. Or people will say "won't others look at me funny if I do pushups in the office?" Who cares? I can certainly imagine offices where this is impractical, but we of all people are most likely to be able to pull it off. Meanwhile at the last two places I worked, a few people ended up doing mini-workouts after a week or two of watching me. We ended up using one of the spare meeting rooms as the quick pushup room. It's a comical sight for visitors and new hires. But really, it shouldn't be such an oddity to do some light exercise in life. It just shows how backwards our social norms are, and how they work against us. But what's also inconvenient are the health issues that arise from sedentary lifestyles.

parthdesai 9y ago
Majority of are just excuses. Sure there are some people who legitimately can't exercise but majority can if they had the will power. Just look at The rock/Kevin hart, they are travelling, shooting and still sneaking in their workouts. You don't need to be a meat head like them to live a healthy life-style, a 45 minute work out is good enough. I personally feel people don't want to accept that it is their own fault that they are not living healthy life style and thus blame it on external circumstances.
sgift 9y ago
> Or people will say "won't others look at me funny if I do pushups in the office?" Who cares? Not your main point but many people care what things while understanding that they shouldn't and saying "but you shouldn't!" won't change that, so it's a completely useless sentence which just serves to hand wave a valid problem of your strategy.
- always_good 9y ago
  It's not a hand-wave. It's acknowledging that where you fall in your own cost-benefit analysis is a personal distinction that you're capable of changing. It's a self-development issue, a process that we hopefully continue until we die. For example, some men never approach women our of fear of rejection or lukewarm reception. Any man that wants success with women and dating will have to challenge his self-limiting beliefs. So what if they are reminded of it in an HN comment? Whether that's useless to them only indicates how unwilling they are to change. But it's a prerequisite for the advice in my post. You know, one of the biggest parts of the warmup of an improv class I once took was to stand up and make noise. Like pretend you are a dinosaur. Embarrass yourself. Without fail, it would snap you right into the headspace of what it took to do improv -- being able to look past yourself and perform.
j-pb 9y ago
Thanks, much appreciated :) I was flabergasted as well, its crazy to think that we need so little excersise. Maybe the problem is that people think they have to hit the gym once a week for a few hours, while a few minutes every day is much more effective. I mean you wouldn't learn an instrument or a language that way, why should your physical response be any different.

parthdesai 9y ago

Majority of are just excuses. Sure there are some people who legitimately can't exercise but majority can if they had the will power. Just look at The rock/Kevin hart, they are travelling, shooting and still sneaking in their workouts. You don't need to be a meat head like them to live a healthy life-style, a 45 minute work out is good enough. I personally feel people don't want to accept that it is their own fault that they are not living healthy life style and thus blame it on external circumstances.

sgift 9y ago

> Or people will say "won't others look at me funny if I do pushups in the office?" Who cares? Not your main point but many people care what things while understanding that they shouldn't and saying "but you shouldn't!" won't change that, so it's a completely useless sentence which just serves to hand wave a valid problem of your strategy.

always_good 9y ago
It's not a hand-wave. It's acknowledging that where you fall in your own cost-benefit analysis is a personal distinction that you're capable of changing. It's a self-development issue, a process that we hopefully continue until we die. For example, some men never approach women our of fear of rejection or lukewarm reception. Any man that wants success with women and dating will have to challenge his self-limiting beliefs. So what if they are reminded of it in an HN comment? Whether that's useless to them only indicates how unwilling they are to change. But it's a prerequisite for the advice in my post. You know, one of the biggest parts of the warmup of an improv class I once took was to stand up and make noise. Like pretend you are a dinosaur. Embarrass yourself. Without fail, it would snap you right into the headspace of what it took to do improv -- being able to look past yourself and perform.

j-pb 9y ago

Thanks, much appreciated :) I was flabergasted as well, its crazy to think that we need so little excersise. Maybe the problem is that people think they have to hit the gym once a week for a few hours, while a few minutes every day is much more effective. I mean you wouldn't learn an instrument or a language that way, why should your physical response be any different.