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My advice: start working out a ton. Set a target and keep pushing it. Sign of for races, join a running group. You’ll quickly build a sense of confidence and b
by leoqa 4y ago
My advice: start working out a ton. Set a target and keep pushing it. Sign of for races, join a running group.
You’ll quickly build a sense of confidence and be excited about your results. Work will become a 9-5 means to an end and all the weird stresses will wash over you because you feel good. You’ll look forward to waking up at 6am and going for a 10 mile run and will go to sleep early in anticipation.
After awhile, you’ll look at the people above you in the soulless corporation and realize they’ve wasted their 20s/30s climbing an arbitrary layer. I remember going into my first job at Amazon and calling my girlfriend, telling her “These are the richest, most miserable looking people I’ve ever seen”. I looked at the folks that were $SDE+2 and they were doing the same work, they just artificially cared more and would spend their evenings and weekends working.
If you don’t have kids then you’re lucky, you have more time to spend building yourself up.
I guarantee this will work but there is a really rough 1-3 month period before it kicks in.
Start today: do 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups and go run-walk for 20 minutes. Do that everyday, continuing to set goals. Rain or shine. Even when you feel sick, hungry, tired.
- mahathu 4y ago100% agree with everything else but definitely don't do 100 pushups/intense workout when you're feeling sick!! That will just make you worse and have the opposite effect! Give your body time to recover!
- leoqa 4y agoI personally tell myself that there is no excuse to not put my shoes on and walk out the door. Otherwise I’ll give in because the voice in my head talks me out of it and I’m fairly weak willed. But yeah don’t kill yourself, barring injury or fever, I don’t give myself any excuses.
- zoover2020 4y agoThe opposite of inspiring. Not listening to your body is not cool. Fully agree with your other advice though.
- matwood 4y agoI think people are not reading the OP with enough charity. Obviously if someone is actually hurt they need to back off. But listening to our bodies means we wouldn't do anything if it's hard or uncomfortable. It's easy to find excuses to avoid doing something that is good for us in the long term, and the OP is explaining that it's good to keep going even if you don't feel like it.
- Silverback_VII 4y agoNo, he is right with the hard workout or whatever hard one wants to do. The important part is the "hard" part because it is what generates meaning & self-esteem. People then at least have something in their life (especially if they are stuck in their workplace) which bring them forward.
- Hendrikto 4y agoI also go with a “no excuses” workout style. I feel that works best for me. Otherwise, I can ALWAYS find an excuse, so I do not let myself. (Not saying that this is right for everybody.)
- latexr 4y agoI’m glad that you (seemingly) found something that works for you. But unless you know something about OP you haven’t shared, you cannot “guarantee” it will work or that it’s even an option. I’d be specially wary of your final suggestion. Not only is that goal too high for someone just starting, going for a run when it’s raining and you feel sick and tired borders on dangerous advice.
- fsloth 4y ago”going for a run when … you feel sick and tired borders on dangerous advice. It is dangerous AND stupid. If you feel sick - rest. Otherwise you risk every potentially lethal ailment every sensible exercise counsel warns against.
- satysin 4y ago"going for a run when … you feel sick and tired borders on dangerous advice." While I don't disagree with this I find it interesting how people are so against working out while sick whereas the startup/hustle crowd are all about pushing through it working 24/7/365 even when you're sick. Hustle hustle hustle and all that. Even outside of the startup hustle crowd many people still force themselves into work when they're feeling sick and tired. I would think forcing yourself to do a 8 hour day in the office plus a commute is more stress to the body then a short exercise routine. Nobody is seriously saying go and run a 5k when you feel like shit but some I often find when I feel under the weather doing some stretches and body weight exercises helps with aches and pains. I think people are reading the original post a little too literally. I did not read it as drop and do 100 push ups right now! But to start by doing even just one press up and commit to doing that daily until you can do 100 push ups. 100 being any arbitrary number, 50 or 30 works just as well. The point is having a goal and maintaining daily improvement towards it.
- readingnews 4y ago>> I guarantee this will work but there is a really rough 1-3 month period before it kicks in. >> Start today: do 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups and go run-walk for 20 minutes. Do that everyday, continuing to set goals. Rain or shine. Even when you feel sick, hungry, tired. Good lord man, I hope OP is a 20-something in fair shape. I started running later in life, and then working out. Dropping from a desk job to the ground to do 100 push ups or a 100 proper sit-ups if you have never done it is going to 100% motivate you to never do that again. If OP wants to go exercise, and has never done so, go look up couch to 5k or start off with 10 proper push ups and 10 proper sit ups and then wait 10 mins and see if you can do 10 more. Do that three times. Give yourself some time to build that up. This reply I am replying to has no idea what kind of shape OP is in. Don't go nuts on day one, you will spend a week (or two) recovering and this will demotivate you. (and I am no expert, perhaps call a trainer).
- brtkdotse 4y agoThe Hybrid Calesthnics guy has a really good program for people like OP ( and me) https://www.hybridcalisthenics.com/routine https://www.hybridcalisthenics.com/routine
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agothanks
- gonzo41 4y agoI know exactly what you're talking about. I was very fit in my twenties, then got badly injured and sort of got very unfit for about ~7 ish years where my focus changed. I recently got back into mountain biking, and the first few hill climbs were confronting to say the least. Literally me lying on the ground holding my chest, and ego thinking "What the actual f--k". The real motivator was having dropped kinda large cash on a new bike. I didn't want to let myself down and quit. If the op has a similar vocation, I'd lean into that stuff. gently, gently of course.
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- joshxyz 4y agoAye this should be higher up, when work gets in your way of life, did you really have life in the first place, eh?
- Nihilartikel 4y ago>>> Start today: do 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups and go run-walk for 20 minutes. Do that everyday, continuing to set goals. Rain or shine. Even when you feel sick, hungry, tired. Can confirm - I did this but also with 100 squats and a 10k run daily. All of my hair fell out from the exertion, but I feel invincible.
- myle 4y agoNice to meet you, Saitama!
- etiam 4y agoWhat are your thoughts on off days? Start introducing after the third year or so?
- personalidea 4y agoNeed to make up for it though. Run 20K one day, get to take the next day off.
- rubyfan 4y agoThere are a lot of responses that critique the intensity here which is fair but I think the spirit of the comment is right on. Even if it’s not exercise specifically. Find something else you can care about! I’ve had this problem my entire career. I’m over invested in my work even when I don’t want to be and I can’t stop thinking about work (sometimes big things and some times minutiae) and it invaded my sleep. I’ve recently started a few activities that I believe are helping me separate from my work (and sleep at night). Here’s what I’m doing… 1) Exercising to a level I’m comfortable. For me that’s running a few miles a day and incorporating kettlebells, weights or med balls into my morning workout. 2) Reading books and simple puzzles like word search. I wanted to find an alternative to phone and social media - I think too much of that stuff sucks for mental well-being. Currently I’m reading Plato’s The Republic. 3) I started volunteering at my church. Churches and local institutions are suffering right now from lack of participation and have legit challenges to apply yourself to. So far this hasn’t kept me up at night or interrupted my sleep. So I think the combined effect of these changes is that I’m out of my own head and applying myself to doing things other than using my personal time to marinate in my professional life. Oh and I’m no longer waking up at 3am every night unable to fall back to sleep.
- ttyyzz 4y ago"[...] If you don’t have kids then you’re lucky [...]" As a lucky man with 3 kids in my 30s, I strongly disagree with your statement. Exercise is good, but it's my family that keeps me from caring too much about work related stuff.
- leoqa 4y agoI also have kids and meant this is more of a time management context. Getting in shape when you’re not sleeping well and juggling schedules is much harder!
- democracy 4y agoWhat? In my local karate club a black belt test is 100 pushups + 100 situps (after a run but still)))))))
- rvba 4y ago100 pushups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and a 10km run and you can defeat everyone with one punch Just be aware that you can lose all hair
- gk1 4y agoThis is the second comment mentioning hair loss as a result of exercise. Is this some kind of myth that’s prevalent in some country? I’ve never heard of this before. (Saying this as someone with a lot of weight lifting under my belt and still loads of hair on my head.)
- leoqa 4y agoThey’re referencing One Punch Man, a satirical anime about a guy who does a bunch of push ups and loses all his hair.
- tmaly 4y agoThis sounds like something Top G would say. But I agree exercise does help.