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Integrate a substantial calisthenic exercise into your daily routine. Something like a hundred pushups and a dozen pull-ups. Increase the count as you get ligh

Integrate a substantial calisthenic exercise into your daily routine. Something like a hundred pushups and a dozen pull-ups. Increase the count as you get lighter and stronger so you're always within 10-20% of the maximum you could do in a set. Make it a non-negotiable part of your day akin to brushing your teeth and showering. This way when you fuck up your diet/lifestyle, you have a very strong negative feedback signal when you suddenly can only do 75% of the e.g. pushups you did last week. When you work on this for years and get your sets up in a range that feels hard-earned, it becomes quite upsetting to see the numbers regress. For me this is all it takes to correct any emerging bad habits that start putting on pounds like drinking socially too much or eating cookies at the cafe. It's easy to ignore a slowly increasing number on a scale, assuming you even step on one. Not so easy to ignore yourself sucking at this thing you've been getting awesome at for years. Not for me anyways.

nullish_signal 4y ago
Agreed, having a fun and social physical activity that I need good Muscle and Fuel for, has started to greatly shape my appetite towards Protein and Fat, and away from Sugar and Carbs. (Eggs, Cheese, Milk, Meat, Eggs, any and all Greens that are fun to Crunch on) Been reading ingredients lists very carefully, and increasing my sensitivity to Sweetness to the point that a Vegan Zucchini Bread was delightfully sweet. I think it had 5g of sugar per serving. The final straw that began my diet (the Exercise re-lit and carries it on) was a batch of Costco Grapefruit cups with about 25g sugar per cup - Tasted like nothing, and was almost mildly nauseating. Leagues from the bitter grapefruit I imagined, and a waste of sugar and profit margins to add so much sugar IMO.
masteruvpuppetz 4y ago
100 pushups?? I can't even do 5 in a row. No upper body strength at all.
- kyriakos 4y ago
  Pushups are easy to build up, start with 2-3 sets of 5 everyday and adding 2 pushups per set every week. Don't rush, exercise is something that takes time but I found that push ups was one of the easiest to build up to, now pullups are another story...
- pengaru 4y ago
  Intended those figures as a ballpark minimum goal to sustain when plateaued, not something you'd start with. This is a maintenance/hygiene routine, the objective is to do this daily until you're dead or otherwise disabled. Just make sure the amount is enough to both have great negative feedback and confer obvious health/fitness/physique advantages you'll be upset about losing. It doesn't matter if it takes you 10 years to reach 100/day, what matters is that you kept doing it every day up to and beyond that >=100 point in time.
- Apreche 4y ago
  I can’t do 1 in a row.
  - Balgair 4y ago
    https://hundredpushups.com/ https://hundredpushups.com/ Poke about. I've done the challenge twice now. The progression was at the correct rate for me. It's tough, but it does work.
    - Apreche 4y ago
      This is useless to me. It tells me to start out doing sets of 2 push-ups. I am not exaggerating when I say I can do ZERO push-ups. NONE. I can sit there all day and keep trying, and I will not be able to do any. A program that helps me get from 1-100 is useless. I need a program that helps me get from 0-1 first.

nullish_signal 4y ago

Agreed, having a fun and social physical activity that I need good Muscle and Fuel for, has started to greatly shape my appetite towards Protein and Fat, and away from Sugar and Carbs. (Eggs, Cheese, Milk, Meat, Eggs, any and all Greens that are fun to Crunch on) Been reading ingredients lists very carefully, and increasing my sensitivity to Sweetness to the point that a Vegan Zucchini Bread was delightfully sweet. I think it had 5g of sugar per serving. The final straw that began my diet (the Exercise re-lit and carries it on) was a batch of Costco Grapefruit cups with about 25g sugar per cup - Tasted like nothing, and was almost mildly nauseating. Leagues from the bitter grapefruit I imagined, and a waste of sugar and profit margins to add so much sugar IMO.

masteruvpuppetz 4y ago

100 pushups?? I can't even do 5 in a row. No upper body strength at all.

kyriakos 4y ago
Pushups are easy to build up, start with 2-3 sets of 5 everyday and adding 2 pushups per set every week. Don't rush, exercise is something that takes time but I found that push ups was one of the easiest to build up to, now pullups are another story...
pengaru 4y ago
Intended those figures as a ballpark minimum goal to sustain when plateaued, not something you'd start with. This is a maintenance/hygiene routine, the objective is to do this daily until you're dead or otherwise disabled. Just make sure the amount is enough to both have great negative feedback and confer obvious health/fitness/physique advantages you'll be upset about losing. It doesn't matter if it takes you 10 years to reach 100/day, what matters is that you kept doing it every day up to and beyond that >=100 point in time.
Apreche 4y ago
I can’t do 1 in a row.
- Balgair 4y ago
  https://hundredpushups.com/ https://hundredpushups.com/ Poke about. I've done the challenge twice now. The progression was at the correct rate for me. It's tough, but it does work.
  - Apreche 4y ago
    This is useless to me. It tells me to start out doing sets of 2 push-ups. I am not exaggerating when I say I can do ZERO push-ups. NONE. I can sit there all day and keep trying, and I will not be able to do any. A program that helps me get from 1-100 is useless. I need a program that helps me get from 0-1 first.