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These goal escrow sites, like stickK, beeminder are not my thing but glad they help people. Here are some other hacks: 1. Set your standards (https://www.youtu

These goal escrow sites, like stickK, beeminder are not my thing but glad they help people. Here are some other hacks: 1. Set your standards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUck-umj2WI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUck-umj2WI, yes it is him, but it is good.) 2. If plausible, release something shit / half done. You will feel embarrassed and want to fix it up. 3. Just get started. Do a minute. Soon you will be in work mode, and forcing yourself to no to do it, so you can sleep at an appropriate time! 4. Try to do fun stuff if possible. Going to the gym is not fun, but it feels good after. But if you have a side project, make it a fun one, something you really are in to. 5. Habits are very powerful. Your brush your teeth, right?

chaosharmonic 3y ago
> 4. Try to do fun stuff if possible. Going to the gym is not fun, but it feels good after. But if you have a side project, make it a fun one, something you really are in to. I'm not entirely with you about gyms in particular. Weights might just not be your thing as an individual, but "going to the gym is not fun" is often about the logistical problems of timing around gyms (peak hours, January rushes especially) and not necessarily that it's an inherently bad experience. If you're going when it's dead, it can actually be pretty great. If you're doing it now, then yeah, it's a bad idea (and there's a separate ramble on that), but it doesn't have to be. Broadly though, I agree with you. You'll never find me on a treadmill, but will find me on a DDR cab.
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- metabeard 3y ago
  > DDR cab Dance Dance Revolution?
  - dvno42 3y ago
    Yes. Cab being Cabinet, slang for an arcade setup of Dance Dance Revolution as opposed to the home version. I'm with you GP, DDR/ITG dedicabs have always been a way to get me out of a rut.
  - candiddevmike 3y ago
    Stepmania is an option along with some USB pads. Works well on Linux.
    - chaosharmonic 3y ago
      Stepmania is great. I actually built a skeleton of a workout tracker for DDR a while back using the simfiles I was already playing this on. I haven't had a space to play in that consistently in years, though, so I never bothered to bring the hosted demo back up when Heroku killed their free tier and kinda stalled the development before it got more than just fleshed out enough to be kind of useful. That said, there's a mostly working .sm to .ssc converter (it's still got a couple edge cases around punctuation in titles), as I had to migrate the simfiles to something with named properties anyway to get reliable data out of them. This, and the seeder script (which I wrote using a bunch of fetch requests in order to also test a bunch of my frontend logic, before Node started shipping with that) that I used to seed all the DDR arcade tracks into a db, were actually my first experience with Deno. It's been my go-to experiment tool pretty much ever since. If anyone's curious, it's under my github (same username) at step-step-recollection. (And ...recollection-scripts, and ...recollection-ui. Annoyingly I never got to experimenting with server-side rendering on it, so that's also a separate repo.)
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  It depends. Sometimes it feels like a pain (which coincides with fewer reps to fatigue etc.). Sometimes I get a buzz. Body isn’t in the same “mood” every time. And I space out sessions.
  - ChanningAllen 3y ago
    > It depends… Body isn’t in the same “mood” every time. And I space out sessions. I have to say that physiological randomness of this kind is one of the main "use cases" for structured routines. Before I lived such a structured life, I also felt like I would enter various activities with a roulette wheel of emotions. Which I found to be a big problem! But these days, and due to my structure, a) my mood is highly stable and predictable and b) on the rare occasions when my mood deviates, I usually have a very good idea of why, e.g. deviations in sleep.
  - sleazebreeze 3y ago
    I've been lifting weights for 20 years and this is what I have discovered too. You can keep your sleep/nutrition/work schedule very consistent and some days things will just be harder in the gym. On those days, I will do a little less extra exercises and just stick with the basic compound movements that I was going to do. On the flip side, there are great days too. Take advantage of those and get a little more done in the gym. Overall it's about consistency of the practice, not about an individual session being great.
ChanningAllen 3y ago
I'm a big fan of all 5! Plus many, many more. I wasn't being hyperbolic in my use of the term "80/20." The aim, fire, scan article truly only represents about 20% of the tools/techniques I swear by.
cpursley 3y ago
> Going to the gym is not fun Hard stuff is not until it becomes a habit. Then you begin to enjoy the details of it and get in the zone. Great points!
plasticdroid 3y ago
These sites are just digital versions of a Nathan For You episode.
mcmoor 3y ago
I still don't find habit useful, at least as I interpret it as something magical that reduces pain of something you do often. If anything, pain of something I do get worse and worse the more I do it. Anything I do regularly is always because of external pressure, without that my "habit" just vanishes.
RickHull 3y ago
I predicted your #1 was Jordan Peterson. Tony Robbins just made an appearance on Theo Von's podcast, This Past Weekend. I haven't watched it yet, but Theo is fantastic at getting his guests to open up. I am deeply skeptical of Tony Robbins overall, but I'll probably queue up the podcast soon.
pbkompasz 3y ago
Gym is fun!
TeMPOraL 3y ago
> 5. Habits are very powerful. Your brush your teeth, right? You'd be surprised. For some, brushing teeth is an explicit act of will every day, that never seems to habituate. ADHD perhaps?
- joeblubaugh 3y ago
  This is actually how I figured out I should pursue a diagnosis, so yeah, maybe.

chaosharmonic 3y ago

> 4. Try to do fun stuff if possible. Going to the gym is not fun, but it feels good after. But if you have a side project, make it a fun one, something you really are in to. I'm not entirely with you about gyms in particular. Weights might just not be your thing as an individual, but "going to the gym is not fun" is often about the logistical problems of timing around gyms (peak hours, January rushes especially) and not necessarily that it's an inherently bad experience. If you're going when it's dead, it can actually be pretty great. If you're doing it now, then yeah, it's a bad idea (and there's a separate ramble on that), but it doesn't have to be. Broadly though, I agree with you. You'll never find me on a treadmill, but will find me on a DDR cab.

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metabeard 3y ago
> DDR cab Dance Dance Revolution?
- dvno42 3y ago
  Yes. Cab being Cabinet, slang for an arcade setup of Dance Dance Revolution as opposed to the home version. I'm with you GP, DDR/ITG dedicabs have always been a way to get me out of a rut.
- candiddevmike 3y ago
  Stepmania is an option along with some USB pads. Works well on Linux.
  - chaosharmonic 3y ago
    Stepmania is great. I actually built a skeleton of a workout tracker for DDR a while back using the simfiles I was already playing this on. I haven't had a space to play in that consistently in years, though, so I never bothered to bring the hosted demo back up when Heroku killed their free tier and kinda stalled the development before it got more than just fleshed out enough to be kind of useful. That said, there's a mostly working .sm to .ssc converter (it's still got a couple edge cases around punctuation in titles), as I had to migrate the simfiles to something with named properties anyway to get reliable data out of them. This, and the seeder script (which I wrote using a bunch of fetch requests in order to also test a bunch of my frontend logic, before Node started shipping with that) that I used to seed all the DDR arcade tracks into a db, were actually my first experience with Deno. It's been my go-to experiment tool pretty much ever since. If anyone's curious, it's under my github (same username) at step-step-recollection. (And ...recollection-scripts, and ...recollection-ui. Annoyingly I never got to experimenting with server-side rendering on it, so that's also a separate repo.)
quickthrower2 3y ago
It depends. Sometimes it feels like a pain (which coincides with fewer reps to fatigue etc.). Sometimes I get a buzz. Body isn’t in the same “mood” every time. And I space out sessions.
- ChanningAllen 3y ago
  > It depends… Body isn’t in the same “mood” every time. And I space out sessions. I have to say that physiological randomness of this kind is one of the main "use cases" for structured routines. Before I lived such a structured life, I also felt like I would enter various activities with a roulette wheel of emotions. Which I found to be a big problem! But these days, and due to my structure, a) my mood is highly stable and predictable and b) on the rare occasions when my mood deviates, I usually have a very good idea of why, e.g. deviations in sleep.
- sleazebreeze 3y ago
  I've been lifting weights for 20 years and this is what I have discovered too. You can keep your sleep/nutrition/work schedule very consistent and some days things will just be harder in the gym. On those days, I will do a little less extra exercises and just stick with the basic compound movements that I was going to do. On the flip side, there are great days too. Take advantage of those and get a little more done in the gym. Overall it's about consistency of the practice, not about an individual session being great.

ChanningAllen 3y ago

I'm a big fan of all 5! Plus many, many more. I wasn't being hyperbolic in my use of the term "80/20." The aim, fire, scan article truly only represents about 20% of the tools/techniques I swear by.

cpursley 3y ago

> Going to the gym is not fun Hard stuff is not until it becomes a habit. Then you begin to enjoy the details of it and get in the zone. Great points!

plasticdroid 3y ago

These sites are just digital versions of a Nathan For You episode.

mcmoor 3y ago

I still don't find habit useful, at least as I interpret it as something magical that reduces pain of something you do often. If anything, pain of something I do get worse and worse the more I do it. Anything I do regularly is always because of external pressure, without that my "habit" just vanishes.

RickHull 3y ago

I predicted your #1 was Jordan Peterson. Tony Robbins just made an appearance on Theo Von's podcast, This Past Weekend. I haven't watched it yet, but Theo is fantastic at getting his guests to open up. I am deeply skeptical of Tony Robbins overall, but I'll probably queue up the podcast soon.

pbkompasz 3y ago

Gym is fun!

TeMPOraL 3y ago

> 5. Habits are very powerful. Your brush your teeth, right? You'd be surprised. For some, brushing teeth is an explicit act of will every day, that never seems to habituate. ADHD perhaps?

joeblubaugh 3y ago
This is actually how I figured out I should pursue a diagnosis, so yeah, maybe.