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Powerlifting - It allows me to eat what I want whenever I want because my body burns more calories at rest. It also is a good outlet for stress and rewarding wh
by ejcx 11y ago
Powerlifting - It allows me to eat what I want whenever I want because my body burns more calories at rest. It also is a good outlet for stress and rewarding when you hit goals that you worked towards.
Calligraphy - Cheap to get in. Bought a parallel pen for something like $11 and some Claire Fontaine paper and started learning. It's very much a hobby that you get out what you put in. No artistic ability required, and it's very impressive to others. Rewarding when you see how pretty the letters you've created are.
Programming - I'm paid to write code, but I also do it for fun. I try to be creative with my projects and work on something random but still useful and challenging.
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- Red_Tarsius 11y ago+1 for calligraphy, it gives me as much mojo as coding. Both activities are great sources of flow. EDIT: sorry, I don't know why my answer was posted multiple times.
- bonesinger 11y agoJust because you exercise doesn't mean you can eat what ever you want. I wish it worked that way. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579461381883678174 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023039497045794613...
- ejcx 11y agoObviously within reason. Being 24, I don't currently worry about things like 'heart health'. Maybe I will in the future, but for now I'm just trying to take care of the big things like regular exercise and healthy life-long habits.
- snowwrestler 11y agoThis is a tangent, but don't write off heart problems TOO much--don't ignore symptoms just because you're young. I know that's not what you were saying, but a very healthy and young friend of mine (serious lifter too) had a heart attack recently. It started out mild but he tried to "push through the pain." Bad idea.