Fitness for nerds
Part 0.
I have no intrinsic interest in sports. I don’t really want to watch any, nor do I feel the need to play or perform most of it. I mean, I’m not against sports, it can be a nice social activity. But just sports for sports’ sake? Meh.
However, I do care about health, staying alive as long as possible and also about being productive and feeling good. As it turns out — and honestly, I’m still skeptical on this — it seems like physical activity may actually help bring about all these things. Huh.
When you work at a desk (or on a couch, slouched behind your laptop), you’re at risk of typical desk worker problems like lower back pain, sore shoulders and arms, repetitive strain injury, and so on. I used to have some of these issues. Then, all of a sudden, an office mate told me that strength training helped her fix her mouse arm.
My interest was piqued. Could things be so simple?
Of course, as a nerd, and in particular one interested in extreme optimization of productive energy usage, also called laziness, I feel compelled to find the best, most efficient way to do the sportsing and achieve and maintain the exact desired optimal level of fitness.
For the past few years, I’ve been trying to figure some of this stuff out. I’m still figuring out most of it. But I thought it might be…
