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> So if you're chasing high-level performance, single-digit body fat, or a bodybuilder physique, then relying solely a ton of walking isn't the right move. But the reality is that most average people are pretty far from those goals, and focusing on the routines of really high performers my be doing more harm than good. In other words, expecting that you'll accomplish the training required for a movie star body when starting out a fitness routine is setting yourself up for disappointment. Walking a bunch, on the other hand, is something that is relatively simple to fit into your everyday life. The best fitness routine is always going to be the routine that you follow consistently. And I can vouch for the—unscientific, absolutely not peer reviewed—results.

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Reminds me of something Terry Crews said it in a Reddit AMA a while ago. This is inexact, but somebody asked how a person who is new to exercise should start going to the gym. Terry Crews' response was that this person should start by spending a week going to the gym, reading magazines for 45 minutes, and then going back home.

The idea was that this helps you develop the habit of going to the gym, having a pleasant time, and not seeing it as a scary and foreign place where everybody's better than you (you're probably not gonna get insecure about somebody else reading more magazines than you are). Once you have that habit and familiarity, you can start actually exercising without those mental obstacles.

Funny advice, but it's an interesting way of thinking about building new habits.

It also reminds me of people on various fitness subreddits who will expend a bunch of effort trying to craft an optimal workout routine when their baseline is barely working out at all. Just pick something you like and do it at a moderate intensity for a few months! It's way better than nothing, and you'll accumulate random knowledge along the way that will help you come up with something better later.

Perfect is the enemy of good

Temporarily embarassed movie stars

Ah, The cousins of the Temporarily embarrassed Billionaires/Entrepreneurs.

No reason one can't be both at the same time.

Is that some kind of meme that I missed the inception of? I've seen that "temporarily embarrassed ..." a couple of times in the last week.

Refers to a John Steinbeck quote, "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Steinbeck never actually said this. The closest he came (“temporarily embarrassed capitalists”) is actually in a description of the socialist movement itself, not its opponents: https://hellyesjohnsteinbeck.tumblr.com/post/23486952183/com...

> is actually in a description of the socialist movement itself,

While, overall, Steinbeck said something different, your description of the intent is incorrect. "I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist." - This can only make sense when attributed to capitalists (believers in it) regardless of what systems they are currently participating in. This is a subtle description of human nature at large, which is why it's so memorable.

No, this is wrong. The context for “we” is “most of the so-called Communists I met.” He is describing the people in the movement as temporarily embarrassed capitalists. It is the opposite of the apocryphal quote, which has Steinbeck positing that the reason the movement is unsuccessful as it being opposed by the temporarily embarrassed millionaires who should have embraced it.

> No, this is wrong.

My interpretation is not.

> most of the so-called Communists I met

> Steinbeck positing that the reason the movement is unsuccessful as it being opposed by the temporarily embarrassed millionaires

> This can only make sense when attributed to capitalists (believers in it) regardless of what systems they are currently participating in <--- ie Communist support or however you want to constrain it

The same phrasing you repeated, reiterates my point. Good luck with whatever.

"Anything worth doing well is worth doing half-assed"

I remind myself of that a lot -- it's easy to overanalyze and then architecture astro-not myself into doing nothing

Or as Patton put it: A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan next week.

This article covers the “super hero” plan well and the pluses and minuses: https://www.gq.com/story/fitness-how-to-get-chris-pratt-fit

What's going on here?

https://media.gq.com/photos/55a3daafdab0df6312e2710b/master/...

I'm not a fan of the mixed grip for someone who isn't doing this competitively, but that's personal preference. He's set up like he's going to squat it up which can be ok, but he's gripping it like a traditional deadlift, and the bar is way to far forward. If the bar were closer, he squatted a little more, and had a wide grip, he could be set up for a snatch.

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