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I was a little bummed that a site called nerdfitness was full of memes and cliches. I was hoping for something more along the lines of defining a model of the world; defining a goal to achieve; explaining how to build a system that applies the model to solve the goal.

But the exercises do look useful.

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Listen nerd, there are lots of kinds of nerds in the world. Embrace it. The article has a lot of good information, it’s clearly not clickbate. It’s just catering presentation to the audience that’s interested, and that’s good because they’ll probably not hurt themselves and might actually do a handstand.

NF is not so much nerds in the sense like here in hacker news. Mainly geek culture with comic book fans, movies, books, myths and rpg larp culture. It’s mainly a community where people who are inspired by stories of pop culture get together, craft their own stories and alter egos for self improvement (especially in health) and encourage each other. I’ve been in on it for nearly a year and recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good community to get some encouragement. I’ve made more progress by participating in this group than I’ve ever had in my life and the best part of it is it has helped me get some consistency in my new habits.

Slightly off-topic, but if you're looking something more hacker-like (not so-called-nerd-like), then I can highly suggest The Hacker's Diet: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet

I'm not sure what's in this book, but nutrition is actually very simple. Eat real, unprocessed foods (whichever you like, no veggies necessary), do include lots of meat, and fast frequently.

My wife replaced most of her diet with beef (which she used to think was unhealthy), started fasting, and lost 50 pounds in a few months (people would say it was impossible/unsafe if I gave the exact amount) and now looks like a supermodel. The real food helped her headaches and depression, and she stopped taking a bunch of medicine. Both of us are aging in reverse.

If you think I'm oversimplifying, maybe it's just not that complicated. My wife's experience is proof of that. It really frustrates me how we've taken something so simple and natural like food and made a huge mess of it.

Or maybe a single data point does not make a model

I hit the back button to reply to your comment, at first I thought it'd be a few images, but the GIFs and "memes" are pointless and don't add anything from an information or humor standpoint.

I was hoping the “nerd” aspect referred to an emphasis on theoretical aspects (less charitably called “broscience”). I assume a lot of other HN commenters like me tended to research and study fitness when first diving into it.

The article has some good information, but I was disappointed in the execution. As disappointed as when George from Stranger Things caught his best friend Mark kissing his crush Ellie after they’ve killed a monster while listening to A-Ha (I assume that’s what usually happens on the show).

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