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steve  ·  3307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 17, 2016

    I can feel the horse buck and pull as the rider applies the reins.

Thanks for this analogy.





thundara  ·  3307 days ago  ·  link  ·  

^^ I echo this

OftenBen: I'm reminded of this ze frank video:

steve  ·  3307 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love ZeFrank a little too much...

thundara  ·  3307 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agreed, but sadly his show seems to have died off again...

OftenBen  ·  3307 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're very welcome! I wish I could remember where I heard it the first time. But I find it very accurate to describe my attitude towards exercise.

To quote Stranger in a Strange Land (Because I don't do that enough)

    "It is almost impossible to shake off one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that if you had been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten that Mike has?"

My earliest training taught me that physical exertion, especially exertion that caused me to sweat or raise my heart rate and blood pressure was to be avoided by any and all means necessary. To intentionally, independently and regularly exercise I am fighting a decade and a half of 'Don't exert yourself!' and a half-decade of sneering at 'gym rats.'

steve  ·  3302 days ago  ·  link  ·  

super delayed response here... but it's interesting that when I read this - I thought of it from the mental health angle. And I've been thinking about it a lot... It's a crazy good analogy.

OftenBen  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd love to hear your (And the rest of Hubski's) take on the phrase

    We are what we regularly do
steve  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If that's true... and it probably is... then Ima gonna go find a noose. blergh... depressing.

OftenBen  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    then Ima gonna go find a noose. blergh... depressing.

Hey now! Being that kind of depressing is my job!