http://boingboing.net/2012/06/01/gweek-053-fitness-for-geeks.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 13:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/06/01/gweek-053-fitness-for-geeks.html#comment-1440446 Charlie B Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=164316#comment-1440446 I also have a science-based approach to fitness.  If I can kick your ass, I'm more fit than you.  If I'm not more fit than you, I need to exercise more.  The best exercises accomplish work - such as felling trees and reducing them to firewood, or rebuilding car engines, or masonry, etc. you get the idea.  This philosophy has been empirically shown to result in fitness and health in human beings.  And/Or, getting the snot kicked out of you. I also have a science-based approach to fitness.  If I can kick your ass, I’m more fit than you.  If I’m not more fit than you, I need to exercise more.  The best exercises accomplish work – such as felling trees and reducing them to firewood, or rebuilding car engines, or masonry, etc. you get the idea.  This philosophy has been empirically shown to result in fitness and health in human beings.  And/Or, getting the snot kicked out of you.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/06/01/gweek-053-fitness-for-geeks.html#comment-1440444 Charlie B Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=164316#comment-1440444  Ha!  Love the link.  I've always just used a sledgehammer or axe, though, myself.  Ha!  Love the link.  I’ve always just used a sledgehammer or axe, though, myself.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/06/01/gweek-053-fitness-for-geeks.html#comment-1439981 Liam O'Shannessy Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=164316#comment-1439981 The thing that's really turned my fitness around is www.fitocracy.com Levelling up, completing quests, competing in duels appeals to my inner RPG geek ... and unlike a Diablo 3 session, actually good for you The thing that’s really turned my fitness around is http://www.fitocracy.com
Levelling up, completing quests, competing in duels appeals to my inner RPG geek … and unlike a Diablo 3 session, actually good for you

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/06/01/gweek-053-fitness-for-geeks.html#comment-1439957 Michael Johnson Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=164316#comment-1439957 one-ish word:   shovelglove.  Been on it for over a month now. kicks ass.  I have biceps now. http://www.shovelglove.com/ one-ish word:   shovelglove.  Been on it for over a month now. kicks ass.  I have biceps now. http://www.shovelglove.com/

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