I’ve started to learn about game theory. The idea that every game has a strategy that can be studied and iterated thousands of times over is extremely fascinating. One game theory in particular is Prisoner’s dilemma. If you’re unfamiliar, the elementary concept is that 2 prisoners are being interrogated separately and each is offered an…
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Task Failed Successfully
Anyone ever see those Olympic gymnasts who do a series of maneuvers that I can’t fathom completing in a thousand lifetimes, then all of a sudden wipe out in a concerning fashion? Somehow even at the end of what seems like a disastrous fall, they pick themselves up, and raise their arms above their head…
Ready, Set, Fail
I can vividly remember the walking into into the weight room for summer football weight training camps. There was one particular session every once in a while where the coaches would measure our progress by doing “Max Out” sessions where we would perform the circuit and increase the weight for each repetition until we could…
Counting Calories? Really?
Anyone else frustrated by how tedious and time consuming counting calorie intake can be? No? Just me? For all of the technological advances we’ve made as a society to gather health and fitness data, I would think there would be something out there that could automate this task as well. So far the best I’ve…
Challenge Driven
I watched a video on YouTube the other day titled “NEUROSCIENTIST: You Will NEVER LACK Motivation Again”. Clickbait right? Well I decided to watch it anyway. It was short talk from Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman at Stanford University describing the link between dopamine and the reward system. Here’s the video. He goes on to talk about…
Data Overload
I am obsessed with data. Immediately after completely a workout, whether its a bike ride, a weight training session, or a run, I open all of my fitness apps like I’m about hack into the National Archives Museum in DC and steal the Declaration of Independence. Sometimes I feel like RoboCop with the amount of…
Bonking
During High School football summer training camp, everyone dreaded Thursdays. It was the training day we would do a workout appropriately dubbed “pukesters”. We’d start the session with some light calisthenics and stretching before diving into this beast of a workout. Let me set the scene. A hot 80 degree Colorado afternoon on a mostly…
Fatigue
Not every day is going to be a win. We’ve all experienced this at one point or another. An off workout, a slow run, lack of motivation. It happens. The important thing to do on days like this is quit punching yourself in the face. There’s no need to waste energy beating yourself up. I…
Repetition
For the most part, repetition is a good thing. It gets us into a routine, creates a cycle of familiarity, and in exercise it creates muscle memory. But what about bad repetition? Things we repeat over and over in a robotic like fashion that hinder progress? Perhaps we are blind to these habits, or don’t…
Net Zero
Let me tell you the most frustrating thing about progress. We often don’t see it, and when we don’t get the results we want immediately, we quit. I’ve done it, probably hundreds of times. Progress is really hard to visualize in the moment. We step on the scale and see a bigger number than the…
The Dumb Fitness Challenge 