Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

New self imposed restriction; I can only scroll x while on the erg bike. Erg bike minutes are up 📈 

My day job is about using behavioral econ to make you buy more things... on the upside I have built a highly effective toolkit that is powerful at making myself do things I don't want to do.

I hate cardio. The solution?

Temptation bundling. In 2014 a study was conducted where ~200 students were split into three groups, all with the same access to the college gym.

Control: Given a Barns and noble voucher to purchase audiobooks of their choosing.

Intermediate treatment: Given an iPod with four audiobooks they wanted and allowed to take the iPod home for the length of the study.

Full treatment: Given an iPod with four audiobooks they wanted but only allowed to listen to the iPod at the gym, the iPod got locked in a locker.

Sharing my interests will make more people want to follow me.