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@scopecr33p
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.
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@scopecr33p
The results? TLDR: Taking just raw numbers of gym attendance, they observed a 15.9% increase in gym attendance in the full treatment group when compared to the control, and 15.8% when compared to the intermediate group. This was primarily driven by the treatment group maintaining high attendance over the 9 weeks of the study, where as the control and intermediate group started strong, they lost motivation as the weeks went by. In addition the full treatment group self reported as finding the gym more enjoyable by one std deviation higher than the control group. You can find the full study here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8822539/
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How can you use it? As someone who does not 'enjoy' exercise, when my fitness habits fall to the wayside I have effectively used temptation bundling to build the habit back, and it works. Pick something passive that you LOVE consuming; Trash tv, your favorite podcast, or in my case right now, social media doom scrolling. Make a commitment to yourself that you will ONLY consume this thing while exercising. Recruit those around you to hold you accountable to this if the self control is difficult or make it difficult do you to do this thing unless your at the gym (Maybe we need to build geofencing app access so you can only use it in the gym? 🤔). It only works if you commit to this rule.
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I'm getting a treadmill this week and have been thinking of implementing something like this! My thought goes to mounting my phone or tablet and have some middleware app connect to the treadmill via Bluetooth to read the current speed, which is then used to control the playback speed of a queue of videos I'd want to watch! Surely something like this exists already 😆
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