I saw no discernible effect on my weight or my musculature
How did you ascertain possible effects on your musculature? If you used the inter-ocular trauma test, keep in mind that gradual changes in something you look at every day (e.g. yourself, a roommate, or a classmate/coworker) are much harder to discern that way. Did you try asking someone who hadn’t seen you in a while, or comparing two photos of you taken a couple months apart?
Yes, his N=1 seems atypical, but it’s true that those who don’t enjoy physical activity, don’t sustain it (usually the virtuous, or obsessive, cycle closes only after making enough progress and/or caring desperately about appearance to overcome the initial resistance). Also, overweight people shouldn’t run on hard surface, or at all.
His observation “only those who find exercise possible or rewarding report regularly exercising” is indeed powerful, obvious, and neglected. There’s a prevailing imputation of virtue to physical fitness and sloth to those who lack it, so real thinking is scarce.
He said he exercised for a year, so I don’t think not-exercising-enough was the reason he (thinks he) didn’t gain muscle.
it’s true that those who don’t enjoy physical activity, don’t sustain it (usually the virtuous, or obsessive, cycle closes only after making enough progress and/or caring desperately about appearance to overcome the initial resistance)
How did you ascertain possible effects on your musculature? If you used the inter-ocular trauma test, keep in mind that gradual changes in something you look at every day (e.g. yourself, a roommate, or a classmate/coworker) are much harder to discern that way. Did you try asking someone who hadn’t seen you in a while, or comparing two photos of you taken a couple months apart?
Yes, his N=1 seems atypical, but it’s true that those who don’t enjoy physical activity, don’t sustain it (usually the virtuous, or obsessive, cycle closes only after making enough progress and/or caring desperately about appearance to overcome the initial resistance). Also, overweight people shouldn’t run on hard surface, or at all.
His observation “only those who find exercise possible or rewarding report regularly exercising” is indeed powerful, obvious, and neglected. There’s a prevailing imputation of virtue to physical fitness and sloth to those who lack it, so real thinking is scarce.
He said he exercised for a year, so I don’t think not-exercising-enough was the reason he (thinks he) didn’t gain muscle.
Precommitment devices FTW!