SteveKamb

I want to find out what I'm capable of. The OG nerd Socrates said it best: “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”

Also thinking about my workouts in quest/mission form really helps too. As long as I'm better than last time, that's all I can do.

hey Monica!

Great question: if you only can afford one piece of equipment, I would go with a door frame pull-up bar: http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Gym-Total-Upper-Workout/dp/B001EJMS6K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1452622351&sr=8-3&keywords=pull+up+bar

You can do every other movement with just your bodyweight. Squats, lunges, push-ups, and then you can use the bar to work towards pull-ups.

If you can't do a pull-up yet, here is a plan to get there!

hey GiantDungBeetle!

Firstly, great name. DungBeetle's are strong as hell. Next, a huge portion of the book is grounded in behavioral psychology and game mechanics to get you to do the things you've struggled to stick with.

For example, relying on motivation or willpower or motivation is a losing battle: life gets in the way and those things are finite resources. By manufacturing discipline and creating game systems to help you stay on target.

So, let's say you want to start running. Book a 5k for 6 months from now, and prepay it. Next set a goal of going for just a 5 minute walk every morning. Sleep in your exercise clothes, and put your alarm clock across the room. Then, build in a simple reward system. If you can walk 5 days per week for a month, you earn a new workout shirt or running shoes. Miss a day, and money you've given to a friend gets donated to a political cause you hate.

With a few steps, you've introduced accountability, a reward system, a progress system, and recruited an ally to help. No motivation required!

Formulaic plot that took a bit too much from Ep IV, but I loved the characters so damn much and was having such fun that I didn't care.

Loved the relationship between Po and Fin, and Rey is fantastic. I saw it twice and enjoyed it equally both times....though the first time I definitely teared up a few times.

Funnily enough, I couldn't get myself to get started on writing this book for MONTHS. It was so daunting and overwhelming for me that I just kept telling myself "I'll start when I have time" or "when I'm ready!"

So I gamified it (gamifying a book about gamifying life, so meta). I used a program called Scrivener, added my target finish date and word count goal, and it spits out a daily word goal with a progress bar.

So every morning, I woke up and had to write 500 words. They could be bad, they could be great, they could be "I don't want to write this book," but I had to write 500 words every day. Every word written would fill up the Progress Bar, like an XP bar, and there is a satisfying DING when you complete your goal. As somebody who was addicted to EverQuest and EverQuest 2, this ding triggered the parts of my brain that love progress, and I got hooked on hearing that noise every day.

I also used a program called Self-Control ( Now I use Freedom.to )to block ALL time wasting websites like Facebook, Reddit, twitter, etc. so that I didn't have to rely on Willpower to stay on target.