Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Cheat codes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 March 2015 11:10:21AM 2 points [-]

If the point of exercise is to strengthen the body and thus prepare it for potential adverse circumstances

Because that is not the only possible point. Looking better and feeling better and living longer are often more important ones.

Quite frankly I don't expect to ever encounter adverse circumstances. I live a safe modern urban life.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 10 March 2015 08:51:48AM 0 points [-]

Well, I do find that exercising regularly helps me e.g. run to catch a bus I'm about to miss without gasping for breath. But then again, I needn't be dressed the same way when I exercise and when I run to the bus to get this effect.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 March 2015 09:04:32AM 0 points [-]

But if you cannot catch a bus in 30 secs you cannot catch it. So this is something like a very beginner level of HIIT.

Comment author: efim 10 March 2015 10:37:50AM 1 point [-]

Just for the record I once missed a bus, ran after it and succesfully got on on the next stop. So technically you are wrong here. This is very extreme outlier though.