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42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: Costanza 31 December 2011 09:57:18PM *  1 point [-]

Strictly speaking, this question may be a bit tangential to LessWrong, but this was never supposed to be a exclusive thread.

The answer will depend on a lot of things, mostly specific to you personally. Bodies differ. Even your own single body changes over the course of time. You have certain specific goals and values, and certain constraints.

Maybe what you're really looking for is recommendations for a proper physical fitness forum, which is relatively free of pseudoscience and what they call "woo." I can't advise, myself, but I'm sure that some LessWrongians can.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 01 January 2012 02:34:38PM 7 points [-]

I think you've taken the wrong meaning of the words "work out".

Comment author: Costanza 01 January 2012 05:32:34PM 6 points [-]

[Literally laughing out loud at myself.]

Comment author: FiftyTwo 02 January 2012 12:50:44AM 1 point [-]

Oscar is correct.

A better phrasing might be: Given that I have difficulty inferring my own desires what might be useful methods for me to discover my pre-existing desires or choose long term goals?

[On an unrelated note, reddits r/fitness is an extremely good source for scientifically based 'work out' advice. Which I believe would satisfy Contanza's criteria.]

Comment author: Will_Newsome 02 January 2012 02:17:37AM 0 points [-]

Read things like this at least, and assume there are a lot of things like that that we don't know about. That's another of my stopgap solutions.

Comment author: amcknight 04 January 2012 02:22:12AM 2 points [-]

Interesting link. But in general, I would like just a tiny bit of context so I might know why I want to click on "this".