A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise

Re:A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise by nsxwolf on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:13PM (#13919306)

Maybe if there was a health reward of some kind every time you exercised then it would be different. But there's nothing. I just can't stick with doing something for weeks and weeks and weeks before I realize that I'm losing a small amount of weight, or able to perform a bit better than when I started.

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Re:A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise by coldtea on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:31AM (#13920802)

>I just can't stick with doing something for weeks and weeks and weeks before I realize that I'm losing a small amount of weight, or able to perform a bit better than when I started.

Hard or not, that's a bad attitude in life in general. Instant gratification seldom got people places...

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Re:A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise by nsxwolf on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:06AM (#13922814)

I can think of very few other things with such poor reward systems. When I start washing dishes, I start seeing clean dishes immediately. Even if I have hundreds of dishes to wash, I can feel good about that first clean dish.

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Re:A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise by coldtea on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:56PM (#13924003)

>I can think of very few other things with such poor reward systems.

Anything important has a "poor reward system". General education for one. Better eating. Advancing at a career. Playing a musical instrument.

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Re:A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise by other_herbert on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:48AM (#13919938)

It's called strava for running or cycling... It will show your progres on the same routes or over common segments... You don't even have to share that info with other people if you don't want to

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