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Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by tomjen3 on Sunday January 23, 2011 @06:38AM (#2132261)
I disagree with you. If I liked the idea of doing pointless, repetitive manual labor, getting sweaty, having my entire body hurt and then do it all over again the next day, I wouldn't have spent so much time getting a degree.
Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by kschua on Sunday January 23, 2011 @10:32AM (#2132530)
If you think exercise is a pointless and repetitive manual labour. Try doing martial arts.

It is fun, sweaty and requires you to think on your feet. You need strategy to defeat an opponent before sparring. You need to think immediately on how to counter an attack or how to attack. You need to use leverage against a bigger opponent. You need to seize that small advantage you have to convert it to something bigger.

All of these train your mindset for entrepreneurship. Planning a strategy, changing you game plan, using leverage against bigger opponents. Having your body hurts trains you to take a beating. Losing a fight gives you feedback on how to improve if you are open to learning

Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by leftnode on Sunday January 23, 2011 @08:26AM (#2132365)
Wow, I've never seen a comment so adverse to exercise. It's been scientifically proven that exercise is good for mental health in addition to physical health.

There's no way you can be serious.

Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by tomjen3 on Sunday January 23, 2011 @01:38PM (#2132997)
I am serious.

I also don't doubt for a moment that exercise is healthy for the body, just like spinach, which I also hate.

But hey if you got some idea about how to make it more fun, I am open for suggestions - I have no desire to die early.

Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by trafficlight on Sunday January 23, 2011 @11:55PM (#2134291)
What kind of exercise have you tried?

I'm more into weight lifting, myself. It's not at all tedious.