Fitness

Fitness & Health

You Worked Out Once. You May Now Eat Whatever You Want Forever.

14 minutes. 1 set. ~120 calories burned. Ordering: pizza, large fries, cake — ~1,950 kcal. “I earned this.” We document the compensation and licensing effects, do the maths nobody wants to do, chart calorie burned vs reward consumed across five exercise types, and explain the actual relationship between exercise and eating when you remove the reward logic from it.

Fitness & Health

10,000 Steps a Day Won’t Fix Your Personality, But Try It Anyway

9,847 steps. 153 remaining. Smugness: 91%. The inbox: still 47 unread. The 2019 incident: still there. The difficult colleague: unchanged. The 10,000-step target was invented in 1965 for a Japanese pedometer name. We document what the research actually shows, chart the diminishing returns curve, compare walking types by effectiveness, and explain why the number is made up but the walking is not.

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