the concept diminishing returns are on my mind almost each and every time im doing a cardio workout. its one of the things in life i feel that you cant just throw hard work and extra effort at to get more results in less time. for example, if i am doing 20 pushups, i can go super fast and check it off the list and be satisfied. 20 pushups could take 20 minutes, or 20 seconds, depending on the effort put forth. the stupid elliptical machine on the other hand, requires the time component in conjunction with the effort. ive settled on 60 minutes or an american hour as my standard for what i need, based on no research whatsoever except a doctor once told me that anything less than 45 minutes would do absolutly nothing in terms of wight loss or heart and lung strength.
but my measure of an hour is tottaly arbitrary based on a unit of measurement humans made up long ago. i suppose they based it off daylight and sun and mystical stars stuff, so maybe the 60 minute fraction is some ordained unit of time, but still, i highly doubt by chance it has any correlation to the effort and equity on an elliptical.
someone smart out there could surely sit me down, take measurments and info from me and math it out to tell me how exactly how long i must run on that stupid thing before i recieve no benefit, or worse, diminishing returns. what if i find that person and they say its longer than 60 minutes? maybe i would write them off and judge their junk car in the parking lot and assume that if they knew what they were actually talking about, maybe they wouldnt be driving sould a POS car and working at a clinic that a sociopath like myself can afford to go to.
if they could convince me that any time less than 60 minutes was ideal, id be happy, but scared. like when you realize you can start drinking in front of your parents. its great news, but you are super aprehensive at first and it takes a while to fill out those new shoes.
my effort at work i feel is allready long past the point of diminishing returns. i think most people, at an hourly wage, especially in a collective bargaining situation, are at the point of recieveing no benefit, monetarily speaking, to do just about anything. we could talk about the ethical and moral value of putting in hard work, but from an effort and money correlation, there is no argument. the more effort you put out, the less you are being compensated for those individual units of effort. the hardest workers at my job are frustrated. they cant help themselves from putting in honest, quality true effort in thier tasks, but there is absolutly no reward to do so. i argue that if you work too hard at a job that will only pay you a base wage, regardless of your production, you are wasting energy there that you should be saving for when you are at home. youd have more energy to maximize your earnings while off the company clock. you could mow lawns in the evenings, or things you knit. drive an uber, deliver pizza. you get the jist. slack off on the company dime, and save energy to build an empire at home
but my measure of an hour is tottaly arbitrary based on a unit of measurement humans made up long ago. i suppose they based it off daylight and sun and mystical stars stuff, so maybe the 60 minute fraction is some ordained unit of time, but still, i highly doubt by chance it has any correlation to the effort and equity on an elliptical.
someone smart out there could surely sit me down, take measurments and info from me and math it out to tell me how exactly how long i must run on that stupid thing before i recieve no benefit, or worse, diminishing returns. what if i find that person and they say its longer than 60 minutes? maybe i would write them off and judge their junk car in the parking lot and assume that if they knew what they were actually talking about, maybe they wouldnt be driving sould a POS car and working at a clinic that a sociopath like myself can afford to go to.
if they could convince me that any time less than 60 minutes was ideal, id be happy, but scared. like when you realize you can start drinking in front of your parents. its great news, but you are super aprehensive at first and it takes a while to fill out those new shoes.
my effort at work i feel is allready long past the point of diminishing returns. i think most people, at an hourly wage, especially in a collective bargaining situation, are at the point of recieveing no benefit, monetarily speaking, to do just about anything. we could talk about the ethical and moral value of putting in hard work, but from an effort and money correlation, there is no argument. the more effort you put out, the less you are being compensated for those individual units of effort. the hardest workers at my job are frustrated. they cant help themselves from putting in honest, quality true effort in thier tasks, but there is absolutly no reward to do so. i argue that if you work too hard at a job that will only pay you a base wage, regardless of your production, you are wasting energy there that you should be saving for when you are at home. youd have more energy to maximize your earnings while off the company clock. you could mow lawns in the evenings, or things you knit. drive an uber, deliver pizza. you get the jist. slack off on the company dime, and save energy to build an empire at home
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