Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan Experience #1343 - Penn Jillette" video.
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I went years with really exercising other than whatever work came up that needed doing. But when I had a serious injury, not long back, I'd drag myself to the stationary bike and put MILES on it, 'til my legs started coming back, for real. Without the injury(ies), I don't think I'd've had the will to hop on the bike, and ratchet up how long and how hard I could go at it. But I'd ask myself "Do you want to walk, again? Then you gotta do this.
I KNOW the toughest part is getting on the thing. Then the toughest part is the first couple minutes, which pass at a snail's pace. Then as I get close to my target time, with less time ahead than behind, it becomes a sort of Zen thing, and the minutes go by in about 10 seconds of subjective time. Then I'm getting to the goal, and I feel like I can make those pedals go around another 10 seconds. Why not push it to 20? Heck, 12 minutes and 30 seconds? I can do another 30 seconds standing on my head and push the workout to 13 minutes. At first, I was proud just to get the damn thing to spin for a minute...
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