Fitness in Philosophy

Most of our life, technology, and progress is centered around the idea of making life easier.

Think about things like Door Dash, sleeping pills, and self-driving cars.

But a central question that comes up is: Is an easier life necessarily a better life?

It seems that as humans we're hard-wired to need some difficulty, challenge, or struggle to live a full and meaningful life.

In this episode James and Robby discuss the extent to which ease and difficulty play a role in fitness and our lives in general. They ask and attempt to answer questions like:

-In a world where things have become so "easy" that it's actually "difficult" to lead a healthy life, how do we get back to healthy living?

-Even if we wanted to we can't mimic the struggles of the past, so what we should do in the modern world to have some difficulty or challenge?

-Should the purpose of fitness be to "rake ourselves over the coals" so to speak on a daily basis with overwhelming challenges?

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Beauty in philosophy is considered one of the ultimately values like justice, truth, knowledge, and goodness.

One of the central goals of most people in engaging in fitness is to look better, or to cultivate physical beauty.

In this episode James and Robby ask and give their answer the following questions

What makes beauty worth pursuing?

Is beauty just "appearance" that hides a deeper "reality"

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder (subjective) or out there in the world? (objective)

How does the modern fitness industry influence standards of beauty?

How closely are physical fitness, evolution and natural beauty tied to one another?

Can obsessive pursuit of (external) beauty via extreme forms of fitness make us (internally) ugly?

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What is a legacy?

At the most basic level it's what we leave to future generations of people.

When it comes to a legacy with regard to fitness, the question becomes:

What do we owe the future when it comes to the world of fitness and health that we give to future generations?

In this podcast, James and Robby ask and attempt to answer the following questions.

-Is all we should be doing in fitness and health studying the legacy of our ancestors?

-Are our current health and fitness practices tarnishing the legacy of our ancestors?

-How is our own personal legacy determined? Is the last things we say and do? The sum of all our actions? Our best work?

-What actions and practices do we need to adopt now to leave a beautiful health and fitness legacy to future generations?

-Does there need to be a new legacy created to incorporate fitness into the modern world? The old world isn’t coming back barring something catastrophic

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Since the release of ChapterGPT in late 2022, interest and discussion around Artificial Intelligence has exploded.

Why?

There are so many societal and ethical implications around the development of AI such as:

-Will it lead to the end of all work?

-How can we tell appearance from reality when AI is getting so good at mimicking reality?

-Is AI essentially stealing the work of genuine creatives without any credit or attribution?

In part 2 of the discussion we ask and attempt to answer the following questions.

-Will AI entirely replace fitness coaches? If so, what are the implications of this?

-AI as it currently exists is missing things like intention, deep understanding, relationships, values, critical thinking, etc. How does this impact the information it provides about fitness?

-Could AI help a fitness coach deliver a better service to clients?

-Could AI help with societal health by analyzing data on a massive society-wide scale?

-How important is the coach/client relationship and could AI ever replace that?

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Since the release of ChapterGPT in late 2022, interest and discussion around Artificial Intelligence has exploded.

Why?

There are so many societal and ethical implications around the development of AI such as:

-Will it lead to the end of all work?

-How can we tell appearance from reality when AI is getting so good at mimicking reality?

-Is AI essentially stealing the work of genuine creatives without any credit or attribution?

In the fitness world, the development of AI leads to very interesting questions as well like:

-Will AI be a net positive or net negative for the health and fitness world?

-Will ChatGPT just regurgitate inaccurate information? What about contradictory/forbidden opinions like eggs are actually heart healthy and grains are not?

-What will something like ChatGPT accommodate conflicting answers or differing opinions on unsettled health and fitness questions?

-When you ask ChatGPT "what is the best fitness program?" how does it answer that question without knowing your particular values?

-AI is being developed by massive companies. How will the influence of these massive companies influence the health and fitness world?

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In the second part of their discussion about human nature, James and Robby continue to investigate the connection between human nature and fitness.

They ask and attempt to answer the following questions.

What is human nature?

Is there an essence to humans that applies across all places and times?

What is the balance of nature vs. nurture in human beings?

How much of a part of our human nature is fitness?

If fitness is such a natural part of our human nature why is it so neglected these days?

When it comes to our human nature how should that influence how we try to get as many people as possible involved in fitness?

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In this episode, James and Robby investigate the connection between human nature and fitness.

They ask and attempt to answer the following questions.

What is human nature?

Is there an essence to humans that applies across all places and times?

What is the balance of nature vs. nurture in human beings?

How much of a part of our human nature is fitness?

If fitness is such a natural part of our human nature why is it so neglected these days?

When it comes to our human nature how should that influence how we try to get as many people as possible involved in fitness?

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What makes you engage in fitness?

For many people it's the rewards that as a result of engaging in fitness like looking better, feeling better, and performing better.

For people who participate in sports it's things like pleasure, points, and prizes.

In this episode James explore the idea of rewards and its relation to fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions.

What is a reward?

What's the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards?

What role do rewards currently play in the fitness world?

How should we think about rewards and their relation to fitness?

What role should rewards play in the coach and client relationship?

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A prominent feature of any modern society is the notion of punishment or retribution for any wrongdoing.

Whether it's jail, fines, public humiliation and ostracism punishment is a central feature of certain aspects of modern society.

In this episode James and Robby ask and attempt to answer the following question with respect to punishment and fitness:

-What is punishment?

-Why do we punish someone after the act has already been committed?

-What makes punishment justified or unjustified?

-What relationship does punishment have to fitness and what relationship should it have?

-How have sports and the idea of "no pain, no gain" how we think about punishment and its relationship to fitness?

-What can we do to help fitness individuals realize they don't need to punish themselves with fitness by saying things like "If I eat pizza, I need to do a workout to burn it off"

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When the internet first became widely used people assumed that more information is always better.

Few people today would take genuinely take that stance especially with the rise and rapid spread of misinformation and disinformation as a result of the speed of the internet.

What is misinformation? False or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally

What is disinformation? False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power of the media

In this episode James and Robby discuss and attempt to answer the following questions.

How do misinformation and disinformation play a role in fitness today?

What can the fitness individual do to guard themselves against misinformation in the health and fitness realm today?

What is the role of fitness coaches in combating misinformation/disinformation?

When it comes to the fitness collective should we let people engage in whatever fitness practice they want even if it is false and harmful or institute a more stringent restriction on fitness practices?

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