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Health Is Wealth | Sacred Symbols+, Episode 318

A couple of weeks ago, I (Colin) had a random thought: How come we never talk about physical health on Sacred Symbols+? At first blush, such a proclamation sounds peculiar. This is a PlayStation podcast after all. But the reality is, we talk about mental health all the god-damn time, and for good reason. So why do we balk at the other half of the yin-and-yang body-and-mind relationship? Thus, I emailed Cog of Defining Duke fame, since I know he has a passion for health and wellness. Now, I wouldn't call what I have a 'passion,' no, but I do care about it. I exercise vociferously virtually every day, and intermittently fast as a fact of life, day-in and day-out. I do it because I want to at least try to be healthy, keep my weight down, and minimize problems down the road. And it's a challenge. It's a challenge for Cog, too, since all we actually want to do is sit around, play games, and do whatever it is that pleases us. But it can't always be about what we want. Such a mentality is a trap. It leads to bad outcomes.Instead, we sometimes have to care about what we need. So we figured we'd try to help propagate a positive message, that you should earn your gaming time, that you should make dietary concessions, that you should exercise more and get your sleep. Maybe hearing it from our mouths will help someone, who knows?

Comments

Kurt Lewin

Something that made a huge difference to me was getting a personal trainer, I used to have an in person one but now I have a remote one and he provides workouts and nutrition advice based on what my goals are. A good one will have weekly feedback with you to describe how your workouts went and use that feedback to make any adjustments. It's something that gave my exercise more purpose and would highly recommend getting one if money allows.

Surge!

Hell yes on the corn syrup. Get the cane sugar out of my soda.

Nikitas Gagas

Glad to see this on here. Don't touch that controller until you've kicked your own ass for at least an hour. Earn that game time, bitches!

Hybrid Theory

Cardio is king baby! Colin the way you talk about Cardio & weightlifting I think you’d love very basic crossfit workouts. Super quick, but high intensity work.

Denver Walker

Loving these more personal episodes. Cog is such a kind and genuine guy

Surge!

The crawling in the shower notwithstanding lets hear more about naked, sweaty Colin. Good episode guys.

Joshua Powell

Please consider releasing this to the public feed!

Tim

Looking forward to this, I lost around around 150 lbs almost 10 years ago and while gaming at first contributed to being so overweight applying the mindset I used in rpg games to fitness helped quite a bit early on.