[Sunnybayes]

So I think that is also why exercising in general would be so effective in making yourself more productive overall. Which I've noticed that I always have a much better week overall when I do exercise.

While you are sitting there benching 150 pounds, your are free from distractions. There is no computer, or TV or whiny kids. You have nothing else to do but think about things. You feel more free to reorganize your thoughts, free from the discomfort of reorganizing the neural networks of your brain, because it is totally swamped out by the discomfort of your muscles, so you can get ready for what you are going to do when you return from exercising. Also all that blood pumping around, maybe more oxygen can get to your brain (or maybe not... but I dont see how it makes sense that oxygen can just get stuck in one part of your body... maybe someone else has some insight...),

Also, if you go to exercise in the morning, then there are several more benefits as well. First of all you get up early, because you have a reason to get up, because excercise, for me at least, becomes a fun thing after I've made it a good habit. So that adds a couple of hours to your day, or at least shifts your awake hours earlier in the day, which is a good thing because how often can you actually get things done in the night. Since you have nothing else to do but think, (at least when you are recovering from the set), then you have time to make a plan of your day in your mind, and internalize it so that you can implement that plan without much effort, because you have already gone through the pain of visualizing and thinking about/memorizing / reorganizing your brain to follow your plan while you were exercising, but you never actually noticed the pain of thinking because you were already distracted by the pain in your muscles. After you are finished exercising, you feel incredibly awesome, there's a thing called a runner's high (I'll have to look that up again), and give out an awesome vibe and just feel more motivated in getting things done... well motivated because you've got a plan that you've already internalized and polarized to. Being in an awesome vibe, by LoA will just attract you to other awesome people. And also by going out, it gives you part of your daily dosage of being social, which might be a good thing if you are someone who does not interact much with people. But everyone needs social interaction because it is built into our genes, and you feel horribly lonely without it of course.

Its not currently a habit of mine, because I'm currently studying abroad, maybe that's why I'm having more trouble with procrastination this semester..., but I'll just start getting up and doing more one handed push ups and sit ups, and go for a jog from now on, and then while doing so take advantage of that perfect time to plan out my day and internalize it, which will also increase my ability to think without paper and pencil. Another point, when else are you going to have a better excuse to sit down and plan for an entire hour during your day, I would never think about just doing nothing but planing for an entire hour (well i have... but could never do it), anyway it would be so easy to become distracted from it.

hmm.... wow... love thinking about this stuff. Anyone have similar feelings/theories about exercise?