StairMaster

Go to the gym during the day and you notice that the line at the StairMaster is a lot longer than it used to be.

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The onslaught of digital music in the last decade has made dialing up a personal fight song easy in almost any setting, from the kitchen to the StairMaster.

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"So if we're deep-wired to conserve energy, and specifically to avoid all but essential forms of work, that means there is a significant psychological disincentive to move at all, much less to hop on the StairMaster and climb for half an hour."

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Your house might have had a den that the construction worker's lacked, but it had no StairMaster or lap pool, nor any gadget to monitor your percentage of body fat.

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"So if we're deep-wired to conserve energy, and specifically to avoid all but essential forms of work, that means there is a significant psychological disincentive to move at all, much less to hop on the StairMaster and climb for half an hour."

Gut instincts allow people to make routine decisions without thinking too hard

Just be sure to do it on a StairMaster, a fitting tribute to a fitness icon.

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"So if we're deep-wired to conserve energy, and specifically to avoid all but essential forms of work, that means there is a significant psychological disincentive to move at all, much less to hop on the StairMaster and climb for half an hour."

Gut instincts allow people to make routine decisions without thinking too hard

In the course of a preface that's set in the mythic past — seven years ago, when Facebook was only a gleam in Mark Zuckerberg's eye — a young woman tells Jesse Eisenberg's Mark that dating him is exhausting: "It's like dating a StairMaster."

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I am walking on the StairMaster, five months pregnant.

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