Fitness in Philosophy

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of experience and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: What is disagreement and why is it important? How can we respectfully disagree with those who we think are just as rational as us? What role does disagreement play in the fitn...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of experience and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is experience? -Does everything we know ultimately come from experience? -How central are experiences to the fitness journey of an individual? -What kinds of fitness exp...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of instinct and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is instinct? -Do we have a fitness instinct? -What types of fitness do we know (and not know) how to do instinctively? -Should we just follow our instincts when it comes t...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the responsibility and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is responsibility? -What is the relationship between what we are capable of as humans and what we are responsible for? -What responsibility, if any, do we have a...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the morality and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is morality? -Why is morality important in our lives? -Does morality play any role whatsoever in physical fitness? -Do we have a moral duty to ourselves to be physical...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of pain and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is pain? -What is the connection between pain and fitness? -Is fitness culture today addicted to pain? ("No pain, no gain") -Do most people think of fitness as a pain or a cho...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the impact and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is pleasure? -Is pleasure the main motivating force in our lives? -What is the connection between fitness, pleasure, and happiness? -How can pleasure lead to certain typ...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the impact and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is impact? -How do we measure impact? -How do we know if we're making an impact in fitness? -What's the best timeline to measure impact? 1 month? 1 year? 10 years? 100 y...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the value and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is value? -What is the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic value? -Why do people value fitness? -What happens when we encounter competing values in fitness? -Is fi...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the belief and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is belief? -What role does belief within fitness? -What are some delusional beliefs in fitness and how do they come about? -How have beliefs in fitness changed over time...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the skepticism and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is skepticism? -How can skepticism be useful in our daily lives? -How can skepticism be a useful corrective to dogmatism? -What use is there for skepticism in the fi...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby continue their discussion of dogmatism and its relationship to fitness. They discuss the following topics in the episode: -Examples of dogmatism in the fitness world -Practical antidotes to dogmatism that both fitness coaches and clients can use -Using the burden of proof to be clear on what is and is not dogmatic -Why dogmatism...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the dogmatism and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is dogmatism -Why is dogmatism bad? -How to avoid dogmatism -Examples of dogmatism in the fitness world -Ways to minimize dogmatism in the fitness world The Fitness i...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the liberty/freedom and its relationship with fitness. In this continuation of their discussion from Part I, they ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is liberty? -Why is liberty important? -What’s the difference between negative and positive liberty? -What...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the liberty/freedom and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is liberty? -Why is liberty important? -What’s the difference between negative and positive liberty? -What role should the government play, if any, in regulatin...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of the fitness coach and its relationship with philosophy. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What are necessary and sufficient conditions? -What makes a good fitness coach a good fitness coach? -How does the history of fitness practice bear on the current p...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby continue their discussion about the concept of intention and its relationship with fitness. They ask new questions about the connection between the two like: -What should the intentions of the fitness coach be? -What role intention plays in determining dose response to a workout? -How can a coach access a client's true intentions...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of intention and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What are intentions? -How do intentions differ from desires? -What are the current intentions in the fitness landscape? -What should our intentions in fitness be? -What are th...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of desire and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What are desires? -Can we voluntarily change our desires? -Where does our desire for physical expression come from? -What role does the fitness coach play in shifting a client's...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of science and its relationship with fitness. In the last episode, Science and Fitness Part 1, they were primarily concerned with questions surrounding exercise science itself. In this episode, Science and Fitness Part 2, they focus specifically on how the conclusions of science affect, or don'...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of science and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is science? -Is science the best way to acquire knowledge? -Is the study of fitness capable of being a science? -What counts as evidence in the study of fitness? -Are there...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of truth and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is truth? -Why does truth matter? -Do we currently aim at truth in fitness? -Should truth be our ultimate goal in fitness? -What devices, if any, give us better access to the...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concept of knowledge and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode: -What is knowledge? -How does knowledge differ from belief and opinion? -How do we know things in fitness? -What are some things we know in fitness? -What are the sources of ju...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the concepts of virtue and vice and their relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode. -What is virtue? -How is virtue connected with the good or happy life? -How does engaging in certain types of fitness makes us better (or potentially) worse people? -H...

In this episode of the Fitness in Philosophy podcast James and Robby turn their attention to the connection between the concept of autonomy and its relationship with fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions in the episode. -What is autonomy? -Why is autonomy worth wanting? -How can fitness help us achieve greater overall autonomy in our lives? -Should the coach/client relati...