#170: Level Up Your Life
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 19 January 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
One of my favorite writers online is Steve Kamb, who operates a fitness website called Nerd Fitness. What I love about Steve is that he's made fitness accessible and fun to people who otherwise wouldn't be interested in physical fitness or strength training. He takes inspiration from video games, pop culture, comic books, etc. and creates workouts and life lessons. He just wrote a book called Level Up Your Life, and on the show we talk about how video games can be a template for leading a better and more fulfilling life.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to play a little bit more on the next one. |
| 0:17.0 | Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | So one of my favorite writers online is a guy by the name of Steve Cam. |
| 0:22.9 | He runs a website called NerdFitness.com and I've had Steve on the podcast before and what |
| 0:27.3 | about Steve is he's made fitness accessible and fun to people who otherwise wouldn't be |
| 0:32.4 | interested in physical fitness or strength training. |
| 0:35.2 | What he does is he takes inspiration from video games, pop culture, comic books, movies |
| 0:40.2 | and creates workouts sometimes based around this. |
| 0:43.2 | For example, he's got a thing on there called the Konami Code workout based on the classic |
| 0:47.3 | Konami Code you used at the beginning of Contra. |
| 0:50.3 | Anyways, really fun guy. |
| 0:51.9 | He just came up with a book called Level Up Your Life and it's not just about physical |
| 0:55.4 | fitness, it's about how to infuse more adventure, more progress in your personal development |
| 1:00.6 | using video game mechanics, using the same thing that video game designers use to keep |
| 1:05.6 | you playing a video game for hours on end. |
| 1:09.0 | He's found ways to implement those into your personal life and he shows you how and level |
| 1:12.9 | up your life. |
| 1:13.9 | So the other podcast we talk about how video games can act as a template for our own personal |
| 1:19.8 | development program. |
| 1:20.8 | A lot of fun. |
| 1:22.2 | So without further ado, Steve Cam and Level Up Your Life. |
| 1:33.6 | Steve Cam, welcome back to the Art of Manliness podcast. |
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