![]() After a pretty difficult session, she mentioned how she had earned the cupcake she was about to eat. It wasn’t until about a month out from her family reunion that we had a light bulb moment, all thanks to a comment she made in passing. But we were tracking workouts, and I was having her take pictures and measurements. We had determined that she did better when she didn’t track food, due to some underlying issues with the scale. I was really beginning to rack my brain to see what could possibly be going on. ![]() Three months in, we hadn’t made any appreciable change. She was the characteristic high motivation/high skill client. Her motivation was at an all-time high, and she wasn’t new to the gym. We went through her assessment, got a copy of a recent food log, and developed a plan going forward. She had come to me because she wanted to get in shape for a big family reunion that was about six months out. I once had a particular client that I was close to. Instead, we’re going to take a look at five of the most common cognitive biases we fall victim to, examine what they are, and offer strategies in how to beat them. There are a great number of psychological fallacies we subject ourselves to, far too many for the scope of this article. Our brain fools us into believing things that aren’t true. Our brain fools us into believing things that aren’t true, mostly under the guise that we’re rational human beings. Single humans fall victim to their own ignorance, or cognitive dissonance. Warm blankets are actually what we’ll be exploring today, only instead of the warm blanket you’re thinking of, we’re exploring the warm blanket of ignorance that is cognitive dissonance. With fall officially here, it’s tough not to think about things like pumpkin flavored beers, chats around the fire, and snuggling up in warm blankets. I added a few of my own thoughts on the biases he discussed to round it out, and I think it turned out to be a really useful article that will help you to understand some of the common mistakes you’re prone to making, and to help you look at the world of training and nutrition a bit more objectively. Luckily, my friend Tanner Baze got me off the hook by knocking this one out of the park. I’ve actually tried to pound out a draft of a very similar article a few times in the past, but I had a hard time figuring out how to make it engaging and relatable. Although most of the work on the effects of these cognitive biases exists in the realm of behavioral economics, they have large and obvious impacts on how we think about and implement many things in the realm of fitness. The logic of our subconscious mind is irrational in systematic and predictable ways, according to the research of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.īy recognizing these biases, we can work to slow down, think through problems logically, and (partially) inoculate ourselves from their effects. They’re important both because of how they can work against us, and because of how they can occasionally work in our favor. I’ve been wanting to write an article about cognitive biases for a while.
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