ChrisP Writing Tip #4 - Fitness for Writers/Gym Tour
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Hey everyone! Please join my sword letter opener microphone and me for this week's ChrisP tip. I enjoyed getting to share my personal fitness tips for a profession that requires A LOT of sitting, as well giving you a quick home gym tour. Hope you find this useful (as your health does effect the creative process) so you can keep your own writing crisp. Stay tuned for more!
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"Not that there was ever an Eragon film" - Paolini, haha, I love this quote :D
love this!
Definitely got a good laugh
This is crazy timing, I literally just watched all three of your other writing tips videos for the first time. Now I check my subscriptions and you have uploaded another one! Thank you for the videos Chris.
99% of my brainstorming comes when doing physical activity, either working out or doing actual work.
We need the ChrisP and Bugez collab one day!!
Love this tips! this is an issue that someone had to attend srsly :D
Chris I am loving TSIASOS so so much but... I love Eragon. please, give us a hint if it will be coming soon. I love that world so much and I really want to see where the story goes. I want to see Eragon, Saphira, Murtagh, Thorn, Arya, Firnen all together ready for a new adventure. I know this must be annoying always hearing people asking for it but it changed my life. I love your books and Thank you for listening to fans. you are my favorite author
Chris is going the Daniel Greene way by holding the mic with a knife
He could knock down the Beor Mountains with how buff he is
SERIOUSNESS
FACS
"Not that there ever was an Eragon film made" XD love it.
Tip for Chris P #1: Fill the bars with as much weight as possible before a video so it looks like you lift crazy weight!
Lol
There’s a study published on august 10, 2020 that shows: Acute increases in brain-derived neurotrophic factor following high or moderate-intensity exercise is accompanied with better cognition performance (in obese adults).
(Nature.com scientific reports)
Perhaps even short HIIT exercises could be great for writing! Like Chris mentioned, maybe something that doesn’t require a lot of recovery time is best if you’re writing every day or need to use brainpower!
Just thought I’d share this because I HAPPENED to read about this report on the same day this video was posted.
I've always neglected exercise, but after listening to a veteran author about it I think I should start as well.
So we aren’t gonna see you shirtless?
Everything ChrisP does is magical... and now magical muscles!!! Sry not sry. WOW
To sleep is amazing so far. I been meaning to do my school work but can't put the book down.
Hey chris. How did you make the decision to choose writing over drawing career? Thanks
This was so chill and informative. I could literally just listen to you talk about anything and be immensely entertained
Damn bro never thought you were this buffed sheesh
I want a video without a shirt nohomo.
Are you holding a ... knife?!
It's a mini sword, which I guess is technically a knife.
Now I'm waiting for the house tour...
Christopher Paolini namedropping Eric Bugenhagen is what I live for
I could go the simple route and just echo what many other commenters are saying--"Oh thank you so much for this video!" "If you don't use it you lose it!" "Aging sucks!" Etc, etc...
But instead of the same-old-same-old, I recommend you check out UA-cam channels The Bioneer (real-world superhuman stuff, with citations ranging from Bruce Lee's "cobra lats" to explosiveness training a la Dragon Ball Z) and Physical Culture Historians (focus on 19th-century calisthenics and the tools used, especially Indian clubs, which in my experience work the same muscles as used when one swings a sword).
My point? Well, I'm a writer as well, and the magic system I'm working on has a lot to do with refining one's mind-body connection. David Goggins and Cameron Hanes and Pat McNamara come to mind, as do Alex Honnold (a free-climber) and Kai Lenny (a surfer). They're all essentially real-world superheroes. I think many people are and don't realize it. My own situation has some in-common with David Goggins discovering the value of stretching extremely circumambiently--I'm learning how to stretch all the most obscure muscles, such as the psoas, the platysma, the brachioradialus, etc.
As a cross-referential point, consider Pavel Tsatouline's claim that Russians lead with their bellies, to the extent that "the belly of the Russian comes around the corner then the rest of the Russian." This got me thinking of how the Soviet weight-lifters used kettlebells...throwing their weight around by having a comparable counterweight. Not even to mention that video of some Russian daredevil doing handstands on the ledge of a skyscraper. (To simplify, I see Russians as a lot like the Japanese, just not as tightly compressed--the Japanese temperament is like their fold-forged swords, whereas the Russian is a bit more laidback.)
Anyway, since you're using kettlebells and know your magic systems, food for thought! :)
I love waking my dog. Get my best ideal during walking. You never been 200 pound? I only 17 and I 245 probaly more pound. I 6 foot 4 inches so I a decent height but most of my weight is just fat. Thank for the video I will defintaly take some of this advice into consideration.
Here I was, thinking you could not become much more awesome and suddenly you start giving people super valuable health and lifestyle advice.
What is going on? :D
Hey so the book you wrote which is The Fork, The Witch, and the Worm will it be more tales about Alegasia or will keep going on with the story of Eragon and Saphira?
I just watched your POV writing tips a couple hours ago! Thanks for being generous and informative with what you upload on UA-cam, means a lot!
Wise words from a wise man
Chris Fox powerlifts.
I love strength training and I feel and think better.
Yeah. I walk like 20 kilometers a day
Your traps are looking diesel bro
What is your workout routine?
Paolini: Your 20s is the best time to work out.
Me, working out at 18: Heck yeah, this is where the sweat begins.
I started working out roughly when quarantine started. It has really helped me to just... exist. But I'm a little frustrated with my habits, because I got abs during a stint where I did body weight exercise routine. But I hated that routine, so I dropped it. I had a picture of myself shirtless at the time, and it convinced me to get a new routine.
I'm doing weights now (exclusively dumbbells, because that's all we had lying around) and it's a much easier routine to stick to. And it's because I was able to bring the difficulty down to a much more manageable level that I've made much better gains. (Unfortunately, my an routine needs to be changed.)
Moral of the story: find a workout that's not TOO challenging. It will likely ruin your desire to gain if you can't do many of the exercises. But that's me personally. Try to experiment with several types of exercises and find what you like (weights, running, cycling, swimming is extremely we'll rounded, or even body weight exercises).
More chrisp Fitness Tipps pls
This is just a flex.
my favorite writer of all time loves working out just as much as I do?? THIS IS AWESOME!!! >:D and even gives you writing tips and sport tips? THIS IS EVEN MORE AWESOME!!! :DD
Damn, I've been reading his books for years and only just found out that he lifts. That's some solid lifting advice that he gives. I respect him even more now.
I also like how he calls his home gym a "basic gym setup" and yet he has multiple barbells, a power rack, a full set of dumbbells, along with stuff like gymnastic rings, medicine balls and a treadmill. To have all that at home would be a dream come true for many lifters, including myself :D.
I certainly didn't expect this kind of writing advice, but after hearing it, I definitely see this is where I need to improve! I don't get much exercise but I think now I'll try to start. Thank you so much!
You are doing a great service to writers out there by putting out this video and spreading this message.
People like writers spend a lot of time sitting or otherwise being still focused on writing or reading.
So it is incredibly important to promote intense physical excersise to a community of writers.
I am a writer myself, a teenage one, working on my first novel and between schoolwork and writing my novel chapters, there can be quite a bit of angst from sitting and using my brain so much.
I've taken up running to give my brain a break from sitting and being creative.
Overall, I rely on cardio and body strength excersises to make sure I don't get burnt out writing and that my welbeing is healthy enough to allow for long periods of writing.
We bookworms and writers are nerdy about stories and the ideas from our own brains and the brains of others.
I'm glad an established fantasy/sci-fi writer like yourself is promoting beung nerdy about your health and physical condition.
We writers spend a lot of time in our own worlds in the bodies and minds of fictional characters. In order to keep DOING that without getting burntout or compromising our welbeing, we have to spend time also focusing on the REAL world and how our REAL bodies look and feel in it.
The editing is really improving!
I appreciate your references in TSITSOS as someone whose into gym.
Oatmeal is AMAZINGLY good for you. :-)
Have you watched "The Game Changers" documentary? It's on Netflix right now. Thanks for the tour!!
If this video was in any way intended to be useful to writers, as the title of the vid series suggests, Paolini might have adressed some of the issues writers actually face with fitness. For instance:
- Finding time to work out. It may come as a shock to him but most writers actually have day-jobs and write on the side because they weren't lucky enough to have parents to publish their novels when they were kids. So they have to deal with actual work, along with families and friends, and find time to write and fitting fitness into that is a hell of a challenge for most writers. He could have advised on how to do that.
- Possibility for working out is another. Not everyone has the luxury of having a home gym easily worth tens of thousands of dollars. Most writers don't have the money to buy much gym gear or even the space to set up a home gym in their houses/apartments. And with most commercial gyms closed because of the pandemic, the chance to work out doesn't exactly come easily to most. Maybe some advice on minimal fitness gear and bare essentials that are cheap and space-saving?
- Knowledge of what to do is not another. Most writers don't actually have the time to spend watching a dozen fitness channels to see what works best for them. As he aptly said he is not a fitness coach so I wouldn't expect actual advice but the least he could have done is narrow the search by providing some links to different advisors along with saying what he likes or not about them.
But then he never faced any of those issues, did he? No, he never had to actually work for a living and struggle to fit writing and fitness around job and family commitments. All he did in this video really was say things that everyone already knows (that fitness is good) and then boast about his home gym and performances masked with a good dose of false humility.
Finally someone in the comments with sense
Something I really like to do is do curls while standing on the balance board. It makes you have to keep really good form and concentration. Think that's my favorite thing to do when working out, you should give it a shot. I prefer to use a curl bar but dumbells work well too. Nice gym by the way.
I definitely recommend the Seated Rows for working your back.
My backpain left me once I started doing that.