Comments on: What does not being fit have to do with ‘Outliers’? http://youarenotafitperson.com/2009/10/04/what-does-not-being-fit-have-to-do-with-outliers/ Sharing thoughts on fitness and weight loss... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Tortoise and the Hare « Markvaughan2009's Blog http://youarenotafitperson.com/2009/10/04/what-does-not-being-fit-have-to-do-with-outliers/#comment-94 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:24:27 +0000 http://youarenotafitperson.com/?p=310#comment-94 [...] you vastly decrease the odds of solving it.  My blog entry about Fitness and Outliers can be found here, it talks a little about 2 people who have made a career out of looking at standard problems in a [...]

]]> By: HeadacheSlayer http://youarenotafitperson.com/2009/10/04/what-does-not-being-fit-have-to-do-with-outliers/#comment-89 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:10:15 +0000 http://youarenotafitperson.com/?p=310#comment-89 WOW this seems so simple, but at the same time, it’s like lightbulbs just went on!

Me–I was in dance for a short while as a kid. Enjoyed it, but got too expensive. And from there on, I was never in any kind of sport.

Compare this to my sisters, who were always in sports, and good at it. They are thin, I am not (neither are my parents, though my dad had played football in high school).

Fastforward to starting my family. Both hubby and I are overweight. We don’t want the same for our kids, so as early as they could, they were in some kind of exercise activity. Now, at 7 and 14, they LOVE to exercise and my eldest excells at it (hopes to make it to the 2016 olympics for judo).

I think there is some “nature” involved, but a whole lot more nurture.

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