A request that will (hopefully) benefit us both:
Fill out this brief survey and improve your exercise experience (supposedly)
Something different today:
I’m working on a larger project, but it needs a bit of market research to move it forward. That’s where you come in: Suzanne Brue created a survey called the 8 Colors of Fitness that combines the Myers-Briggs personality test with sports and exercise psychology to help people find the best form of exercise for them.
It’s a short survey (takes around 5-10 minutes), and hopefully you can walk away with better insight as to the best conditions for your exercising. You can find the survey here: The 8 Colors of Fitness.
But here’s the ask: once you’ve taken the quiz, please come back to this article and post your results along with whether or not you think it’s accurate. In fact, you could just keep this page and open the quiz in another tab. If you don’t feel comfortable posting your results publicly, you can email me (tyler@themightyodd.com) or message me on socials (@themightyodd).
And in case you were wondering, I am White (there’s a joke there, I know):
Thanks in advance for your participation!
Green Efficiency. Was watching some of America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston last night so the outdoors loomed even more largely in my mind - in fact, prepping for my morning constitutional and then for a bike ride to the river.
Red. It feels pretty inaccurate for me, but that's because I'm a weird outlier case. I schedule my exercise, which I rigidly chronicle and improve methodically, and couple it with outdoor activities, which I don't at all.
Neither, though, are intense, high-impact sessions. It's always vigorous, but I never try and whoop myself to exhaustion. At my age, that's injury city. As a younger man? Yes.
But most of the questions, I felt like I was somewhere in the middle, or the answer wasn't there. It was a bit binary for me as a person. As an example, when it asks if I do the talking, or if I listen, it depends. When I'm streaming, I'm all talk. In person, I tend to listen more and observe. At RPGs, it's a give and take.
And I like planning, and methodology, and data when it comes to politics and writing. When it comes to living, I'm far more spontaneous. This is one of the problems with "What general type are you" things, for me. I am a lot of things, depending on the scenario presented.
In exercise with people, I'll be competitive in a friendly way. On my own, I don't compete with myself. I just want to tick the "I exercised the best I could!" box. Etc.
Hope that helps!