- SS :EVOLUTION ... THE FIRST TWOL- . . NAMICS The Mass Psycholo&y of Fi ttism The Mass Psycholo&y of Fi ttism FITNESS, EVOLUTIONA, ND THE FIRST TWOL AWSO P THERMODYNAMICS Edward Yu Undocumented Worker Press 1he Mass Psychologyo f Fittism: Fitness,E volution, and the First Two Laws of Thermodynamics (also known as: 2,092,726 Quick and Easy Stepst o 6-pack Abs) Copyright©2015 by Edward Yu. Some rights reserved. Formatting: Edward Yu and Silvia Ping Indexing: Ned Liebl Formatting Consultant: Ned Liebl Artistic Consultants: Ned Liebl and Silvia Ping Front Cover Design by Edward Yu and Silvia Ping Cover Art: Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1490. Available from: Wikimedia Commons, https:/ /commons.wikimedia.org/ Photo of author by Ann Yu Model in Figure 1: Amanda Espy Printed in the United States or the United Kingdom Library of Congress cataloging-in-publication data: contact publisher Undocumented Worker Press Echo Park, Los Angeles CA 90026 First Printing: November 2015 ~O~G BY NC ND This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http:/ /massfittism.com ISBN -978-1-4951-0700-9 For GeorgeJ,e ssicaa nd Grandma Yours enseo f humani"tyr emindsm e of what reallym atters. TABLEO F CONTENTS Prologue What Does it Mean to be Fit? Introduction The Growing Numbers of "Unfit" 7 Part 1 Humans, Machines and the 1st Law of Thermodynamics 13 Chapter 1. What is Exercise? 15 Chapter 2. The Origins of Modern Exercise 27 Chapter 3. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics 35 Chapter 4. Evolution 55 Chapter 5. Cartesian Reductionism 71 Chapter 6. The Purpose of Exercise as We Know It 79 Chapter 7. The Primacy of Numbers 85 Chapter 8. Balance, Degrees of Freedom & External Constraints 111 Chapter 9. The Spine & 3 Axes of Rotation... the Neuro in Neuromuscular 129 Chapter 10. Reliability & Accuracy, Quality of Movement and Being Human 143 Part 2 Information, Knowledge and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics 171 THE MASSP SYCHOLOGYO F FITTISM Chapter 11. Evolution, Information Theory, and a New Perspective on Fitness 173 Chapter 12. Information Processing and Range of Strong Motion 197 Chapter 13. Information to Knowledge: The Neuro in Neuromuscular 217 Chapter 14. Evolution (or God) Doesn't Make Mistakes 233 Chapter 15. Freedom and Response-Ability 247 Chapter 16. Learning, Novelty, Information & Knowledge 261 Chapter 17. Novelty, Redundancy and Compressing Information 285 Chapter 18. The Quick and the Dead 311 Part 3 An Old Theory and a New perspective: Relating Fitness to Evolution, Neuromuscular Complexity, Entropy and the Ground 329 Chapter 19. A Few Words on Talent and (Over) Efforting 331 Chapter 20. Complexity, Entropy and Learning 347 Chapter 21. Learning: Sense-Ability, Neuromuscular Complexity and Reversing Entropy 361 Chapter 22. Alternatives: Evolution, the Foot and the Ground 385 Chapter 23. Recommendations 405 Epilogue 2,092,726 Quick and Easy Steps to 6-pack Abs (and other important secrets to getting fit) 417 Bibliography 443 Acknowledgements 455 Index 465