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If you are thinking of skipping your workout today, check out this training montage from Rocky IV.

This video is really an homage to USEFUL exercise. It reminds me of my favorite quote about exercise.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD – 103 AD)

That’s why I love to walk on errands because I get exercise AND I accomplish something. Now, I just need to add chopping wood, righting snow sleighs and outrunning government spies in black sedans to my itinerary and I’ll be as buff as Rocky.