System change

[seitosilver]

I get a lot of points on l_points, but looking at the breakdown, 90% of it is points from calesthenics. Though calesthenics are important, they won't save my health if I'm eating junk food and staying up all night. To remedy this, jenn1224 has thought up a new point system, one that I think is fabulous and well balanced

Comments

[jenn1224]

I understand what you're saying. But the problem that I really wanted to address is that under the current system, you can eat junk all day and not get any sleep and do no exercise and still get spectacular points for take a half-hour to do tons of calisthenics. It doesn't seem to me that that person is any "fitter" than the person who eats healthy meals and runs for an hour.

Also, in the current system, you can avoid calisthenics all month, and then do a ton the last day to catch up. Under a scaled system, the person who does a little every day is rewarded.

(I'd also like to remind you that person doing more is still getting a higher score - it's just that the difference is no longer quite so drastic.)

If the purpose of this community was "do as many calisthenics as possible," then I would agree with you 100%. But the purpose of the community is to promote overall healthy habits, and while calisthenics is one part of that, it's not everything. A big change might take some getting used to, but we had to get used to the original system too!

I meant it before - if you can think of a way to keep the scoring simpler without putting too much emphasis on calisthenics, I'd love to hear it. I tried, but couldn't come up with an alternative, maybe two heads are better than one here!