Not only is it fun, but the endorphins and music are literally euphoric in combination. What you can't see is how much energy I gain and how easy it was to learn. Because of my fun-loving (i.e. lazy) nature, and because I did find it easy to learn and because I never would have imagined I could do what you see me doing, I'm convinced most people can do the same even though they may be convinced they can't. If I didn't believe I could do this, and I ended up doing it, why not everyone else?

Because I couldn't deal with the drudgery I decided to keep a commitment to maintain a strict daily schedule (i.e. once a day), but not a strict daily regimen (i.e. all you have to do is turn the pedals a few times). I didn't think of it this way at the time, but you can see it as committing to work out everyday but being free to quit as soon as it becomes drudgery. I thought of it as mechanically establishing a habit, but it still comes down to rejecting the drudgery - just a different and far better result than I expected.

Lucky for me - that's one of those decisions that change your whole life, though it seems so arbitrary at the time. Interestingly, I wasn't trying to establish a life-long habit; I thought after computer school I would be content to come home and slump down to watch TV all evening just like before. But once I became aware how much better everything is if you flush the brain-fog first I had no desire to go back to that - just the opposite. Now I have a name for satisfying that desire to have more energy day after day - Energy Focused Exercise.