The Numbers That Matter: Constructing The Perfect Warm-up: And Rick And Morty On Happiness

Numbers won’t solve all your problems. But the more of them you know, the more you can control.

The number 10.

The number 30. The numbers 200, 175, 47, 60, and 80.

There are more, but these numbers matter a lot to me.

Ten is the number of times I have to walk fence to fence in my backyard to reach 1,000 steps.

Thirty is the number of toe-to-bar I can do unbroken. Two hundred is my daily bare minimum protein requirement and the ceiling of body weight I allow myself. That makes 175 pounds the lightest I’ll let myself get before halting a diet.

Forty-seven? That’s the age my dad was when he had a stroke that changed our lives forever. I pay attention to that number a lot. He died a decade later.

As for 60 and 80, well, 60 are the grams of fat I eat daily to feel good. Eighty is the bare minimum of minutes I spend each…