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.

Josh Bunch
2 min readOct 27, 2024

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…

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Josh Bunch
Josh Bunch

Written by Josh Bunch

Bunch is one of those rare humans who only talks about what he knows; fitness, food, philosophy, and movies. And puppies.

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