--- title: Five Best: How To Make Sure You'll Actually Go To The Gym description: Here’s how to make sure you’ll actually go to the gym, playing Tetris reduces the onset of PTSD after trauma and more. canonical: https://time.com/4718468/how-to-make-sure-youll-actually-go-to-the-gym/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-30T18:00:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:57.907Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Make Sure You’ll Actually Go To The Gym og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4718468/how-to-make-sure-youll-actually-go-to-the-gym/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Make Sure You’ll Actually Go To The Gym twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How To Make Sure You'll Actually Go To The Gym by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 30, 2017 6:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 30, 2017 6:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how to make sure you’ll actually go to the gym.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/201a7/03/how-to-choose-a-gym-so-that-youll-actually-go-to-the-gym.html) By Cari Romm in the _Science of Us_ **2\.** [**Playing Tetris reduces the onset of PTSD after trauma.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/health/ptsd-tetris-computer-games-trnd/) By Meera Senthilingam at _CNN_ **3\.** [**This is how to stop the opioid epidemic.**](http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-the-opioid-epidemic-2017-3) By Linette Lopez in _Business Insider_ **4\.** [**Could an algorithm help beat diabetes?**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/mit-mathematician-has-developed-algorithm-help-treat-diabetes-180962698/) By Dimitris Bertsimas in _Smithsonian_ **5\.** [**There are twice as many solar jobs in America as coal jobs.**](http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/2/7/14533618/solar-jobs-coal) By Brad Plumer at _Vox_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4718468/how-to-make-sure-youll-actually-go-to-the-gym/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4718468/how-to-make-sure-youll-actually-go-to-the-gym/"},"headline":"How To Make Sure You'll Actually Go To The Gym","datePublished":"2017-03-30T18:00:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:57.907Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4718468/how-to-make-sure-youll-actually-go-to-the-gym/","keywords":["Innovation","fitness","PTSD","diabetes","solar energy","opioid epidemic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4718468/how-to-make-sure-youll-actually-go-to-the-gym/","name":"How To Make Sure You'll Actually Go To The Gym"}}]}] ```