My wife and I bought a stationery bike and a mountain climber and at least I have committed 10-20 minutes a day, to the best of my ability, on each.
What’s a mountain climber?
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#12My wife and I bought a stationery bike and a mountain climber and at least I have committed 10-20 minutes a day, to the best of my ability, on each.
What’s a mountain climber?
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#13Crossfit. As someone who's spent too much time in the past mixing up the same boring gym routine, I can attest to the awesomeness of crossfit. *new religion
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#14Cutting back drastically on alcohol consumption, combined with bumping up exercise.
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#15Crossfit. As someone who's spent too much time in the past mixing up the same boring gym routine, I can attest to the awesomeness of crossfit. *new religion
How long have you been doing crossfit?? I did it for about 4 months before getting injured, my shoulder still hurts me to this day and that was 4 years ago.
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#16Running back home from work, twice a week. I started this last year and it's great ! I have ~13kms which I cover in a bit more than 1h. That's only 10 minutes more than using the public transport and let me tell you that it's much more enjoyable ! I Highly recommend !
i did this for 6 months (15 miles round trip) and got tendonitis :(
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#176 miles a day plus lifting.
One of the most motivating factors I found for me was to read about tech while between sets and to turn on EE380 and other talks when running.
It fixes two things in one go:
1. Keeping up with tech news in general (not TechCrunch mind you, but ISSCC and EE380 type).
2. Keeping my fitness and energy levels up. I found through tracking my productivity that 7 miles and lifting gives me lowest # of bugs. Not enough time to run 7, so 6 it is.
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#18Training with a heavy boxing bag.
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#19Caloric restriction
This. People often miss the fact that when it comes to losing weight or avoiding putting on weight in the first place the biggest challenge is dietary discipline. Unhealthy diet and excess of it combined is also the biggest cause of weight gain. When you curb it, control it, start eating healthy, and only as much as your body needs, it contributes massively more than exercises in losing weight.
It's so strange to see hundreds of posts on social media promising to run a marathon, do some exotic exercises and follow fancy sounding fitness regimes but no one even mentions responsible and healthy diets which actually defeats the purpose.
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#20I run about 50 miles a week.
This. I Rrun too: I'll put in 90-100km this week.
I was thinking of trying for 5000km this year, but I think that is pushing it, so instead I'll target 2k miles which is much more doable for me.
Yes, I perpetually have something sore on me.