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@EllenInEdmonton Sorry, I have to circle back and read things fully sometimes…. congratulates on your fitness journey!!! Losing 20 lbs since last fall is vvvvvery impressive! 🙌
I hope you feel proud and amazing about this! 🤘
Wow, my legs are *destroyed*. Yesterday was my first long run of the season. Was expecting to do 5ish miles. Ended up doing seven miles over brutal technical single track.
That first mile was *no* joke!
Looking forward to a recovery hike later today.
#trailrunning #exercise #health #fitness #woods #workout #running
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Strava elevation map for yesterday's long run. The first mile was basically running up a steep wall littered with rocks, roots, and fallen leaves.
Eben mit Freitags-Training im Studio fertig geworden... Yeah!!
Danach beginnt immer offiziell erst mein Wochenende. 😉
The #WorkOutDoors app is my go-to. I absolutely love it. However, it uses its own file format. While it can export to various formats, I don't think there's a way to do that automatically.
So, I wrote a parser for it.
My goal is to use this as part of a workflow:
1. Plug in iPhone to my Debian laptop
2. Automatically mount the directory with the workouts
3. Export the info into MD files with front matter which will then
4. Be used to generate static pages and images with the info.
I sure do love squats, but I sure do hate injuring myself 👀
#fitness #adhd #weightlifting #memes
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An "uncertain Fry" format meme with the text, "Not sure if third set of squats, or if squats are done and this is fourth set"
PIERRE RAYMONDE
Erotic Aerobics
1982 U.S. pressing
(Plus cassette)
Sometimes, you just have to buy things on principle.
This is one of the more ridiculous records I’ve come across lately (pun intended), and I’m sure I’ll end up using it for fun samples in random music I’ll make for fun this year.
Definitely the first used record I’ve found that came with a cassette. That’s odd.
And BOTH are in excellent condition.
Who could forget such bangers as “Pelvic Pleasures” and “Kinky Chorus Kick And Flash”?
Those kinds of inspirational numbers tend to stay with you forever.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #1980s #80s #80sMusic #fitness #exercise
1️⃣ Be young and in prime health.
2️⃣ Get COVID-19. (Mild or completely asymptomatic)
3️⃣ Find out if you're in the 25% that develop Long COVID
A peer-reviewed 2024 study in The Lancet Regional Health Americas found that out of 899 young and healthy Marines, a fourth of them went on to develop Long COVID after infection. Most of those people had mild symptoms in the up-front infection stage, and over a third of them hadn’t felt sick at all — one of the aspects I find most chilling about the virus.
https://whn.global/long-covid-can-happen-to-anyone/
Turns out that in 2026, one of the healthiest choices a person can make is to cut out respiratory disease! Which means wearing a well-fitting N95 or better in shared air!
#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #fitness #health #maskUp
80-yo Retired Teacher Bests Disease and Injury to Become Oldest Female Hiker to Finish Appalachian Trail
Check out my post on Rethinking “high HRV”
If you want to increase your HRV, start by forgetting about chasing a big number and focus instead on building a steady, low‑noise baseline.
– Many people want higher HRV because they think it proves elite athleticism, but research shows the link is loose and highly individual.
– What often separates “high HRV” athletes from everyone else is not talent, but predictable routines, disciplined recovery, and fewer wild swings in daily behavior.
https://neurodoctor.com/2026/01/02/rethinking-high-hrv/ #hrv #fitness #heart #hearthealth #AppleWatch #longevity
Day 3 of my water fasting. I would have expected a loss of energy from lower glucose, but that hasn't happened yet. Exercise still seems to have a quick recovery. I'm sure I'll hit the wall in the following days. The goal is to maximize metabolic efficiency. I read that fasting changes the mitochondria, elongating them for efficiency. The goal is fasting until next Monday and see what it does for the blood tests, CBC/metabolic/lipids. My goal is to see how effectively young my body can perform. I'm in my late 50's and health care in this country is horrifically expensive and this is all about health and strength for decades ahead.
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness
Predatory Data
Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Futurehttps://bookshop.org/p/books/predatory-data-eugenics-in-big-tech-and-our-fight-for-an-independent-future-anita-say-chan/21312207
There's a nearly straight line from 20th century eugenics to 21st century big data and data science. Google, the bastion of big data, was founded by two Stanford graduate students; Stanford was founded by a eugenicist and instituted eugenics principles. Francis Galton--inventor of the regression analysis that forms the backbone of data science--was "hot or notting" London with a counter hidden in his pocket long before Harvard-age Zuckerberg recuperated the same with the favorite quantification technology of our day, computers.
"The measured life" is a eugenics concept. All these doohickeys that collect data with the promise of making your body a bit more "fit"? Eugenicist in origin. Eugenics is about "optimizing" the physical "fitness" of people. Apps that help you learn, make you more mentally "fit"? Also have origins in eugenics. Eugenics is also about "optimizing" the mental "fitness" of people. Hence the obsession with IQ.
This isn't to say you shouldn't take care of your body and mind in whichever ways you want. I do think it's important, though, to periodically reflect on, and ask yourself hard questions about, what's driving those efforts and what the goals really are. Part of understanding why eugenics thinking is resurging so hard and fast in the US is understanding its roots, where that type of thinking comes from. It's also important to reflect on where the apps and devices you use to achieve these goals come from. How many come directly or indirectly from Stanford, which was built by eugenicists to achieve eugenic goals, and its offshoots?
Trump and Musk are literally repeating themes from Francis Galton's eugenics out in the open now. They're confident they can get away with it without pushback because the ground was laid long ago. But eugenics didn't suddenly become bad again because coarse people started saying the quiet part out loud. It's always been bad thinking, bad science, and bad morality.
#DataScience #eugenics #BigData #fitness #US #IQ #Trump #Musk