On the type 2 fun thing… might want to check out the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
No one cares, but I was born during a cold time of year in a very cold place and have a decent tolerance for it. But I also run cold most of the time. I think how one perceives cold is mostly genetic.
My reading list is growing quicker than shrinking, but it’s now in there.
Sunday check in:
Weight 204.4lbs, down a decent amount from before picture, as expected.
Sunday seems like a good day to do regular progress updates, we’ll see if it sticks.
Got 2 good lifting sessions last week. Only 1 running session which is way below what I expected. This next week doesn’t look like a bad one work wise, so should be able to get 3 runs and 2 lifting sessions in. The week after I should be off work so the plan is to keep calories on the lighter side and training to plan this week, then push training and calories a bit harder next week, but work has a way of springing fun little surprises at the minute, so we’ll see how things pan out.
I feel that… strictly told myself that I must meet my reading goal for this year only with books already on my stupidly large to-read list on Goodreads.
I probably need to make reading a bigger priority. Ideally now while we’re still locked down and kids are both off to school/nursery
It’s extra great right now to lose yourself in great books given the world’s current state. I don’t know about you, but public libraries by me have been open the whole time except for about a month during the initial lockdown phase. I’m grateful that they continue offering curbside services.
I have no idea, honestly. I have a kindle that I do all my non Forever 531 reading on.
For myself, it’s very much a time management thing. The vast majority of my time is spent either working or with my kids, so there’s a pretty high demand for the rest of my time. Reading doesn’t make the cut as often as it should.
I’m also not great at reading new stuff in stressful times, I have a couple of book series i return to if i feel its needed, kind of like comfort food. I have one particular book that i like to keep in reserve for times that i know it will be needed too.
Do you mind sharing what that one book is?
Makes sense, and it see.s like you’ve been extra stressed during the holiday season. I wish I had more time to read as well, but I make do by reading while walking, on public transit, or before sleeping. Audiobooks are great too.
Its Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. It’s about as chilled and laid back as you can get, and helps bring back some pretty cool memories for me.
The holiday season had an impact, for sure but its expected in food retail. The biggie is CoVid. It turns supply chains on their head, completely disrupts sales patterns and forecasts, adds layers on layers of compliance issues, aggravates customers and decimates teams almost at random. It’s a big old headache, in other words.
I love Bill Bryson stuff. His “Short History of Nearly Everything” was a good read.
You people and your books - increasing my reading list and I haven’t taken anything off it for a long time! Just added a walk in the woods, but did it through my libraries online ebook loan system, not sure if your library does the same thing? Saves buying something you’ll probably only read once and can’t lend out because it’s digital!
Went to sleep for a week and way to many posts in here to read. How’s it all going ?
Tl:dr
@Bagsy @dagill2 we all seem to share some common interest, what’s on your reading lists? I don’t maintain one, other than Digital Minimalism, that is. Was thinking I’d start, and whatever is in yours is probably worth browsing through for items that I myself would be keen on digesting.
Work for today:
Jumps: 3 x 5
Hang Clean:
5 x 5 @ 40kg
Press:
5 x 40kg
5 x 40kg
5 x 50kg
10 x 55kg (PR)
Front Squat:
5 x 75kg ss. Dips
5 x 75kg ss. Wide grip pull ups
5 x 75kg ss. Dips
5 x 75kg ss. Wide grip pull ups
5 x 75kg ss. Dips and lateral raises
5 x 75kg ss. Wide grip pull ups and BPAs
5 x 75kg ss. Dips, push ups, lateral raises and BPAs
5 x 75kg ss. Wide grip pull ups, BPAs and HLR
5 x 75kg ss. Dips, push ups, lateral raises and BPAs
5 x 75kg ss. Wide grip pull ups, BPAs and HLR
Day 2 of coach to 5k (~30mins of interval running)
Notes:
@Voxel @Bagsy @antiquity @simo74 @alex_uk I will reply later, but daddy’s taxi service is being called.
You’re being paid?! Lucky, my dad did it for free 
Congrats on the PR !
@anna_5588 sadly these passengers are more jump and run types.
@antiquity it’s been on my reading list for a long, long time.
@alex_uk I think you really overestimate how much reading I do, I probably buy a new book a month, tops and read less than half of that.
@simo74 that sounds like it was an awesome holiday man. Nothing too exciting here, still fat, work still shit, CoVids still a thing. Only new thing is that I’m officially a running wanker now, having done 3 whole sessions of couch to 5k. I’ve got that armband thing that you put your phone in and everything.
@Voxel @Bagsy my reading list is long, long long, so I’ll pick out a few highlights that I’m most interested in:
Training:
Never Let Go - Dan John (yes, I’ve read it, but lost it)
Brawn 3rd Edition - Stuart McRoberts
Supersquats - Randall Strossen
Fiction (all rereads):
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
The Sword in the Stone - T H White
Peter Pan - JM Barrie
Autobiography:
Kiss or Kill: confessions of a serial climber - Mark Twight
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
What Does This Button Do - Bruce Dickinson
Leadership:
The Dichotomy of Leadership - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
About Face - David Hackworth
No Drama Discipline, a Guide to Positive Parenting - Daniel J Siegel
Other:
Say Goodnight to Insomnia - Gregg D Jacob’s
Sapiens, a brief history of humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Leviathon - Thomas Hobbes
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
@doomyguy thanks man.
Randall Strossen for this one actually.