I have a basic one of those. It does the job, although the cooking surface is pretty small. I generally use it on the stove top with the extractor fan going because it’s not totally smokeless…
I had something similar for a while. Got rid of it in a move. I dig this self contained electric unit, and the plate it grills on comes off and goes straight in the dishwasher.
I may have a confession somewhere that I musta wanted an easy-bake oven as a kid, because as an adult I’m a sucker for electric cooking appliances. Were I single, I’d have no kitchen and just an instant pot and a foreman grill.
Confession: I’ve never taken supplemental creatine, ever. And I’m ok with that.
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Confession: I woke up, got my coffee, and turned the a/c on in my workout room, thinking I was ready to get back to that. Just now I went back, turned the a/c off, and got another coffee.
Maybe tomorrow.
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Switch from coffee to double espresso - that might get you going!
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Actually, I’ve gone the other way; half-caff. I’ve had a hard time managing my clients’ overwhelm and anxiety and isolation (or families up their asses) along with my own (husband just back to work this week), and have been working to get myself more relaxed and better centered.
Working out, and specifically running, has always been my mental health go-to. Burn off the anxiety and process the clients’ rapes and suicidal ideation with loud music and pounding movement. But right now I feel like I need to slow down. Sleep more. Have another cup of coffee and make less demands on myself. So I can show up at work and answer “good, thanks!” honestly when asked how I’m doing. A couple of months ago an honest answer would have been “I’m a nervous wreck. You?”
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(Can’t believe I’m saying this) maybe try a bit of yoga / pilates instead of cardio/weights for a while?
I think most of us have been through the “nervous wreck” stage and the “can’t be arsed to train” stage at least once or twice over the past few months.
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I definitely go in the opposite direction: when things are chaotic, I go into the weight room and effectively blow my brains out on something. I imagine it’s one of those “if I’m going to hurt, it’s going to be because I did it to me.” sorta things.
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I can see the allure. Getting bigger, stronger or leaner is a battle and requires dedication on a lot of fronts.
Just getting into the right head space for a big work out can be hard.
Know your next work out is basically 30 mins of laying down and changing postilion every 180 seconds sound quite cool.
I’m currently taking creatine and have for a couple of months.
In the past, I stopped taking it lots of times because I just felt it did nothing for me. Honestly, I never noticed a difference being “on” vs “off.”
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For me, this is a dopamine/epinephrine release, or so I’m recently told. I’m ADD, and going for some sort of genomic test Wednesday looking to see if I’m missing a liver enzyme. Lifting something stupid resets the wiring for me, works better than anything else.
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Not sure if it’s placebo or what, but if I take a week off of creatine, I feel like I get 1-2 less reps on my PR sets and generally feel more tired during my training sessions. Maybe I respond well
I have taken creatine when training heavy since I was 15 or so (31 now). I know after I take it for a few weeks (with the recommended loading phase and no more than 5-10 grams per day) I can see an increase in number of reps and also muscle fullness (I think this is because it draws water/nutrients into the muscle bellies if i remember correctly). I definitely respond well.
However, i have discovered that “fancy” creatine works no better than the nice cheap monohydrate.
Three confessions:
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As inspiring as many of the training logs on here are, I sometimes find them painful to read as they make me feel bad about my own training
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I sometimes eat things just “because I can”, and not because I’m hungry or need it
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I spent an insane amount of time over the weekend drafting up a research plan for a potential “senior thesis project” just to avoid doing math and have an excuse to contact the friend I kind of like. Google scholar started to think I was a bot
Im a fucking mental mess at the moment.
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Oh no ! I hope everything gets better
Read them all long ago. Excellent.
It took me many years to disassociate the movies from the books in order to enjoy the movies. Sean Connery still the best version, attributable to Fleming’s description of Bond with the “thin, cruel lips” (iirc) hinting at the necessary character makeup inherent in a double O agent. Daniel Craig has that too, but he’s blond… Roger Moore becomes more and more comical as his Bond films age, definitely the worst imo.
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Try cacao or cocoa in the coffee, 1tspn. I do after reading a tnation article, it makes the coffee taste a little flat but I do notice a slight edge come off the jitters.
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If you ever need anything, just ask.
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Honestly - and this is fairly controversial - I consider Roger Moore to still be a step above Pierce Brosnan. I grew up with the PB Bond movies, but after seeing them all, Pierce was only ever half of what James Bond was supposed to be. Sean Connery’s embodied the charisma with the badassery, and Daniel Craig is the only Bond that anyone could ever believe would actually kick ass, but Pierce just came up short, IMO.
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