I wrote a quick post on @leewynne's new Forem Flowstate on how I'm doing with personal health and fitness, and I'll be keeping up with my progress there.
Here is the post: https://www.flowstate.to/ben/heading-into-2021-with-some-momentum-d6h
I can correlate my personal wellness and productivity fairly directly with my physical fitness, and yet I allow myself to let it slide.
When people ask me what my main hobbies outside of computers, I want to talk about sports and fitness, which is my favorite type of hobby, but for most of the past decade it's always come a distant second to sitting in front of a computer.
So with that, I'm happy to say I have gained a lot of momentum on this front in the second half of the pandemic, after the first half was definitely the worst stretch for me in this regard.
I have the stuff, I have the desire and enthusiasm, and I think I'm excited to show off some results in 2021.
Follow me on Flowstate and let's get fit together.
(I'm @ben on Flowstate too 😅)
Latest comments (25)
Great article!
I often go to the gym. And recently I decided to do weightlifting. My friend recommended me to learn more about this kind of sport. After all, you can harm the body without calculating the load and exercise. He showed me the article so I could learn more about it. I hope I will see the results very soon.
With the pandemic (which let us here Spain in a compete lockdown) I started with a small and very cheap excercise bike at home... over the months a rowing machine was added (again, a 80€ buy from Facebook market) and now I think I am bit addicted. It’s not that I lost weight that much or gained that Jason Stratham body, it just feels so good.
(Fun fact: I just came from a quick rowing session 😂)
We could have been talking about barbells this entire time?!! 😎
I’m building a basement gym now too.
And yes 100%, I also notice my work is best when my body is feeling best.
Now in this situation we should try to be healthy . A great way for that by home excercise. Good work. Man.
Nicely going there Ben! I'm hitting up the swimming pool myself for the first time in 6 or 8 years. For some reason that works better for me than the gym, but everyone their own! As long as we keep moving.
Awesome! Lots of people start their fitness goals anew on Jan 1, it's a great mentality to have to not put things off until that date.
Love to see the motivation about this topic cuz we, devs, have great simple routine: eat, code, sleep, repeat 😆
After 8 months, they opened the gym, and the news were shocking for me when I checked my body fats going from 11% into 18% 😐 it really SUCKS!
I got back in the game two weeks ago (I hope they don't close again).
I often find solutions in code I initially gave up after coming back from running/biking exercises 😉 So it's obvious, they are great both for the body and mind 💯
Yup, 100%. And yet it's still not always enough for me to commit to it.
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