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Celery Man

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  1. I bet you’re right, I think 10k pushups is probably easy, especially considering I successfully did 10k burpees a few years back. Currently my meetings start at 6 am every morning and run through lunchtime, it’s a fucking beating. I suspect that I want to do some different stuff, kettlebell whatever, I think some kind of simple goal along the bike will keep me honest with doing something strength specific.
  2. On exactly the opposite front, I had been rucking a lot, which I do think was good for a bit of core and back strength, but the cold weather (and the fact that we bought a peloton) has pushed me to the peloton which is in fact an ass kicker. The comment above that spin class is different than cycling rings true to me - I’ve always at the gym hopped on a bike and cycled, I had my bike in my office on a stand just cycling, doing classes now with the peloton is a different thing altogether. anyways, i may start a new thread but i think maybe 2500 peloton miles is a more reasonable goal for me as well, on the basis of “I have about 30-40 minutes a night”. My objective this year is building some strength and cardiovascular fitness, I really need some kind of simple, objective, measurable number chase to help get me there, about 200 miles a month and about 30 pushups a day seems the right mix of challenging but achievable.
  3. Trying to talk myself into this as a challenge. I think it may be too high, especially since I don’t want to just cycle all year long, but I’m also picking up a lot of endurance on the bike and it may be more achievable than I think. If I was committing right now I think it would be this (or maybe 2500 miles) and 10k pushups. if I can keep upping the resistance a bit and maybe throw in some long rides every now and again (it’s gotta get easier with the youngest at 2 right now) I think it could be done.
  4. Ask the parents if they have a toniebox or a yoto. I thought it looked like the stupidest goddamn waste of money ever but the toniebox figures are a bit 👍👍👍from the 4 year old, we’re about to get another one for the 2 year old.
  5. An awesome gift for a 3 year old that parents will appreciate is anything in the category of “restaurant/car ride/plane trip activity”. The little coloring books with the markers that only color the special pages, the sticker books, little portable magnet princess dress up things, I love it when we get shit like that that I can toss in the kid backpack and bust it out when it’s needed.
  6. I hope he goes somewhere else and balls out as long as it isn’t OU or Aggie or pig I guess.
  7. A second sleigh has hit the tower..
  8. I bet this one jangles
  9. You really have to watch The Big Lebowski several hundred times to appreciate it. Karate Kid? Haven’t seen a single Avatar. The one that has been on my list for forever but I just haven’t sat down with is True Romance. Oh, and Django Unchained.
  10. Daytona. Jackie Delay-Tona
  11. I had no idea that Ketch Secor and Molly Tuttle were even dating, but apparently they are engaged.
  12. Man that was only last … ah fuck, time do go
  13. First ep starting to pick up…
  14. We’re in full swing at the Celery household
  15. Just noticed that Caught Stealing is on Netflix - that was a fun flick
  16. Free upgrade on xbox. Or, free for me, I'm not sure if you had to already own it or not, but I did and got a notification that it is free for 11 days. I did a big play through of RDR2 not too long ago and installed RDR to continue the story after the epilogue of RDR2. It's obviously an all time great game, but the 360 version is pretty long in the tooth and a bit difficult after RDR2. I haven't gotten too far yet in the remastered RDR (just woke up on the farm, time to do chores) but this does seem like a gameplay improvement, and while the graphics aren't RDR2 they are improved.
  17. The Grinch (Jim Carrey) is the single ugliest movie I have ever seen.
  18. Knives Out 3 is great. I think it hits Netflix next week - I went ahead and caught it at the drafthouse and really enjoyed it.
  19. We just got a peloton at the end of October - we've had a tread+ for a long time (wife runs marathons) but I'm not interested in that. I had my bike on a stand in my office and was spending half an hour on it a few times a week (and usually on other nights taking a 2.5 mile walk with 40 pounds in a backpack). Wife decided we should get a peloton bike which was fine with me and holy shit I did not realize how easy the bike on the stand was in comparison to the Peloton. Anyways, I'm still fairly early in the peloton game but 3000 miles is like 8.2 miles a day, I'm doing more like 6-7 in a twenty minute class which I'm not doing every day. I could probably up the time and I bet I'll get better on the distance but that number is probably higher than what I'll aim for on the bike. Especially since I do also like walking around with the weighted backpack and won't hit it every night anyways. I am not a learned man when it comes to most of the exercise stuff, but to the extent that I do planks it's something I hit for a few minutes to try and work my abs, not something I'm doing to try and burn calories or work up a sweat. I figure if you're exerting yourself lifting or doing pushups or whatever else to target muscles, that's going to get your heart rate up a bit, but I assumed that isn't the point of that kind of exercise? For me, I feel like if I'm on the bike that's good cardio and working on my vo2 max or whatever, rucking around is a mix of moderate cardio and moderate core strength, and doing planks is something I've tried to work a bit in just to try and build some muscle under the skin that used to hold more fat. I was doing some other stuff - situps, leg lifts, etc but I kept tweaking shit or just rubbing my back raw. I'm sure there's a lot of user error in there. I do feel like pushups would do that thing while also working other muscles and that will probably be one of my number targets next year. I weigh myself every day, but I really like the Happy Scale app because it gives you a smoothed average. If I eat a junky meal for dinner (especially lots of salt), my weight will pop up the next morning but it's obviously inflammation, and the line doesn't creep up much.
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