10 x 1min max effort Assault Bike, 3 minutes rest.
Calories for each round: 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.5, 20.6, 18.8, 18.8, 17.4, 17.1, 18.5
Started out well. Maintained 20calories until 5 minutes and then it got hard.
10 x 1min max effort Assault Bike, 3 minutes rest.
Calories for each round: 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.5, 20.6, 18.8, 18.8, 17.4, 17.1, 18.5
Started out well. Maintained 20calories until 5 minutes and then it got hard.
2 more weeks and I’ll have done 10000 steps a day for a 100 days. Which I just realised will be a 1 million steps.
After 100 days, I am planning to just switch to walk for 30 minutes every day. At the moment, I am doing ‘last minute’ walks to get myself over the line and it just feels silly.
10 pull ups
1000m row
10 pull ups
2400m Assault bike
10 pull ups
1000m row
10 pull ups
2400m Assault bike
10 pull ups
1000m row
10 pull ups
35:40
I said to my friend that I enjoyed that because I didn’t push too hard on the cardio parts. But still, I like to see how my heart rate rises and fall.
Safe to say I enjoyed that.
“The kind of art I make is about how I understand the world,” says Hsieh. “It’s how I mark the passing of time. That’s all life is, and it’s the one thing that makes us all equal. It doesn’t matter if you’re lazy or hard-working, poor or rich, we’re all just passing time.”
he likened the late-December-early-January stretch to the Covid lockdowns in microcosm: habituated behaviors and autopilot processes grind to a halt, not just individually but globally. We become dislodged from our routines, and in the gap that opens up between us & them, we glimpse a real opportunity to reconsider and reconstitute the ways we live, with more perspective and consideration than usual.
have a proposal to make: 2026 should be the year that you spend more time doing what you want. The new year should be the moment we commit to dedicating more of our finite hours on the planet to things we genuinely, deeply enjoy doing – to the activities that seize our interest, and that make us feel vibrantly alive. This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn yourself into a better person, and focus instead on actually leading a more absorbing life.
The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think … | New year | The Guardian
Since I go back to work tomorrow, officially the diet starts tomorrow too. So, I ordered one of the McGriddles before they disappear tomorrow just to see what it was like. Yeah, not a fan honestly. Not sure they go together.
An impressive body of research shows that people of all ages – including students in classrooms – are happier, healthier, and more productive when they have some say about what they’re doing. Indeed, the way children learn to make good decisions is by making decisions. Why, then, are so many classrooms more focused on eliciting their compliance than supporting their autonomy?
I’m trying to avoid Edu-Twitter because it can be very quite argumentative. Quite aside from feeling pretty Post-11 years old orientated. Anyway, I do like some of what he says.
https://austinkleon.com/2026/01/02/100-things-that-made-my-year-2025/
Maybe this is the year I finally subscribe. One of the few people, places on the internet I consistently love.
Such a difficult balance. Forever balancing.
The most dangerous story we tell in schools is that joy is seasonal that “serious work” requires emotional coldness once the decorations come down. We treat this energy as a Christmas novelty that can’t survive a grey Tuesday in February.
That story is a lie. The students who sang their hearts out in December haven’t changed by March. Their need for connection didn’t expire on New Year’s Day. Enthusiasm isn’t a reaction to a good day; it’s the tool you use to build one. If we want to bottle that energy for the bleakest months of the year, we have to treat it as a deliberate professional skill.
Hot Mess Soup - by Adrian Neibauer - Adrian’s Newsletter
Teaching has always been a both/and. Teaching is both an inspiring profession and a challenging career. Teaching is both a calling and a job. Teaching is both an impossible struggle and inherently joyful. Teaching is both rewarding and exasperating. And so the challenge becomes how can I move into the space between hot mess soup and the best school year ever? Instead of burying my head in the sand until June, how can I embrace my responsibilities while navigating the absurdity of this school year?
I’ve kept unreading this in my feed reader so that I can read it properly. Finally got it down with a coffee in McDonalds at 6am. I need to read it again though.
Is there a shortcut for getting the categories to appear in the Micro.blog app?
It’s a little too much friction to click ‘view > categories’ is all. Just me?
Not your typical James Hoffman coffee but really well done!
What is formative assessment, and why should anybody care? With professor Dylan Wiliam. .
Listened to this this morning on my walk. Probably should now listen to it again with my notebook to record things I wanted to record.
Assault bike
50 calories 3:10
40 calories 2:50
30 calories 2:00
20 calories 1:19
10 calories 0:29
Rest 1:1 between sets. As the work needed to be done got smaller so did the rest, but fatigue accumulated. Interesting to see the workout in my heart rate. Shorter periods of a very high heart rate and less recovery between them.
Just as children ask why, why, why, you can repeat the question “why do I think/feel/believe this?” a few times. What plops onto the page may surprise you. So too will the headspace that clears from pouring out the canned spaghetti of unconnected thoughts.
52 things I learned in 2025. | by Tom Whitwell | Dec, 2025 | Medium
SO many interesting things. Definitely worth a scroll.
Today, I often think about what could be arbitraged, what could be brokered, and how we could regain our attention from the black mirrors in our hands.
The Average child – by Mike Buscemi
I don’t cause teachers’ trouble;
My grades have been okay.
I listen in my classes.
I’m in school every day.
My teachers think I’m average;
My parents think so too.
I wish I didn’t know that, though;
There’s lots I’d like to do.
’Cause, since I found I’m average,
I’m smart enough you see
To know there’s nothing special
I should expect of me.
I’m part of that majority,
That hump part of the bell,
Who spends his life unnoticed
In an average kind of hell.
The unsettling truth is that these points of friction, these mundane things, are actually what give us purpose.
Add Friction Back Into Your Life | Steve’s Bear Blog ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ
Predator or Host? - by Jessica Hagy - This Week’s Top Ten
Every holiday party, get-together, meet-up, and sit-down holds the potential to be either a scene from a horror film or a feel-good Hallmark movie meet-cute. The difference lies in how you host your guests. They can be afraid, VERY AFRAID, or they can feel comfortably at home. Up to you. Entirely up to you. A few examples:
In the first minute row 1 calorie.
In the second minute row 2 calories.
In the 3rd minute 3.
And so on until you are unable to complete the calories in 1 minute.
Such an interesting workout. The early roads are almost boring but then it suddenly it starts to pick up and you’re getting less time to rest each time. Obviously it’s cumulative so each round quickly adds up.
Really happy to beat my previous score of completing the round of 20. At the end your rest is 0 and you’re just going pretty hard. This time I got 18 calories into the round of 21. So am obviously annoyed I couldn’t finish 21. Next time!
