@hollyhoneychurch Yep. Wildfire smoke. It’s just annoying here. A few hours north, where I lived as a boy, the AQI is truly terrible.
@hollyhoneychurch Yep. Wildfire smoke. It’s just annoying here. A few hours north, where I lived as a boy, the AQI is truly terrible.
@hollyhoneychurch The air is not lovely here (east-central Illinois, where the AQI is presently 165 = unhealthy). BUT! Today I the two air cleaner devices I ordered—one for upstairs and one for downstairs—arrived! So the air is lovely inside, even if it’s not so lovely outside.
@philipbrewer.net Thank you!
@Miraz Another of the relatively rare instances when I’d happy to just have a “like” button. :-)
@philipbrewer But you don’t need to do that. Any reasonable variation in intensity is going to produce better health and fitness outcomes than cranking out miles at a fixed pace.
And it doesn’t have to be just cardio. You can alternate between walking and lifting and see similar benefits.
@skoobz Interval training has been around forever. (Because it works.) Recent research has focused excessively on making the intervals really, really short. (I think I saw a 10-minute workout where you spent six seconds at an all-out effort, and then 54 seconds recovering.)
@JohnPhilpin Tempting.
Personally, I’d like an S&P 500 index “minus the 15% of the companies spending the most on AI CapEx or tokens.”
@philipbrewer Perhaps more important, getting in all that walking takes time that could be spent on other health-promoting activities that would be of greater benefit. (Lifting, if you don’t already lift. Running, if you don’t otherwise run. Swimming, meditating, etc.)
@tchambers I’m always a bit doubtful about stuff like this, because I think they often get cause and effect backwards.
If you’re sick, or stressed, you will sleep more, because you need more sleep. And then you might go on to have poorer health because you were sick or stressed.
If you set a regular bedtime, and then get up when you wake up feeling rested, I wouldn’t worry about getting less or more than some arbitrary number of hours of sleep.
@ArnoldHoogerwerf My dad had a big poster of that picture framed and hanging on the wall.
@Miraz It’s so hard to tweeze apart what’s aging, what’s exercising too much, what’s exercising too hard, what’s doing the wrong exercises…. And, as you say, there are step changes, so you can’t just assume that you can do (nearly) as much as five years ago.
@philipbrewer.net Short answer: Avoid debt, raise cash (even though the “-flation” part will bite), limit investments in the stock market or your own business (crushed by the “stag” part), and wait for things to get better.
@philipbrewer.net Here is my most recent (but pre-war) post on stagflation: www.philipbrewer.net/2025/01/24/o…
And here’s my old, old (pre-pandemic) post on stagflation: www.wisebread.com/all-about-st…