Hi. I'm the lady with the mulch pile. I've documented moving 235 wheelbarrows of mulch on Instagram over the last 3 months. My blood pressure has improved, I've lost 1.5kg, and I still have a huge pile of mulch.
I like hearing from you. I find your content interesting; thought provoking. You're part of the reason I'm moving this pile of mulch in the first place. But honestly I appreciate what I get - those of us who enjoy what you're doing probably understand that your inconsistency is... kind of part of your process? And that's fine.
Congrats on making the progress - as I'm finding, a little bit on a regular basis is better than never doing anything at all.
Thanks! I'm impressed at the progress on the mulch pile. That's quite a few tonnes you'll have to have moved. Do you know your wheelbarrow capacity? If you find out how many litres it is we can work out in tonnes how much mulch you've moved. And yeah, the regularity of gym-going has made all the difference to me: the next task is to (at long last) see if I can apply it to writing.
Hrm, interesting question! I looked them up at the retailers. The black one is 72 litres, and the green one is 65 litres. So an average of 68.5 litres x 235 = 16,097.5 litres so far? (Maths isn't my strong subject!)
Tonnes might be a difficult one to quantify because it's definitely not as heavy when it's dry!! Google tells me that's 16 cubic meters moved so far - assuming my maths is correct.
Regular writing is hard (I publish a weekly blog, and at one point in my life, I did it daily). The compromise I often find myself making is in the quality. It's considerably easier to move the mulch, than it is to come up with something to write, and then write it (which is more like a few days, especially when I have to actually do the thing I'm writing about).
Some weeks, the writing flows. Some weeks I'm staring at my screen hours before my self-imposed deadline and I'm just blank. In my opinion, writing is a whole other set of muscles and there's an inspirational aspect that doesn't always visit on a regular timetable. But if you're up for trying, I'm up for reading it 😊
Weeeeeoooow I just spent 10mins watching the muscle up video on repeat 😮 - the people that do it good make it look like breathing?! Like as easy as being in an elevator. Congrats on the musc!
I love the gym but I think you just helped me twig as to why I can't make it a habit - I'm working so hard right now that I'm not really getting enough sleep (yay midwifery training). I hope that when I qualify I can set my schedule up in a way that it's sustainable to both sleep and spend time at the gym (but midwifery is unpredictable!)
On my 1,000km bikepacking event which has a 50% success rate I just finished, I feel like correlations could be drawn between 'people who had carefully planned daily itineraries that they showed everyone', and 'people unlikely to actually finish'
I think it comes down to adaptability. If you have a strict plan it's easier to get upset or disheartened when it starts to deviate and then give up. Or hurt yourself because you tried too hard, too soon. Or just made it not fun, for the same reasons.
I hate to say it but it doesn't apply to the gym! Well, as always, caveats. Going to the gym every day - with rare exceptions, like you're an actual bodybuilder doing split training - will not really work for most people: rest is vital if you want the gym to achieve something besides burning you out. Training every other day (or 3x a week) is generally accepted as being fine for novice lifters, so long as you are getting adequate rest (as much sleep as you physically can, we're talking like 8 or 9 hours a night) and are eating enough food (lots, including adequate protein.) If all those things are consistently true, the gym will work for you. There are probably some benefits to doing a hard workout once or twice a month but, to the best of my limited knowledge, it's not optimal. Plus, you'll hurt more - working out too infrequently means you're probably more likely to pull a muscle, and delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) seems to be worse when you're not working out more often. That's been my experience, anyway!
Hi. I'm the lady with the mulch pile. I've documented moving 235 wheelbarrows of mulch on Instagram over the last 3 months. My blood pressure has improved, I've lost 1.5kg, and I still have a huge pile of mulch.
I like hearing from you. I find your content interesting; thought provoking. You're part of the reason I'm moving this pile of mulch in the first place. But honestly I appreciate what I get - those of us who enjoy what you're doing probably understand that your inconsistency is... kind of part of your process? And that's fine.
Congrats on making the progress - as I'm finding, a little bit on a regular basis is better than never doing anything at all.
Thanks! I'm impressed at the progress on the mulch pile. That's quite a few tonnes you'll have to have moved. Do you know your wheelbarrow capacity? If you find out how many litres it is we can work out in tonnes how much mulch you've moved. And yeah, the regularity of gym-going has made all the difference to me: the next task is to (at long last) see if I can apply it to writing.
Hrm, interesting question! I looked them up at the retailers. The black one is 72 litres, and the green one is 65 litres. So an average of 68.5 litres x 235 = 16,097.5 litres so far? (Maths isn't my strong subject!)
Tonnes might be a difficult one to quantify because it's definitely not as heavy when it's dry!! Google tells me that's 16 cubic meters moved so far - assuming my maths is correct.
Regular writing is hard (I publish a weekly blog, and at one point in my life, I did it daily). The compromise I often find myself making is in the quality. It's considerably easier to move the mulch, than it is to come up with something to write, and then write it (which is more like a few days, especially when I have to actually do the thing I'm writing about).
Some weeks, the writing flows. Some weeks I'm staring at my screen hours before my self-imposed deadline and I'm just blank. In my opinion, writing is a whole other set of muscles and there's an inspirational aspect that doesn't always visit on a regular timetable. But if you're up for trying, I'm up for reading it 😊
Weeeeeoooow I just spent 10mins watching the muscle up video on repeat 😮 - the people that do it good make it look like breathing?! Like as easy as being in an elevator. Congrats on the musc!
It's hypnotic eh? Callisthenics are incredible when they're done by skilled athletes.
I love the gym but I think you just helped me twig as to why I can't make it a habit - I'm working so hard right now that I'm not really getting enough sleep (yay midwifery training). I hope that when I qualify I can set my schedule up in a way that it's sustainable to both sleep and spend time at the gym (but midwifery is unpredictable!)
Whoops this was supposed to be a response to another comment! Lack of sleep creeps in again
On my 1,000km bikepacking event which has a 50% success rate I just finished, I feel like correlations could be drawn between 'people who had carefully planned daily itineraries that they showed everyone', and 'people unlikely to actually finish'
I think it comes down to adaptability. If you have a strict plan it's easier to get upset or disheartened when it starts to deviate and then give up. Or hurt yourself because you tried too hard, too soon. Or just made it not fun, for the same reasons.
Muscle ups look impossible, I honestly can’t believe humans can even do things like that. Peak athleticism.
With regards your writing frequency: quality over quantity any day. Probably also applies to the gym.
I hate to say it but it doesn't apply to the gym! Well, as always, caveats. Going to the gym every day - with rare exceptions, like you're an actual bodybuilder doing split training - will not really work for most people: rest is vital if you want the gym to achieve something besides burning you out. Training every other day (or 3x a week) is generally accepted as being fine for novice lifters, so long as you are getting adequate rest (as much sleep as you physically can, we're talking like 8 or 9 hours a night) and are eating enough food (lots, including adequate protein.) If all those things are consistently true, the gym will work for you. There are probably some benefits to doing a hard workout once or twice a month but, to the best of my limited knowledge, it's not optimal. Plus, you'll hurt more - working out too infrequently means you're probably more likely to pull a muscle, and delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) seems to be worse when you're not working out more often. That's been my experience, anyway!