Brief activity bursts offer health benefits for non-exercisers

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I've bought parallettes recently and started working on tucked planche to reach climbers push up in the long run.

Amazing feeling to stop coding and just do some intense exercises that takes 30-40 seconds to reach failure. I love these types of compressed intense workouts, and parallettes are a great and fun way of doing it.

I've also bought a push up bar that fits in my doorway so everytime I go to the bathroom I do static hangs with retracted shoulder blades to strengthen shoulders/upper back.

I'm seeing really good results just from doing little by little every day.

It's like that article on here a while ago about "the unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up"

Personally, I have 'hacked' a fitness band so it stops calling home, but still reminds me to get up after a set time. So far, I only had it for three months, but already has helped.

I am a big fan of Garmin watches, there is usually a good deal on something at

https://g.factoryoutletstore.com/

These sync reliably because they use a cable instead of the janky bluetooth sync of fitbit devices. It's true that they send your data to a cloud service but at least they aren't comingling your data with everything you watch on YouTube.

I was not going to name the brand, but now that you broke it ;-). I got an Amazfit 5 (30 ~ 50USD) and hooked it up with GadgetBridge. Delivers the features I need, without further eroding my privacy.

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