Trips

This month has been filled with two long-awaited trips, that too in back-to-back weeks. Man, that was fun. One was to Bangalore, and the other to Ramakkalmedu.

Figured out what exactly the mind-muscle connection is

I used to not enjoy strength training. It felt super boring to me. You're just moving weight in a predefined manner. How can that be fun? I do kickboxing, and it is more intellectually stimulating than strength training. So, I always wondered how people could continue to do this for years. But recently, after going for strength training somewhat consistently, mind-muscle connection clicked for me. I suddenly could feel my muscles engaging while doing a particular exercise. I could understand the eccentric movement and the concentric movement. I could feel my muscles more. After this clicked, strength training has been much more fun. Now I understand why people do this shit.

Renaissance Periodization is a YouTube channel that helped me immensely during this journey. I watched a shit ton of their videos. It gave me a whole new scientific perspective on training.

Interesting content I came across

10 things to do instead of doom-scrolling - struthless

Revisited fs.blog

Renainssance Periodization

Linux

I recently got my old college laptop repaired. It is not still fully fixed; it has some motherboard issues related to the graphics card and battery. So both of those won't work. But I can still plug it on power and use the laptop on the dedicated graphics.

I thought of installing linux in it since windows got super slow. I went ahead and tried installing ubuntu. But there was some issue where the installation just froze without any errors. So after a few hours of debugging, I gave up and moved forward with linux mint. The installation was smooth compared to ubuntu.

Anyway, I understood why Linux is so addicting. You can literally shape it in whatever way you want, and that excites me. I was always very excited about customizable things. The first thing I still do after buying a new phone is go through all the settings to see what I can customize. I need to find more time to explore the Linux rabbit hole.

For the little time that I got, I found a lot of interesting stuff: desktop environments, tilling window managers, etc. I tried out i3 window manager; it was fun. I need to go back and spend some more time on linux land.

Also, I realized that the main difference between, say debian and arch, is the package management. I always assumed it was something more deeper than that, but no, the package management is the core difference. Phew, mind blown. bin/su shared something related to this, which I found interesting: How package management changed everything

Upper back muscle sprain

Even though I'm an active person, I still got a sprain. It made me aware of how much further I have to go in my fitness journey. I went to a physio, and he told me that this was caused by a lack of stretching. And, yes, I'm not a huge fan of stretching because I find it boring. But from now on, I should take it more seriously.

3 Week goal system

I started using the three-week goal system last month, and so far, it has yielded good results. What usually happens is that I set goals for a year and then won't work towards them since the timeline to achieve them is too far stretched. But with a three-week goal system, I only have about 21 days to achieve those. So, I become more aware of it each day. And due to it being on my RAM, I subconsciously try to work towards it.

I would have to experiment with it more to see how it works. I could write a post on this system later.