The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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November goals went okay: girl said no, but everything else went well.
December goals
Make space for weekly strength and mobility exercises. Have a five minute stretch routinue in the morning and a 6 minute core routine that I do three times a week. Goal is to get core up to 5x a week and increase the length to 12 minutes (1 hour total) and make room for about 10 minutes of stretching throughout the day. May look for little strengthening activities I can do during work too on breaks.
Getting things done has made me realize that I often don’t prioritize what’s actually important, but rather what I can do quickly to check off the to-do list. Need to work on making a note of the priority of certain things so I actually do them with higher frequency
No more sports nutrition. Not only is it expensive, but it’s probably not healthy. I can fuel long runs and workouts with stuff like watermelon juice and homemade baby food. Save gels for races when it matters.
No kidding. Even buying bulk and when they're on sale, e-gels from Crank Sports are now over $2 each.
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I've been really liking diluted maple syrup with a little salt for this purpose, if you're interested in branching out.
This is a good idea to add to the watermelon juice. I've been finding the watermelon juice to be well too watery. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised: it's in the name.
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