Week 22: A Place I Call Home

Home.

Home. The place I was born. Because it’s the place I call: home. Many of my Syrian friends disagree and I will disagree even more.

Something I succeeded in doing

Increasing my calorie burn in strength sessions by doing the stepper first for 15 min. This will shoot up my heart rate all the way up to around 155 bpm range.

From there on, my heart seems to be kept at the higher range of 120 if I keep my exercise in sequence with minimal rest.

This works well when I’m doing supersets (i.e. overlapping sets from 2 exercises.) Supersets gives one muscle group an amble time to recover while the other group is under tension.

This is not an advise, nor sth I’ve read and I’m recommending. I just wanted to increase my calorie burn in strength sessions and that’s a nice trick I found to be working.

The result is: I jumped from average of 350 calorie/session to the range of 500s calorie/sessions.

Best of what I watched

This is really good. Chip Conley interview with Tim Ferriss.

Best of what I’m reading

I am still very much enjoying the DK’s Big Ideas book series on politics, history and philosophy. It’s good for general knowledge. The problem though is it lacks connectedness and depth.

One way to fix this is the following: Some DK books talks about the same person in different books – in history, in philosophy or in science. Reading DK History, DK Philosophy and DK Science books on parallel, encountering same person twice or thrice in two different books helps bridge the gab across topics – something the series don’t do out of the box.

That’s it for the week.

Salam, peace.