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It continues to startle me for long some of the office aspects that are annoying have been around. Ergonomics! Standing desks! Open plan offices! Post WWII. Frick.

I just want to read all of the books mentioned in the text at the same time 🙃

Gosh, it's like the criticisms of social media all over again.

"It's walking! Think of it as your patriotic duty!" I don't think anything I've ever read or heard has made me want to walk less - and I read about ultramarathoners for fun.

"on the other, he adds with a grin, "maybe next week there will be a global pandemic!"

WHO'S GRINNING NOW RICH?!?

Oh no, a detox

"sitting leg lift" IT'S A CALF RAISE! You should do that near a railing if you have balance issues.

Maybe it is used in knee rehab, but I don't think I've done it (and I've done a lot of rehab and prehab and rehab)

I can't help myself: "leg front slit"
...it's a rear elevated split squat - I know you know what that is, there is one earlier in the book with the fine description of Bulgarian split squat.

"# buttocks walking mounted " WHO IS DECIDING THESE HASHTAGS????? The exercise is taking the stairs two at a time.

Not a Russian twist - heel taps maybe.

I don't know what they were going for with "dumbbell bent inverse over row" but only bent really applies to the exercise pictured here - the french says 90 degree pushup which makes more sense (imagine bending 90 from the hip and doing a pushup from the wall or a mid height bar)

Strike one for being a self described "influencer" strike two for claiming any exercise can target particular fat deposit areas.

You can tell it's France because it's #running instead of 'course à pied'

It's always super weird to come across a place name that is also a slur without warning (here it is Sq**w - both the valley and the race associated with it) and even if it's changed/were to be changed now it would take generations to pass out of common parlance in the area. Makes my brain itch with distaste.

I dislike this guy's tone - I get the sense he thinks all the emotional influences we experience around money decisions are mostly stupid and uh... irrational.

Can't really argue with the desire to be able to walk to a grocery store and ride your bike to work.

Cardio doesn't make me want to make "better food choices" wtf nonsense is that? Swimming or cold weather make me RAVenous and if I overdo my "active transport" (hello accidental 70km bike day) then I end the day exhausted and eating sugar.

Technically I think a few pages earlier you wrote we can't blame out genetics for anything to do with our bodies but sure - we all come in different shapes and sizes from our genetics.

Both. The answer is both. Esh.

I do non-fiction in French because the language tends to be fairly straightforward but either my French is way rustier than I thought or this guy is terribly baroque (or both I guess)

Listen Lou, you were involved with that case, don't pretend you've forgotten having to set a security detail on Jack - even if it was 20 years ago...

The fucking side hussle

I do love when there is a Canadian connection

I'm always a little iffy on social media stuff in my scifi

It seems weird to complain about Pollen's "eat food, mostly plants, not too much" as prescriptive and completely ignore the various food pyramids and plates the govt's have been also putting out way before this?

"... it came back that she was descended from the filles du roi, lower-class Frenchwomen who were shipped overseas to fuck Canada out of the beaverish wilderness."