black mamba + fitness logs

· Zi Wang · 1 min read

Z / Runner 🏃🏻‍♂️

🏃🏻‍♂️ retro 2H 2025: fitness & diet; forward 1H 2026, mind & build. Goal settings (huberman: science of goal setting & achievement). Foreshadowing failure & have challenging goals are most effective for maintaining long-term motivation. Personally, maintaining fitness level, daily sleeping patterns, healthy diet = moderately easy, but how to keep going for 50+ years? (hard).

  • Visual system, powerful for peak physical performance.

  • 🏃🏻‍♂️ a.) Focus on body surface/parts during uphill b.) Mental counting to 60s, quantize pain in the most elemental form c.) myopic focusing on 3 feet ahead, tunnel vision.

  • Internalize broad vision: increase systolic blood pressure for relaxation and readiness.

  • Role of neuro-circuits: dopamine, common currency for assessing value & tracking progress.

  • 🏃🏻‍♂️ 3x week, lifting.

  • 🏃🏻‍♂️ "do something you hate everyday, just for the practice" mark twain, golden rule for acquiring habit.

  • 🏃🏻‍♂️ find my "just do li" spark!

  • 🏃🏻‍♂️ programmatically ingest/extract/interpreate weekly/monthly/annual grocery receipts, get the safeway API?

Stephen / Basketball 🏀

  • 🏀 what visual for you?
  • 🏀 ha, black mamba.
  • 🏀 you are high on running (for another 100 years). finally enjoy lifting so it should last?
  • 🏀 how to make lifting more fun for you?

🏀 sheet for fitness logs: sleep, eat, train, play, love, _.

  • besides strava, which are the public social sites to learn / crawl from? alltrails (play), hevy (train), instagram (eat), twitter (love), r/QuantifiedSelf (sleep), open humans (train), garmin pro or badges, whoop teams (basketball, san francisco).
  • epidemiological / longitudinal: seven up (documentary from age 7-63), harvard grant study (happy life) since 1938, baltimore longitudinal study (human aging) since 1958, new zealand dunedin study (aging pace) since 1972. "ring the bells that still can ring / forget your perfect offering there is a crack / a crack in everything / that's how the light gets in."
  • to work with purpose / ikigai / de vida; to flow / muse / sit like zen.

🏀 microbiome test: leugume + nuts. canned oysters for zinc. aaron shops mostly at bryant's market and berkeley bowl.

  • 🏀 but the ground truth is in your stool?