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A photo of a white bowl with vanilla ice cream in it, covered with Ice Magic chocolate topping, chopped up strawberries, and some butterscotch sauce. The rum is there too but it's all in the bottom of the bowl so you can't see it.

I burnt 1020 calories on the elliptical after work watching an episode of The Wheel of Time, so now I've ruined it by having a big ol' trashy bowl of ice cream with a shot of The Kraken coffee spiced rum while I watch an episode of The Expanse. 😎

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Posted on 29 July 2024, 20:27

A photo of my iPad sitting on our elliptical machine's tablet holder. On the screen is the classic image of the stargate from the show "Stargate SG-1": a large circular metal-looking ring with Egyptian hieroglyphs around the outside, and the middle is filling with a blue glowing almost-liquid.

Time to start some more classic 1990s TV! I'm about 95% sure this is going to end up in the same boat as Star Trek, both TNG and DS9, and I'll remember a handful of episodes but haven't actually seen the vast majority of them before.

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Posted on 23 December 2023, 16:05

A wide-angle photo of a not-very-large bedroom. In the far corner is a relatively small exercise bike, with three guitars wall-mounted to the right of it and two eye-searing orange guitar amps to the left. At the far left is our existing elliptical which is now facing the window instead of being in the corner where the exercise bike is.

Our treadmill started making some fairly horrendous grinding noises a few weeks ago, we got a guy out to take a look and it turned out the bearings in both the front and rear rollers were shot. And annoyingly, we couldn't get replacement parts because the machine is ten years old and they don't make them anymore. We decided to downsize to an exercise bike instead, it was delivered today and we did some rearranging and now my guitar amps have a better place to live instead of being all jammed under my desk!

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Posted on 2 December 2023, 12:15

A photo of my iPad sitting on the tablet holder on our elliptical. On the screen is the closing shot from the very last episode of Voyager showing the ship itself flying in towards Earth.

Phewwwww, that's the final episode of Star Trek: Voyager finished! All seven seasons done, and with that, all of my 1990s Star Trek watching finished. I feel like Voyager got a bad rap, I quite enjoyed it. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it was up to the standards of Deep Space Nine but I enjoyed following the crew and getting to know them all, and I was sad when Neelix stayed behind in the Delta Quadrant with his new family. I was a bit meh on Star Trek: Picard overall but I absolutely want to see the continuing adventures of Captain Seven of Nine even more now.

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Posted on 1 December 2023, 18:32

A cropped screenshot of iOS's Fitness app, showing all three rings closed.

Bam, today is four straight years of closing the rings on my Apple Watch every single day. 💪🏻

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Posted on 24 September 2023, 19:58

A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app showing 4011kJ out of the 1500kJ move goal, 110 minutes out of the 30 minute exercise goal, and a total of 14,118 steps.

I'm sure it probably didn't cancel out lunch, but jesus, no wonder I'm exhausted.

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Posted on 21 October 2022, 22:52

A screenshot of a notification from my Apple Watch saying I hit a 1000-day move streak.

And now, I've just hit a 1000-day move streak on my Apple Watch! That's every single full day since I got my Watch at the end of September in 2019 (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1111). 😁 (It's also a thousand fully-closed exercise rings, and will be a thousand fully-closed standing rings in two hours time as well.)

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 17:11

I am now officially discharged from the exercise physiologist! 🎉 When we started a few months ago, she had a "force meter" device where it was attached to my ankle at the front and I'd sit down and pull as hard as I could backwards. My right leg measured ~13kg and my left was 11kg. Today we did it again, and the right leg was 20kg and the left was 24kg! I'm not at the point yet where I'm able to have the elliptical up to where I used to use it (previously I was at 12˚ incline, 14 resistance out of a maximum of 20, right now I'm at 2˚ incline with 7 resistance) but that'll just be a matter of building up to it. 💪🏻

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Posted on 27 May 2022, 13:25

A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app showing the summary of my workout, which was 43 minutes, 1,979 active kilojoules, and an average heart rate of 150 beats per minute.

For the first time I think possibly this year I've actually been able to watch an entire episode of something on my iPad while using the elliptical! 🎉 You have no idea how happy this makes me, since COVID hit I was doing it every day after work until I buggered up my right knee towards the end of last year. Ended up going to a physiotherapist followed by like two months of twice-weekly exercise physiologist. Tomorrow's my last regular visit, then I'll just pop in for a check-up every fortnight for a bit, then it should be smooth sailing! I'm still not at the amount of incline and resistance on the elliptical that I was doing before, but that's just a case of building up to it now.

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Posted on 12 May 2022, 18:40

A screenshot from the iOS Fitness app showing 6505kJ of my 1500kJ goal, 158 of my 30 exercise minutes, and 22,102 steps for a total of 18.6km.

Managed a personal best after this team event, haha. It involved more walking around the city than the last one, and I was able to walk home from the train station as well.

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Posted on 10 December 2021, 23:52