Back from another awesome bicycle ride, even though the humidity was strong.

I believe I found a way for my body to make its own PPAR-γ in large amounts, borrowing a trick bodybuilders use. Unexpected, but I quickly lost 12cm from my waistline, faster than pioglitazone worked. 120mg dextrose in 600mL water after fasting and an hour of bicycle cardio brings out the insulin, which is a powerful growth hormone and perhaps PPAR-γ as well. Another hour of cardio and repeat. The muscles normally would be sore, but the body's own insulin appears to pull in everything they need to keep going.

So my hips are gaining muscle and fat at a good rate with my waist at a minimum.

Too much of this drink or any added sugars at once would reach digested food in the gut and may be very toxic and the gut would want to explosively empty itself out...

#fitness #bodybuilding

FitPub is a new fitness tracking platform for the Fediverse, sort of an alternative to Strava. You can follow their official account for more news:

➡️ @fitpub

There are also more details on FitPub's Codeberg page:

➡️ https://codeberg.org/fitpub/fitpub

(To avoid confusion, FitPub is a totally separate project to the Fediverse trail and journey tracker Wanderer, which you can find out more about at https://wanderer.to )

#Fitness #FitnessTracker #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FitPub #Strava #Alternatives

Rowing across the Pacific, a Colorado river guide broke records in her 43-day solo journey: ‘She thrived out there’ https://www.denverpost.com/2026/07/14/kelsey-pfendler-rowing-record-pacific-hawaii/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2Ffitness%20and%20health&utm_medium=mastodon #fitness #health

[#TRADESHOW] #IWF #SHENZHEN 2026 from August 14 to 16, 2026, at Shenzhen #Convention and #Exhibition #Center (#Futian). As a regional #health, #wellness, and #fitness #trade #exhibition in South #China, the #event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for fitness #equipment, smart fitness #technology, health #nutrition, and #sportswear. #Expo connects #manufacturers, #distributors, #buyers, fitness operators, and service #providers across the #industry. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/iwf-shenzhen-2026/

Study suggests women who do strength training will live a longer, healthier life

Many women exercise to lose weight, tone their bodies or feel fitter. But recent research suggests that the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Fitness #exercise #Health #Healthy #musclemass #resistancetraining #strength
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/741231/

What does your weekly workout routine look like?

(If it varies from week to week due to disability, chronic illness, work schedule, or some other reason, feel free to choose a different period of time instead!)

#Fitness #Habits #Goals

@fittogether

Slow Heartbeat: Distinguishing between healthy fitness and bradycardia in ageing: When a slow heartbeat is a sign of strength, and when it isn’t

There is something poetic about a stead…
#NewsBeep #News #Fitness #agingandheartrate #bradycardiainageing #cardiachealthinolderadults #Health #healthyfitness #hearthealthtipsforseniors #importanceofheartratemonitoring #physiologicalbradycardia #restingheartrate #slowheartbeat #symptomsofbradycardia #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/661501/

Five-minute walk offsets the harm of sitting too long

A five-minute “exercise snack” every hour can offset the damage of sitting down for long periods, researchers have…
#NewsBeep #News #Fitness #BritishHeartFoundation #exercise #Health #Heartdisease #Mentalhealth #standard #UK #UnitedKingdom #UScontent
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/656679/

[#TRADESHOW] #IWF #SHENZHEN 2026 from August 14 to 16, 2026, at Shenzhen #Convention and #Exhibition #Center (#Futian). As a regional #health, #wellness, and #fitness #trade #exhibition in South #China, the #event serves as a #B2B #business #platform for fitness #equipment, smart fitness #technology, health #nutrition, and #sportswear. #Expo connects #manufacturers, #distributors, #buyers, fitness operators, and service #providers across the #industry. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/iwf-shenzhen-2026/

Fitness trackers sell aggregate workout and location data to insurance companies and real estate firms in some markets. https://indigoprivacy.com/subscribe #privacy #fitness #healthdata #indigoprivacy

Enjoying another early morning bicycle ride

#bicycling #StreeTart #fitness

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Tall trees covering the greenway trails

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StreeTart along the bicycle trail

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many waterfalls on the trail ponds

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mi bicycle

I do not understand this training app. I am not pushing myself to potential and if I had a training partner, I would likely be doing at least double what I am now. I would say my bicycling now is recreational, not competitive.

#fitness

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Fitness app tells me I need to slow down and I have not even hit my maximum heart rate yet, like I used to all the time and then beyond that. "May 7 — June 3 Above Targets Your training load focus is higher than optimal. You may want to try scaling back the duration and frequency of your workouts. Anaerobic 445 High Aerobic 388 Low Aerobic 102 Optimal Range"

This is why i do deadlifts #fitness #crawfish

of all the useless AIs, #whoop has done a kickass job at combining personalized data, memory, predictions, and actionable prompts in their app 👏
#fitness

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Calf after the pause I wanted to check in now that you've had the full break from running, Daniel - how's the calf feeling with normal walking and push-off? Better, the same, or worse?

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Hi Daniel, I'm excited to work with you in a way that builds over time-each chat adds to what I understand about your life so I can connect your WHOOP data to your bigger goals, not just today's numbers. From your last 6 months, I see a strong foundation: lots of structured training (running, cycling, HIIT, lifting), a VO2 Max around 58-59, and green recoveries stacked on top of very consistent sleep. Your WHOOP Age contributors show especially strong cardiorespiratory fitness, sleep timing, and regular strength work-this looks like someone training with real intention. Of course, data can't fully capture your priorities or constraints. To guide how I coach you, what's the number one thing you most want to feel or achieve in your health and fitness over the next few months?

This past #Friday I bought a #Suunto Race S #gps #watch. It arrived yesterday morning and within a few minutes *almost* everything was set up. This is my first watch so there was a bit of a learning curve....and troubleshooting.

Now that issues have been resolved and it's properly synchronized to #Strava, it's working as expected.

Just came back from my second #hike of the day and tested it against a well known #route which I have recorded countless times in Strava on my #smartphone. The route is the same but the distance and elevation differed slightly, including the highest points being about 30 feet higher recorded on the watch.

Kind of a head-scratcher because both Strava and Suunto use #OpenStreetMaps for their map data. Which one is accurate?

I will be doing more testing in the coming days. In the meantime, here's a pic of the #pond from this morning's hike.

#nature #health #trailrunning #fitness #mentalhealth #spring #morning #tuesday #woods

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Gorgeous view of the pond at around 06:30 this morning.

What is it about vaccines and US politicians?

“The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately,” Hegseth wrote in the post.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hegseth-says-u-s-military-no-longer-requires-flu-vaccination-drawing-criticism-from-health-experts

#Vaccines #USPol #Hesgeth #Flu #Health #fitness

European #gym giant #BasicFit #DataBreach affects 1 million members

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-gym-giant-basic-fit-data-breach-affects-1-million-members/

#fitness #Europe #cybersecurity #privacy #health

3 More Reps creates exercise and fitness videos to help people get into shape at home. You can follow their account at:

➡️ @3morereps_workouts

They've already posted 40 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/3morereps_workouts/videos

You can also follow their Mastodon account at @3morereps@veganism.social and Pixelfed account at @3MoreReps@pixelfed.social

#FeaturedPeerTube #Fitness #Exercise #Aerobics #Yoga #PeerTube

@EllenInEdmonton Sorry, I have to circle back and read things fully sometimes…. congratulates on your fitness journey!!! Losing 20 lbs since last fall is vvvvvery impressive! 🙌

I hope you feel proud and amazing about this! 🤘

#badass #fitness

Predatory Data

Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

There's a nearly straight line from 20th century eugenics to 21st century big data and data science. Google, the bastion of big data, was founded by two Stanford graduate students; Stanford was founded by a eugenicist and instituted eugenics principles. Francis Galton--inventor of the regression analysis that forms the backbone of data science--was "hot or notting" London with a counter hidden in his pocket long before Harvard-age Zuckerberg recuperated the same with the favorite quantification technology of our day, computers.

"The measured life" is a eugenics concept. All these doohickeys that collect data with the promise of making your body a bit more "fit"? Eugenicist in origin. Eugenics is about "optimizing" the physical "fitness" of people. Apps that help you learn, make you more mentally "fit"? Also have origins in eugenics. Eugenics is also about "optimizing" the mental "fitness" of people. Hence the obsession with IQ.

This isn't to say you shouldn't take care of your body and mind in whichever ways you want. I do think it's important, though, to periodically reflect on, and ask yourself hard questions about, what's driving those efforts and what the goals really are. Part of understanding why eugenics thinking is resurging so hard and fast in the US is understanding its roots, where that type of thinking comes from. It's also important to reflect on where the apps and devices you use to achieve these goals come from. How many come directly or indirectly from Stanford, which was built by eugenicists to achieve eugenic goals, and its offshoots?

Trump and Musk are literally repeating themes from Francis Galton's eugenics out in the open now. They're confident they can get away with it without pushback because the ground was laid long ago. But eugenics didn't suddenly become bad again because coarse people started saying the quiet part out loud. It's always been bad thinking, bad science, and bad morality.

#DataScience #eugenics #BigData #fitness #US #IQ #Trump #Musk