It’s only been a month since I’ve re-added running into my exercise routine, and I’m already seeing good results. Because of the increase in cardio capacity, my resting heart rate in between sets during weight lighting sessions lowered by about 20 BPMs. That is quite significant. It means I don’t have to wait as long for my heart rate to calm down before starting the next set.
It also means cardio is no longer the limiting factor during heavy squats. I don’t have to end a set just because I am out of breath. We can’t deny it: intense cardio is an important part of the regiment. I actually think you might be leaving some all important gains on the table if you forgo it completely. Never skip leg cardio day.
What you cannot skip these days when you visit websites is the bot check before you’re allowed in. It seems everybody wants you to prove you’re an actual human, and not a content-scraping robot feeding the insatiable AI machines housed in massive data centers. Before I can browse an item on eBay, I have to click on all the pictures containing traffic signal lights.
It goes to show how fast Internet speeds have gotten that websites can afford a whole other front door process before loading the webpage. Back in the ancien dial-up days, no one would dare to make a site load any longer than it needs to. In fact, there was a whole cottage industry of optimizers to ensure your website load as quickly as possible. Heck, Google initially won the search game because of speed.
No way those optimizers could have imagined putting up an entire wall in front of a loading webpage, precisely what is en vogue in today’s inter webs. Nowadays, fast-loading is mere table stakes. Thanks to massive bandwidth that a 90s kid, asking their parents to get off the phone so he can get online, can only dream about. Bot checks are only a minor, insect-sized inconvenience not worth thinking about.
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