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Articles about healthy living, my life, my interests (music, mainly) and philosophical questions about life.

50k steps challenge: report

I walked 42km in one day, this is how the day went I’m on a quest to change my life (with limited success so far), but I also thought of some challenges to spice things up. A few months back I saw a YouTube video of a bloke doing

The Risk of Change

There are many ways you can fall off the wagon when trying to change your habits I’m writing this on a bad day. At the moment, I don’t believe I can truly change myself, and it’s only day five of my quest! Last time I used this

Quest: drastically change your life

Whenever I’m traveling I get this urge to change my life completely. What if I were to actually act on it this time? I didn’t grow up in a rich family, but my parents managed to take me and my sister on a three-week summer vacation every year.

JuggernautAI app review, part 1: sign-up

JuggernautAI is a mobile application that’s designed to guide you in your powerlifting journey. A personalised programme gets generated for you by the app, based on information you feed it. As a software developer I was super curious to try this out! I think powerlifting is an ideal candidate

Strijd der vega-kippen - Drie soorten nep kipstukjes getest!

Notitie 18-03-2024: Deze post is inmiddels wat jaren oud, het kan dus zijn dat de informatie niet meer helemaal klopt. De vega fabrikanten veranderen vrij vaak de samenstelling van hun nep-kip. Let dus even goed op of het veganistisch is of niet, mocht dat voor jou van belang zijn! Voor

Do you even lift?

I was 32 years old, working an office job and had had trouble with my back for a couple of years already. I tried a lot things: yoga, physical therapist, lots of walking, not being stuck at my desk for too long by taking breaks, working on my posture, you

Shure SE535 in-ears review

Februari 2015: So I had been looking to replace my in-ears with something new because the cable was getting worse and worse. I was getting used to my 50 euro in-ears breaking down at roughly two years of age; I had gone to like three or four pairs in the