My Companion Exercise, Butternut Squash

20241105 #breakfastdiary 1223, 8°C/clear, 20min/exercise(M) There's the 10,000-hour rule, which says you need at least 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in a field, but recent studies suggest practice alone isn't what makes the best. For instance, in chess, factors like intelligence and working memory, and in sports, things like oxygen utilization rate, matter just as much as practice volume. Still, for an amateur, the starting point is practice volume after all. Started an exercise called mountain climbers on 7/28, and today, 11/5, marks day 100. It's a move where you repeatedly pull your knees alternately toward your chest in a plank position with arms extended, like climbing a mountain quickly — very cost-effective in a lot of ways. The results after 100 days? If you search around, there are tons of dramatic mountain climber before-and-after videos, but that's someone else's story. Our bodies aren't built to change that easily. I'm content just to have found a kind of #mycompanionexercise to stick with for life. Butternut squash tastes great but there's just so much of it, no matter how much you eat it never seems to run out. Thought maybe I should treat it like a companion squash(?). Today it's roasted butternut squash and basil pesto with a hummus-like butter bean dip

Inspired by @no_meat_may