James Chamberlin

Now that that one PC of mine has been cleaned out, it’s running much cooler. The fan above the heatsink has yet to spin up while doing something strenuous. In the past, anything that made the CPU work at 50% for more than a few seconds would cause the fan to spin up. It’s because the heatsink fins (or whatever you’d like to call them) were clogged with a layer of dust. Now that the dust is gone, the fan and heatsink are able to work much more efficiently at removing the heat from the CPU and I know that this will give the entire system a longer lifespan.

On the exercise front, I tried something a little different. I try to do leg workouts as often as I can because they can really get the heart racing and burn calories and fat. So the new exercise I did came from an idea I saw on TV and it’s certainly nothing revolutionary. It’s just something I’ve never tried.

There’s a padded chair intended for guys who want to do sitting shoulder presses (video) and I decided to use it as a temporary seat. I’d sit down and quickly stand up and either do a standing shoulder press or a bicep curl. Either way, I was working out my upper body, while also burning a ton of calories with the repeated sit-stand-sit-stand motion. It wore me out within an hour and I was done. Kaput. Throw my ass on a cart and wheel me out.

I intend to do this exercise more often now that I familiarized myself with it. It’s always interesting trying new exercises. Sometimes they prove to be awkward and some end up being less strenuous than you expected. This one was in fact strenuous, but I know it was good for my weight loss efforts.

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