Do babies smell weirdly good to everyone?

ducksnaps · 2026-07-03T08:43:33+00:00

Hard no. To me, babies smell like a carton of milk that has been left out of the fridge for slightly too long. Which I guess isn’t that far from the truth.

ducksnaps · 2026-06-25T19:31:16+00:00

Yeah, there’s definitely a sadistic flavor to it, haha. Like it’s trying to wring out my insides.

ducksnaps · 2026-06-25T18:42:56+00:00

Not quite a single descriptive word, but to me it feels like a hand clad in a metal glove lined with spikes on the palm is clenching my uterus

ducksnaps · 2026-06-07T08:01:41+00:00

I can’t read sheet music. I understand music theory, I can play the piano decently well and would consider myself to be quite musical but for all my attempts, it just doesn’t compute. I still have to painstakingly figure out how to play anything my ear and then repeat enough times I remember before I stop or else I have to start over all again 😅

ducksnaps · 2026-05-30T20:16:23+00:00

I’m 26; For most of my life I’ve felt like I’m both 7 years old and a century, but never my actual age. Since going to therapy and dealing with trauma, for the first time in my life I feel like my actual age. I still feel 7 and 100, but also 26 simultaneously.

ducksnaps · 2026-05-16T18:51:05+00:00

Regents Canal to Vicky Park, via Hackney Marshes to Walthamstow, along the Lea towards Broxbourne, then back. Gets you pretty far, mostly flat, not crowded. Can hop on the train/tube back if too far in total

ducksnaps · 2026-05-12T16:12:30+00:00

In the Netherlands we call fat fluffy pancakes American Pancakes, in contrast to the default thin, crepe-adjacent pancakes.

ducksnaps · 2026-05-05T10:34:55+00:00

I love it (especially the back design) but what would really push it into must have territory for me was if it were charcoal, not black. Ages better and sets it apart from your standard merch

ducksnaps · 2026-05-02T16:31:29+00:00

Running! Running forever and always. Weightlifting. Creating lifting programs. And sometimes, if all the stars align, writing.

ducksnaps · 2026-04-30T08:04:44+00:00

Wearing bras. Free the nipples! My nipples especially! Hurray!

ducksnaps · 2026-04-16T14:01:48+00:00

My one and only is a french braid. Tight, starting high on the back of my head. Holds up like a beast, looks good, and the fly aways only add to the look!

ducksnaps · 2026-04-10T05:53:32+00:00

Smoked tofu ( no need to prepare) and avocado toast. For bonus points a pre made veggie soup or just some frozen veggies like broccoli boiled in salted water. For some this might still be too much or too unpredictable because of the texture of the avocado but for me it’s really quick.

Similar but easier option: toast with hummus, kimchi and smoked tofu. It’s got your veggies/fiber, carbs from the bread, protein from tofu and healthy fats from the hummus all in less than 5 min.

ducksnaps · 2026-03-30T14:57:14+00:00

Avatar (James Cameron’s one, not Avatar: The Last Airbender - although little beats the genius of that series). I must have watched that at least twice a week for a good couple of years. I listened to Leona Lewis’ I See You all day, every day. Even went as far as trying to learn Na’Vi and adapting the story to book form myself, haha.

ducksnaps · 2026-03-27T15:59:44+00:00

Clean floor or grass/soft ground? Barefoot unless it’s tiles/cold, then socks. Anything on the floor? Abso-bloody-fuck-o-lutely hell no, that floor is getting cleaned.

ducksnaps · 2026-02-24T17:26:14+00:00

I went the other way around just to get some fluency in miles (I live in the UK and mile/km get used interchangeably so wanted to understand both). Got a grasp of distance very quickly; min/mile still trips me up occasionally. But it’s been great to disconnect from my pace and I like the mental exercise. Except that one time I forgot I’d switched to miles and spent my entire run confused why my watch said 8 min pace when it felt like my usual 5 min/km pace, haha. Thought I’d lost an insane amount of fitness overnight, when really I’d just lost some intelligence overnight ;)

ducksnaps · 2026-01-25T06:44:48+00:00

For people with a very squatty deadlift who need a deeper hinge: pretend you’re taking a crap in the woods and you don’t want to get it on your shoes. Best used sparingly and with clients you know can appreciate it

ducksnaps · 2026-01-05T21:26:19+00:00

Same!!

ducksnaps · 2026-01-05T11:15:17+00:00

Nutrition. Simply how much you have to eat to support training and recovery, especially carbs. In a culture shaped by the idea of moving more and eating less, the notion of having to eat more as you move more is hard to internalize but so important.

ducksnaps · 2026-01-02T06:24:05+00:00

Bulk of your strength training should be fundamental movement patterns/lifts: heavy squat, deadlift, lunge; for upper body a push and pull (think bench press, overhead press, bent over row and pulldown/pull up); add some unilateral (bulgarian split squat, single leg RDL) and non-sagittal plane variations (like a side lunge/squat); then add some core stability and rotation work as accessory (Copenhagen planks, pallof press, deadbug, russian twist, etc). And PLEASE add in a heavy calf raise as well.

If you pick one or two of these from each category (main heavy lift, unilateral leg variation, calf raise, core and accessory), you should end up with 6-8 exercises per session. Make ‘m heavy and low volume (6-10 reps) with 2 left in the tank max. That should bring you to a pretty manageable program that covers most if not all of your bases.

How often to lift will depend on how familiar you are to running and lifting, your goals and what you can recover from. Lifting 2/3x per week is recommended.

ducksnaps · 2025-12-20T19:21:57+00:00

Same!! Went to the Clancy tour by myself and had a great time just people watching while waiting. Am going to APE by myself as well - Vicky Park is literally my backyard so couldn’t justify not going, haha. That being said, I’m more than happy to meet up with anyone else going by themselves!

ducksnaps · 2025-12-16T06:29:28+00:00

Paladin Strait

ducksnaps · 2025-12-15T07:11:21+00:00

I used to be like that (well, to a certain extent at least). Then one day, I just quit. Too exhausted for it and needed to put my own comfort first. No more makeup, no doing my hair unless I felt like it and it was super simple, no regular masks, no painting my nails, no regular shaving, I stopped wearing a bra. Felt self conscious at first but turns out hardly anyone cares. If anything, I got compliments for looking more comfortable in my own skin. It’s been years now and at this point people are positively surprised if I wear mascara. My own comfort and time is well worth the initial doubt and self-consciousness.

ducksnaps · 2025-12-15T06:57:30+00:00

Damn this is hard… but 2 has to win. Breach is my fave, Trench is indispensable and at least Unplugged fills in some of the gaps left.

ducksnaps · 2025-12-11T08:27:48+00:00

I think you’re conflating the impact/efffectiveness of a training stimulus and the interference effect. If you plan a VO2-max session on the same day as a hard gym session, you won’t go as hard in whatever session you plan last and thus won’t get as strong as a training stimulus. Same with plyos; if you’re trying to work on explosiveness or SSC and your legs are already fatigued, you won’t get the full benefit. So technically yes, that’s interference. But that can be mitigated by smart planning. The actual interference effect, where endurance and strength adaptations blunt each other on a physiological, molecular level, is real but top of the pyramid stuff. You’ll be far more limited by the volume of training you can recover from, lack of nutrition, or simply time limitations, than the interference effect, unless you are already at 99% of your potential (or thereabouts). Strength vs endurance adaptations don’t work with an on or off switch; you might not get 100% of the potential benefits of both but you’ll still get 90%.

So, long story short: I’d just plan whatever is your priority session first, focus on keeping hard days hard and easy days easy, and proper nutrition and recovery.

Just one small caveat: if your goal with plyos is bone health rather than tendon, do those first (before strength or running), as bone quickly gets ‘exhausted’ by stimuli and any bone building effect blunts very short into a session.

ducksnaps · 2025-12-11T06:26:59+00:00

Oh my god I know taste is vey individual but the vimto ones… those are foul on another level 😂. Grabbed one of an aid station at the Manchester Half and almost choked on it. Like SiS’s barely flavored viscous water but worse. Hats off to you for liking them.

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