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Curls for your Programming Skills
Lessons from Weightlifting and Calisthenics that Carry over into programming
It was a slog to get to the point where I am today in my career, there were a lot of struggles just had to be struggles in terms of how to write programs. The first year I felt like nothing was happening. I didn’t know how to build a project even though every video and their mother just kept repeating that I needed to make portfolio projects so I could get a job so that I could provide for my family. As if that first step into writing your code, taking your approach, and making your own mistakes were that easy.
It’s the same when we start to take on a workout routine — bodybuilding, body weight exercises, stretching, mobility — whatever it is you’re doing, you may have some luck at the beginning where you make a lot of progress, but eventually you need to just get into the groove and stay consistent to keep going. The goal of fitness isn’t just to get fit, it’s to be fit. And that means working at it every day, keeping it in mind as you are doing things.
The main reason I started taking exercise seriously again is that I’m just not into having back pain. When you work at a desk all day, writing, programming, or building your latest digital marketing campaign, eventually your wrist hurts, or your back, or…
