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Recipe of healthy life for programmers

poudyal_rabin on October 03, 2021

Being healthy should be the first and foremost goal of any human being. As a programmer, it is even more crucial. Keep aside all of those tasks lik...
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ferceg

I started programming (professionally) in '99. What worked for me: height adjustable desk, good quality chair, vertical mouse, biking if not in HO, practicing tai chi since 2004, playing the piano, go hiking, etc.

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poudyal_rabin

sounds you are having a healthy living. cheers :)

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Peter Brown

Thank you for the great article. It's always good to have have a reminder. Sometimes we get so tunneled in our vision that we forget to take care of ourselves.

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poudyal_rabin

glad that gave you a remainder. hope you are having a healthy living as well :)

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MitchAloha • Edited

Thank you very much for your advices, I will try to integrate with the habits I am already trying to follow. I would like to make just a few suggestions from my side too:

  1. In addition to workout I walk for about an hour every other day
  2. Walking in nature is my meditation :)
  3. Very good advice! I recently discovered the Pomodoro Technique and built a small app to apply it: pomodoro-technique.io, really cool technique, I highly recommend it
  4. I fast from 6pm to 9am every day and for 24 hours straight once a week. I was skeptical at first but I found it to be very beneficiary…
  5. Very hard for me, I suggest preparing the amount of water needed through the day as first thing in the morning or to keep track of what you drink
  6. I suggest also buying a good desk chair, it helps a lot, try not to be too stingy XD
  7. I always try to read for 1h before going to bed, it helps to relax, better a “real” book but a kindle would do the job too

Don't know what you think, hope it helps :)
P.S. I like your articles a lot, keep going with the amazing work!

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poudyal_rabin

wow. Thanks @mitchaloha for your comment. Thanks for highlighting those points as well. I love your idea of walking in nature. Happy coding! cheers

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Alexis Suarez

I try to cook my own healthy food and most times it is hard, mainly because I have to make time in my schedule to go for the groceries and vegetables and of course cooking. But what has been the hardest is to think what to cook every single day, and that's why I started developing a hobby app to schedule my menu for each day XD

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poudyal_rabin

wow that sounds interesting :)

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Rishav Jadon

What are katas?

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Auke Geerts

Katas, in coding at least, are programming exercises to train your problem solving skills. Take a look at codewars.org if you're interested.

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OnomeVera

Thanks for this article. It's very helpful

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poudyal_rabin

glad that helped :)

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Emma Brown

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