Now that I'm (thankfully) lifting again in the garage, I'm doing fewer push-ups in the house, so I may have to revise my February goal. I've done 400 so far, so 100 more to make 500? Killed arms tonight! #fitbyforty

I'm back in the garage! While I may have started my workout with some cleaning, I hit it hard after that! I'm excited to lift weights again, to listen to my gym music again... and to break in my new stationary bike! #fitbyforty

Didn't really want to lift tonight (tired, as usual), but forced myself to. Took really long breaks, but I still pushed myself. As I try to say on lower body days, "Legs do this!" #fitbyforty

My resolution this year is to be more purposeful with my time. More reading, less scrolling. Lifting with goals in mind rather than whatever, whenever. To that end, I have created what I think will be good weekly routines: Week A is Upper/Lower, Week B is Push/Pull/Legs. #fitbyforty

The holidays are over. These last few days have been a time for eating and a time with family. However, another time has come: 2026, the year I turn forty. Obviously, my resolution is to be #fitbyforty. And after that? Stay fit or get fitter; not just for me, but for my family!

My chest is still a "happy sore" from Friday, but we're back in the garage! "Arm, arm, and out" is a line from Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 5. Birnam Wood is marching to Dunsinane Hill, and here am I, training arms (biceps) and arms (triceps), then I'm out! #fitbyforty

We're only four short months away from my fortieth! If asked my biggest goal in getting #fitbyforty, I'd say probably to grow my chest more. The goal of this workout was to literally set my chest on fire. 🔥 Hopefully, this chest (level), chest (incline), chest (decline) workout encourages growth!

It's been a few days since my last lift because I've been feeling... bored. Not sick. Maybe a bit tired. But mostly bored. So what do I do? I switch up the routine. The theme tonight is exercises that I enjoy but haven't done in forever or new ones I've never done but want to try! #fitbyforty

Struggled with technology tonight. Couldn't get my Nest to heat my garage. Couldn't get my Alexa unit to play my music. My phone almost died. Still, I suppose better than the mouse that joined me during my last workout. Oh the joys of garage gyms! #imakeeper #fitbyforty

One of these days, I should let go of my "increase every set by five" mantra and just go until failure no matter what number that is, but I guess I love numbers divisible by five too much. Still not feeling 100%. Tired from moving a lot of snow today. #fitbyforty

Chest day really is the best day! (We're going to ignore that I skipped my last leg day. Whoops.) This picture is probably the most I'll show of a chest pump, as I have students who follow me on here... Feeling under the weather, but I still tried to lift hard! #fitbyforty

Finally, I'm back. After several busy days, feeling beat by the end of the day, I forced myself into my garage to lift. Nothing new with my routine, but ran faster and lifter more volume than my last time. Hopefully, it's fewer than five days before I'm back in here again! #fitbyforty

Whew! Long weekend of eating and watching movies (Wicked: For Good was SO GOOD), so I knew I needed to fit some lifting in! And it was time for my favorite workout: chest! What's your favorite? #fitbyforty

Came into tonight's workout feeling extra tired. My junior high play kids had a performance tonight; I could have come home and gone straight to bed, but I knew I needed to fit this in! #fitbyforty 💪🏻

Completely switched up my chest, tricep, and shoulder exercises for my push day and plan to do that for my other PPL routines later this week. Gotta keep the muscles guessing, right? #fitbyforty

If I don't post a picture of myself, equipment I used, or music I listened to, did the workout even happen? #fitbyforty

Tired tonight. My kids are sick, and my sleep lately has been disturbed by coughing. I was going to skip this workout, but I had already skipped Wednesday and Thursday. I needed to fit this one in! #fitbyforty

Four times in the last seven days? I like it! #fitbyforty

Short workout, but intense. I skipped rest timers. I tried a new exercise: waiter curls. I thought it would be really easy, but of course, working out muscles in different ways and forms means it was not! Still, any workout that leads to bigger arms is going to be my favorite! #fitbyforty

From Season 1, Episode 12 of The West Wing, "He Shall From Time to Time": "Government, no matter what its failures in the past, [...] can be a place where people come together. Where no one gets left behind. No one gets left behind. An instrument of good." youtu.be/XyygC0VN9vU?...

I was pretty tired tonight, so I leaned probably too hard on the rest time instead of hitting it hard. Still, two days in a row for working out? I'll take it. #fitbyforty

It's funny the things that give you the motivation you need to do more and be better. For me, recently, it was seeing this interview I did while wearing this shirt. In short, I don't love the way I look in it, so I'm definitely going to hit some incline bench and some cardio! #fitbyforty

¡No puedo creer que ya haya pasado un año!

After a long summer of being outside doing outside things that I considered “working out” (moving tons of rock for landscaping, etc), I’m back in the gym!

Half a routine. Better than nothing. Goodnight!

Summer on the farm has meant so much work to do outside, which has left me with little energy for lifting. I have shifted to a new program, which will hopefully keep me from skipping legs/abs! 😅

Why not sneak a push exercise into a pull workout? #fitbyforty

April and May were crazy busy, so I didn't get any lifts in. I'm excited to get back to work during June! With that said, now that I live in the country, I've been working (out) a lot outside, pushing myself in different ways, doing lots around the yard! #fitbyforty

It's been a good month! #fitbyforty

Fifty! Granted, I've done plenty of workouts using apps other than Hevy or no apps at all, but this is certainly an accomplishment! #fitbyforty

Putting in the time! #fitbyforty

It's been a busy week! Please don't come at me for skipping leg day this week and just starting over with push!

I'm over here lifting trucks, you guys! Follow me on Hevy (aehanson)! #fitbyforty

Three week streak! Let's go! #fitbyforty

Wednesdays will be my rest days during Lent. I almost skipped tonight (so tired) but forced myself anyway!

I love seeing so much blue on this image. It shows that I'm hitting most every muscle I can! It's been a great last four days! #fitbyforty

Day by day, I'm making progress! Follow me on Hevy! It's a free social workout tracking app. You can build routines, log your lifts, get analytics, and compete with friends. My username is aehanson hevy.com/user/aehanson

Working up to a longer routine. More exercises, more sets, more reps. But for now, I'm doing what I can. #fitbyforty

The bonus of buying a house with five garages, I can convert a corner of one of them into my own personal gym space. I am so excited to get back to work! #fitbyforty

My tenth graders are currently studying a unit of poetry using my favorite platform: CommonLit. Their poem today was “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes. The themes were so lost on many of them, which was disheartening, but some good conversations were had with the other students!

We’re learning about some pretty incredible tools regarding data analysis. Unfortunately, that’s a feature of #ChatGPT Plus, which is not something I have, but it might be worth it to get for our school district (especially to use with also creating a Custom GPT).

Currently, we’re having the (ever-important) conversation about protecting student privacy. It is improtant to remember to never include student names or other private data in prompts or docs that you upload. Instead, use an ID for the student and change it back to the name in the output. #ai

William Grube of Gruvy Education in our presenter this morning. He is the guest on this podcast episode. Saving for later!

Hi Andrew, my colleague and I recently wrote an article on why genAI does not have to undermine education. Please help us share it to spark conversations. :) www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

This morning has been a lot about #ChatGPT, but obviously, there are a plethora of other AI tools out there. Currently, I am using Gamma together with ChatGPT to create an AI introductory slide deck about Fellowship of the Ring (which my seniors are reading right now). gamma.app/docs/The-Fel...

ChatGPT Plus has the ability to create a Custom GPT. For example, I could create one for Win-E-Mac, upload our district policy handbooks, then whenever an issue arises, ask it what to do in that situation, and it will tell me based on the policy. #chatgpt

Copy and paste an email thread, then ask ChatGPT to ask you questions based on the thread, putting the thread in a more succinct Q&A format for you. After answering the questions, it’ll draft an email response to copy and paste back in the thread.

ChatGPT has a great “Customize ChatGPT” feature that allows you to customize the platform to you. It asks what you do professionally (technology coordinator in my case), your writing style (e.g., chatty or more straightforward), and more, which helps ChatGPT write future prompts with that context.