Conny Gyura, Secrets of a Personal Trainer - Unfiltered

12/31/2025

Happy New Year!
Stand up and take control!

12/30/2025

Just a reminder:

It's 11:59 PM on New Year's Eve. You're counting down.
Every bird, deer, rabbit, fox, and owl within earshot is having a panic attack.
What fireworks do to wildlife:
🎆 Auditory trauma — Birds' hearing is 10x more sensitive than humans (fireworks = 150-175 decibels)
🎆 Mass flight panic — Entire flocks launch in darkness, slam into buildings, trees, each other
🎆 Nest abandonment — Parents flee, babies freeze to death alone
🎆 Heart attacks — Small mammals (rabbits, squirrels) literally die from fear-induced cardiac arrest
🎆 Disorientation — Nocturnal animals can't navigate with explosions/light bursts
The facts:

1,000+ birds died in one Arkansas town on New Year's Day 2011 (fireworks caused mass collision)
Wildlife rescue calls spike 500% on January 1st
Deer run into highways (panicked by explosions)
Birds abandon nests in January cold (chicks freeze)
Small mammal stress hormones stay elevated for 7-10 days after (impacts foraging, immune systems)

What happens at midnight:
A screech owl hunting in your woods hears an explosion. Her eardrums rupture. She can't hunt. She starves.
A mother rabbit nursing babies in a burrow bolts in terror. Babies freeze while she's gone.
A flock of geese roosting on a pond launches in pitch darkness. 12 slam into power lines. Dead by 12:01 AM.
A deer running blind from explosions crosses I-95. Hits a car. Driver injured. Deer dead.
You're celebrating. They're dying.
Alternatives that don't terrorize wildlife:
✓ Laser light shows (silent, beautiful, modern)
✓ Glow stick countdowns (kids love them)
✓ Luminarias (candles in bags, traditional, peaceful)
✓ Projection mapping (onto buildings, silent)
✓ Noise-reduced fireworks (exist, but rarely used in US)
✓ Celebrate at 9 PM instead (most wildlife not yet active)
If your city does fireworks:

Bring pets inside (dogs/cats suffer too)
Close curtains (reduce visual flash)
Provide wildlife shelters in yard (trees, brush piles = refuge)
Support legislation banning private fireworks

The ball drops. You cheer.
And 500 birds fall from the sky in terror.
Happy New Year.

12/25/2025

Your health is what you do every single day..

12/23/2025

I never did!

12/17/2025

I can confirm this…

12/08/2025

The Health Insurance Tsunami is coming…
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12/04/2025

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11/27/2025

Can you identify yourself?

Protect your energy — know what drains you and what fuels you.

11/25/2025

How Religion is influencing my life even though I make my decisions based on science and data: The Interview.

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Cornelia Gyura. Check out our conversation below. Cornelia, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have he...

11/16/2025

Great idea:

Finland is emerging as a global leader in sustainable urban heating by repurposing waste heat from data centers to warm residential and commercial buildings.

Several Finnish cities, including Helsinki and Espoo, have integrated this technology into their district heating systems, a network of underground pipes that distribute heat efficiently across neighborhoods.

These systems capture the thermal energy generated by servers during data processing—typically considered waste—and redirect it to heat homes, offices, and other infrastructure.

Some of these data centers are located underground, taking advantage of natural insulation and freeing up surface space.

In Helsinki, for example, a well-known facility beneath the Uspenski Cathedral sends its excess heat into the city's grid, reportedly heating up to 500 large homes. Similarly, global tech giants like Google have developed data centers, such as the one in Hamina, that provide up to 80% of a neighborhood’s annual heating demand through waste heat recovery—offered free to the local utility company.

These systems not only reduce carbon emissions but also lower heating costs and increase energy efficiency.