I am not sure either reading practice is optimal

[oursin]

(Or maybe I am being total reading snob here, I will concede.)

Anyway, in a recent Pass Notes in The Guardian apropos the ‘75 hard’: the viral fitness challenge

What is it then? “75 Hard is a transformative mental toughness programme.” He says he spent 20 years figuring out how to master mental toughness.
And what do you have to do? Follow a healthy diet plan, with zero alcohol or “cheat” meals.
For 75 days? I’m beginning to miss dry January. And on each one of those days you’ve got to do two 45 minute workouts, one outside, as well as drink three and a half litres of water.
Two workouts! Sounds hard. Exactly! It’s in the name.
What if … I don’t know, you have a job, or a family, or a life? And it sounds like a fitness challenge to me! You also have to read 10 pages of a book. Nonfiction.
What?! Well a) Only 10 pages? That doesn’t sound hard. And b) What has he got against fiction? Frisella is more into self-improvement books – personal development, finances, entrepreneurship, that kind of stuff.

Doing my brayne 10-page reading pushups- (Wish to know whether one is supposed to increase reps after a certain level.)

However, I am also not sure that ripping through extruded romantasy product, produced under conditions that make one suspect that churning out penny dreadfuls in a Victorian garret may have been preferable, is entirely great ('it's three tropes in a trenchcoat, and this year we're swapping in dragons for last year's werewolves...') even before there's actual plagiarism in the mix.

Or is finding one's reading matter by TikTok hashtag, which one could certainly diss on, this generation's 'Enid Blyton/The Beano at least gets them reading'?