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[Help] Recomposition or continue cutting? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I am not sure how to judge my strength.

You could always plug in your numbers and take a look:

I'd say that if you still have a lot of strength to gain, then you can afford to keep cutting until it starts interfering with your workouts.

That being said, I find it easier psychologically to stick with a long term plan when I'm not cutting too much or too long.

[Help] Recomposition or continue cutting? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

So when you say your BMI is 30, are you a strong 30 or a fat 30? And have you plateaued in your strength gains from resistance training, or are you stronger than you were a month ago?

Personally, I find it easier to cut when I have the fitness to be able to burn a ton of calories through exercise: being able to run 30 minutes straight, being able to put in a high volume weight lifting workout, etc.

So if it were me, I'd lean towards pausing the cut and just getting stronger and fitter on the same weight, so that the next round of cutting, a few months from now, is easier.

Then again I've never been able to maintain a cut for more than 2-3 months, so you should be aware of my bias.

Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Science is a process for learning knowledge, not a set of known facts (or theories/conjectures/hypotheses/etc.).

Phlogiston theory was science. But ultimately it fell apart when the observations made it untenable.

A belief in luminiferous aether was also science. It was disproved over time, and it took decades from the Michelson-Morley experiment to design robust enough studies and experiments to prove that the speed of light was the same regardless of Earth's relative velocity.

Plate tectonics wasn't widely accepted until we had the tools to measure continental drift.

So merely believing in something not provable doesn't make something not science. No, science has a bunch of unknowns at any given time, and testing different ideas can be difficult to actually do.

Hell, there are a lot of mathematical conjectures that are believed to be true but not proven. Might never be proven, either. But mathematics is still a rational, scientific discipline.

Weekend Discussion Thread- June 7, 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Got me a new Lemmy account, now that lemm.ee is shutting down. But I'm @[email protected], back with a 5/3/1 question.

As background, when I started this program 2 weeks ago my training maxes were set to:

Bench: 180 lbs
Squat: 335 lbs
Deadlift: 385 lbs

I'm going into my first 1+ week and I'm confident I'll be able to bust past 5-8 reps on most of the 1+/95% sets this week, based on my 10-rep sets at 90% this past week.

So I have to ask: what's the protocol for joker sets? I know Wendler kinda hates them, but I'm still kinda convinced I might have selected too low of a training max.

If I bang out 6-8 reps of my 95%, should I add 10% and attempt 1+ reps of 105%? What about 115%?

Or am I just getting ahead of myself, and shouldn't push those limits until I get comfortable with the program?

Any good singani recipes? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Late to this thread, but I've found that it goes well with fresh watermelon, muddled mint, and lime. Play around with the sugar/acid/alcohol ratios that you like, and find something that works. I usually do:

2 oz Singani
1 oz lime juice
4 oz watermelon juice
0.5 oz simple syrup
2 to 6 muddled mint leaves

I find that when I use fresh juice, I can get good texture if I shake it, even without egg white or other foaming agent.

I usually serve in a Collins glass with ice, but sometimes I'll serve up in a coupe or Nick and Nora glass.

30 to 40 olives in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not if you want it to stay extra virgin

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Also, he is a great writer with fantastic pacing.

Absolutely. Pretty much each one of his comics uses the right number of panels for the core idea, including the use of different sizes panels as necessary to improve the overall impact of each panel, and to control the pacing. Like this one.

PBF is still my favorite comic on the internet, about 20 years after it was first introduced to me.

GIRL. NOT LIKE THAT. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Shotgun gauge is wonky, so it's not a given that the number would just be a diameter in units they are familiar with.

Yeah, it's not intuitive that bigger gauge numbers = narrower diameter unless you've specifically worked with wire or shotguns before.

GIRL. NOT LIKE THAT. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That still makes no sense. Is the commenter surprised to learn that a 0.223 inch caliber is approximately 0.223 inches? That a .45 inch caliber is about .45 inches? Yes, that's how units work.