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+1 for separating the two sports. Grip strength is rarely a limiting factor in weightlifting though.

I don't doubt your intentions and it was nice of you to preface your correction with such reservation, but I gotta give a shout-out to descriptivism: if you can understand what's meant, maybe it's not incorrect!

Probably "Such a shame he decided to join ISIS." It doesn't have to be so either/or or black and white?

JSYK, Nimitz-class carriers have at least 200 officers, which gives a 16:1 ratio, but as far as I know this doesn't include officers from the air wings (which makes sense, since they have less of a "managerial / college graduate" type job. The math surrounding the 40:1 ratio obviously doesn't work out though, because an aircraft carrier is definitely at least 4x bigger and more complex than a DDG, which has around that number of officers.

Source: was on DDG. Looked up Nimitz-class numbers 'cause it seemed low (I know you weren't referring specifically to that type of ship)

Essays for transfering are very similar: "Why do you want to come here / why did you leave your last situation?"

Surely they'd like you to write about environment or purpose, but like with a first job as a kid, I think "the other place sucked / the classes weren't any good there" should suffice.

When Uber for pets became "seat alert app for pregnant commuters"

Definitely. However, it's also just the most important factor in weight control, with macronutrients, nutrient timing, and food composition playing lesser roles.

That's not really the reason that phrase was thought up tho..

Did you get the version with the new cover?

We share the same vice!

I think instead of being coached, barbell lifts require learning them, as opposed to just doing the movements described on the machines' pictures. The difference means that anyone right now can go to YouTube and look up the proper form for back squatting or overhead pressing, as long as they want to invest a bit of time researching and then practicing (that is, you don't absolutely need to pay someone to teach you).

Agree otherwise, though. I think our culture needs to emphasize the importance of strength training for health (over casual gym attendance for hypertrophy and self-esteem).

You're the farm guy! Reading your comments on other threads was very interesting. Books are the same way for me, I can't bear to part with them!

After reading your comment -- some of the thoughts of which I have already come to myself -- I realize it could be really hard to tease apart the source of any desire I have to minimalize: do I want to because I think it's genuinely a more productive or helpful way to live, or is it all just signalling? Just curious, have you ever had any fleeting wish to own less?

"Just give me your e-mail address and subscribe to my podcast."

For anyone who doesn't know about the collapse of TNR: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-....

Also in his book of essays, Some Remarks.

Like three years ago, I used to think I was not-normal because I only went every other day. This didn't cause me discomfort or anything, it was just how I went.

Then for some reason I experimented with eating prunes. I really don't know how this idea first came to me but I've eaten prunes nearly every day for two years now (my dad and friends make fun of me for it). I might still only go twice every three days, but feel much emptier. You also, by eating one prune too many, get a sense of what getting too empty feels like. It's an important sense to get attuned to. Fiber is very important.

I do think that collecting anecdotes from other fields can help you think better in your own field of work. I'm just not so sure that, for example, doing Sudoku makes you any better at thinking about things. Brain training exercises aren't general enough.

Really, choosing Obama as the inflection point for the legitimacy of the prize is misplaced: Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. While maybe Obama didn't do anything to deserve it, Kissinger arguably did do things that should have prevented him from being awarded it.

https://youtu.be/DwGtctUYhRI?t=2475

A friend showed me Lumosity and I thought "there's no way this can work", when in life do you have to distinguish the direction moving colored arrows are pointing? The reason I so quickly came to this conclusion is because of the concept of specificity in strength training -- your exercises have to be picked so that they support your goals. I imagine that an approach like this in the brain-enhancing-games space would look a lot more like what we think of as homework.

Recent research has shown that progressing with 8-12 reps is not any more optimal for hypertrophy than progressing with 20-30 reps (what people would normally think of as developing "muscular endurance"). The difference in practicing 8-12 reps is increasing strength as well, i.e., participants doing 20-30 reps didn't see significant increases in their 1RMs (despite muscle growth) while those doing 8-12 reps did.

My dad rides a lot now and has always loved cycling. We've watched the Tour de France each summer for as long as I can remember.

So, the point: Jens Voigt, an announcer for the Tour, broke the hour record, how far you can ride in an hour on an indoor track, at the age of 43(!). Here's the frame of the bike he rode for the attempt that says "I am motherfucking Jens Voigt": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Je.... Pretty hilarious.

Also, if you've never seen them, check out the quads on German cyclist Robert Forstemann: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnhuFN8CcAAAklD.jpg. Apparently he trains for hypertrophy as an intimidation factor.

To help sargun out more, Hopper was an O-7, where naval officer's ranks go from O-1 (ensign) to O-10 (admiral). This rank -- along with O-8 (rear admiral (upper half)) -- was previously called "commodore," and in some other countries still is, as in Commodore Matthew Perry.

e: What was previously commodore was split into the current two rear admiral ranks.