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Re:How Breakfast Became a Thing on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:56PM (#11664890)
I need to eat around 3000 calories per day to support my powerlifting training, and if I don't eat something first thing in the morning with a shitload of carbs -- usually something like rolled oats, berries, and a few bananas -- then I'm usually gassed and feeling like crap by 10.

A few friends of mine fast intermittently and train in the morning before eating but it's beyond me how that is not just pure torture.

Re:Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight on Friday April 29, 2016 @08:02PM (#11599556)
Lots of eggs, bacon, beef, cheese, 35% cream and peanut butter.
Re:Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight on Friday April 29, 2016 @11:28AM (#11596323)
Ignoring the fact that moderate exercise will most likely increase your appetite and disturb your body's constant strive to keep homeostasis.
Re:Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight on Friday April 29, 2016 @11:26AM (#11596312)
Can confirm. Did a year long dirty-bulk on a ketogenic diet while lifting heavy weights, got fat (and didn't really put on that much extra muscle either)...
Re:The Sugar Conspiracy on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:15PM (#11448443)
That wasn't my point. My point is your distinction between "man-made" and "not-man-made" food is completely arbitrary and based on your personal preferences.
Re:The Sugar Conspiracy on Thursday April 07, 2016 @09:59AM (#11447274)
"When I hit the grocery store I skip the middle aisles and head straight for the fish and meat counter"

Those pretty packages of meat are just as much "man made" as the foods you demonize. If you want to eat meat, I suggest hunting and only using your teeth and hands (claws?) to kill your prey and to eat the meat raw; gotta eat all of it too, no picking and choosing what parts you want either.

"If you want to eat that cupcake or enjoy that cold glass of beer be sure to exercise it off."

This is HORRIBLE advice. Treating exercise like a punishment for enjoying food is like a one-way ticket to Eating Disorder Town. Diet and exercise are important, but they should be used to compliment each other and not to negate being bad at the other.

"In the vegan world its standard to count every drop of rain that hit the livestock pasture as being used"

Do you have any sources for this? I have never heard a vegan claim this once.

I used to suggest this method of estimating at my previous job. People thought I was crazy. I was right every single time.
Re:Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age on Saturday April 02, 2016 @07:11AM (#11411097)
Starting Strength is a fanastic resource about learning about the lifts. Personally, I think Mark Rippetoe's training programs are pretty crap but the information about the technical aspects of the lifts in the book are great.

Alan Thrall also has some videos on Youtube on the bench press that are fantastic too.

Re:Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age on Friday April 01, 2016 @07:55AM (#11404175)
Took the words right out of my mouth. Mobility work is key, seems pointless when you first start but will save you down the road.
Re:Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age on Thursday March 31, 2016 @11:22PM (#11402337)
Go for it. The Iron Temple is the one constant, it's always waiting for you...beckoning. Will you heed the call of Brodin?
Re:Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age on Thursday March 31, 2016 @10:59PM (#11402250)
I got cocky as a novice, and fucked my back pretty bad and was out of comission for a 4 months or so. Got cocky chasing huge (for me, at the time) numbers and ended up losing way more progress than I gained. Minor things here and there in my shoulders and elbows, which I ended up fixing by tearing apart my own bench press form and being meticulous with ever part of the lift. Bench press is, in my opinion, the most technical lift of the big three.

Slow consistent progress wins out in the long run, I'm a huge fan of sub-maximal training and going for rep PRS and not maxing out often. I only compete at most twice per year, and don't bother going for max attempts when I'm not at a meet.

All of my training these days is based around the principles in Jim Wendler's 5/3/1 and I've slowly added my own tweaks and customizations over time to it and it hasn't let me down.

Don't neglect mobility work. It's boring, but it'll save you in the long run.

Re:Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age on Thursday March 31, 2016 @08:38PM (#11401727)
Looking good for me then!
Re:Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:08PM (#11401309)
Been lifting with a focus on powerlifting for about 7 years, my last meet total was 515 squat, 585 deadlift and 336 bench at 185 lbs. Be patient, get on a tried program, put in the work, eat and sleep and it'll come.
Re:Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age on Thursday March 31, 2016 @06:54PM (#11401240)
I'm squatting 500 pounds now, so I can squat 350 when I'm 80 :P
Re:Show HN: GitHub project structure visualizer on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:14PM (#11169349)
torvalds/linux

is utter chaos, brings chrome to a crawl :P

Re:To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind in Life on Sunday February 21, 2016 @02:39PM (#11146102)
That's because most "words" in German are made by "squishing" individual words together into one big one.
Re:Study: Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss on Thursday December 03, 2015 @02:00PM (#10671738)
That's unfortunate. Type 1 or 2 diabetes? My mother is T1 and she cannot do a low-carb diet because of the possibility of ketoacidosis, which she's already been hospitalized once for.
Re:Study: Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:57PM (#10671721)
Eat less than 25g of carbohydrates per day, you will be in ketosis in about 24 hours when your liver glycogen is depleted. Drink lots of water, and suppliment electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, potasium -- drinking a cup of beef broth every day and using a "No-Salt" substitute on nearly all my food is what I do) to avoid the dreaded "keto flu".
Re:Study: Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:55PM (#10671695)
My psychologist decided they weren't needed any more.
Re:Study: Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss on Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:35AM (#10669730)
Losing 100 pounds and a ketogenic diet basically cured me. The main thing was cutting out all refined carbohydrates from my diet, but I just feel better when I replace nearly all carbs with fats. Putting on some muscle in the weightroom also made me substantially more insulin sensitive. My bloodwork has never been better, and I'm off my bipolar medication. From what I've read, it's most likely because of the slightly nootropic effect that ketones have on the brain.
Re:First Timers Only on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:36PM (#10629098)
Pull-request makes sense in Github, because the typical work-flow for open-source on Github is to fork the repo you want to contribute to. Hence, the maintainer has to pull the code from you.

Merge-request makes more sense in Gitlab because they're main use-case is as a self-hosted internal tool where developers most-likely are pushing all of their feature branches to a central repository and asking for the branch to be merged into the mainline branch.

Re:Desperate not to have children on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:00PM (#10616460)
There is no such thing as "reverse" natural selection. It's just that intelligence and being career driven are not a favorable trait for natural selection. It's working just fine.
Re:Strong Legs Associated with Healthy Brains in Twin Study on Friday November 20, 2015 @07:46AM (#10600893)
Or weightlifting, squatting and deadlifting heavy on a regular basis will give you substantially stronger legs than any runner.
The best company I ever worked for did a two hour pair programming session on a simple rails app (since they were a rails shop) with every candidate that got passed the "chat over coffee" stage. You'd get to see the kind of code the candidates write and how they work through problems, how they work with another developer, and get a really good overall sense of how they would work as part of the team.
Re:Why Rdio died on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @07:53AM (#10587381)
Alternatively, I used Rdio first and tried out Spotify when they released the Playstation4 integration and my reaction was "Oh, ok, it's basically Rdio but with a lousy interface. I'll keep using Rdio then".
Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:53PM (#10585619)
Check out Toggl, their Chrome extension will add a "Start Timer" button to a ton of popular services:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toggl-button/oejgc...

Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:48PM (#10585602)
I love the Pomodoro Technique, and use the Tomighty app specificaly for it's simplicity and that it's native so I don't need to keep a pinned browser tab open just for it - love simple things like this that just sit in my system-tray.

I pair it up with Toggl, a time tracking service online to keep reports of what I'm working on, and I find it a huge boon to my productivity and ability to justify the time I spend working on things.

Re:Misusing Bootstrap on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:41AM (#10581287)
Agreed. I was surprised to not see it mentioned in the article, and only at the bottom here. I love it, it's my goto front-end framework.
Re:The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source on Thursday November 05, 2015 @10:25AM (#10513793)
ain't nobody got time fo dat

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