switch over to a periodized program and then adjust your training max
That's a good call. I think I'll do that starting next week. Thanks!
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Looking at my logs, I've added 30 lbs in 3 weeks to my deadlift 5rm, and 20 lbs to my squat, but only added 10 lbs to my bench. I think I still have linear gains left on my other lifts (and my 5rm maxes on all of these lifts were higher 5 years ago, so I'm still in the process of rebuilding to where I was). I had been intending to squeeze out linear gains at least until I hit my old maxes, but I guess I am like 5 years older.
Just feels weird that my bench seems to be stalling so much earlier than my other lifts. Has anyone heard of periodization for just one lift while the others stay on a simpler linear progression? Or does the programming assume periodization for all lifts, all week?
They managed to take corporate money for product placement in a pretty funny way, too.
I recommended it, too, during the first season, and my wife joined me on the couch just as the topic veered to circumcision and the dude who invented a device for stretching his foreskin and she noped right out of the show forever.
And Cartoon Wars, on this list, simply referenced showing Mohammad. They tried to get it on but Comedy Central cut that scene, so the final cut of the episode just had a blank screen during the moment that Mohammad was supposed to be on screen.
Yes, but so has demand. I'm saying if demand goes down, so will production.
What's a good amount of volume for increasing bench press most consistently?
I'm in my 40's, about 210 lbs, and have been doing a 3-day program with each day focused on bench, deadlift, squat, where I just do warmup sets, then 3x5 at my 5 rep max, and then move up whenever I'm able to actually do all those sets. This week, I'm able to do 3x5x175 lbs.
On bench day, I'm doing regular bench, overhead press, and incline bench, and then some body weight push ups and dips. In recent weeks I've only been able to add 5 lbs every 2 weeks. Should I be focusing more on changing up the rep or set scheme?
Or, alternatively, am I wrong for trying to focus on my weakest lift? I know it's weird to be able to deadlift more than twice as much (385 lbs) as my bench (175 lbs), but that's just where I'm at.
regardless of how many beans you buy, the meat dairy and egg industries continue to pollute in ever greater amounts.
No, reduced demand will wreck the prices for the producers, who will reduce supply and thereby reduce the overall volume of production, which will reduce the volume of pollution, water usage, etc. Beef production in the U.S. has been relatively stable since 2000, despite the population growth and increased consumer spending on food. The market responds to input costs and demand, and things like drought conditions drop production significantly.
I can't answer for dual numbers, but I can answer for imaginary numbers in circuit design.
Imaginary numbers are those that include an imaginary component, that squares into a negative number. Traditionally, i^2 = -1, but electrical engineers like to use j instead (I tends to be a variable used to describe electrical current).
Complex numbers, that include a real component and an imaginary component, can be thought of as having an "angle," based on how much of it is imaginary and how much of it is real, mapped onto a 2-dimensional representation of that number's real and imaginary components. 5 + 5j is as real as it is imaginary, so it's like having a 45° angle. The real number 5 is completely real, so it has a 0° angle.
Meanwhile, in alternating current (AC) circuits, like what you get from your wall outlet, the voltage source is a wave that alternates between a maximum peak of positive voltage and a bottom trough of negative voltage, in a nice clean sinusoidal shape over time. If you hook up a normal resistor, the nice clean sinusoidal voltage also becomes a nice clean sinusoidal current with the exact same timing of when the max voltage matches up with the max current.
But there's also capacitors, which accumulate charge so that the flow of current on the other side depends on its own state of charge. And there are inductors, that affect current based on the amount of energy stored magnetically. These react to the existing current and voltage in the system and manipulate the time relationship between what moment in time a peak current will happen and when the peak voltage was.
And through some interesting overlap in how adding and subtracting and delaying sinusoidal waves works, the circuit characteristics line up perfectly with that complex angle I was talking about, with the imaginary numbers. So any circuit, or any part of a circuit, can be represented with an "impedance" that has both an imaginary and real component, with a corresponding phase angle. And that complex number can be used to calculate information about the time delay in the wave of current versus the wave of voltage.
So using complex phase angles makes certain AC calculations much, much easier, to represent the output of real current from real voltage, where the imaginary numbers are an important part of the calculation but not in the actual real world observation itself.
So even though we start with real numbers and end with real numbers, having imaginary numbers in the toolbox make the middle part feasible.
Set phasors to "confuse"
Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks!
The COVID episode with the landlord really catapulted the show into a top tier show, at least in my own mind. It was sweet and funny and a perfect slice of actual life in those uncertain first weeks of the COVID shutdown, that just happened to be taken in the city hit hardest.