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[loop101]

Is there a simple weight tracking website that will let you manually enter you weight each day, and chart it on a graph? It doesn't need wifi or app integration. Free or low-cost is fine. I don't like too many bells and whistles, or overly complicated. Ideally one that has been around a while, and isn't going to disappear along with my data. Simplicity seems to be a lost art in today's websites.

 

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[matteblack]

View: https://youtu.be/bj_9UUeOanw?si=CPljeRO50GTENdhX

tim ferris being tim ferris
but i like his idea of being able to measure and assess ideas and execute them inspite of fear
its a fun video of him doing experiments and trying to find the most efficient way to date

 

[biophase]

This is so weird. This was a clear case of fraud. I looked at the order and the IP address was from Mexico. Our product was shipped to a casino in Vegas with no room number. When I responded to the case, I just agreed with the chargeback/fraud and did not provide any additional information.

Just odd that Paypal sometimes doesn't charge you on the obvious ones and the clear ones that aren't fraud they side with the buyer.

 

[Jon822]

Math at studies is overestimated. 4 wins ( at least, if 4 is the worst grade, which is enough).
Imo, 44/80 is all you need for nearly every engeneering you will meet. When you have a mission lateron, about 25 % you will pull out of your studies, the rest you will learn than. No matter, how many % you got now. Life doesn t care so much about study`s stuff.

For example : the mathematical derivation : in Math you learn third derivation of any complicated stuff. Yes, it s interesting to know, what derivation means. Way, speed, accelleration, and so on. But in no job ever, you will have to calculate that! So don t worry about your brain performance. That s ok!

When studying, You work for the entry ticket into higher paid jobs.
Work hard to accomplish that 4, maybe better.
When your studys go on, more interesting subjects will follow. And maybe better grades.
If not, no one will care afterwards about your grades in that world, where you belong!

Get your entry ticket (and make the best out of it later!)

Completely wrong. Mathematics courses build on top of each other. If you cheat or accept minimal passing scores, it will cost you later on. I have tutored hundreds of people in mathematics courses up to, and including, college level. To use Calculus 1 as an example: the biggest hindrance to performing well in calculus 1 is weak algebra understanding, which began years prior.

Cheating or taking shortcuts is just deferring the work until later -- it's an anti-investment.

 

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[biophase]

Have any of you watched this show? It’s a reality show like squid games but for academics. The games in this show are crazy complicated. I think many of you here would like it.

Watch The Devil's Plan | Netflix Official Site

12 contestants face off in games of wit, strategy and wisdom over 6 nights and 7 days. Who will be crowned the ultimate victor?

www.netflix.com

View: https://youtu.be/dtaLR2G-zmc?si=oa_Q4kilmTP9-Ed3

 

[AmazingLarry]

Have any of you watched this show? It’s a reality show like squid games but for academics. The games in this show are crazy complicated. I think many of you here would like it.

Watch The Devil's Plan | Netflix Official Site

12 contestants face off in games of wit, strategy and wisdom over 6 nights and 7 days. Who will be crowned the ultimate victor?

www.netflix.com

View: https://youtu.be/dtaLR2G-zmc?si=oa_Q4kilmTP9-Ed3

Yeah, I watched and really enjoyed it. Did you finish the whole thing yet?

It's funny how different (nicely) the competitors interact with each other compared to American contest shows like this.

 

[ZackerySprague]

So, just wanna say, I don't feel any different now that I have turned 30 today. I think there's a joke about that age

 

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[IceCreamKid]

So, just wanna say, I don't feel any different now that I have turned 30 today. I think there's a joke about that age

I felt perfectly fine at 30. Report back on how you feel after an injury. For me it happened at 35.

Injuries past a certain age can be life changing. Recovery time takes way longer and the body gets stiffer too.

Goal should shift from maxing out in the gym to maintaining a low resting heart rate and blood pressure. Cardio is how you improve this.

 

[ZackerySprague]

I felt perfectly fine at 30. Report back on how you feel after an injury. For me it happened at 35.

Injuries past a certain age can be life changing. Recovery time takes way longer and the body gets stiffer too.

Goal should shift from maxing out in the gym to maintaining a low resting heart rate and blood pressure. Cardio is how you improve this.

Definitely will. I've been lucky to not break an arm or a leg.

 

[Rabby]

I seem to recover faster now, at 45, than I did at 30. Probably some diet, nutrition, posture, habits lesson there, if I was smart enough to figure out what it is.

 

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[heavy_industry]

So, just wanna say, I don't feel any different now that I have turned 30 today. I think there's a joke about that age

Happy birthday man!

Now it's time to start wrapping gifts for your own 40th birthday.

What is the 40-year-old Zackery going to look like? Is he going to be healthy or ill? Successful or unsuccessful? Happy or remorseful?

You are deciding his fate, right now.

 

[MTF]

So, just wanna say, I don't feel any different now that I have turned 30 today. I think there's a joke about that age

I felt perfectly fine at 30. Report back on how you feel after an injury. For me it happened at 35.

Injuries past a certain age can be life changing. Recovery time takes way longer and the body gets stiffer too.

Goal should shift from maxing out in the gym to maintaining a low resting heart rate and blood pressure. Cardio is how you improve this.

View: https://youtu.be/vQFvX7I6Ihw?si=bnxutH_oO8RmUCK2

 

[biophase]

Yeah, I watched and really enjoyed it. Did you finish the whole thing yet?

It's funny how different (nicely) the competitors interact with each other compared to American contest shows like this.

Yes, just finished it. I don’t see this show as a popular US show. Way too complicated to follow the games for most people.

 

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[ZackerySprague]

View: https://youtu.be/vQFvX7I6Ihw?si=bnxutH_oO8RmUCK2

Has not happened yet!

 

[Andy Black]

Has not happened yet!

Use it or lose it. Keep moving, even just walking helps.

As @IceCreamKid said... recovery times are longer, and if you pick up an injury it often needs intervention rather than the body just healing. Trips to the physio are more frequent.

 

[Goodfella999]

@ZackerySprague I just turned 34, I feel a lot different than 22 when it comes to maxing out in the gym and recovery etc. Ive changed my training styles to more of a longevity approach.

 

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[Kak]

Don't let people tell you it's all down hill after you turn 30. It's BS.

I spent pretty much all of my 20s as sedentary overweight business guy that ate at restaurants way too much.

I turn 34 next month. I have 2 kids now, we eat at home mostly and make healthy meals. I will finish this month having run 73 miles. I feel better now than I did in college.

Your health is mostly what you make it.

 

[ZackerySprague]

Don't let people tell you it's all down hill after you turn 30. It's BS.

I spent pretty much all of my 20s as sedentary overweight business guy that ate at restaurants way too much.

I turn 34 next month. I have 2 kids now, we eat at home mostly and make healthy meals. I will finish this month having run 73 miles. I feel better now than I did in college.

Your health is mostly what you make it.

Thanks @Kak ! 73 miles, holy crap, Nice! I was 195 back in 2020, by the end of 2023. I now weigh the weight of a healthy 5'8 individual at 151 pounds.

 

[ZackerySprague]

Don't let people tell you it's all down hill after you turn 30. It's BS.

I spent pretty much all of my 20s as sedentary overweight business guy that ate at restaurants way too much.

I turn 34 next month. I have 2 kids now, we eat at home mostly and make healthy meals. I will finish this month having run 73 miles. I feel better now than I did in college.

Your health is mostly what you make it.

My favorite exercise as of late has been mostly of Cardio. I love to run, even on stressful days, it helps.

 

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[heavy_industry]

Don't let people tell you it's all down hill after you turn 30. It's BS.

Just for reference:

The potential human lifespan is estimated to be about 120 years - on average.

There's nothing stopping us from being young and healthy at 90. The genetic potential is there.

We get old, injured, sick, and die early (70s, 80s) entirely due to our abysmal life choices.

 

[Jon822]

I'm 33. If you look at indigenous groups that eat healthy and are active every day, they have 90+ year old people running around with their great grand-kids. Our western idea of aging is deeply flawed and not normal at all when looking at it on an evolutionary time scale. Human beings are meant to be active until the day we die (or close to it). Don't settle for less because 99% of people eat like shit and don't move around.

EAT YOUR F'ING VEGETABLES AND HAVE A MID-LIFE CRISIS AT 60.

 

[Matt Sun]

I'm 33 and been experimenting with caloric deficits for the past year, now I'm quite close to reaching 10% body fat / full visible abs. I think I haven't seen my abs like this since I was a kid, so yeah, It's possible to reach the beast health ever after 30.

I also walk at least 10.000 steps a day. It blows my mind that after just 100 days I will have made a million steps.

 

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[harumi]

Is there a simple weight tracking website that will let you manually enter you weight each day, and chart it on a graph? It doesn't need wifi or app integration. Free or low-cost is fine. I don't like too many bells and whistles, or overly complicated. Ideally one that has been around a while, and isn't going to disappear along with my data. Simplicity seems to be a lost art in today's websites.

The app I'm developing could potentially cover this use case surprisingly, what kind of charts are you thinking? DM some examples if you have! And thanks for opening my mind to a new possibility c:

 

[Kevin88660]

I am in my 30s but I feel so young having largely and recently interacting with people in their 60s and 70s, both for business and social aspects.

New social skills learnt includes folding wheelchairs, safely pushing wheel chairs on slopes and learning about adult diapers brand names.

 

[Kak]

Just for reference:

The potential human lifespan is estimated to be about 120 years - on average.

There's nothing stopping us from being young and healthy at 90. The genetic potential is there.

We get old, injured, sick, and die early (70s, 80s) entirely due to our abysmal life choices.

There's also something else about 30's. At least for me...

My 30's are better than my 20's.

I started my 20's in college. I lost my dad the day before my 20th birthday. I lived a very financially lean life through probably 25. Crap apartments and rental homes. I had a girlfriend with psychological problems. I had little spiritual health. I had very little physical health.

In my 30's I own a home in a nice neighborhood. I have two kids that are incredibly cool. I have a smart and level headed wife that happens to be hot. I run between two and ten miles daily. We have financial resources. Business is ever better. We are part of a great church.

I'll take 30's over 20's. Here's to 40's being even better.

 

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[MTF]

We get old, injured, sick, and die early (70s, 80s) entirely due to our abysmal life choices.

What a terrible generalization.

My friend's sister is in her late thirties and has breast cancer. Tell her that her genetic predisposition is an abysmal life choice.

I had a friend who was run over by a car when he was 30 and died a few days later in the hospital. Damn, what an abysmal life choice to be minding your own business and suddenly getting ran over by a car.

People die or get sick for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with their "abysmal" life choices.

I recently almost tore my tricep while pressing a kettlebell, in an effort to take care of my health through strength training. In June of last year I injured my knee during strength training, too, and it's been bothering me since then despite multiple PT visits, stretching, being careful with my knee, etc.

I guess these were also abysmal life choices that caused these injuries?

 

[MJ DeMarco]

What a terrible generalization.

My friend's sister is in her late thirties and has breast cancer. Tell her that her genetic predisposition is an abysmal life choice.

I had a friend who was run over by a car when he was 30 and died a few days later in the hospital. Damn, what an abysmal life choice to be minding your own business and suddenly getting ran over by a car.

People die or get sick for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with their "abysmal" life choices.

I recently almost tore my tricep while pressing a kettlebell, in an effort to take care of my health through strength training. In June of last year I injured my knee during strength training, too, and it's been bothering me since then despite multiple PT visits, stretching, being careful with my knee, etc.

I guess these were also abysmal life choices that caused these injuries?

I think he is referencing a majority of people who pay zero attention to their health and/or what they shove into their mouth, not extreme circumstances or bad luck.

 

[Jon822]

There's also something else about 30's. At least for me...

My 30's are better than my 20's.

I started my 20's in college. I lost my dad the day before my 20th birthday. I lived a very financially lean life through probably 25. Crap apartments and rental homes. I had a girlfriend with psychological problems. I had little spiritual health. I had very little physical health.

In my 30's I own a home in a nice neighborhood. I have two kids that are incredibly cool. I have a smart and level headed wife that happens to be hot. I run between two and ten miles daily. We have financial resources. Business is ever better. We are part of a great church.

I'll take 30's over 20's. Here's to 40's being even better.

If you eat well and move around, your 30s can be similar to your 20s except with more money. Congrats btw!

 

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[Kak]

What a terrible generalization.

My friend's sister is in her late thirties and has breast cancer. Tell her that her genetic predisposition is an abysmal life choice.

I had a friend who was run over by a car when he was 30 and died a few days later in the hospital. Damn, what an abysmal life choice to be minding your own business and suddenly getting ran over by a car.

People die or get sick for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with their "abysmal" life choices.

I recently almost tore my tricep while pressing a kettlebell, in an effort to take care of my health through strength training. In June of last year I injured my knee during strength training, too, and it's been bothering me since then despite multiple PT visits, stretching, being careful with my knee, etc.

I guess these were also abysmal life choices that caused these injuries?

Dude, obviously he's not talking about the outliers.

This is speaking to the average fat, sick, lazy, depressed, ultra-medicated, American imbecile, not people that got hit by cars and early age cancer.

 

[heavy_industry]

What a terrible generalization.

My friend's sister is in her late thirties and has breast cancer. Tell her that her genetic predisposition is an abysmal life choice.

I had a friend who was run over by a car when he was 30 and died a few days later in the hospital. Damn, what an abysmal life choice to be minding your own business and suddenly getting ran over by a car.

People die or get sick for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with their "abysmal" life choices.

I recently almost tore my tricep while pressing a kettlebell, in an effort to take care of my health through strength training. In June of last year I injured my knee during strength training, too, and it's been bothering me since then despite multiple PT visits, stretching, being careful with my knee, etc.

I guess these were also abysmal life choices that caused these injuries?

It seems like you've missed the point, so let me reiterate:

We are dying, on AVERAGE, 20-40 years before reaching our maximum genetic limit, which is hypothesized to be about 120 years.

The vast majority (BUT NOT ALL) of these early deaths are directly attributed to the horrible life choices made by the AVERAGE person.

The word AVERAGE means that there will be outliers on both ends of the spectrum:

• Hardcore smokers living to 100
• Young athletes dying in tragic accidents, that are completely unrelated to their lifestyle

Having a healthy lifestyle and making smart choices is your best strategy.

But just because it's your best strategy, it doesn't mean that it will always work. We are at the mercy of the elements.

All we can do is stack the deck in our favor.

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