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be careful with recommendations that exact. i think you know this, but those are ballparks you should be in, even granting that the source is reliable. stuff like that depends on body comp, age, weight, activity level day-to-day, etc.

sweet. question about the third chart: looks like it's at 0 until july 2010. i just realized yesterday (looking at my profile, which i rarely do) that i've been a member since september 2009. is that because you only started tracking in july 2010, or because before that it really was literally just you, me, vag, mike, rip, joe, and maybe raptor and nightfly? i can't remember.

Nope, is it a character from there? I'm saving HP for when I have a child to watch it with haha.

ah well. if you'd read the books, i'd recommend an AMAZING fan fiction* of harry potter that reimagines harry as a math prodigy and dedicated rationalist who refers pretty frequently to bayes. it's actually significantly better than the original books. but not worth reading without having read those first, because you won't get 75% of the jokes.

*no, i do not ordinarily read fan-fiction. i used to read star wars novels as a kid but that was like 15 years ago.

Not too bad. Everyone has their own thing. As long as it's somewhat organized. Your other posts looked a little too heavy on the banter before going into the workout description. Be very brief and precise when you're mentioning things like fatigue and stuff. Not sure what you would mean by rating the workout, but if that's your thing I guess.

+100. the thing you laid out looks fine but i think it'd help you to have a stricter template than that. go look at the way some other people organize their "workout done" sections: adarq's method is the archetype but people find the variation that works for them. dreyth's is good, mine is good, vag's is good.

people on here want to help you and give you advice, myself included, but sometimes it's difficult to understand what you're asking. you're in here putting in work and that's great, but speaking for myself, i don't respond because i'm often not sure what you're talking about. part of that is the language thing, of course, but we can work around that if you just try painfully hard to be clear.

here's one example of a way to organize your workout posts:

DATE
WEIGHT
RATING FOR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) STATUS (just a way to summarize what you meant by "sleep, fatigue, motivation")

WORKOUT:
- WARM UP

- EXERCISE 1 (sets x reps x weight/distance/height)

- EXERCISE 2 (sets x reps x weight/distance/height)

etc....

- COOL DOWN

- STRETCH

COMMENTS
PR'S

that would allow you and us to look at things in a consistent way and more easily make comparisons from day to day. also, you really need to time yourself with a stopwatch. the mississippi method is not a good substitute.

vids are private, can't see 'em.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! RELATIVELY UNTRAINED MEN WHO EXERCISE IN A NON-STUPID MANNER IMPROVE ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE!

shit, i need one of those.