[unit]

If you have an uneven hip, have you looked into / tried chiropractic treatment? Granted, IMO the effectiveness of chiropractic treatments is highly dependent on how skillful the chiro is, a lot more so than other forms of paramedical treatments like physio / massage, and I don't have a good recommendation for you anymore since my chiro is retiring the end of this month. But if you can find a good chiro, it can be life changing and soooo liberating. I swear to god every time I see my chiro, I come out feeling like a fresh new person.

people bash chiros but i also have a great chiro. sure it's temporary but so is massage therapy and i get way more relief from the chiro for my lower back.

[Gerbs]

picking up a 2k tab for your girlfriends friends... miss me with that shit.
thinking asian culture means 'crazy rich asians' is not normal asian culture.
treating your friends is one thing but treating a big group of people you barely know is ridiculous.

girls take the 1-3 top tier examples around them and apply that sample size to all the bfs in their lives.

When it infects a girls group, all the men take equal damage

[BIC_BAWS]

I think Mikey means Filipino culture which is definitely a lot more showy, BIG, live on debt than other Asian cultures like Canto or thrifty Chinamen ... but then what do I know, I could be wrong.

My family's accounting business deals with a lot of Filipino clients.. and ngl they're almost worse than brown clients. Indian guys you know what they're gonna be like. Filipinos, in this specific experience, are like those who are two-faced af and expect the world for a "referral". Where tf does that entitlement come from?

We also have a client that makes very good money, but sends back almost 90% of their money to relatives in the Philippines. That's some bullshit that it's expected and societally seen as "high tier". Just sounds like a bunch of deadbeats asking for money.

I have tried dating Filipino, and I just wouldn't do it again. There's too much of a culture clash and I've done a lot of growing and healing with my own Asian generation trauma, that dating into a Filipino culture seems like a step back. I understand there's a lot more to it than the negatives, like family cohesiveness, but it's not for me. I decided as a kid to cut out Asian toxicity in my life and I'm sticking to it.

(there's also a lot of toxicity in Viet culture / Viet-Chinese culture, first-hand experience)

people bash chiros but i also have a great chiro. sure it's temporary but so is massage therapy and i get way more relief from the chiro for my lower back.

Having been in a few consecutive car accidents, I would say chiro gets me 90% of the way there. About a week of relief. IMS/Physio combined with Active Rehab really moves the needle into recovery. Happy to say, I've been pain-free for about 5 years. Tho granted I haven't seen the gym in just as long. Working on my car/detailing my car still puts me out the next day, but I no longer get PSIS pain from just sitting in my chair or lying in bed.

[bcrdukes]

Been thinking the same since dating has went up 100% in costs since 2021 vs 2026. Younger girls 19 - 25 offer to pay at least 25-33% of the time, when I was previously single. Now I at 25-28 range, out of 7 girls recently, only 2 offered. Maybe in their head they're like oh, he has two cars, business and his own place, he should pay cause he has money. Which is not fully true!

Wrote it off as cost of being 30, pay 2 play like Porsche.

Also noticed
- more ghosting
- OLD Vancouver 24-28 asian pool is dead
- Toronto pool looks 10x better, but 3x population
- talked to 7 girls in person in the last month, 4 turned into numbers, success rate is pretty high
- expectations from social media retardedly high, but valentines day content + delulu friends don't help
- Is expecting $35-75+ dinner + drinks or activity weekly a dating norm, I already miss turtling at home lol

Out of curiosity, but do people still meet up for coffee for first dates? Or is that a sign of "the guy is poor" :derp:

There was a recent article (more like an opinion piece) on dating in The Globe and Mail. When I read this, I thought of you.

Why these financially independent women still want men to get the cheque on the first date (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-dating-first-date-pay-bill-relationships-life/) (may be paywalled)
Kelsey Rolfe
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published February 12, 2026
Updated 2 hours ago
For Subscribers

When Jennifer Singh was dating in her 20s, she believed in splitting the tab. She was raised to be a financially independent woman, and going Dutch on a date embodied that.

But her mindset has since changed. While she’s recently separated and not yet jumping back into the dating pool, she knows what she wants when she starts dating again.

Men make more money than women, on average, said Ms. Singh, a 45-year-old business owner in Vaughan, Ont. Women also spend more time, effort and money to get ready for a date, she said, pointing to the cost of hair and other personal care products.

“It’s fair [for them] to pay for a date. It’s not unreasonable,” she said. Ms. Singh said she also sees men paying as demonstrating what they’re bringing to the table in a potential relationship, given that many women are highly educated, financially independent and working on themselves.

Online and in group chats, daters are revisiting the age-old question of who should pay on dates – and drifting back to traditional gender norms. Some modern daters are highlighting the gender wage gap and “beauty tax” – a term for the extra costs women pay to meet societal standards for beauty – as reasons for men to foot the bill in heterosexual dating.

Laura Hammond, a 44-year-old fractional human resources leader in Ottawa, said the “running cost” of getting ready for dates is real: She estimated she spends $70 to $80 a month on her nails, and $300 every four to five months on hair cuts and getting her highlights done.

Ms. Hammond said she used to pro-actively offer to split the bill on first dates. Now, she tends to let her date take the lead. But she said she does generally take an “equitable” approach to paying for dates. She recently started seeing someone new; after he planned a “very nice” first date and paid for both of them, she reciprocated the gesture on their second date.

“I appreciated that he wanted to treat me [on the first date] and I wanted to signal my interest back to him,” she said. “If we’re to continue to date I want it to feel like an equal partnership.”

Expectations around who should pay for a date largely follow gender norms, according to a recent Simplii Financial survey of 1,500 Canadians aged 18 and older. Seventy-two per cent of men who weren’t in relationships said they’d expect to pay on a date, and 39 per cent of women said they would expect their date to pay. Daters were split on splitting: 47 per cent of women preferred it, compared to 23 per cent of men.

Respondents in relationships had similar responses, with 62 per cent of men saying they primarily pay and 36 per cent of women saying their partner primarily pays.

“Society is changing but some traditions still persist,” said Carissa Lucreziano, “vice-president of financial planning and advice at CIBC, of which Simplii is a digital banking division. “The act of paying for a date, it’s not just about the money, it’s more about the values and the expectations around it.”

Mitch Hermansen, a 38-year-old fundraiser in Vancouver, said he considers it the “standard thing” to pay for a first date. “Probably it is some traditional masculinity norms, for sure, but I typically ask, so I’ll pay,” he said. Mr. Hermansen estimated he spent around $500 on dating in the past month.

On second and third dates, he said he’d usually offer to grab the bill, but appreciates if his date offers. He said that while he’s generally happy to pay for dates as a gesture, he doesn’t want it to fall solely to him.

“It probably wouldn’t be the relationship for me if I was expected to pay [for everything],” he said.

Damona Hoffman, a California-based relationship strategist and host of the Dates & Mates podcast, said she sees the conversation about who pays the bill as connected to the rise and recent fall of dating apps. When the apps took off midway through the last decade, the volume of first dates people were going on increased.

“That put a lot of stress on men who date women, particularly in shelling out a lot of money for dates that many times didn’t evolve in the same way they had prior to that point,” she said. “If you’re paying for it all, it changes the way that you show up.”

With seemingly infinite options, ghosting increased and so did the sense that dating was impersonal, Ms. Hoffman said.

“That’s the rise of, ‘Let’s go Dutch. We don’t know where this is going to go. Let’s meet in the middle here and not put too much effort, money or emphasis on what the outcome of this date will be and just see where it goes,’” she said. “That led to very transactional, very short-term, very dissatisfying dating.”

Ms. Hoffman said that at a moment when more daters are experiencing dating app fatigue, she sees the reversion to wanting men to pay for dates as a desire for intentional dating.

“It’s not about showing off your resources,” she said. “It’s about saying, ‘You’re choosing me. You’re not doing this every day of the week. You’re making an investment in building a relationship with me, specifically.’”

But for Eden Osmar, a 30-year-old copywriter in Calgary, the sense that someone is making an investment is part of the reason why she generally prefers to split the bill.

Ms. Osmar said she appreciates when a man offers to pay for the date, and sometimes takes them up on it. But she doesn’t want “someone to invest their money on top of their time if it’s something I don’t see going anywhere.”

Ms. Hoffman noted that among LGBTQ+ daters, there are no set norms around who pays for a date, though sometimes the person who makes the initial ask pays the bill.

“Everybody wants to feel like they’re being chosen, and like someone is doing something nice for them and investing in time with them,” she said.

[unit]

coffee just makes sense as a first date because you can end the date in 15m if it's not going well or you can sit and chat for an hour if it is. if someone wants to have a first date to get a 'free meal' that is like homeless person behaviour.

[donk.]

people bash chiros but i also have a great chiro. sure it's temporary but so is massage therapy and i get way more relief from the chiro for my lower back.

Alot of people blame their own lazyness to workout on chiros.
They think a chiro will solve their 20 years of sitting on the couch and their body catching up with them.

I dislocated my 1st rib years ago, left half of my body sat about an inch lower than the right, bad pain for 3 days, chiro snapped me back into place on 3rd day, instant relief, back to normal soon after.

I slept weird on a plane once while heading to vacation, could not walk for more than 20 minutes due to a kink in my lower back. Chiropractor said my pelvis was misaligned or some shit, (left leg not even with right), snapped me back into place, vacation saved.

Chiros are GODSENDS to this planet.

[spoon.ek9]

Boy oh boy, after reading the last couple of pages there is a LOT to say regarding modern dating. Again, I do feel like we need a dedicated thread on this topic because it is an absolute shit show out there and the criteria/demands/insults coming our way as men are getting more and more insane.

Silver lining is that there are indeed girls out there who haven't completely fallen for this bullshit but they are few and far between. Almost every girl out there has heard the same demands from their friend group, influencers, etc by now. The trick really is to call out the bs, ask them to logically explain why said demands are reasonable and if they can't do it, move on. Some of them are in way too deep to ever change their minds and it's ok. They will hit the wall one day and end up alone and used up by the rich men who only wanted to sleep with them and string them along for awhile. Some will get what they want but they'll ultimately be unhappy because the demands never end and only get more extreme.

[donk.]

coffee just makes sense as a first date because you can end the date in 15m if it's not going well or you can sit and chat for an hour if it is. if someone wants to have a first date to get a 'free meal' that is like homeless person behaviour.

POGGERS

Someone please clip this and send it to all of gerbs prospective dates

[EvoFire]

Been thinking the same since dating has went up 100% in costs since 2021 vs 2026. Younger girls 19 - 25 offer to pay at least 25-33% of the time, when I was previously single. Now I at 25-28 range, out of 7 girls recently, only 2 offered. Maybe in their head they're like oh, he has two cars, business and his own place, he should pay cause he has money. Which is not fully true!

Wrote it off as cost of being 30, pay 2 play like Porsche.

Also noticed
- more ghosting
- OLD Vancouver 24-28 asian pool is dead
- Toronto pool looks 10x better, but 3x population
- talked to 7 girls in person in the last month, 4 turned into numbers, success rate is pretty high
- expectations from social media retardedly high, but valentines day content + delulu friends don't help
- Is expecting $35-75+ dinner + drinks or activity weekly a dating norm, I already miss turtling at home lol

There's a general delusion that owning a business means success. Yes you are your own boss but it doesn't mean you are automatically raking it in. And people don't seem to understand that revenue != profit.

Though $35-$75/ week doesn't seem that bad. I mean come up, I go to the food court with my wife and it's almost $40. We try to go out for lunch once a week just the two of us and it's easily $50 if we go eat at a Korean place. $75 doesn't even buy you 2 mains and 2 drinks at Cactus.

Out of curiosity, but do people still meet up for coffee for first dates? Or is that a sign of "the guy is poor" :derp:

There was a recent article (more like an opinion piece) on dating in The Globe and Mail. When I read this, I thought of you.

Why these financially independent women still want men to get the cheque on the first date (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-dating-first-date-pay-bill-relationships-life/) (may be paywalled)
Kelsey Rolfe
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published February 12, 2026
Updated 2 hours ago
For Subscribers

When Jennifer Singh was dating in her 20s, she believed in splitting the tab. She was raised to be a financially independent woman, and going Dutch on a date embodied that.

But her mindset has since changed. While she’s recently separated and not yet jumping back into the dating pool, she knows what she wants when she starts dating again.

Men make more money than women, on average, said Ms. Singh, a 45-year-old business owner in Vaughan, Ont. Women also spend more time, effort and money to get ready for a date, she said, pointing to the cost of hair and other personal care products.

“It’s fair [for them] to pay for a date. It’s not unreasonable,” she said. Ms. Singh said she also sees men paying as demonstrating what they’re bringing to the table in a potential relationship, given that many women are highly educated, financially independent and working on themselves.

Online and in group chats, daters are revisiting the age-old question of who should pay on dates – and drifting back to traditional gender norms. Some modern daters are highlighting the gender wage gap and “beauty tax” – a term for the extra costs women pay to meet societal standards for beauty – as reasons for men to foot the bill in heterosexual dating.

Laura Hammond, a 44-year-old fractional human resources leader in Ottawa, said the “running cost” of getting ready for dates is real: She estimated she spends $70 to $80 a month on her nails, and $300 every four to five months on hair cuts and getting her highlights done.

Ms. Hammond said she used to pro-actively offer to split the bill on first dates. Now, she tends to let her date take the lead. But she said she does generally take an “equitable” approach to paying for dates. She recently started seeing someone new; after he planned a “very nice” first date and paid for both of them, she reciprocated the gesture on their second date.

“I appreciated that he wanted to treat me [on the first date] and I wanted to signal my interest back to him,” she said. “If we’re to continue to date I want it to feel like an equal partnership.”

Expectations around who should pay for a date largely follow gender norms, according to a recent Simplii Financial survey of 1,500 Canadians aged 18 and older. Seventy-two per cent of men who weren’t in relationships said they’d expect to pay on a date, and 39 per cent of women said they would expect their date to pay. Daters were split on splitting: 47 per cent of women preferred it, compared to 23 per cent of men.

Respondents in relationships had similar responses, with 62 per cent of men saying they primarily pay and 36 per cent of women saying their partner primarily pays.

“Society is changing but some traditions still persist,” said Carissa Lucreziano, “vice-president of financial planning and advice at CIBC, of which Simplii is a digital banking division. “The act of paying for a date, it’s not just about the money, it’s more about the values and the expectations around it.”

Mitch Hermansen, a 38-year-old fundraiser in Vancouver, said he considers it the “standard thing” to pay for a first date. “Probably it is some traditional masculinity norms, for sure, but I typically ask, so I’ll pay,” he said. Mr. Hermansen estimated he spent around $500 on dating in the past month.

On second and third dates, he said he’d usually offer to grab the bill, but appreciates if his date offers. He said that while he’s generally happy to pay for dates as a gesture, he doesn’t want it to fall solely to him.

“It probably wouldn’t be the relationship for me if I was expected to pay [for everything],” he said.

Damona Hoffman, a California-based relationship strategist and host of the Dates & Mates podcast, said she sees the conversation about who pays the bill as connected to the rise and recent fall of dating apps. When the apps took off midway through the last decade, the volume of first dates people were going on increased.

“That put a lot of stress on men who date women, particularly in shelling out a lot of money for dates that many times didn’t evolve in the same way they had prior to that point,” she said. “If you’re paying for it all, it changes the way that you show up.”

With seemingly infinite options, ghosting increased and so did the sense that dating was impersonal, Ms. Hoffman said.

“That’s the rise of, ‘Let’s go Dutch. We don’t know where this is going to go. Let’s meet in the middle here and not put too much effort, money or emphasis on what the outcome of this date will be and just see where it goes,’” she said. “That led to very transactional, very short-term, very dissatisfying dating.”

Ms. Hoffman said that at a moment when more daters are experiencing dating app fatigue, she sees the reversion to wanting men to pay for dates as a desire for intentional dating.

“It’s not about showing off your resources,” she said. “It’s about saying, ‘You’re choosing me. You’re not doing this every day of the week. You’re making an investment in building a relationship with me, specifically.’”

But for Eden Osmar, a 30-year-old copywriter in Calgary, the sense that someone is making an investment is part of the reason why she generally prefers to split the bill.

Ms. Osmar said she appreciates when a man offers to pay for the date, and sometimes takes them up on it. But she doesn’t want “someone to invest their money on top of their time if it’s something I don’t see going anywhere.”

Ms. Hoffman noted that among LGBTQ+ daters, there are no set norms around who pays for a date, though sometimes the person who makes the initial ask pays the bill.

“Everybody wants to feel like they’re being chosen, and like someone is doing something nice for them and investing in time with them,” she said.

I would have zero problems paying for a first date, as long as you aren't expecting a bottle of wine at Crocodile. Not that I would know since theoretically, I would not be dating ever again.

[bcrdukes]

lol imagine your Tinder profile saying something like "no homeless person behaviour"

[EvoFire]

lol imagine your Tinder profile saying something like "no homeless person behaviour"

What's homeless person behaviour?

[donk.]

What's homeless person behaviour?

Post 505

[Traum]

I came across this a few days ago, and I almost couldn't believe it was a topic being covered by mainstream media (then again, it was approaching Valentine's Day...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2H68JuXvE

So all the young guys of the generation are just gonna jerk off from watching AI VR stuff, while the girls all go chase after the top 1%?

There was a recent article (more like an opinion piece) on dating in The Globe and Mail. When I read this, I thought of you.

Why these financially independent women still want men to get the cheque on the first date (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-dating-first-date-pay-bill-relationships-life/) (may be paywalled)

Online and in group chats, daters are revisiting the age-old question of who should pay on dates – and drifting back to traditional gender norms. Some modern daters are highlighting the gender wage gap and “beauty tax” – a term for the extra costs women pay to meet societal standards for beauty – as reasons for men to foot the bill in heterosexual dating.


As an open minded and conservatively progressive thinking man -- whatever that means LOL~ -- this "beauty tax" thing is such a total BS. I am not even thinking about the feminism ideals and such, but pretty much all the Vogue magazine type of articles I've come across in the last 30 years have been trying to tell woman that they should only be dressing and dolling up for themselves, to make themselves happy, instead of trying to please men or meet societal norm. And now the ladies are saying men need to cover the bill bcos they have a beauty tax that men don't have to pay for?

Gosh you know that Trojan / Durex costs money too, right? Or should I just raw dawg it next time then?

[GLOW]

people bash chiros but i also have a great chiro. sure it's temporary but so is massage therapy and i get way more relief from the chiro for my lower back.

i misread this as churros being in this thread... double fisting :lol

http://media.tenor.com/9l1jLu09Kg8AAAAM/cb-charles-barkley.gif

girls take the 1-3 top tier examples around them and apply that sample size to all the bfs in their lives.

When it infects a girls group, all the men take equal damage

AOE damage :lol

[RabidRat]

Sorry, off-topic post on fitness accountability!

---

Training for a Triathlon, Day 4


lol who the fuck does Subaru think they are making you jump through hoops for $750 rebate.

Subaru Triathlon Series, Milton - June 7th
Try-A-Tri race: 375m Swim, 10km Bike, *2.5km Run*

Conditions: 4°C, clear
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Completion: 2.50 km
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Pace: 6.8 km/h
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Mental Anguish: peak HR 180 bpm
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Athletic Condition: very obesity
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Weeks Remaining til Race Day: 15/16
[xxxxxxxxxx]

[supafamous]

Sorry, off-topic post on fitness accountability!

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Training for a Triathlon, Day 4




Subaru Triathlon Series, Milton - June 7th
Try-A-Tri race: 375m Swim, 10km Bike, *2.5km Run*

Conditions: 4°C, clear
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Completion: 2.50 km
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Pace: 6.8 km/h
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Mental Anguish: peak HR 180 bpm
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Athletic Condition: very obesity
[xxxxxxxxxx]

Weeks Remaining til Race Day: 15/16
[xxxxxxxxxx]


Shit, you're actually doing this. Good luck!

[bcrdukes]

I guess he'll have to post a pic of his Subaru too!

[GS8]

I'm not going to lie, I even held by shotgun one night contemplating some seriously dark thoughts.

Before ever going down this path again, always remember what you overcame to get to where you are now. Remember who was there with you and don't remember who wasn't.

And if you're still doubtful, you just have to look in the mirror to find something you love.

(Yeah this sounds gay but mental health isn't something to neglect. The universe has been chaotic since the big bang. It's imperative to treat our minds like a sanctuary amidst it all).

Since moving to a smaller town, I filtered out a lot of toxicity (politics, news, shitty people, danky environments among others) and it's been so much easier to breathe and just enjoy the simplicity in my hobbies, my work and those people I want to have in my circle. Just peace and quiet with cycles of adventure and rest.

[GS8]

I think Mikey means Filipino culture which is definitely a lot more showy, BIG, live on debt than other Asian cultures like Canto or thrifty Chinamen ... but then what do I know, I could be wrong.

Filipinos are the most lemming ass culture there is. One influenzer does something and suddenly they ALLLLL want to do that one thing so they can 'belong' to the influenzer's circle :lol :lol

And (this is for a separate thread)

The amount of Flip TFWs who qualify for $40K vehicle loans while making $17/ hour is brain rotting to me...

[EvoFire]

Tried to work out after my interview today, proceeded to puke 5 minutes in. Yeah not happening

[Gerbs]

Out of curiosity, but do people still meet up for coffee for first dates? Or is that a sign of "the guy is poor" :derp:

There was a recent article (more like an opinion piece) on dating in The Globe and Mail. When I read this, I thought of you.

Why these financially independent women still want men to get the cheque on the first date (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-dating-first-date-pay-bill-relationships-life/) (may be paywalled)
Kelsey Rolfe
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published February 12, 2026
Updated 2 hours ago
For Subscribers

When Jennifer Singh was dating in her 20s, she believed in splitting the tab. She was raised to be a financially independent woman, and going Dutch on a date embodied that.

But her mindset has since changed. While she’s recently separated and not yet jumping back into the dating pool, she knows what she wants when she starts dating again.

Men make more money than women, on average, said Ms. Singh, a 45-year-old business owner in Vaughan, Ont. Women also spend more time, effort and money to get ready for a date, she said, pointing to the cost of hair and other personal care products.

“It’s fair [for them] to pay for a date. It’s not unreasonable,” she said. Ms. Singh said she also sees men paying as demonstrating what they’re bringing to the table in a potential relationship, given that many women are highly educated, financially independent and working on themselves.

Online and in group chats, daters are revisiting the age-old question of who should pay on dates – and drifting back to traditional gender norms. Some modern daters are highlighting the gender wage gap and “beauty tax” – a term for the extra costs women pay to meet societal standards for beauty – as reasons for men to foot the bill in heterosexual dating.

Laura Hammond, a 44-year-old fractional human resources leader in Ottawa, said the “running cost” of getting ready for dates is real: She estimated she spends $70 to $80 a month on her nails, and $300 every four to five months on hair cuts and getting her highlights done.

Ms. Hammond said she used to pro-actively offer to split the bill on first dates. Now, she tends to let her date take the lead. But she said she does generally take an “equitable” approach to paying for dates. She recently started seeing someone new; after he planned a “very nice” first date and paid for both of them, she reciprocated the gesture on their second date.

“I appreciated that he wanted to treat me [on the first date] and I wanted to signal my interest back to him,” she said. “If we’re to continue to date I want it to feel like an equal partnership.”

Expectations around who should pay for a date largely follow gender norms, according to a recent Simplii Financial survey of 1,500 Canadians aged 18 and older. Seventy-two per cent of men who weren’t in relationships said they’d expect to pay on a date, and 39 per cent of women said they would expect their date to pay. Daters were split on splitting: 47 per cent of women preferred it, compared to 23 per cent of men.

Respondents in relationships had similar responses, with 62 per cent of men saying they primarily pay and 36 per cent of women saying their partner primarily pays.

“Society is changing but some traditions still persist,” said Carissa Lucreziano, “vice-president of financial planning and advice at CIBC, of which Simplii is a digital banking division. “The act of paying for a date, it’s not just about the money, it’s more about the values and the expectations around it.”

Mitch Hermansen, a 38-year-old fundraiser in Vancouver, said he considers it the “standard thing” to pay for a first date. “Probably it is some traditional masculinity norms, for sure, but I typically ask, so I’ll pay,” he said. Mr. Hermansen estimated he spent around $500 on dating in the past month.

On second and third dates, he said he’d usually offer to grab the bill, but appreciates if his date offers. He said that while he’s generally happy to pay for dates as a gesture, he doesn’t want it to fall solely to him.

“It probably wouldn’t be the relationship for me if I was expected to pay [for everything],” he said.

Damona Hoffman, a California-based relationship strategist and host of the Dates & Mates podcast, said she sees the conversation about who pays the bill as connected to the rise and recent fall of dating apps. When the apps took off midway through the last decade, the volume of first dates people were going on increased.

“That put a lot of stress on men who date women, particularly in shelling out a lot of money for dates that many times didn’t evolve in the same way they had prior to that point,” she said. “If you’re paying for it all, it changes the way that you show up.”

With seemingly infinite options, ghosting increased and so did the sense that dating was impersonal, Ms. Hoffman said.

“That’s the rise of, ‘Let’s go Dutch. We don’t know where this is going to go. Let’s meet in the middle here and not put too much effort, money or emphasis on what the outcome of this date will be and just see where it goes,’” she said. “That led to very transactional, very short-term, very dissatisfying dating.”

Ms. Hoffman said that at a moment when more daters are experiencing dating app fatigue, she sees the reversion to wanting men to pay for dates as a desire for intentional dating.

“It’s not about showing off your resources,” she said. “It’s about saying, ‘You’re choosing me. You’re not doing this every day of the week. You’re making an investment in building a relationship with me, specifically.’”

But for Eden Osmar, a 30-year-old copywriter in Calgary, the sense that someone is making an investment is part of the reason why she generally prefers to split the bill.

Ms. Osmar said she appreciates when a man offers to pay for the date, and sometimes takes them up on it. But she doesn’t want “someone to invest their money on top of their time if it’s something I don’t see going anywhere.”

Ms. Hoffman noted that among LGBTQ+ daters, there are no set norms around who pays for a date, though sometimes the person who makes the initial ask pays the bill.

“Everybody wants to feel like they’re being chosen, and like someone is doing something nice for them and investing in time with them,” she said.

I'd say 20% yes, but if you're 28-30 (my experience) and you're talking to a pretty girl who has marriable qualities, sometimes you want to pay to win just so you can open the blind box and hopefully exit the dating game.

However, in the last 10+ date, I've only had 2 girls with no mutuals, so I kind of have an idea what type of person they are before meeting up, especially if I approached in person.

I do filter very hard and won't waste money on anyone I don't think I'd marry. If I'm at all iffy, feel low-interest or hookup, I'd toss out cafe, smoothie or drinks offer and not care if it goes through or not.

POGGERS

Someone please clip this and send it to all of gerbs prospective dates


at this stage, popping meta glasses on to show ppl I ain't making this shit up lmao

[Gerbs]

There's a general delusion that owning a business means success. Yes you are your own boss but it doesn't mean you are automatically raking it in. And people don't seem to understand that revenue != profit.


gotta sign a pre-nup to protect them from a fat lease / payroll lol


Though $35-$75/ week doesn't seem that bad. I mean come up, I go to the food court with my wife and it's almost $40. We try to go out for lunch once a week just the two of us and it's easily $50 if we go eat at a Korean place. $75 doesn't even buy you 2 mains and 2 drinks at Cactus.


$35-75/pp x 2 x 1-2 dates = $140-300/week? Not bad cost of finding a wife, but that $1,200/month would love to go towards a 911.

No longer doing the retarded 3 dates a week, at this rate, I'm gonna be immune to pretty girls

[mikemhg]

Filipinos are the most lemming ass culture there is. One influenzer does something and suddenly they ALLLLL want to do that one thing so they can 'belong' to the influenzer's circle :lol :lol

And (this is for a separate thread)

The amount of Flip TFWs who qualify for $40K vehicle loans while making $17/ hour is brain rotting to me...

I wish I had you to educate me on this before I took the ride.

This is MOST definitely true. I had no idea about Labubus until my 38 year old Filipina started rocking a few on her LV purse :lol

My brain wanted to explode.

[mikemhg]

gotta sign a pre-nup to protect them from a fat lease / payroll lol



$35-75/pp x 2 x 1-2 dates = $140-300/week? Not bad cost of finding a wife, but that $1,200/month would love to go towards a 911.

No longer doing the retarded 3 dates a week, at this rate, I'm gonna be immune to pretty girls

Before I met my ex I remember going on 5 dates in a single week, dropped like $800 in a single week alone on drinks and food.

100% will not be doing that this time :lol

[supafamous]

Filipinos run the best Church's chicken though. All the East Indian run ones make terrible fried chicken (we should make a list of ethnicities that suck at making fried chicken).

[Gerbs]

committed to running 100KM on my bday if I am single at EOY, will report back in 10 months











Before I met my ex I remember going on 5 dates in a single week, dropped like $800 in a single week alone on drinks and food.

100% will not be doing that this time :lol

Have 3 single bros that reached out this week. We're taking each other to $100 meals instead of someone's undeserving daughter :awwyeah:

[Traum]

I've been inspired by Gerbs, Evo, and RabidRat, so I went for a 20 min jog today since the weather was nice -- yeah, I know it's a jog and not a run, and it was probably slow even for a jog. I'm still too cheap to pay for any fitness tech to monitor my vital stats, but I felt like I gave my cardiopulmonary system a decent workout, even though I wasn't gassed afterwards.

The pathetic thing is -- about 10 min after my jog, I drove to pick up le wifey from work. Just as I was working the clutch, I realized my fine motor control of the left leg was lacking because it was actually tired out from the jog. The same goes for fine motor control of the gas & brake pedals as well. It was pathetic. FailFish

(and now my thighs are also limp as well, so that's doubly pathetic FailFish )

Assuming I want to build more resilence / endurance (for jogging as well as heart health), how often should I be jogging? From doing weights, I know jogging only once a week isn't gonna do shxt. I still want to put more focus on building / retaining muscle mass, since I deem that to be more important as I get old (and lose muscle mass). So what kind of frequency would work well to complement a 3x a week weight training regiment?

[underscore]

Chiros are GODSENDS to this planet.

Some of them may have actually learned some medical work, but chiro was founded by a quack who claimed he had received it from "the other world" from a dead doctor and most of it is pseudoscience.

[red kryptonite]

11 days of strict calorie tracking kncoked off another 8 lbs.
-averaging 1100 cal/day
-30 mins weight training and 40mins swimming then 1 hour sauna in the morning
-2 hour walk then 1 hour steam at night.

17 more days to to go and ill fit right in with these victim weight ching chong mf hahaha

edit:
current mental state: too tired and hungry to keep up with all the RS activity.


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[Badhobz]

Looks tasty !!! And healthy.

[EvoFire]

I've been inspired by Gerbs, Evo, and RabidRat, so I went for a 20 min jog today since the weather was nice -- yeah, I know it's a jog and not a run, and it was probably slow even for a jog. I'm still too cheap to pay for any fitness tech to monitor my vital stats, but I felt like I gave my cardiopulmonary system a decent workout, even though I wasn't gassed afterwards.

The pathetic thing is -- about 10 min after my jog, I drove to pick up le wifey from work. Just as I was working the clutch, I realized my fine motor control of the left leg was lacking because it was actually tired out from the jog. The same goes for fine motor control of the gas & brake pedals as well. It was pathetic. FailFish

(and now my thighs are also limp as well, so that's doubly pathetic FailFish )

Assuming I want to build more resilence / endurance (for jogging as well as heart health), how often should I be jogging? From doing weights, I know jogging only once a week isn't gonna do shxt. I still want to put more focus on building / retaining muscle mass, since I deem that to be more important as I get old (and lose muscle mass). So what kind of frequency would work well to complement a 3x a week weight training regiment?

Don't kid yourself I'm just jogging as well, there's no full on sprinting.

I'm trying to get 3 days a week in, I don't have time for it on the weekend and I can't possibly do it all 5 weekdays cause I got other shit to do.

The whole reason why I started running was for the bone health, the impact of your step of running is meant to help retain bone density. I'm also trying to push my squats back up. I had been hovering around 115lb squats due to a knee injury. The injury is better now and I managed to push it up 155lbs yesterday.

On a side note, I weighed myself yesterday at the gym, still 172lbs. My weight hasn't changed in the last month or so, but I can definitely see myself getting more toned. The next thing I need to do is probably change my diet, I just blew through 600 calories of chips for my late night snack while watching TV the other night.

[unit]

I've been inspired by Gerbs, Evo, and RabidRat, so I went for a 20 min jog today since the weather was nice -- yeah, I know it's a jog and not a run, and it was probably slow even for a jog. I'm still too cheap to pay for any fitness tech to monitor my vital stats, but I felt like I gave my cardiopulmonary system a decent workout, even though I wasn't gassed afterwards.

The pathetic thing is -- about 10 min after my jog, I drove to pick up le wifey from work. Just as I was working the clutch, I realized my fine motor control of the left leg was lacking because it was actually tired out from the jog. The same goes for fine motor control of the gas & brake pedals as well. It was pathetic. FailFish

(and now my thighs are also limp as well, so that's doubly pathetic FailFish )

Assuming I want to build more resilence / endurance (for jogging as well as heart health), how often should I be jogging? From doing weights, I know jogging only once a week isn't gonna do shxt. I still want to put more focus on building / retaining muscle mass, since I deem that to be more important as I get old (and lose muscle mass). So what kind of frequency would work well to complement a 3x a week weight training regiment?

jogging and running is definitely the same thing, don't sell yourself short there.
if you want to improve why don't you follow a couch to 10k program? you'd be running 3x a week but never for more than an hour, and most days more like 30m.
there are plenty of resources online. you can even target the sunrun which is in april, you have plenty of time.

[unit]

On a side note, I weighed myself yesterday at the gym, still 172lbs. My weight hasn't changed in the last month or so, but I can definitely see myself getting more toned. The next thing I need to do is probably change my diet, I just blew through 600 calories of chips for my late night snack while watching TV the other night.

i've been out of the gym for like 1.5 months due to travel and then knee issues, then my membership expiring. gonna start judo classes next week so that should keep me fit, but no more heavy lifting for me. they have strength and conditioning classes twice a week which seems like mostly dumbbells and cardio, not real weightlifting. i sat in on a class a few days ago just to watch and yeah it's definitely a good workout and plenty of core strength required.

i weighed myself yesterday just because i wanted to weigh my cat. we've both gained weight :(. im 174ish. to be honest i dont really feel too fat though.

[RabidRat]

I've been inspired by Gerbs, Evo, and RabidRat, so I went for a 20 min jog today

[...]

realized my fine motor control of the left leg was lacking because it was actually tired out from the jog. The same goes for fine motor control of the gas & brake pedals as well. It was pathetic. FailFish

(and now my thighs are also limp as well,

Lol! Nice. Unfortunately my germbag kids made me sick again so I am on a temporary setback. I will progress vicariously through you, as it sounds like we are in a similarly pathetic state.

Btw, I second unit's suggestion to sign up for the Sun Run. Having an end-goal helps with sustaining the motivation.

[EvoFire]

i've been out of the gym for like 1.5 months due to travel and then knee issues, then my membership expiring. gonna start judo classes next week so that should keep me fit, but no more heavy lifting for me. they have strength and conditioning classes twice a week which seems like mostly dumbbells and cardio, not real weightlifting. i sat in on a class a few days ago just to watch and yeah it's definitely a good workout and plenty of core strength required.

i weighed myself yesterday just because i wanted to weigh my cat. we've both gained weight :(. im 174ish. to be honest i dont really feel too fat though.

My friend has been trying to get me to go to jiu jitsu with him. I'm very interested but the time commitment together with a quite pricy rate has held me back so far.

[unit]

yeah you'd probably have to go like 3 days a week to have good progress like with basically anything else, but you might enjoy it a lot more than doing gym type workouts.
i chose judo over jiu jitsu because i felt like i would have less contact with smelly dudes. there's a lot of grappling and gi holding/tugging but you don't literally do the missionary position and cowboy with each other for the entire class.

[EvoFire]

yeah you'd probably have to go like 3 days a week to have good progress like with basically anything else, but you might enjoy it a lot more than doing gym type workouts.
i chose judo over jiu jitsu because i felt like i would have less contact with smelly dudes. there's a lot of grappling and gi holding/tugging but you don't literally do the missionary position and cowboy with each other for the entire class.

If I can have a hot instructor for judo I'll line up :lol

Or I can invite that hot mom from the gym to be my judo partner :pokerface:

But yeah I get it, you need at least 3 times a week to see the benefit. I was going to the gym once and week and it made very little difference to my physique. I'm doing 2-3 days a week plus calisthenics and running right now and the results have been very strong.

[GLOW]

i've been out of the gym for like 1.5 months due to travel and then knee issues, then my membership expiring. gonna start judo classes next week so that should keep me fit, but no more heavy lifting for me. they have strength and conditioning classes twice a week which seems like mostly dumbbells and cardio, not real weightlifting. i sat in on a class a few days ago just to watch and yeah it's definitely a good workout and plenty of core strength required.

i weighed myself yesterday just because i wanted to weigh my cat. we've both gained weight :(. im 174ish. to be honest i dont really feel too fat though.

report back how judo is on your knees. from what i heard, judo can be bad on your knees b/c of the torque/twisting, but you may have a diff knee issue where that is not an issue.

[supafamous]

i've been out of the gym for like 1.5 months due to travel and then knee issues

What kind of knee issues? I've been having problems with my inside right knee and been working with a physio - he thinks the problem is with my foot and hip, my foot rolls inward on landing and my hip isn't keeping my leg straight enough on landing so it's putting too much load on my inside knee. It restricts how much plyo work and squat work I can do.

He has me doing one legged stands with my eyes closed to improve my mind-body connection (super effing hard), one and two legged hamstring curls on a yoga ball, and side plank runners. All neat stuff though results are TBD.

[unit]

i have a slightly weird gait because of my scoliosis, so when i run my kneecap can come out of alignment and rub onto my tibia. of course i didnt really know this until i saw a physio about it last month.
it worsened when i was running while carrying bags and my awkward gait was compounded. up till then i never really had knee problems.
i got like 20 exercises from the physio... idk why they give so many, its impossible to sustain.

[GLOW]

probably give you 20, and if any you like and consistently do, it's better than nothing. i imagine the idea is to strengthen the muscles & tighten them up around the knee cap to provide support if your knee cap is moving around.

careful with pressure on your knees with throws, or movement on your knees. may be a good idea to invest in some patella knee braces to cushion around your knee cap and keep it in place if you end up doing judo long term.

[EvoFire]

i have a slightly weird gait because of my scoliosis, so when i run my kneecap can come out of alignment and rub onto my tibia. of course i didnt really know this until i saw a physio about it last month.
it worsened when i was running while carrying bags and my awkward gait was compounded. up till then i never really had knee problems.
i got like 20 exercises from the physio... idk why they give so many, its impossible to sustain.

I had a similar issue where my tibia would grind against the back of my kneecap, and the pain KILLED me. The doctor's prognosis was to strengthen my quads which would lift my knee cap further away from the tibia and give it some space before it would grind.

I was told to do wall sit, or otherwise just squat. This was also back when I was over weight right around 200lbs and not in shape.

[unit]

yeah i have a bunch of exercises that are targeting small muscles around the legs and also core stuff. tbh they take a long time and i don't really feel like they do much, but i guess i just need to trust the process.

also he showed me how to tape my knee to keep the knee cap in alignment, so maybe i will start doing that before classes.

[EvoFire]

I went out for a run today, I have two goals for this running paradigm I'm in, 5k 20mins and 10km total.

To get the stats out of the way, I did 6k in 32 minutes. The final 2k was hard and it was just pushing through perseverance. Having music helps, "We'll keep running until the end of this song"

Fuck it's cold in the morning to run. I was literally freezing for the first 2k. 3-4k was fine as I got into my groove. 5-6k I was sweating like crazy as I was still wearing the high pile sweater.

My cardio and legs both gave up around 5.5k. I started the run sore as I hit my squat max of 155lbs yesterday in like 5 years and I was recovering from that.

One observation and a small back story. I have a friend who is an avid runner. We were comparing notes 2 years ago, looking at costs between biking and running. One can buy a pretty nice road bike for around $5k. Not pro or top of the line, but still a nice bike. He was running marathons and stuff, he has a $500 pair of runners for marathons, and he trains on $300 shoes. He goes through about 2 pairs of trainers a year. I had thought running was cheap but at a high level it's not.

So back to me and runners. I run around the park where I hit the gym, and I run around the park near home when I'm not going to the gym. If I go to the gym I would be wearing my gym shoes. If I am running at home then I'll be wearing a pair of $40 Adidas runners from Costco.

I went to the gym yesterday so I ran with the gym shoes yesterday. I got around 1.5k and I was gassed on my first stint. Today I ran near home and I got 2.6k on my first stint with the cheap runners. So I learned that the shoes you are wearing can make a huge difference.

For @RabitRat and @Traum, you guys might want to look into the shoes you are running with. I'm sure @Gerbs knows what he's doing.

[RabidRat]

Remember in Dragonball Z when it turned out Piccolo got super strong, because he was holding himself down with a weighted cloak the whole time?

Maybe the move is to wear garbage attire during training, and then on race day you finally gear up.

I've been running around in hiking boots, costco sweatpants, and a ragged old patagonia sweater (leftover Bay Area uniform). Bonus points that the poorer I look, the less likely I am to get mugged!!

[68style]

You could even DO some mugging as a side gig

[Gerbs]

For @RabitRat and @Traum, you guys might want to look into the shoes you are running with. I'm sure @Gerbs knows what he's doing.

In recent years, I've been paying to win for all fitness / sport related
- upgrading most comfy running shoes + race shoes to shed time
- buying nice court shoes so you don't blow a knee in indoor
- knee sleeves / sqwat shoes / deadlift shoes
- tasty protein you'd actually commit to and drink
- better fit + higher quality gym clothes so you feel good
- buying the nicer paddles, rackets, or balls

I spent maybe $3-5K total, but that's nothing compared to spending $4K on wheels or something for your car.

It threw me off that in 2021, I was stingy on spending tons of $$$ on fitness but was okay spending $5K+ on depreciation or gas/maintenance on sports cars.

Didn't have my priorities right

[EvoFire]

It threw me off that in 2021, I was stingy on spending tons of $$$ on fitness but was okay spending $5K+ on depreciation or gas/maintenance on sports cars.

Didn't have my priorities right

That one is fair.

[SSM_DC5]

So you sold the s2k to get your priorities straight?

[noclue]

Are you really running unless you flex your $300 Nike Vomero Premium shoes and constantly posting your (unimpressive) strava results on IG?

I've been really into incline treadmill at home for cardio. Less impact, but similar cardio.

[unit]

man i used to run in thin ass low drop saucony kinvaras all the time and i would always buy the outgoing model to save money. i always got super sore feet by around the 15km mark though, so painful.
now knowing what i know about myself and my feet, they were probably the worst possible choice for me, but i just liked how light they made my steps.
ultra cushioned shoes werent a thing yet back then, only hoka was doing it which is a niche brand. i think that would have been a game changer for me.

[Fafine]

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If you're not running 100 miles in jeans, what are you doing?

[Traum]

So I jogged on Wed and my legs -- mostly my thighs -- went limp. Things didn't feel so bad on Wed night -- my legs mostly just felt spent.

Had to walk a lot yesterday just bcos that's how the day went. And nope, my thighs and hip didn't like that very much. I felt it coming last night and I was trying to stretch and massage them in the hopes of minimizing the blowback. But nope, I'm having all kinds of soreness around my hip and thighs today, with the (outer) sides of my thigh being the worst. I'm pretty sure that is some soft tissues inflammation going on.

Thankfully, I don't seem to have any knee pain.

But hey, now I have an excuse to skip leg day, right?

[EvoFire]

Light exercise would probably be good, some light walking to let the muscle move and have the blood flow. Alternatively hot and ice bath alternating. I don't know how you can ice a whole leg though :pokerface:

[bcrdukes]

Are you hydrating properly?

[red kryptonite]

story time!
today at the sauna, i overheard this convo...

old guy: blah blah blah, gym this, workout that, blah blah... what r ur goals?
big girl: blah blah blah, calisthenics blah blah... i want to be able to deadlift my body weight.
old guy: whoa... thats alot of weight.
big girl: awkward chuckle
me: in my head :awwyeah: geezer have no chill

anyways...
home stretch! time to bust out the skinless chicken breast.

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[Gerbs]

So you sold the s2k to get your priorities straight?

haha you wish

[SSM_DC5]

haha you wish

Knew that'd be too good to be true.

[supafamous]

So now that my home gym is up and running I've paused working with my trainer and instead I tried using Google Gemini over the past month to help me design my workout program and it's surprisingly good at it. I started with the following prompt:

I want to design a 4 day workout program that breakdowns the following way:

Day one: Pull/Legs
Day two: Push/Cardio (exercise bike)
Day three: Pull/Legs with a focus on single leg or isolation exercises.
Day three: Push/Cardio

I want to incorporate 1-2 core exercises each day as part of the program. Exercises like a bosu ball mountain climber or a wall sit.

I am working from home with a squat rack and a cable tower. I do not have equipment to do a lat pulldown.

What are some suggestions for how to program the 4 days?

The first result was pretty solid - it included a number of things that my trainer and I had added to our program that I'd consider out of the ordinary like plank with knee taps, cable flies, and cable wood chops.

I went back and forth with it a number of times and it did a great job remembering (and updating) my requirements, offered tips for each exercise (including links to videos showing techniques), reminded me when I dropped something that was important to my goals, and challenged me on some of my choices (and offered alternatives). In some ways it was better than working with my trainer to build a plan as it knew more than my trainer.

As it stands this is where I landed with it:

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Might be worthwhile to bounce your plan against it and see what it has to say based on your goals.

[Traum]

Hmm... I'm confused by a small detail. You mentioned in your prompt that you do not have equipiment to do a lat pull down. And yet in your Day 3 program, you are doing a lat pull down.

Is that just AI hallucination? Or is something else going on here?

[supafamous]

Hmm... I'm confused by a small detail. You mentioned in your prompt that you do not have equipiment to do a lat pull down. And yet in your Day 3 program, you are doing a lat pull down.

Is that just AI hallucination? Or is something else going on here?

So two things:

1. I'm in the middle of hacking my cable system to allow for me to do a lat pulldown so I have it in there - just gotta get a couple parts to let me do it so I told Gemini I didn't have the equipment.

2. Gemini figured out a workaround by advising that I do a lat pulldown from a kneeling position on the ground. This is how I do my single arm pulldown too so it can work though it's not ideal once you start pulling more than half your body weight.

[Gerbs]

100 days into cutting the relationship weight, still a twink but easier on the joints, my 7th cut to date, losing weight is super easy now that I run and play sports.


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193cm
198-205lbs morning vs walking
23% last dexa vs 17-18%? Have a dexa booked at eom.


next goal add 3-5lbs of muscle!

[EvoFire]

They finally fixed the scale at the gym today. Weighed in a drop for the first time in 7 weeks, been 172lbs steady, today I weighed in at 169.

[unit]

hey regular gym goers, what time do you guys go? is it busy at your gyms at that time?
i might get a membership but i really was spoiled at my last gym being a semi private one so i don't know how to deal with busy gyms and sharing equipment, having dudes want to use what im using, etc..

[EvoFire]

I go to the community center, it's died down a bit since new years. The busiest machines are always just the treadmill, that's why I started running outside instead.

I'm not that hardcore. If someone is using an equipment I wanted to use, I'll just go do something else. I have a few exercises that I want to hit but it doesn't really have to be in any order.

[Gerbs]

hey regular gym goers, what time do you guys go? is it busy at your gyms at that time?
i might get a membership but i really was spoiled at my last gym being a semi private one so i don't know how to deal with busy gyms and sharing equipment, having dudes want to use what im using, etc..

every gym is busy, I'd pay for semi private if available.

Least busiest is around 6AM to 2PM

[spoon.ek9]

My physio noticed I have lost belly fat :fuckyea:

[UnknownJinX]

hey regular gym goers, what time do you guys go? is it busy at your gyms at that time?
i might get a membership but i really was spoiled at my last gym being a semi private one so i don't know how to deal with busy gyms and sharing equipment, having dudes want to use what im using, etc..

I either aim for early afternoon (around 1~3 PM start) or nights (7~8 PM start) on my off days, or mornings before my work. 4~6 PM tend to be the busiest in my experience, although there are times nights can be busy too.

You can always ask people how many sets they have left and nobody will have a problem. I get asked and I ask people, it's normal. You can just wait if they only have 1~2 sets left.

[red kryptonite]

hey regular gym goers, what time do you guys go? is it busy at your gyms at that time?
i might get a membership but i really was spoiled at my last gym being a semi private one so i don't know how to deal with busy gyms and sharing equipment, having dudes want to use what im using, etc..

i go to a rec center and its always busy. best time to go is between 12-3.

My physio noticed I have lost belly fat :fuckyea:

i can finally fit into my lulu fitted t's again no more baggy popeyes gift with purchase t's hahaha and all the regular's at the gym/suana have definitely taken notice.

well i did it!! down another 5.6 lbs this week. hit my goal of being 14X lbs before my trip.
with just over a week to go im gonna aim for 140 lbs just for shits and giggles.

diet: tracking, 1200 cal/day, down to 2 shakes 2 meals, mostly just salads and lean protein such as chicken breast and prawns.
workout: down to 1 workout 7 days a week. weight lifting down to 75% intensity, 30min walk, 500m swim, 1 hour sauna.

gf said something along the lines of... the way i lost all this weight (34 lbs in 3 months) in the most unhealthiest way out of vainness and next level pettiness is some bat shit crazy highschool girl behavior.
nah bitch youre just jelly i did this without your "professional" help... hence the pettiness because she said i couldnt do it by myself. i proved her wrong, feels good!

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[N.V.M.]

140 lb guys on diets. ok

[supafamous]

diet: tracking, 1200 cal/day, down to 2 shakes 2 meals, mostly just salads and lean protein such as chicken breast and prawns.
workout: down to 1 workout 7 days a week. weight lifting down to 75% intensity, 30min walk, 500m swim, 1 hour sauna.

gf said something along the lines of... the way i lost all this weight (34 lbs in 3 months) in the most unhealthiest way out of vainness and next level pettiness is some bat shit crazy highschool girl behavior.


That is some intense discipline. Congrats

[Badhobz]

i think ive said this before, Red Kryptonite is like the Christian Bale of RS, incredibly range can go from fat boy, to medium, to now lean as hell.

Insane discipline akin to a gongfu master or a shaolin monk.

[CivicBlues]

146lbs, wtf you better be like 5'2"?

[68style]

I feel like an absolute behemoth at 194 and I'm in relationship Gerbs shape

[EvoFire]

I was 145lbs in grade 12, it's not terrible especially considering the deficient he was running. Not healthy though.

[winson604]

hey regular gym goers, what time do you guys go? is it busy at your gyms at that time?
i might get a membership but i really was spoiled at my last gym being a semi private one so i don't know how to deal with busy gyms and sharing equipment, having dudes want to use what im using, etc..

I go Anytime Fitness between 1030-1100pm and the location I go to specifically isn't that busy but some of the other ones even at that time are.

[Gerbs]

I feel like an absolute behemoth at 194 and I'm in relationship Gerbs shape

that was 215lb!

gotta make use of 20's/30's ease of changing body

[unit]

I go Anytime Fitness between 1030-1100pm and the location I go to specifically isn't that busy but some of the other ones even at that time are.

i was thinking about also going to anytime fitness. they are a bit more expensive but i hope that also means less teenagers and generally a nicer facility.

[68style]

that was 215lb!

gotta make use of 20's/30's ease of changing body

I think you're taller than me tho I'm 6'0"

[winson604]

i was thinking about also going to anytime fitness. they are a bit more expensive but i hope that also means less teenagers and generally a nicer facility.

As far as gyms go, Anytime fitness isn't anything super fancy with some locations being bigger and or have slightly fancier equipment than others. That being said for 99% of people it will have what you need. They're definitely more expensive but the selling point is they have a lot of locations, they are 24hrs, and you can use your fob to enter an Anytime Fitness anywhere in the world. For me, I go to the gym late at night so the 24hr thing for me is a must.

[spoon.ek9]

I'm been making due with my apartment building gym. Will be cancelling my Fitness World membership asap because it's just too damn busy and not enough equipment to share with the mass of humanity that assembles there.

[EvoFire]

I dragged my lazy ass to the gym today. Really did not want to do anything. I went outside and ran and my BT earbuds kept cutting out and it was "fuck this shit" and went back in to do weights. Nevermind that it was windy AF.

Just in a bitchy mood lol

[spoon.ek9]

Pat yourself on the back, those are the hardest days to show up and put some work in SeemsGood

[red kryptonite]

140 lb guys on diets. ok

i started at 180 :lawl:

That is some intense discipline. Congrats

the first month was the hardest, even now at 3 months in im still craving simple carbs, fast food, junk food and sugar... and cheese i miss cheese.

i think ive said this before, Red Kryptonite is like the Christian Bale of RS, incredibly range can go from fat boy, to medium, to now lean as hell.

Insane discipline akin to a gongfu master or a shaolin monk.

loosing the weight is easy, keeping it off is another story. but whatever, ive come to terms with it. if i need to fit into a suit, need abs, become single, ill drop the weight.

146lbs, wtf you better be like 5'2"?

im 5'7", 14X lbs is not unreasonable for my height.

I was 145lbs in grade 12, it's not terrible especially considering the deficient he was running. Not healthy though.
i cant wait to have 5000 cal/days in china haha. i lost some muscle on this cut, hopefully i can build some of it back with the extra calories. cardio im not too concerned as im sure there will be a shit ton of walking.



Just in a bitchy mood lol
i find on those days its best to hit the heavy bag.
im not in kickboxing anymore but shadow boxing works too.... or this is what i do. put on gloves and head to a baseball field and go ape shit on the fence. it makes a satisfying noise when you hit it and has a good spring to it so you dont mess up your wrist.

https://www.longfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/baseball-backstop-2-2.jpg

[RabidRat]

or this is what i do. put on gloves and head to a baseball field and go ape shit on the fence. it makes a satisfying noise when you hit it and has a good spring to it so you dont mess up your wrist.

https://www.longfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/baseball-backstop-2-2.jpg

There's the added bonus that this protects you from getting mugged. They'll think you're crazy lol.

[red kryptonite]

i also scare off the dad and son trying to play catch

[RabidRat]

Just in a bitchy mood lol

Your metamorphosis is complete: time to buy a Subaru.

Solterra?

[bcrdukes]

Get one and solve Badhobz's carpet problem by munching on it.

[EvoFire]

I'm a badge whoring lesbo, I need my BMW.

[RabidRat]

Rivian kinda feels like a premium high-end version of Subaru. Maybe take a look at the R2?

https://i.imgur.com/Tug6bCC.png

https://i.imgur.com/hzQeKvy.png

[Gerbs]

I dragged my lazy ass to the gym today. Really did not want to do anything. I went outside and ran and my BT earbuds kept cutting out and it was "fuck this shit" and went back in to do weights. Nevermind that it was windy AF.

Just in a bitchy mood lol

showing up on the lazy days are when it matters, anyone can show up when you feel like it

[BIC_BAWS]

Prob the wrong place for this but.. how do you guys get your aging parents to do exercise? My mom, who's not really all that old (56), is starting to show signs of accelerated aging like loss of balance/stability, can't walk that long anymore, spotted black/purple discoloration in feet, etc. This probably comes from 30 years of being an accountant.. and neglecting exercise.

[AstulzerRZD]

my parents friends started taking them hiking, far more effective than anything i've suggested
my mom said she'd come to hot yoga with me

[supafamous]

Prob the wrong place for this but.. how do you guys get your aging parents to do exercise? My mom, who's not really all that old (56), is starting to show signs of accelerated aging like loss of balance/stability, can't walk that long anymore, spotted black/purple discoloration in feet, etc. This probably comes from 30 years of being an accountant.. and neglecting exercise.

I want to hear answers for this too. Seems nothing changes their behaviour - my parents and in-laws are a lot older (71-83 y.o) with various medical conditions (osteoporosis, low lung capacity etc) yet nothing we do changes their sedentary ways.

I'm also trying to get my wife to change her sedentary ways as well - not much luck there either.

[BIC_BAWS]

I'm starting to think I'm gonna have to make weekly trips to Minoru Active Centre of Living (despite the traffic), drop my parents off for classes with other 55+ people, and then I go gym at the same time.

[spoon.ek9]

I think the key for most people is to find an activity they enjoy. I'm around the Minoru track quite often and there's all sorts of groups out there just doing exercise together for free. Dancers, martial arts, tai chi, walking groups, etc. Plenty of things for aunties and uncles to get into if they don't wanna spend money and also make some friends.

[6793026]

my mom is there all the time. she does swim a lot. Gosh old people needs hobbies too. much better than teens sitting at the bleechers just reading their cell phone. I used to be getting it on at the seats at minoru

[supafamous]

Edmonds community centre is packed with Chinese seniors in the morning playing ping-pong and pickleball. It's pretty remarkable actually - the place is hopping and a lot of them look like they're in their mid-70s and up.

[Gerbs]

25:40 5KM PR today!


buying a garmin watch now, fenix, epic or 4runner?

I want
- running
- sleep
- golf
- sports
- battery life

[unit]

thats getting pretty quick now!

i cant speak for the most modern watches but i have a fenix 6s, i like the less bulky version.
also for hiking when im on a super long hike like 10-12 hours i dont have to worry about it. i dont really care for solar as long as it can easily last a full day. maybe if i were on a multiday hike then that would be a useful function.

[Gerbs]

I'm going to try an actual PR all out, sub 25:00 just to lock it in before john summit.


i ordered fenix 7 and epix gen 2, will see how bulky

[Traum]

I am not too worried about my mom bcos I think she stays active enough from chasing after the grandkids as well as gardening. It is my old man that I am a lot more worried about, as he has grown increasingly sedatary and reclusive over time.

The irony is -- when he actually goes out -- for the the few things he still enjoys, he really enjoys the outing and activities and it shows. Unfortunately, it also seems like he doesn't realize how much more pleasant and healthy that makes him, and he almost never actively pursue those activities, even at our urging.
I'm also trying to get my wife to change her sedentary ways as well - not much luck there either.
I am in exactly the same situation as well, but the problem with le wifey is -- as a self-employed / small business owner, she can never finish her work. There is always something "important" that needs to be done.

She used to be an avid hiker, and back in the day, we used to hike at least every other week. So she is not inherently opposed to going out for physical activities and such.

She is not oblivious to the fact that she needs to have a much better work-life balance, but despite that, she continues to to sink massive amounts of time into work. I question the necessity of that, but I can't deny the mountain pile of work that is always waiting to be done. And when she is not working, it is probably bcos she is already physically or mentally tapped out, and that makes it difficult to drag her out to do physical things that will keep her active. FailFish

Never marry a self-employed small business owner. It sucks.

[bcrdukes]

Sounds like an opportunity to grow her business. I know someone who can help with that. :troll:

[AstulzerRZD]

25:40 5KM PR today!


buying a garmin watch now, fenix, epic or 4runner?

I want
- running
- sleep
- golf
- sports
- battery life

Just running? Forerunner
Fenix/Epic have nice stamina stats and the golf features

[Traum]

So it has been almost 3 weeks (I think?) since I started jogging / walking. I dunno if I can actually call it jogging since I have generally only been able to jog at least twice a week for some 10 - 15 min each time before I'm tired out. IMO it really isn't that much running.

Unsurprisingly, improvements have been slow and minor, but I believe they are there. With the most recent run (yesterday) for example, my legs still felt spent after the run, and my lungs still felt like they were burning up. But the lung burning didn't feel as intense as it did 2 - 3 weeks ago when I first started, and I didn't actually lose the fine motor control to operate my gas / brake / clutch when I went to pick up le wifey after the run. So the gains were noticeable, even if they are small.

Objectively, I gave into my curiousity and bought a new / near new fitness tracker off FBM for cheap. Because it was a fairly basic model, it was only showing me a bunch of fairly standard stats. Aside from satisfying my own curiosity on what my vitals are like at various times, I am not entirely sure how I can maximize the health benefits from the stats I've been provided with. The single biggest health improvement measure that I am using the fitness tracker for right now is -- it tells me the number of steps I have taken each day in near-real time. I've generally been able to walk 7k+ steps each day, so I guess that is an acceptable amount of activity.

I think my pace (of jogging) has almost improved slightly, with it gradually dropping from a low 7.x min per km / low 8.x kph down to a high 6.x min per km / almost 10 kph. Like I said, the improvements are pretty small, and I continue to think the pace is embarassingly slow. But I know I am not doing this for bragging rights. I just want to be a more healthy version of myself while also aging slower LOL~

[bcrdukes]

Pain is progress. Keep it up!

[spoon.ek9]

definitely sounds like you're on the right path. now combine your steps with some food control and weight lifting and you'll really see some results rather quickly.

[Gerbs]

Just running? Forerunner
Fenix/Epic have nice stamina stats and the golf features

all round, running is mostly for health

[red kryptonite]

https://tnstatic.net/attachments/0c42605f-43d9-42bf-9797-70733b39da01-jpg.1191879/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGRF3GQ4Wdk


36.8 lbs in 12 weeks... my 2000 calorie deficit journey

the diet is finally over and final weigh in is 142.6 lbs, so thats 36.8 lbs in 12 weeks.

here are some quick final thoughts on why i would never do this again. by never do this again, i mean 30 ish lbs in 3 months.

- i can force my inner fat boy to do come crazy shit but he fights me everyday. constant thoughts about food, looking at ig recipes reels, and when/what to eat next.
- easily irritated, anger (mostly just road rage) i can still keep it together with friends/family, and rapid mood swings.
- reduced concentration, it was hard to hold a conversation, like c'mon get to point before i zone out. memory problem, became very forgetful and often space out in a room thinking wtf was i doing. poor judgment, this kinda ties in with the mood swings. i was craving constant little wins (dopamine hit) haha almost bought that red reverse baseball cap. thank god someone beat me to it.
- sleep quality, on my apple watch i only hit a high sleep score of 6 hours maybe a hand full of time. i was averaging around 4 hours of sleep, while in bed for 8. alot of tossing and turning. ive gone to to bed hungry in previous diets but this is the first time ive woken up from being hungry, this feeling truly sucks. maybe im still emotional but i feel like i should make monthly donation to some sort of food bank. you know what saying "no child should go to bed hungry" really hit hard.
- regulating bodily temperature in bed was hard, i was either too cold or too hot. struggling to keep warm outdoors, although we had a pretty mild winter i was freezing everytime i stepped outside.
- i was super careful with not pushing my workouts as i knew with the low calorie intake i would be super susceptible to injuries and slow recover. loss some strength along with muscle but im ok with that.
- with a compromised immune system from not getting enough calories, flu season and living at the gym/sauna/steam room, i only got mildly sick once. i call that a win.
- decreased libido and the times i am DTF is an entire workout itself. im not a young man anymore, aint nobody got the time/energy to fuck like we're in out 20s. when shes not DTF and im in the mood, jerking it just took too long. am i over sharing? maybe, like i said im emotional alright.

[supafamous]

Red before and after:

https://aimtheblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/christian-bale-weight-loss.jpg?w=640

[Badhobz]

I told you he’s Christian bale. rS bat man !!! Whereas I’m RS Fatman.

[MarkyMark]

Must be terrible getting road rage but also weighing less than most women if shit were to go down lol

[red kryptonite]

ive been slowly reintroducing fatty foods back into my diet for the last few days, feels good.

new goal:
rebuild loss muscle. hopefully the hotel gym is half decent, but im down to check out the gym scene in china. cardio shouldnt be a problem as im sure we'll be doing a shit ton of walking.

[supafamous]

https://apple.news/AfDTYBZC9Tjy-bLXheAgDZg

For anyone who is an Apple News subscriber - Men's Health article on working out after age 40.

A few snippets:

Sarcopenia Is Real—So Build Muscle Now
Sarcopenia is real. You will lose muscle as you get older. But how much you lose, and when you start losing it, are very much under your control. The best defense against sarcopenia is to build as much muscle as you can, and then work everyday to retain it. The best time to start building that muscle is “long before now." But if “before now” isn’t an option, “now” is where we’ll start.

Exercise Choice Is Critical for Older Joints
Your connective tissues have already started to lose some of their elasticity, which means your joints will be less mobile. That’s why your exercise choices are critical. The wrong ones can damage joints, which matters because...

Injuries Are Serious Business
There are no easy injuries to bounce back from or work through. The days of gritting your teeth and fighting through aches and pains are behind you.

Recovery Is Tougher—and Much More Important
Even without injuries, your work capacity is starting to decline, along with your ability to recuperate from the work you put in. Those of us in middle age simply can’t go balls-out every time we walk into the gym and expect to recover like we could 10 or 20 years ago. It makes much more sense to train more frequently, but to inflict less damage on your muscles and joints in those workouts. The workouts we do are only as good as our ability to recover from them. No recovery, no benefit.

Clock In Consistently if You Want Gains
Consistency trumps intensity. Unless you’re new to lifting, you can’t expect to see progress every single workout—to lift more weight, or lift the same weight for more reps, or grind through a higher volume of sets and reps. Think of it like your job: Much of the time, you’re just trying to get through the day without falling farther behind. Same with your workouts. As long as you show up and get some training in, that’s a win.

There's some stuff I don't quite agree with like not doing barbell squats (they still recommend squats though) but mostly sensible, realistic stuff.

[supafamous]

Been a couple months since my last update...

- Transitioning to my home gym was a little bumpy as it took a while to get it fully set up and for me to get familiar with it and its quirks but the past couple weeks have been really good as I've set few personal bests (RDL, chest rows, bicep curls) now and am consistently getting in 4 workouts. Going to focus on my back squat for the next month - I've stalled out there for the last 3 months and it's falling behind my deadlifts.

- Niggling injuries with my left wrist, right knee, and left shoulder are mostly being managed with my physio. This is one of the spots where working with a trainer has really helped as I've been able to figure out alternative exercises to accommodate these niggling injuries pretty easily (like swapping in a bayesian bicep curl for a preacher curl) and keep working out.

- Weight has held steady around 170 (I want to lose another 15 this year) and I've just been pretty undisciplined with my diet this year. I just enjoy eating too much but I want to drop 10lbs by June or so as I need to get my suit altered by then in prep for an Aug wedding I'm going to.

- My kid quite likes playing with my gym, I got her a couple gymnastic rings and it's great to get her involved.

- Poor quality sleep is a killer for me right now. My kid still co-sleeps with us and the years of doing it have really caused my sleep to be super inconsistent. I wake up in the middle of the night all the time and then I can't fall back asleep for an hour or two. Taking magnesium and melatonin has helped at times.

[RabidRat]

My kid still co-sleeps with us and the years of doing it have really caused my sleep to be super inconsistent. I wake up in the middle of the night all the time and then I can't fall back asleep for an hour or two. Taking magnesium and melatonin has helped at times.

Damn. Co-sleeps with both of you?! That's messing up both your sleeping?! Is it uh... too late to sleep train?

Curious if that was a deliberate choice? Builds better bonding or something?

[Gerbs]

tried to do a 25min 5KM PR, apple watch didn't read a pace until 400M in.

ended up running 4:15 first lap and abs cramped by 3.3KM.

5KM's suck

[68style]

I peaced out on a relationship once when a kid was discussed and she said she was adamant about the benefits of co-sleep. Hope whoever she is with now is enjoying that.

[supafamous]

Damn. Co-sleeps with both of you?! That's messing up both your sleeping?! Is it uh... too late to sleep train?

Curious if that was a deliberate choice? Builds better bonding or something?

Definitely not a deliberate choice but our paediatrician is ok with it up to the age of 10. We did sleep train successfully when she was younger and it lasted for year at which point we transitioned to one parent sleeping with her at a time in her room. Now one of us stays with her till she's sleeping then she eventually pops over into our room in the middle of the night - sometimes 1am, sometimes as late as 5am.

It's not bad now (and I mostly enjoy it now) but the years of fighting her over sleep has caused my sleep patterns to be pretty damaged. I just expect to be up in the middle of the night all the time - it's super rare to actually sleep 7 straight hours anymore, maybe once every couple months.

[68style]

10????

Uggggh birth control thread

A friend of mine said his wife fucking breast fed their kid (much to his protest) until the kid was FIVE… that’s the creepiest shit in the world. He’s normal now if not a total momma’s boy but that was absolutely nuts to me.

Co-sleep to 10 outside a hippy commune is pretty beyond anything I would imagine too, but at least it’s sweet in a certain way.

[GLOW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv3qP2B845Q

[Mikoyan]

There's no one way or guide on how to raise kids. Every kid is so different. You think you got it worked out, then you have another and it's different lol.
My first one was ok with being put into bed and lights out. No fuss. Second needed skin to skin contact, so we co slept next to the crib on a matress. Later on, turned out they were just fussy and wanted a toddler crib for the control to exit the bed on their own terms. Would come into our bed in the middle of the night, but we slowly weaned them off of that.
As a parent, sometimes you do whatever works for your kid get them to sleep.

[RabidRat]

10????

Uggggh birth control thread

A friend of mine said his wife fucking breast fed their kid (much to his protest) until the kid was FIVE… that’s the creepiest shit in the world. He’s normal now if not a total momma’s boy but that was absolutely nuts to me.

Co-sleep to 10 outside a hippy commune is pretty beyond anything I would imagine too, but at least it’s sweet in a certain way.

Sounds like in this case they didn't have a choice anyway. The most striking thing to me after having 2 kids, was just how differently wired they were. Some things that came natural with one kid was super hard with the other and vice versa. Gotta pick your battles I guess.

Except maybe the breastfeeding til 5 thing. I dunno about that lol

[supafamous]

10????

Uggggh birth control thread

A friend of mine said his wife fucking breast fed their kid (much to his protest) until the kid was FIVE… that’s the creepiest shit in the world. He’s normal now if not a total momma’s boy but that was absolutely nuts to me.

Co-sleep to 10 outside a hippy commune is pretty beyond anything I would imagine too, but at least it’s sweet in a certain way.

I think both of these are western cultural norms though - a quick Google search says children will self wean from breast feeding between the age of 2 and 7 - Gemini even mentions that it's a western stigma to breastfeed children past a year of age unlike the rest of the world.

Same with co-sleeping - I've had several Indian co-workers who mention that co-sleeping is the norm for most of a childhood. A Google search comes up with the same kind of result that it's a western norm (specifically North American norm) - it says in Japan that co-sleeping goes past age 10 regularly, in Scandinavia it's common to go to age 8, and that in Asia, Africa and Central/South American it's common to co-sleep till puberty.

Increasingly the research says that both of these result in more well adjusted children. If I were to make a leap of correlation & causation I'd say the US is proof that not co-sleeping and not breastfeeding till age 5 is why they are a 3rd world country. I'm sure Trump would have love to suck on his mom's old titties when he was 5.

[Badhobz]

10????

Uggggh birth control thread

A friend of mine said his wife fucking breast fed their kid (much to his protest) until the kid was FIVE… that’s the creepiest shit in the world. He’s normal now if not a total momma’s boy but that was absolutely nuts to me.

Co-sleep to 10 outside a hippy commune is pretty beyond anything I would imagine too, but at least it’s sweet in a certain way.

This is why Supa is all about lactating & pregger milfs :lawl:

[smoothie.]

I'm going to do some pushups

on my dick

[bcrdukes]

Do not post progress pics.

[Traum]

I'm going to do some pushups

on my dick
I can only think of one way to do those pushups properly lol~ :ifyouknow: :facepalm:

[supafamous]

Do not post progress pics.

I wanna see pics, I want to know how small these pushups are.

[Traum]

I expect each push up to go up and down by at least 10", OK?

[bcrdukes]

I wanna see pics, I want to know how small these pushups are.

Badhobz would have to use his zoom lens. :troll:

[SSM_DC5]

I expect each push up to go up and down by at least 10", OK?

You talking to smoothie, not Mike. 0.10" MAYBE

[donk.]

:inoutugh:

[Gerbs]

25:40 5KM PR today!


buying a garmin watch now, fenix, epic or 4runner?



saw snow, and didn't wanna go outside cause it's cold and wet.

face was so wet but finally sub 25min 5KM PR after just pr'ing 2 weeks ago.

run 58, realistically felt like I could've pushed MAX 30seconds off this time, was tryna pace for 24:50

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55140762815_1b129fa5f1_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2s1APHa)

[Badhobz]

23hours and 55 minutes... psssh i can do it faster than that...... :pokerface:

[Gerbs]

23hours and 55 minutes... psssh i can do it faster than that...... :pokerface:

group of peeps yolo'd 20+ hours runs recently at central park lol

[unit]

so i got a gym membership instead of martial arts for now, my knee is not really feeling right lately and i dont want to do anything risky until it's feeling 100%.

its my first time with a commercial gym membership and already noticing some bad gym etiquette in the first few weeks.

-people who leave the equipment and then when you start unracking they come back and say they were on it.

-people who sit on the equipment for like 5 mins on their phone. i can understand using your workout app or whatever during your short rest but that shouldnt take more than a min or two... finish your set and free up the equipment pls.

[Badhobz]

^this is exactly why i love my community center gym. Theres little to no "bros". Only these dumb ass high school kids, but they bugger off after 5pm, so from 5pm-930pm its basically empty and equipment is untouched.

Plus it helps that the bitches feed me there too, but thats a different matter.

Also important is the little amount of geezers/gezettes. These old fucks are nasty and never wipe down the equipment. Plus they'll chat your ear off if given the chance.

[unit]

hmm see thats why i didnt join the community center gym, because i assumed it would be full of hs kids after school because it's cheaper than anytime fitness as well.

[Gerbs]

-people who sit on the equipment for like 5 mins on their phone. i can understand using your workout app or whatever during your short rest but that shouldnt take more than a min or two... finish your set and free up the equipment pls.

if you're tryna train for strength, you need minimum 3-5min rest, which is super annoying.

there was no way to push to 3/4/5 bench, squat deadlift clerb without proper programming with ungodly rest times

[68style]

I was doing strength training with a trainer for an entire year and I never had a rest period longer than 90 seconds lol

Why was my guy such a monster

[GLOW]

Also important is the little amount of geezers/gezettes. These old fucks are nasty and never wipe down the equipment. Plus they'll chat your ear off if given the chance.

one time an ah-bak came out of the hot tub wet & shirtless and started using the equipment, the weight room was mostly empty, just a few of us and we had to get an employee to come in and talk to him and leave. girl didn't believe the guy complaining i had to tell her for real, he's leaving a trail over everything like a slug. she had to coax him to stop as he wouldn't stop or leave.

[Gerbs]

depends how heavy you were going and what exercises, but if it's noobie gains I don't think you need more than 90 seconds

[bcrdukes]

There is no one-size-fits all rest time that applies to everyone. Everyone is different and a variety of factors such as state of health, age, genetics etc. all play a role into recovery times and most importantly, what are the individuals goals are.

My opinion on three to five minute rest times is that it's a bit excessive and that 90 seconds is the general sweet spot. If someone is resting at a machine wants to rest for three to five minutes, I just move on to something else.

[68style]

depends how heavy you were going and what exercises, but if it's noobie gains I don't think you need more than 90 seconds

I don't think it's noob light, not power lifter heavy but not that light... 2 plates on bench and 195 on seated chest fly

Trying to hit 10 reps but going to fail on last set usually

[Badhobz]

is it resting if you dont even start?

I see these fucking high school kids just sit on the equipment sometimes.

I ask him how many more reps, and he says he hasn't even started. So I tell him to get the fuck off it then, and he complies.

Weak-willed little bitches.

[68style]

"I'm building up to it mentally bra!"

[Traum]

Pull ups are one of my favorite exercises, and easily one of the most transferable to your daily life. I highly recommend weighted pull ups if you're looking to increase your total numbers, on any pull up always ensure you concentrate on the eccentric portion of the pull up (going down slowly) you'll break the muscle down nicely and increase your strength immensely.

I average around 20 pull ups give or take, but can do 25 on a good rested day.
I don't think Mike has been checking the forum, and I wish he could see this minor update bcos I want to thank him for the tip / reminder about focusing on the eccentric phase of the pull up.

I had been trying to incorporate that into my pull up since Mike's suggestion, and it was not an easy exercise. Control was poor at first, and I was only able to do a small handful of them -- 3? 4? -- initially. My form is probably also wrong, since it was burning up the back of my upper arms and forearms waaaay more than my lats.

Progress seems slow -- I think Mike made the suggestion in mid Jan, and we are almost in mid March now. But progress came gradually, and yesterday, for the first time, I was able to do a full 10 reps of controlled descend for my pull ups.

I think my form is still wrong -- somehow the back of my upper arms are more sore than my lats right now, although my lats are sore too. I still weight the same at 140. I don't think I look any bigger or more muscular. But I'm happy I am able to do something I wasn't able to before.

I found out yesterday that another friend has started taking high blood pressure meds for a few months now. I am not on any chronic illness meds right now, and I want to do what I can to keep it that way.

[Gerbs]

There is no one-size-fits all rest time that applies to everyone. Everyone is different and a variety of factors such as state of health, age, genetics etc. all play a role into recovery times and most importantly, what are the individuals goals are.
:lawl:
My opinion on three to five minute rest times is that it's a bit excessive and that 90 seconds is the general sweet spot. If someone is resting at a machine wants to rest for three to five minutes, I just move on to something else.

if you're on a machine, you don't need anything more than 3 mins :lawl:

I don't think it's noob light, not power lifter heavy but not that light... 2 plates on bench and 195 on seated chest fly

Trying to hit 10 reps but going to fail on last set usually

damn, y'all be repping 225lb bench for 10+ reps, that's definitely 3-5min rest territory. if you're popping it for 10+ reps, you're max is 295-315, that's top 1-2% of most gyms, that's some heavy ass weight.

gymflation got ppl thinking 3 plates is the new 2 plates


but at 225lbs, if I am doing 10+ reps on set 1, and take 90 seconds, set 2 is gonna be less than 3-5 reps, with 3.5-5 mins, you can pop maybe 8-9 reps

[spoon.ek9]

I don't think Mike has been checking the forum, and I wish he could see this minor update bcos I want to thank him for the tip / reminder about focusing on the eccentric phase of the pull up.

I had been trying to incorporate that into my pull up since Mike's suggestion, and it was not an easy exercise. Control was poor at first, and I was only able to do a small handful of them -- 3? 4? -- initially. My form is probably also wrong, since it was burning up the back of my upper arms and forearms waaaay more than my lats.

Progress seems slow -- I think Mike made the suggestion in mid Jan, and we are almost in mid March now. But progress came gradually, and yesterday, for the first time, I was able to do a full 10 reps of controlled descend for my pull ups.

I think my form is still wrong -- somehow the back of my upper arms are more sore than my lats right now, although my lats are sore too. I still weight the same at 140. I don't think I look any bigger or more muscular. But I'm happy I am able to do something I wasn't able to before.

I found out yesterday that another friend has started taking high blood pressure meds for a few months now. I am not on any chronic illness meds right now, and I want to do what I can to keep it that way.

I've been doing this too. It was surprisingly difficult at first and my back was dead tired after just a few reps. Prior to this, I was able to do 10-12 pull ups on the regular. Haven't tested my max lately but I'll report back at another time.

[68style]

damn, y'all be repping 225lb bench for 10+ reps, that's definitely 3-5min rest territory. if you're popping it for 10+ reps, you're max is 295-315, that's top 1-2% of most gyms, that's some heavy ass weight.

gymflation got ppl thinking 3 plates is the new 2 plates


but at 225lbs, if I am doing 10+ reps on set 1, and take 90 seconds, set 2 is gonna be less than 3-5 reps, with 3.5-5 mins, you can pop maybe 8-9 reps

I think the bigger thing for me is which order I do them in... if I do bench first, I do better... if I do chest press and shoulder press before I get to the bench or even free weights then I fatigue a lot faster and can't get the reps in, dropoff for 2nd set is severe at that point.

I have to admit though, the physique of some of the people I see doing 2 plates at the gym very much surprises me on the regular... smaller guys that I would think could do it or just straight up chubs. Like I find myself double-taking to check they're 45 plates not 25/35 hahaha

[supafamous]

Missed my workouts on Weds and Fri but I got a good excuse!

What was a sore throat on Weds morning turned into painful swallowing (I could only eat soft foods like bananas) on Thursday turned into an ER visit on Friday where I was immediately admitted. The triage nurse candidly told me she was surprised I was still able to breathe upon seeing how swollen - my throat had become infected and swollen so much that much of it had become blocked. Blood tests, x-rays, and a CT scan ensued.

An IV round of steroids, painkillers, and antibiotics later and I'm recovering. I've got a IV attached to me still as I have to go in for 4-5 more rounds of IV anitibiotics (oral ones take too long). My pee is resoundingly dark yellow/orange and I basically adopted red_kryptonite calorie deficit for 3 days so I'm down about 4-5lbs in 3 days - I can drink again but it'll probably be a few days before I eat normal foods.

On the plus side I got to experience the new ER wing at Burnaby General - it was their first day open. Nice place - newer hospitals make so much more effort to provide patients with privacy and they feel so much more comfortable. Also, as always, the staff are great (as it's always been in my experience). All of this for $0 (beyond my taxes) - it's a great deal.

Also, I'm going to update my will so you guys can get all my car stuff - it's not a lot but it's something. I'll have dukes assigned as the executor for that stuff.

[68style]

Man that sucks I hope you recover quickly!

... so, uhm, what happens with your wife if you kick off?

[supafamous]

Man that sucks I hope you recover quickly!

... so, uhm, what happens with your wife if you kick off?

Well the insurance policy on me means she'll never work another day in her life so she'll be bored and lonely.

[68style]

My shoulders are nothing if not highly absorbent

[bcrdukes]

Missed my workouts on Weds and Fri but I got a good excuse!

What was a sore throat on Weds morning turned into painful swallowing (I could only eat soft foods like bananas) on Thursday turned into an ER visit on Friday where I was immediately admitted. The triage nurse candidly told me she was surprised I was still able to breathe upon seeing how swollen - my throat had become infected and swollen so much that much of it had become blocked. Blood tests, x-rays, and a CT scan ensued.

An IV round of steroids, painkillers, and antibiotics later and I'm recovering. I've got a IV attached to me still as I have to go in for 4-5 more rounds of IV anitibiotics (oral ones take too long). My pee is resoundingly dark yellow/orange and I basically adopted red_kryptonite calorie deficit for 3 days so I'm down about 4-5lbs in 3 days - I can drink again but it'll probably be a few days before I eat normal foods.

On the plus side I got to experience the new ER wing at Burnaby General - it was their first day open. Nice place - newer hospitals make so much more effort to provide patients with privacy and they feel so much more comfortable. Also, as always, the staff are great (as it's always been in my experience). All of this for $0 (beyond my taxes) - it's a great deal.

Also, I'm going to update my will so you guys can get all my car stuff - it's not a lot but it's something. I'll have dukes assigned as the executor for that stuff.

Wow, that's terrible. Was this a sinus infection? I just recovered from a really bad sinus infection that only tapered off over a month's time but it was nowhere near what you described.

How did I become the executor of your will? :pokerface:

[bcrdukes]

she'll be bored and lonely.

Are you allowing 68style to be near your wife?

[supafamous]

My shoulders are nothing if not highly absorbent

Knowing how much my wife hates her job I would imagine there'll be a lot of crying especially after the payout.

Wow, that's terrible. Was this a sinus infection? I just recovered from a really bad sinus infection that only tapered off over a month's time but it was nowhere near what you described.

How did I become the executor of your will? :pokerface:

They didn't put a name to it but it was closer to tonsillitis. They figured it was food debris that got stuck in there and it infected something.

You'll only execute the car related part of the will - you can keep the Costco jack.

Are you allowing 68style to be near your wife?

Can't stop the man after I'm dead.

[Badhobz]

Missed my workouts on Weds and Fri but I got a good excuse!

What was a sore throat on Weds morning turned into painful swallowing (I could only eat soft foods like bananas) on Thursday turned into an ER visit on Friday where I was immediately admitted. The triage nurse candidly told me she was surprised I was still able to breathe upon seeing how swollen - my throat had become infected and swollen so much that much of it had become blocked. Blood tests, x-rays, and a CT scan ensued.

An IV round of steroids, painkillers, and antibiotics later and I'm recovering. I've got a IV attached to me still as I have to go in for 4-5 more rounds of IV anitibiotics (oral ones take too long). My pee is resoundingly dark yellow/orange and I basically adopted red_kryptonite calorie deficit for 3 days so I'm down about 4-5lbs in 3 days - I can drink again but it'll probably be a few days before I eat normal foods.

On the plus side I got to experience the new ER wing at Burnaby General - it was their first day open. Nice place - newer hospitals make so much more effort to provide patients with privacy and they feel so much more comfortable. Also, as always, the staff are great (as it's always been in my experience). All of this for $0 (beyond my taxes) - it's a great deal.

Also, I'm going to update my will so you guys can get all my car stuff - it's not a lot but it's something. I'll have dukes assigned as the executor for that stuff.

this sounds more like an allergic reaction or something. a normal cold/sore throat wouldnt close up your breathing passages like that. thats pretty fucked bro. BibleThump

[bcrdukes]

Costco jack - that's all a man can ever ask for. :ahwow:

[Traum]

Holy shxt, Supa... I'm sorry to hear how big of a scare this "sore throat" has become. And I'm thankful to know that you were able to receive good and rapid care at the hospital.

My smart but illiterate grandma -- bless her soul -- would probably have said that your dark yellow / orange pee is probably bcos you are "hot air" / 熱氣.

I'm calling dips on your RDX, spontaneous rear hatch glass shattering and massively curbed wheels and all. It'd make for a nice transition / lineage from 1G to 3G.

[SSM_DC5]

Bunch of vultures! :lawl:

https://images.meme-arsenal.com/fdaa8afe705b74f0da5dd17c86bbe425.jpg

[Badhobz]

^shaddup you fag, you’re the one who keeps hounding me to sell you my wife’s RX.

[spoon.ek9]

good to hear you've had a good experience in emergency SeemsGood

[RabidRat]

^shaddup you fag, you’re the one who keeps hounding me to sell you my wife’s RX.

I want dibs on the RX after SSM is done with it!

[Badhobz]

ewwww gross. You Guangdong hoarders are all alike.

[supafamous]

TIL: It's not severe diarrhea unless you're going 10 or more times a day.

Why do I know this? I'm on oral antibiotics now and one of the side effects is diarrhea and I googled "severe diarrhea" at 3am this morning. Definitely not doing any exercises that require bracing the core or sphincter this week cause I'm getting enough clenching work in (I qualify as mild to moderate diarrhea).

Maybe I will manage to lose 10lbs by end of June.

[Badhobz]

your poor asshole. i hope you have a bidet. otherwise you'd chafe the shit out of your poor hole.

[supafamous]

your poor asshole. i hope you have a bidet. otherwise you'd chafe the shit out of your poor hole.

No bidet I'm afraid - my toilets are all compact elongated shape and pretty much no one makes bidets for them (I had a quote for a $2k one once - too rich for my ass).

BTW: If anyone needs revenge delivered via turd (especially the explosive spray kind) just send me the address and deets. You have to prepay in the form of a meal though - delivery can happen about 90-120 mins after payment.

[mikemhg]

I escaped the cartel.

https://i.ibb.co/5XR2zH1h/638886640-18583515247025811-2813623813190046970-n.jpg

[Badhobz]

welcome back bro!

[spoon.ek9]

you've been in our thoughts bro, hope you had a blast!

[Gerbs]

Got back from a whistler trip and got glazed by some girlies at the hot tub.

+100 motivation to gym again

I escaped the cartel.

https://i.ibb.co/5XR2zH1h/638886640-18583515247025811-2813623813190046970-n.jpg

look thick, solid, tight

[68style]

Yah that girl on the left is pretty thick, solid... Mike needs to tell us how tight she was tho

[CivicBlues]

Most of us come back with suntans/burns. But bro be spitting out reggaton album covers on vacation.

[mikemhg]

Dale! Baby.

That was a good day for sure, those ladies were pouring bottles down our throats all day, a cocaine filled gong show (I did not partake in that part) :lol

On a side note, Merida is awesome and was a wicked drive out there from Playa Del Carmen, very much recommend that city. I plan to work remotely there for a month or so later this year.

We ended up off the grid a few times along the way stopping in some villages with no cell phone reception in the middle of nowhere chasing random cenotes, local guys were saying I looked like "Cartel De Santa", I disagreed :lol

[68style]

I can kinda see it? Not like... dead ringer, but in passing without glasses on?

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1QXe9H7uOb-VVm7VZqPY7_hNv1eLFVNyNQlNaUK_-CmOisBw2jg

[CivicBlues]

Dale! Baby.

That was a good day for sure, those ladies were pouring bottles down our throats all day, a cocaine filled gong show (I did not partake in that part) :lol

On a side note, Merida is awesome and was a wicked drive out there from Playa Del Carmen, very much recommend that city. I plan to work remotely there for a month or so later this year.

We ended up off the grid a few times along the way stopping in some villages with no cell phone reception in the middle of nowhere chasing random cenotes, local guys were saying I looked like "Cartel De Santa", I disagreed :lol

Agree, Merida is very nice and about as safe as you can be in Mexico. Also check out Campeche nearby if you haven't already

[mikemhg]

I can kinda see it? Not like... dead ringer, but in passing without glasses on?

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1QXe9H7uOb-VVm7VZqPY7_hNv1eLFVNyNQlNaUK_-CmOisBw2jg

No way LOL.

I didn't want to be cartel de nothing down there, though :lol

I'm not about to be in a rendition of the funky town video. IYKYK.

[mikemhg]

Agree, Merida is very nice and about as safe as you can be in Mexico. Also check out Campeche nearby if you haven't already

My uncle lives in Merida and his buddy who's an ex SAS was telling me that Merida is like The Continental in John Wick, crime doesn't happen there and it's ridiculously safe, the Mexican government essentially mandates it.

It certainly felt like it, cops everywhere, felt VERY safe.

[GS8]

I can kinda see it? Not like... dead ringer, but in passing without glasses on?

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1QXe9H7uOb-VVm7VZqPY7_hNv1eLFVNyNQlNaUK_-CmOisBw2jg

Is that Andrew Tate-r tots?

I can't say I agree with him on much...except this

https://scontent.fyyc2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/653507938_18348434311238555_4593056517578700468_n. jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=13d280&_nc_ohc=5gcZeFvfXPEQ7kNvwHFuYvH&_nc_oc=Adm48AY_r-QB2vVFF_4noqX7zJihDsVWvYAJ9fXw0SwU-Bn694ZGj9rVxahLngD-6KrFtCkejDCW2yeI-G46Kgpv&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fyyc2-1.fna&_nc_gid=7QE7n3hM6Bl3mc0TuGaWHA&_nc_ss=8&oh=00_AfxGqJk-touC2y-ofplmTSlzF8ZHiA9GOdTkXRau18zbyw&oe=69BFE53C

[donk.]

a cocaine filled gong show (I did not partake in that part) :lol


Rookie

Jahovas witnesses party harder than you

[Gerbs]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55153195987_1b46ae6de8_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2s2GxEc)

Post whistler weekend bender, hangover run on 0 sleep quality.

132BPM, lets goooo, accidentally saved the first 3.36KM of the run @ 5min pace uphill, previous PR was 21.5KM total

Overall, knees hurts at KM 17-30.5 + core cramped at KM 6-11. cardio was a non issue, just a matter of knee pain / quad cramp.

Gotta spam bulgarian split squats to push through knee pain, idk how I'm gonna run +70KM on top of this, the knee pain was whack

[Traum]

Holy shxt... I don't even think I can sustain that 6:23 /km pace for 10 min, and you did that for 3 hours... :bowjerk:

Well done~! :bigthumb:

[Badhobz]

youre insane..... *eats more fried foods while reading this*

[Gerbs]

Holy shxt... I don't even think I can sustain that 6:23 /km pace for 10 min, and you did that for 3 hours... :bowjerk:

Well done~! :bigthumb:

recently I unlocked 5:05/KM on 138bpm for shorter runs, it's so sick, I have unlimited cardio since i started 100ish days ago

[mikemhg]

^It's that long ass stride :)

[noclue]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55153195987_1b46ae6de8_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2s2GxEc)

Post whistler weekend bender, hangover run on 0 sleep quality.

132BPM, lets goooo, accidentally saved the first 3.36KM of the run @ 5min pace uphill, previous PR was 21.5KM total

Overall, knees hurts at KM 17-30.5 + core cramped at KM 6-11. cardio was a non issue, just a matter of knee pain / quad cramp.

Gotta spam bulgarian split squats to push through knee pain, idk how I'm gonna run +70KM on top of this, the knee pain was whack

Have you been working on your sleep? Big factor along with physical gainz

[Gerbs]

^It's that long ass stride :)

heartbreak energy babyyyyyy jks, ran outta that juice


need some new motivation quick

Have you been working on your sleep? Big factor along with physical gainz

I've been trying, it 's been better lately, but only 6.5hours asleep vs 8-9 hours time in bed sadly

seems like the only true fix is to start really early 5-7AM wake-up, then PTFO by 9:30-10:30PM but that doesn't really work socially when you're tryna date in mid to late 20's

[Badhobz]

if you do all this shit and you still cant find a rich china wife, youre doing it wrong.

CBC girls are broke ass bitches, ignore them for your future's sake

[bcrdukes]

CBC girls are broke ass bitches, ignore them for your future's sake

This.

Sure, they might have a "high paying job" (relative to Vancouver average) but most of them are broke AF.

[spoon.ek9]

we made a thread for this topic lol. actually YOU made a thread for this topic, specifically.

[Traum]

we made a thread for this topic lol. actually YOU made a thread for this topic, specifically.
Discussion continued here:

https://www.revscene.net/forums/718094-modern-dating-thread-17.html#post9214624

[Gerbs]

Back to the gym grind though

[unit]

any of you ballers own or have owned a massage chair?
i kinda want one...

[Badhobz]

i have an Osim UDivine massage chair. Its... okay. underutilized like most products in my house.

[unit]

my only fear is that these things break in 2-3 years... if i knew it would be good for 5 or 10 years i would buy one in a heartbeat.

[bcrdukes]

any of you ballers own or have owned a massage chair?
i kinda want one...

Yes, but I am not baller (you all know that.)

We have a top-of-the-line Panasonic massage chair. 5+ years and running strong. Outside of very minor wear and tear of touch points, the unit is running strong. Both me and my wife use it on a near daily basis.

[unit]

I am not baller

We have a top-of-the-line Panasonic massage chair.

:suspicious:

[spoon.ek9]

I have RMT benefits :pokerface:

[bcrdukes]

:suspicious:

:peek:

[unit]

I have RMT benefits :pokerface:

ok not fair you work in healthcare you have like unlimited massages

[spoon.ek9]

$400 for the entire year, essentially. I got once a week.

Some nurses go 2-3 times per week!

[bcrdukes]

Wow, how much are your massages?

[quasi]

$400 for the entire year, essentially. I got once a week.

Some nurses go 2-3 times per week!

My wife used to have benefits like that, I was going 2x a week, it was awesome lol.

I still go probably every 3 weeks but not as awesome.

[spoon.ek9]

I think the going rate is now $135/hour?

[quasi]

I think the going rate is now $135/hour?

That's what my RMT charges, I usually do 45mins @ $110.00. The RMT I see cleans up, I was literally her first client when she opened up her location about 10 years ago, she now has 3 locations, RMT's, Chiros, Physios, Accupun., Natural Paths all working for her, she has to be making bank.

Chiro charges $75.00 for 15 minutes so not a bad deal.

[unit]

all these practitioners are so propped up from benefit companies.. there is a 'wellness center' every block now

[Badhobz]

my only fear is that these things break in 2-3 years... if i knew it would be good for 5 or 10 years i would buy one in a heartbeat.

uhh herrow, this is why you buy from costco. 10 years later if it breaks you can still return it.

[bcrdukes]

I don't think that still applies....does it?

[Traum]

any of you ballers own or have owned a massage chair?
i kinda want one...
The massages I want come with a happy ending~ :lawl:

[RabidRat]

^ Both can be true. There are chairs with "mechanisms"!

Claiming it under benefits might be kind of a challenge though :(

[bcrdukes]

^ Both can be true. There are chairs with "mechanisms"!

Claiming it under benefits might be kind of a challenge though :(

You have to ask if they provide a receipt and have a registered massage therapist. Bonus if they offer direct billing! :accepted:

[unit]

uhh herrow, this is why you buy from costco. 10 years later if it breaks you can still return it.

thing is you cant even try the costco ones out anywhere, you have to just buy it based on the small amount of info on their website

[Badhobz]

just buy the most expensive one from costco and if you dont like it, return it. thats how you test it....

[unit]

return a 300lb massage chair... ya..

[68style]

unit buys massage chair to fix bad back, it doesn't work

unit returns massage chair, hurts back even more in the process

unit goes back into store and buys different massage chair, it also doesn't work

unit returns second massage chair, breaks back completely, dies

Revscene sad, but also proud of their brother for working the system

[Badhobz]

return a 300lb massage chair... ya..

this is where you need to get a buddy with a truck and a ramp.... then you roll it up onto the truck bed easy peasy! all these massage chairs have wheels underneath.

[unit]

unit calls on RS gym bros to hoist chair into rented home depot truck for him

[Badhobz]

yeah! whats the point of all this gym lifting shit if we cant help you with a massage chair!? i would be honored to come help you lift this chair so you may get youre money back.

[bcrdukes]

Has the recent return policy update from Costco impact returns for stuff like massage chairs?

[Badhobz]

nope. it didnt even update to cover game consoles. you can buy a nintendo switch, use it for 6 years and then return it when the new one comes out.

[6793026]

I think the new policy changed for the US for sure and I'm sure they can use that right when needed for Canada.

90-Day Limit: This applies to televisions, projectors, computers, cameras, camcorders, aerial cameras (drones), digital music players, tablets, smartwatches, and cellular phones.

Again, if the lady doesn't care and just takes it that's a bonus, but if you're red flagged I'm sure they can make it hard for you. But yes, they never flagged consoles.. so yeha

[Gerbs]

Ran the last 67/129 days, lets go

[EvoFire]

Prob the wrong place for this but.. how do you guys get your aging parents to do exercise? My mom, who's not really all that old (56), is starting to show signs of accelerated aging like loss of balance/stability, can't walk that long anymore, spotted black/purple discoloration in feet, etc. This probably comes from 30 years of being an accountant.. and neglecting exercise.

I want to hear answers for this too. Seems nothing changes their behaviour - my parents and in-laws are a lot older (71-83 y.o) with various medical conditions (osteoporosis, low lung capacity etc) yet nothing we do changes their sedentary ways.

I'm also trying to get my wife to change her sedentary ways as well - not much luck there either.

I found emotional well being makes for a much much bigger difference than any amount of exercise will do, and it's a compound effect as well.

My dad when living with just my mom in their condo was overall in a pretty bitchy mood most of the time. I sometimes worried if he was depressed as there some some signs.

Then he moved into my basement. I honestly wasn't sure about it but in the 3 years he's moved in, his mood has been consistently improving. He had been having knee problems for years where he complained he couldn't walk down stairs without hurting. He had that problem when he first moved in, together with not being able to get up when sitting on the ground.

Maybe it's partly my two kids making him move more, maybe it's from just overall a better well being, which also translated him to be willing to go outside for walks. Being in Fraserview it's also a pretty taxing walk as it's hilly.

Him and I realized middle of last year, he no longer hurts. He can walk up and down stairs without any pain. He can get up from the floor. It's like it transformed him.

It goes back to the Singapore taxing policy where your taxes are reduced by the proximity of you being close to your parents. The design as that having adult children nearby improves the health of the elderly, to the point that the savings in medical needs far outstrips the the cost of providing those cost savings.

[Badhobz]

^amazing you took your parents in. If I took my shitty parents in, my health and mental facilities would instantly diminish so much that ill probably murder everyone before the month ends.

[68style]

Same I can tolerate my parents individually, they’re nice people separate from each other, but if they’re together it’s so toxic I can only spend like an hour around them at most and that’s pushing it.

They’re both much healthier apart from each other, I don’t know why the never got divorced or separated it’s kinda crazy. I guess at this point if they split up they’d have no one else to blame for being miserable hahaha!

[mikemhg]

I found emotional well being makes for a much much bigger difference than any amount of exercise will do, and it's a compound effect as well.

My dad when living with just my mom in their condo was overall in a pretty bitchy mood most of the time. I sometimes worried if he was depressed as there some some signs.

Then he moved into my basement. I honestly wasn't sure about it but in the 3 years he's moved in, his mood has been consistently improving. He had been having knee problems for years where he complained he couldn't walk down stairs without hurting. He had that problem when he first moved in, together with not being able to get up when sitting on the ground.

Maybe it's partly my two kids making him move more, maybe it's from just overall a better well being, which also translated him to be willing to go outside for walks. Being in Fraserview it's also a pretty taxing walk as it's hilly.

Him and I realized middle of last year, he no longer hurts. He can walk up and down stairs without any pain. He can get up from the floor. It's like it transformed him.

It goes back to the Singapore taxing policy where your taxes are reduced by the proximity of you being close to your parents. The design as that having adult children nearby improves the health of the elderly, to the point that the savings in medical needs far outstrips the the cost of providing those cost savings.

This is very true.

It's the same reason why when a spouse passes away at older age, the other usually goes not long thereafter.

Despair of the mind carries a massive affect on the body, and ones health.

[EvoFire]

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My workout for the day. I had to stack up the new to me winters I picked up while I was on vacation. I'm not sure it was smart to stack them up that high, I don't know if I can get the top wheel off at 65lbs, at least maybe not by myself.

[radeonboy]

^Be careful, I find stacking wheels up easier than loading them down.

[68style]

inb4 Badhobz makes a guangdong hoarder comment about that garage

[EvoFire]

But I am a GD hoarder, with a SH wife, worst of all worlds

[Badhobz]

Takes a deep breath……

Insert inception waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm sound effect

!!!!!Guangdong hoarder!!!!

[GLOW]

how i'm picturing hobz saying this
https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-27-2015/R-C8Fx.gif

[RabidRat]

Just gotta organize it like Red does, and then it's not hoarding anymore... it's curating.

[Gerbs]

back from mexico city, lost 1lb lol

[mikemhg]

^all the walking

[Gerbs]

summers incoming lock innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55193000937_9d309cc9cb_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2s6dyhr)

[Badhobz]

Uhhh hopefully you’re not the stick on the right. That dude looks concentration camp fresh.

[SSM_DC5]

Pretty sure he is!

[Mikoyan]

Down to 163 from 169 after 2 week Sing/HK trip.

The secret is to get food poisoning/bug at your last meal in HK. 10 day system reboot.

[Gerbs]

Uhhh hopefully you’re not the stick on the right. That dude looks concentration camp fresh.

twinkies are in lfg

[red kryptonite]

i dunno how u guys are losing weight while on vacay?!?! u guys aint doing it right hahaha
all the walking doesnt cancel out the 6000cal/days.

[Akinari]

Down to 163 from 169 after 2 week Sing/HK trip.

The secret is to get food poisoning/bug at your last meal in HK. 10 day system reboot.
Damn where'd you eat in HK so I can make sure I never eat there lol

[EvoFire]

I gained weight in Japan, and lost it in Shanghai. I feel like in Japan I was gaining fat, and I was losing muscle mass while in Shanghai.

[smoothie.]

belt one hole tighter after eating all the wagyu in Japan.

[mikemhg]

Everyone travels differently, so I think that accounts for the weight loss, or gains.

I tend not to eat a lot on vacation, but that's also because 99% of my vacations are to warm/beach climates in which you don't really want to eat all day due to the heat, nor would you want to be bloated doing beach shit :lol

Now on the other hand, if you're in Japan or Europe during the winter, you're probably going balls deep.

[Gerbs]

twink build perfect for prs! looking at my friends PR's in the 40's, realized i'm not pushing hard enough if bpm is sub 170

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55198293102_2bcc4643c6_n.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2s6FFsE)

[Gerbs]

i dunno how u guys are losing weight while on vacay?!?! u guys aint doing it right hahaha
all the walking doesnt cancel out the 6000cal/days.

honestly no idea, i eat more than everyone in this forum but I'm also 200+lbs and double the width and height :awwyeah:

this time though, limited alcohol bevvies to maybe 4-8 a day and benders of 10-20+ drinks 2x a week.

i didn't eat much chips / snacks this time around though

[Mikoyan]

Damn where'd you eat in HK so I can make sure I never eat there lol

It was in that cluster of open air street food stalls near Woosung St and Pak Hoi St. at the north end of the Temple St Market.

Everyone else was ok, so I think maybe my bowl/chopsticks were dirty. I guess the washing tea wasn't hot enough to clean.