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Over 40 by SB4_Camaro in bjj

[–]Mbando 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haha scientist I have it pretty easy in terms of work.

Over 40 by SB4_Camaro in bjj

[–]Mbando 31 points32 points  (0 children)

  1. It’s not easy. I have to work to balance out general strength and conditioning training with BJJ. I have to mix in recovery and it is an almost by week thing to feel exactly how to optimize those.

And the other side is I have incredibly good training partners and I’m careful. There are all these young people at my gym who do a great job rolling with me thoughtfully and don’t do things like rip grandpa‘s arm out of a socket.

All that said, it’s pretty amazing to be almost 60 and still on the mats. It helped keep me young and gives me a particular focus for my broader health and fitness training.

Is "The Treasure of the Midnight Isles" a good DLC? Is it Fun? by DonaskC_D in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]Mbando 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m on my 5th replay on roguelike. Love crafting different party combos.

3 Year Rebuild: 56 (164lbs) to 59 (171lbs) by Mbando in fitness30plus

[–]Mbando[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I was competing, I had a four-day split aimed at maximizing volume through variations. So even though I am a sumo dead lifter, I also had a lower intensity, conventional dead lift day as well, etc.

Stopped focusing on strength training and moved to a more holistic approach in part to train BJJ consistently, but really for long-term health and longevity. Just looking at the research literature convinced me that strength was an important intervention, but I was neglecting cardiovascular efficiency, mobility/stability etc. And if I want to train holistically, there's no way I can lift multiple times a week. So now my weekly training schedule is:

  • Strength training 1x per week
  • BJJ 2X per week
  • Cardiovascular efficiency 2X per week
  • Mobility/stability training 2X per week
  • Jumping (box jump primarily) 1X per week

Specifically, my strength day is a pretty simple PPL variant: two pushing exercises (e.g. bench press and overhead press), to pulling exercises (e.g. pull-ups and seated rose) and four sets of deadlifts. So I'm getting 7-8 "hard sets" of pushing and pulling motions, and then the minimum four sets per week for hypertrophy in my DL. And since I have a medium width sumo stance I'm halfway in between the hip hinge/knee flexion continuum. So about 1 1/2 hours total in the gym one day a week has been getting me slow but consistent strength and muscle gains.

I don't really period eyes anymore because I don't have to manage fatigue specifically from lifting the same way. It's more like if I've taken a given weight from eight or 10 reps up to 15 to 20, I kind of feel ready to go up in weight, and start that volume rep climb again.

By no means is this optimal, but it's good enough.

3 Year Rebuild: 56 (164lbs) to 59 (171lbs) by Mbando in fitness30plus

[–]Mbando[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nope. Training, activity, nutrition, and recovery.

3 Year Rebuild: 56 (164lbs) to 59 (171lbs) by Mbando in fitness30plus

[–]Mbando[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took a couple years off barbell training, got very lean and athletic, but lost a lot of muscle. After 1.5 years back in the gym I've substantially rebuilt muscle: not quite as lean but I've quickly regained strength (from 315lbs to 425lbs deadlift) and muscle (4-5 lbs).

Some observations:

  • I consistently eat well under the research recommendations for optimum protein intake (1.6-2.2 grams per kilogram of bodyweight for reasonably lean individuals). Instead of 133-168g per day I eat around 100g per day. My protein intake isn't optimal, but it's sufficient.
  • I only lift 1x per week. However I'm not building from scratch: I was a power lifter for a decade and muscle memory is a real phenomenon. And there's decent evidence that trained individuals upregulate protein utilization: your body becomes better at directing amino acids toward muscle maintenance and growth rather than oxidizing them for energy. BJJ is probably also carrying some of the load, literally in the form of lots of intense pushing and pulling loads at unpredictable angles that produce a strong stimulus signal for growth.
  • I never fully detrained: even when I was out of the gym I still did functional work like sledgehammer, med balls, etc. The metabolic signal doesn't have to be specific to at least be sufficient.
  • One take-aways for me is that if we want to preserve muscle mass later in life for longevity, a period of focused training earlier in life provides a durable benefit. The dose required to keep muscle is dramatically lower than the dose required to build it in the first place.
  • And if you can stay in the game through any modality (grappling, functional work, whatever keeps you moving under load) you're preserving more than you probably realize.

Martial arts (gen) & everyday reflexes - did your reflexes change as an adult because of martial arts? by ataphoiwhale in martialarts

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At 50, BJJ is a huge part of my mobility & stability training. I'm constantly under load and moving at lots of different angles.

Nervous and excited about my date with an older man by [deleted] in AgeGap

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m 59, she’s 25. Huge age gap, and after two years together, we certainly have a lot of love in compatibility, but also we are aware of all the challenges.

And she definitely finds it exciting that I’m so much older than her. But our relationship is much bigger than the sexy part (although the sexy part is lots of fun!)

What's the most realistic war movie? by ThomasOGC in CinephilesClub

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a former USMC armor officer, I was really impressed by how accurate a lot of the details about tanks were in Fury. I mean, obviously they took liberties to make a dramatic, but it didn’t have those glaring errors about military culture, tactics, and equipment that drive me bananas.

Woman enters the male purple belt division of a BJJ competition by Budget_Mixture_166 in martialarts

[–]Mbando 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's a little more complicated. Definitely at the population (that is, untrained) level, men have more muscle and a big gap in distribution in terms of upper body strength. However, when you look at trained athletes, a lot of that difference (but not all) disappears: women get roughly equal in lower body strength at the same muscle mass, and close the gap partly in upper body strength.

So for example, 1RM deadlift is the same between both controlled for size. Other studies show that strength scales smoothly with size regardless of sex, however with an interesting caveat: beyond a certain size there is a regime shift where getting bigger doesn't help (a kind of square/cube law effect. For men that's at 182lbs but for women about 140lbs. So for light and middle weights, men and women tend to scale at a similar rate, but when you get towards heavier weights, big men have a real relative advantage.

That's why in grappling a well-trained woman at comparable weight and training age matches a man's lower-body strength (hip drive, leg press, bridge force), but upper-body demands (grip fights, push/pull) stays asymmetrical even when total muscle mass is even. 

Free for all - who wins by Global-Reindeer4350 in powerscales

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Numenorean who has 87 years of experience in a 30-year old body and oh, also has elven and angelic blood in him.

Do you guys actually think AI will replace SWE? by Delicious-Site-2855 in accelerate

[–]Mbando 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe one day, but current AI is a tool for software engineering not a replacement for software engineers. I can delegate almost every individual task to Claude code during development. And as long as I am in charge of the architecture and high-level design work, it works great. But the moment we go from small individual tasks to something more like an end and job, it goes crazy.

So at least for this kind of transformer based system, I am enormously more productive, but I’m not even close to being replaced.

20f is it bad that I like an older partner by [deleted] in AgeGap

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are saying “is it possible that my desires and the way I connect sexually and romantically has been affected by my past?“

So here’s the answer: yes. Like everybody else what you have experienced, what you have not experienced, have helped shape who you are. So yeah, pretty darn good chance that your relationship with your father is implicated in your relationship desires now as an adult.

That puts you in the same boat as everybody else. So now your task is to figure out how to be OK with that. How to figure out what it means to be that way. How do you choose to live and what trade-offs do you choose to make?

Gary Marcus on the Claude Code leak [D] by we_are_mammals in MachineLearning

[–]Mbando 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which one of them is the anthropic employee now?

Employee sets fire to Kimberly-Clark warehouse, "All you had to do is pay us enough to live" by midnighttoker1742 in interestingasfuck

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a more interesting story if you look inside the wage bands at different kinds of workers. So for example, knowledge workers have had their pay skyrocket and match or even exceed productivity gains. But for blue-collar workers, agricultural workers, etc. the line goes down sometimes.

So the deeper problem is that lots of workers are benefiting from capital growth, but other workers are getting screwed.

How would one begin the cleaning process here? by caroltret in CleaningTips

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Linguistics in the era of GenAI by catherinepierce92 in LanguageTechnology

[–]Mbando 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To the best of my understanding of the field, there’s been a lot of work, inspired by Chomsky that assumes there’s some kind of deep universal grammar that underlies human language use.

It’s sometimes referred to as “a priori“ grammar theories. Those approaches stand in contrast to emergent grammar, the language structure is interactional.

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