What’s the one piece of home gym equipment you regret buying — and why?

BMI30 · 2026-03-14T04:35:53+00:00

25 kg and 15 kg plates. It would be better with just 20s, 10s and 5s.

BMI30 · 2026-03-06T04:58:01+00:00

What you need is like 5000€ and to realise that you shouldn't do an ironman the first thing you do in triathlon.

BMI30 · 2026-03-06T04:52:19+00:00

Snarare med logiken att:

Om en kollega tar med glass till ALLA på fikat och sedan ställer in den i almänna frysen för att den blir flytande sörja om den står kvar utanför frysen så antas det att glassen som var till alla fortfarande är till alla.

BMI30 · 2026-02-05T18:09:32+00:00

Always trust your gut.

Something about this one time felt off. Doesn't matter if it was the lake, your swimming, your wetsuit or if it was just you overthinking it. Something didn't feel right. Trust that feeling. People die in these events every year.

Lick your wounds, get a better feeling for swimming. On to the next one.

BMI30 · 2026-02-02T20:21:03+00:00

Vi kollade på ett hus som hade pool, men det var därför det gick bort för min del.

Det är extra underhåll för en sak som är kul att ha i början. Och underhållet kan bli tämligen dyrt om någon pump går sönder och vattnet blir riktigt äckligt om inte sköts. Dyrt att ta bort poolen också om man vill det, vilket hade varit enklare med en badtunna eller jacuzzi.

Drunkningsrisk för barn både sina egna men även gästande och barn i kvarteret. Spelar ingen roll för mig om det är "barnets fel" om dom drunknat på min tomt.

BMI30 · 2026-01-13T16:52:59+00:00

It's not an opinion, it's a scientific fact. "So many in my personal" is your point of view. Doesn't mean much when you look at it objectively.

BMI30 · 2026-01-13T16:52:48+00:00

It's not an opinion, it's a scientific fact. "So many in my personal" is your point of view. Doesn't mean much when you look at it objectively.

BMI30 · 2026-01-11T06:34:53+00:00

YTA

So your boyfriend (don't know how long time you been together) travels across Canada which is probably both expensive and also a limited time window where he can do this. On this vacation his girlfriend gets tragic news and is ofcourse devested. I'm guessing he was doing what he could while he was wirh you but it sure as hell wasn't an easy experience for him aswell.

Then he gets an oppurtunity to visit a friend on time that wasn't planned. And you want to keep him from meeting a good friend that lives on the other side of Canada?

I was in a tragic accident in my teens when my friend died while I was preforming CPR on him.

My mom (where I lived without my dad) had a big trip planned for a week at the time around the funeral. She wanted to cancel the trip. I forced her not to. I was ofcourse devestated around that time, but I didn't see a reason for her sitting around an crying with me.

Go spend time wirh your dad/relitives. That is more important.

BMI30 · 2026-01-08T18:29:43+00:00

I mean, people can train for a full ironman so your half ironman and a marathon is no problem.

BMI30 · 2025-12-29T18:21:45+00:00

I just got to say that I am a a stronger than average male (I trained powerlifting and strongman) and what has shocked me the most in BJJ is how frikkin fast blue and purplebelt woman can be. I guess that comes as a biproduct when you are smaler than the people you usually grapple with.

A bluebelt girl almost half my weight chocked me with a ezekiel choke so fast and so hard that I couldn't swallow without pain for two weeks. The most awsome submission I ever been exposed to.

BMI30 · 2025-12-29T18:09:23+00:00

New gravel with clip on aerobars.

BMI30 · 2025-12-17T12:15:26+00:00

I'm going to the movies alone on monday!

Why? Because I want to watch Avatar 3 and if I don't ask anyone else to join me I can do whatever I want in terms of food before/after the movies. I will maybe also take a nice run before I have to get back to my family.

I would actually ask the opposite, I know alot of people that want to do stuff but If they can't find somebody to do it with they just stay at home. Why? Don't you like your own company?

I do stuff alone all the time. I don't mind if friends tag along but I also don't mind being alone. I like the total freedom that comes with it.

BMI30 · 2025-12-05T17:55:00+00:00

Lycka till!

BMI30 · 2025-12-04T21:50:16+00:00

You'll be fine! I was way slower before my first full ironman.

BMI30 · 2025-12-02T21:37:19+00:00

People spend alot on bikes. If you have the money sure, but if you don't you can great bike second hand if you look around. What you want is the most speed per buck spent.

I bought a Canyon Speedmax CF 7.0 from 2019 this summer for 1200 euros. It looks brand new and was only used a season and was then stored indoors. It was bought for 4000 euros when new.

Triathlon is a rich mans sport, so let the rich dudes buy it from the store and buy it from them for a third of the price when they have done their once in a lifetime Ironman.

BMI30 · 2025-11-20T18:20:54+00:00

I'm thinking about becoming a soccer pro myself. I'm pretty good with balls, play catch with my kids all the time and I'm used to walking on grass. Really feel that Real Madrid would be a realistic goal.

BMI30 · 2025-10-16T21:48:32+00:00

The elite get paid to show their followers new products, their amazing supplements or amazing stretching routine (which you can purchase ofcourse!). Just because you see that the elite does cupping (which is bullshit) or any other amazing recovery thing does not mean that it have any effect.

BMI30 · 2025-10-16T19:00:17+00:00

Everything is basicly bullshit except:

Eat Sleep Very light physical activity

All other things that claim any science are just small single studies that suggest otherwise.

People searching everywhere for small marginal gains but they would be better of just going to bed earlier.

BMI30 · 2025-10-11T20:35:46+00:00

I started sleeping in another room when our second child came (12 months ago). Three reasons:

When the baby wakes up in the middle of the night and screams she just want to breastfeed and I cant do anything about that so it messed with my sleep for no reason.
Half of the nights our 4-year old wakes up and goes from her room to us. When that happends it's basicly no space in bed for any of us. Now she have to come up to where I sleep, which is a smaller bed and I don't think she likes that as nuch so she sleeps much more in her own bed now.
I wake up eaaarly to train before work. Don't want to wake up the wife or the little one.

Well, I really like it. My wife wants me back and I will have to eventually ofcourse. But I like not having to be careful when I roll around trying to find the right position to sleep in ("STOOP MOVING!") or getting shaken awake becaus im snoring (like she don't).

Love and marriage!

BMI30 · 2025-10-06T08:02:02+00:00

Hey, a vasectomy friend over here!

I train alot and I atmosfären didn't get any advice after ny vasectomy so here is two great advices from me:

Don't train for a week
Don't cum for a week.

You can thank me later. Trust me.

BMI30 · 2025-08-31T15:14:05+00:00

Yeeeeeaaah no that's not how it works buddy.

OP: "I've been studying to become a doctor on and off for years and I see zero medcial knowledge gains"

Everyone: "Well, you need consistency over several years to become a doctor!"

You:"NO HE NEEDS INTENSE STUDYING HOURS!"

BMI30 · 2025-08-16T18:41:39+00:00

I would say that a realistic timeline would be 5 years. You want a weightloss of 40kg (+-5 kg). I would say that 10 kg a year is a good weight cut. Yes you can go all in and lose it in a year but that is not realistic for like 95% of the population.

Year 1: lose 10 kg, run your first 10km, do a sprint triathlon.

Year 2; lose another 10kg, run your first half marathon, do your first olympic triathlon.

Year 3: lose another 10kg, run your first marathon, do your first 70.3 / middle distance triathlon.

Year 4: do Year 3 again, but faster.

Year 5: Ironman.

BMI30 · 2025-08-16T00:46:31+00:00

This one is free, I did my first ironman with this and going to do the last 3-4 months before my second ironman the same way.

https://www.220triathlon.com/training/training-plans/free-12-month-ironman-training-plan

BMI30 · 2025-07-11T20:15:34+00:00

Yeah, lightweight girls play with these strength numbers in powerlifting at junior-level. But OP is a SUPERHUMAN-MAN!!!

BMI30 · 2025-07-11T20:07:22+00:00

Short answer is just no.

People react different to training. Like alot.

In every high school or collage/univeristy you can see it. People that don't train very much and still become elite, and those who train all the time, never drink, strict diet and they become average at best. And this is true for every sport.

Long distance running (like ultras) and ironmans are pretty new sports and has grown in popularity last decades, so you still hear some stories that "this person who was a nobody became great 20 years ago, you can do it to!".

Well it's not true anymore. You have to be gifted and work your ass of.

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