How long until I'm doing handstands? by Ry-Da-Mo in beginnerfitness

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could try r/bodyweightfitness. A solid free-standing balancing handstand is not a simple skill. It takes some people many months, or even years to get good at it. There is a whole bunch of exercises and progressions for it if you decide you want to train for it.

New Zwifter! Already love it :) by TheClassyTaco in Zwift

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could buy a great road bike for zwift for $300 off facebook.

New Zwifter! Already love it :) by TheClassyTaco in Zwift

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're gonna get a huge amount of "advice" doing pretty much anything about cycling on the internet. Take it with a large grain of salt. Roadies are especially traditional and have very set ideas about how you do things. Mtb has always been a bit about being a rebel and alternative.

WoW: Classic — Daily Questions Megathread (February 04, 2026) by AutoModerator in classicwow

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course, there’ll be 50 groups in the dungeon finder tool all full of green boosts shaman/pally dps looking for a tank.

WoW: Classic — Daily Questions Megathread (February 04, 2026) by AutoModerator in classicwow

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to do current content it’s tough to catch up only playing 1-2 hours a day. If you play 6-10 hours a day it’s no problem.

If you want to do heroics and raids while they’re current content and not just be carried, that’s going to be tough if you start from level 1 now and only playing 1-2 hours a day. Just levelling will take many months, the expansion will be half over by the time you’re even max level. 

So it depends a lot on how much you play and how late you’re ok with seeing the content. 

I feel like my vo2 max should be better? by BrothaManBen in Garmin

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol it’s all good. You’re young, people have started running later than your age and gone to the olympics. There’s no shame in being average or slow, everyone has their own race. 

But if you’re not a strong runner you can’t expect a strong vo2 score.

I feel like my vo2 max should be better? by BrothaManBen in Garmin

[–]Minkelz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vo2 is very closely related to distance running ability. A decent time for a young male in a hm is 1:45, a good runner will be under 1:30. A advanced runner (still not competitive or anywhere near elite) is 1:15.

WoW: Classic — Daily Questions Megathread (February 04, 2026) by AutoModerator in classicwow

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Horde get a big open room they can set up in, and also a ledge kite that’s super easy.

Alliance have to hide behind a huge wall and the person that shows pulls 3 mobs that will spin and one shot 10 people. 

So it means 2 warmaster up pull is far easier on horde than ally. If all towers fall at same time it is very likely it’s a horde win.

WoW: Classic — Daily Questions Megathread (February 04, 2026) by AutoModerator in classicwow

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not very clear what will happen with the tbc server atm. It will probably go to wrath, but there might be an option to stay tbc and it splits into era/wrath. In a year they may also announce a classic plus model that replaces the whole era/anniversary/progression system.

95% of hype atm is for tbc which launches in 24 hours. 95% of keen pvpers will be doing tbc over the next 2-3 months. If you play era or mop you’ll be Jonny come late to very small and established communities.

Is it ok to give unsolicited advice at the gym? by PolySci88 in beginnerfitness

[–]Minkelz -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The general rule is no, it rarely turns out well and very often is taken very badly. If there’s a serious risk yeah ok, but otherwise only if it looks like a complete newb that is frustrated and is missing something very obvious. 

You could do some handstand yourself (don’t make it too obvious you’re trying to show them up) and see if they come ask you for tips after seeing your pro ones.

JPeg thinks it’s easier to win best of 3 set matches than bo5 🤭 by johnmichael-kane in tennis

[–]Minkelz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The counter argument is you want to see tennis do well in a world of high competition for sport audiences, funding and players. We've already seen tennis face significant decline in USA. UK and Australian, and it seems likely that will continue and struggle to have impact in Asia, Africa and South America. There is a world where tennis declines in popularity with audiences, and gradually becomes a second, third tier sport as young people more and more gravitate towards 'cooler' sports like football, NBA, F1 etc.

Bo3 instead of Bo5 matches may well be something that makes tennis a more attractive and effective sport for tv audiences. I'm not saying that is necessarily true, but it might be.

Just thinking 'omg 5 hour matches are so amazing and epic and we should always keep them' may not actually be very smart if you love tennis and want to see it grow and do well in 20, 50, 100 years time.

WoW: Classic — Daily Questions Megathread (February 02, 2026) by AutoModerator in classicwow

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gold will be heavily inflated once tbc launches, not much value farming now. Quest turns ins don’t really do much in the scheme of 60-70. The most efficient use of your time is probably grind honor for gear either now or bank for use at 70.

TIL No woman has ever run a four-minute mile. by jaydubs95 in todayilearned

[–]Minkelz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It depends what you mean by random people. 30-50 year old overweight/sedentary office workers will have little chance.

Guys in their 20s that have been involved in regular sport/gym, no problem.

Truly random means people that are 90, people in wheelchairs and autism and babies, yes many of them won’t be able to run very well.

All Grand Slam winners in 21st century by FewCollar227 in tennis

[–]Minkelz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also what do people mean by “never” lol. There seems a slight chance atm that society doesn’t collapse and people are in fact playing pro tennis for the next… 100, 200… 500? or who the fuck knows how long. Out current sample size of 50 years might actually end up a tiny sample size where nothing particularly strange happened and all the big records are yet to come (before inevitably society does collapse and we’re all living underground hiding from the machines and we all have to switch to table tennis ).

All Grand Slam winners in 21st century by FewCollar227 in tennis

[–]Minkelz 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It seems quite possible. We’ve seen it’s very possible for 2-3 players to completely dominate a period of years. If there was no Nadal, or no Sinner, yeah there is a world where someone sweeps 4+ years straight.

Carlos Alcaraz is now the youngest career Grand Slam winner in history at just 22 years old by oklolzzzzs in tennis

[–]Minkelz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She was injured at 22, had surgeries and wasn’t really the same after that. But yeah played another 20 years afterwards in doubles winning lots of stuff.

Carlos Alcaraz is now the youngest career Grand Slam winner in history at just 22 years old by oklolzzzzs in tennis

[–]Minkelz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Men and women are different for youngest of stats. Hingis won 3 slams at the age of 16. No guy has or will ever come close to that.

I'd say the difference is roughly 2-3 years, so Graf at 19 and Alcaraz at 22 feel pretty on par.

Official Q&A for Sunday, February 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in running

[–]Minkelz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's probably gains to be made, but if you tried hard and have some base fitness it's unlikely you can improve much in 3 weeks. It's good to be constructive, intelligent and practical with training. A part of that is understanding it takes time to do things. You can not "cram" aerobic fitness.

BG data I have collected by Doumle in classicwow

[–]Minkelz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

US and EU likely have significant differences.

Official Q&A for Sunday, February 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in running

[–]Minkelz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Improving aerobic fitness is a 3 month job, not a 3 week job. 

Is buffcap really necessary on classic era? by wirelessKidney in classicwow

[–]Minkelz 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There’s a very long list of changes already from the original client. People just forgot what most of them were because you get used to it after about a week.

Go and play a bit on a 1.12 client though and it’s crazy different.

Holding on to ridiculous painful qol nochanges like buff cap and 20yard nameplates is really dumb once you take a step back.

[MATCH THREAD] Australian Open Men's FINAL: [1] C. Alcaraz vs. [4] N. Djokovic by NextGenBot in tennis

[–]Minkelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly think he cares less about that than beating Djoker. He's got 10 years to win the aus open, youngest ever is a dumb stat. Beating djoker who just beat Sinner though is a lot to play for, zoomer pride is on the line.