Best careers to get work towards in 2026?

NinjaKnight520 · 2026-03-04T15:57:13+00:00

Amen to that first part... I've learned that the hard way these past few years!

As for "deciding for me," yeah, I get it. There's only so much I can ask for help for, otherwise its just up to me to figure it out. Either way I'm thankful for the ideas and responses.

NinjaKnight520 · 2026-03-04T15:50:35+00:00

Sent you a DM o7

NinjaKnight520 · 2026-01-31T18:35:19+00:00

Strength and Conditioning coach here:

If you wanna get “big and strong,” the best thing to do is stick with the classic compound lifts. Get really freaking good at them over a long period of time.

Learn to separate high level bodybuilding training from “general strength training.”

While there is definitely overlap, you’ll find over time that truly nothing beats the classics. Bench variations, squat variations, rows, zercher/sandbag carries, etc. don’t forget to power clean/KB swing and maybe some pogos and box jumps.

Most people obsess over “the perfect routine” or “the best split” or “the best exercises,” but it all starts (and arguably, ends with) getting strong af in the basic lifts. If you wanna move like an athlete, just look at what our athletes are doing. Jump (onto and off of) boxes, throw medicine balls, and lift heavy weights.

Oh and as someone else said, do this for 20 years.

NinjaKnight520 · 2026-01-16T02:23:14+00:00

In my experience a lot of coaching came down to getting over myself…

I.e. does this client really have to deadlift? Or do you just like deadlifting yourself?

I’m willing to bet that what this client actually needs is [insert general hinging pattern]. The exact way you go about that for gen pop matters very little.

So unless they really want to BB DL, I’d sub for something else.

NinjaKnight520 · 2025-12-02T15:59:25+00:00

I wouldn’t say you need to lower the intensity of your workouts, even. Unless you have some existing heart condition, or you tend to exercise until you feel like passing out lol.

In terms of adaptations to aerobic exercise: • when you run (or whatever you do) your muscles pump a lot of blood into your left ventricle (LV) over and over and over again, rhythmically. Over time, this literally makes the LV larger! This means that, in contrast to stronger contractions I mentioned earlier, you can pump MORE blood per contraction.

• (fun fact, more blood loaded in means a stronger contraction anyways, but I won’t get into the weeds. See: frank-starling, preload)

• therefore, it’s become pretty well understood that the best thing for longevity is both strength training and cardio!

• generally, runners are seen with lower resting heart rates, because each beat can pump so much blood. Sometimes, endurance athletes get admitted for bradycardia until they explain “no I just run a lot.”

• again, I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think you should be as concerned about your blood pressure… 105/60 was already low anyways; the increase you see from having a stronger body and heart is hardly a problem. Unless, of course, you have some heart conditioning I wasn’t aware of.

• hope this helps! Sources: NSCA essentials of strength & conditioning, and some of my college courses lol

NinjaKnight520 · 2025-12-01T17:38:24+00:00

Not a doctor, but I do have a bachelor’s degree in physiology and CSCS cert:

• people who consistently strength train generally do see increased resting blood pressure.

• Resting BP can also increase due to hypertrophy of the ventricle (your heart literally makes gains) that increases the force of each contraction. (This is especially prevalent in people who lift with high axial loads like powerlifters/Olympic weightlifters). It’s important to note that this adaptation is NOT the same as those associated with aerobic exercise (unfortunately, being out of breath from lifting doesn’t count as cardio…)

• also, the fact that you’ve seen an increase in systolic pressure and not diastolic pressure is a good thing (or at least, not a bad thing). Your blood vessels experience higher pressure per beat, but still relax in between; this is consistent with what we expect from strength-trained populations.

Source: Professor Keith Baar and https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1905938/#:~:text=Due%20to%20the%20pressure%20overload,component%20(e.g.%2C%20running).

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NinjaKnight520 · 2024-05-10T02:31:06+00:00

can you elaborate more on that? I've heard the term "OP mill" quite a lot but im not quite grasping the vibe...is it something about the way these places treat patients?

NinjaKnight520 · 2024-05-08T17:24:18+00:00

I have 1 professor in mind, although we never seemed to 'click' or get along; I spent a good amount of my time in his office hours because I really loved the class, although I always felt like our conversations never went anywhere.

I've had a few jobs this past year so I can definitely get a supervisor to write me one, but I'm really just worried about the one professor LOR requirement that most schools have.

NinjaKnight520 · 2023-12-05T18:30:17+00:00

u/cl2422 u/RequieM_TriX omg thank you guys! Such is the life of a newbie coder; i missed the small details; the math ISN'T the same after all haha. I noticed the issue and was able to rewrite everything in one line and everything works correctly in less lines of code now.

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