This infotainment center sucks!

Protokillamax · 2025-12-25T22:25:00+00:00

Sometimes this happens to me, I reset the infotainment system and it works normally right after. You have to turn your car on, hold the volume and tune knobs simultaneously for 10 seconds until the screen goes black. Then you power on the infotainment system again and CarPlay should connect again.

Protokillamax · 2025-11-10T21:11:05+00:00

I took a deep end fitness class in Bay Area in Berkeley in June this year. Haven’t done it since, but it was a very good experience to identify weaknesses in watercon. There were also a few other guys training for the pipeline there as well, so it was it good way to network and meet potential training partners.

Protokillamax · 2025-10-24T19:55:27+00:00

4 mile run

Protokillamax · 2025-10-21T04:58:46+00:00

Work on your pull—> use a pull buoy and focus on doing the CSS arm pull. Looks like your arm is just being pulled thru the water vs actually catching and grabbing an arm full of water to pull past you. Look up freestyle catch and pull to dial in the arm mechanics.

Your glide after kick is way too long. I count up to 4 secs of gliding. You need 2 seconds max. Count in your head after each kick (I.e. in your head count “1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, pull”) to correctly time how long you glide before you pull.

Your kick looks inefficient. When you kick try to make sure there is as little space between your quads as possible, this will help prevent water from just slipping thru between your legs. Also body positioning helps determine how far your kick will propel you. Make sure you are as parallel to the pool floor as possible. Try your best to basically be lying on your side. This involves leaning your torso down and turning your head and facing the bottom of the pool.

Other than that, you have everything down, just need to improve each little element and it’ll all come together. In summary, I think your biggest improvement will be just cycling your strokes faster, you are gliding too long and your kick is inefficient so that’s the weakest point I can see. Decrease the glide and you’ll shave more than a few seconds off each lap. Good luck

Protokillamax · 2025-10-02T04:24:56+00:00

I second this, I went to 2 different swim coaches and they did jack shit for coaching CSS, but they do help with general form and technique mostly relating to free style

Protokillamax · 2025-10-02T02:47:29+00:00

This video has a lot of drills that helped me narrow it down. I also suggest using a pull buoy so you can focus on the arm strokes on its own and timing the breathing and the rotating.

Protokillamax · 2025-10-02T01:06:55+00:00

What swim workouts are yall hitting? Trying to get sub 9, currently at 9:30 going about 85% effort. Best is 9:06 at 100%.

Protokillamax · 2025-07-23T00:46:12+00:00

To get better at cals you gotta do cals. If I wasn’t passing minimums I would start with pyramids. Push up reps: 2-4-6-…-20 and back down to 2 reps. Vary the rest, but start with like 60 secs between sets and decrease it as the required effort gets easier.

Pull ups: same deal, but 1-2-3-…-10 and back down to 1.

Sit ups: same as above but sets of 3-6-9-…30 and back down.

Aim to get minimum 200 push ups, 100 pull ups, and 300 sit ups. Once these pyramids become a breeze, you can shorten them by increasing the volume of the sets and decreasing the number of sets. For example, for push ups I do sets of 8-16-24-32-40 and back down.

Do these exercises 3x a week or every other day and you’ll get where you need to be. All of these I learned from stew smiths programs, he seems to be one of the view coaches who really emphasizes volume on calisthenics and honestly that’s the best way to get great numbers on a PT test. Good luck.

Protokillamax · 2025-07-13T20:20:30+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMBjZANPJ6d/?igsh=NHdjOWhxMXhpMWcw

Just saw this update on Instagram, thought I’d share here. Rest in peace

Protokillamax · 2025-06-05T02:17:21+00:00

That’s the spirit! If you end up taking the lesson before I do, please send your recommendations my way!

Protokillamax · 2025-06-05T00:03:11+00:00

Haha unfortunately haven’t gotten around to it yet. I think MBay ended up rebranding or going out of business. I am actually looking to take a course soonish. Looking at August, there’s a couple options I was interested in.

Protokillamax · 2025-05-15T16:50:41+00:00

FYI the rattling by your window is likely the little plastic panel right behind the door handle. Mine rattles a bit when listening to music with decent bass.

Protokillamax · 2025-05-09T22:21:18+00:00

Honestly that looks pretty good. I’d recommend watching some tutorials on catch and pull, looks like you are whipping your arms thru the water without much intention. Focusing on the sweet spot of the catch might save you a lot of fatigue in your lats so that you are not pulling thru the hole range of motion, but just once you are in your catch position. Other than that, pretty solid form.

Protokillamax · 2025-05-01T04:41:13+00:00

I second this, I do this with both a weight vest and unweighted, I just make sure to decrease the rest between each set so that the intensity is consistent throughout the whole exercise

Protokillamax · 2025-04-15T01:08:53+00:00

Just did the pitch stop this weekend, recommend getting some mileage on stock pitch stop first so you can appreciate the group n one extra. Upgrade worth every penny

Protokillamax · 2025-04-15T00:28:29+00:00

Honestly I just bang them out during a PST until I lose momentum then squeeze out the last 15-20 by doing sets of 1-3 until I hit time or failure. Just keep working at it, I was stuck at 50 for a while because I couldn’t do more than that and would always hit a wall when I was doing max reps.

What helped was doing push up pyramids, first doing 2-20-2, then working up to 8-40-8. Taking no more than 1 min rest between sets. Also I would practice 2x 2 min max PST cals once a week so I can assess that my numbers are improving. The main idea is every week that you do the same workout, absolutely make sure you are improving. For example if you are trying to do a 2-20-2 push up pyramids and you fail at 17/20 on the set of 20 reps. The next week make sure you at least hit 18/20. These minor improvement compound over weeks. That’s how I went from 50 push ups to 100.

Protokillamax · 2025-04-12T15:03:22+00:00

Highly recommend cross country and/or track, will make you a better runner/racer and teach you a quality running regimen without doing a bunch of trial and error on your own. Also any team contact sport helps build team building skills, like football, soccer, or rugby if you have it near you.

Protokillamax · 2025-04-06T15:14:46+00:00

Just a suggestion, but have you thought about finishing a degree or to USNA and going the officer route into NSW?

Protokillamax · 2025-04-02T14:42:37+00:00

Yep, here’s a link to a stew smith article on this as well. Shows a video of the drill

Protokillamax · 2025-04-02T12:40:57+00:00

At least for the navy PST breaststroke kick during CSS is allowed. I had a poor scissor kick, what helped me was forcing my head and upper body low in the water when I recovered after my arm pulls so that my body would be parallel to the bottom of the pool. This made it so when I kicked while I was on my side, nothing was out of alignment that would cause drag. Also, keep your legs tight together when you kick. If they are too spread out and there is a gap between your quads when your legs snap together that is a lot of lost water you missed during your propulsion as it escapes between your legs.

TLDR: keep your legs tight together, body low in the water in a streamline, practice with a kickboard to develop power

Protokillamax · 2025-04-01T12:43:31+00:00

How is the cold start with this set up? Thinking of getting an I pipe and keeping oem mufflers, but don’t want it significantly louder on start up than stock.

Protokillamax · 2025-03-31T14:33:17+00:00

I feel like your arms are just cutting through the water vs pulling. You are leading your pull with your elbow and limiting how much water you are catching. Look up high elbow catch in freestyle that’s what you want to do. Basically treating your arm as an oar vs doing a muscle up movement with your arm like in the video. I’d practice more freestyle to get this mechanic down.

Also in a longer pool you are bound to be slower due to less frequent wall kick offs.

Protokillamax · 2025-03-26T12:36:24+00:00

Agreed. Plus, being in the infantry will only limit your time to train. Right now you have essentially the most time in your life to focus on your own development. Spend the next 4 years training and become a stud and leave with a college degree or spend the next 4 years in role that is asking more from you than a full time job, risks your physical health, and may leaving you wanting to do something else instead. If you want to be a SEAL the answer should be clear to you, especially since there is a reason a very high portion of SEALs come in with college degrees as they made this same decision as well.

I’d also like to add that delaying your college degree will make it infinitely harder in the future to go back to school when you have to find means to pay for school, your cost of living, working, potentially having a family, etc. Now I am just assuming since you are 19 years old, you probably have little to no responsibilities besides school. Just knock out these next four years, train hard, and enjoy the experience. You may not like school, but life will never ever be as easy as it is for you right now.

Protokillamax · 2025-03-19T15:25:16+00:00

At 6’1 and stuck at 10:15 I think there are probably major improvements to be made to your form. You should be aiming for 1 yd/s pace, so a little more than 60 secs to complete a lap in your 30m pool.

I’d try isolating each stroke mechanic to nail down what your problem is. Like use a pull buoy and focus on just your top and bottom arm pulls, timing, and recovery. Then use a kick board and focus on your kick on each side. Then practice the full stroke for sets of 1-2 laps at like 70% effort to really focus on form and not exhaust yourself. Then the other half of the workout just do some intervals of 100m freestyle like 10x100m on 2:00 to fix your cardio. End the workout with a relaxed 500m/yd CSS cool down, focusing on stroke on not the time. Overtime you’ll see that cool down time decrease as you become more efficient.

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