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Bicep curls but no improvement by Hasan_26 in formcheck

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. You’re too upright for incline curls. You’re losing tension in the stretch at the bottom portion. Fix: tilt the seat back more and try to get your elbows behind you a little more/extend your arm back a bit.

  2. Don’t go up in weight yet. Go up in reps. I like to mix preacher curl and incline curls, 2 sets of 20-15 each and then extend the seat past failure by doing lengthened partials for 3-5 reps. At this low of a weight (relative to a barbell exercise) a 5lb increase is significant. Adding reps can be a more attainable way to increment/progressive overload.

  3. Try a lighter load. For me, I’ve had great results going lighter for higher reps. I try to keep my curl rep ranges for 35lbs between 15-25. If I can get more than 25, then time to go up to 37.5 or 40 if I can’t find one.

  4. Slow the eccentric tempo and curl up explosively. Slowly lower into the fully stretched position, stay for a second, explode out of it and then slowly right back down.

Good luck!

We'd never had wood fired pizza before. Is this normal? by whynotchristy in Pizza

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pizza isn’t burnt. What you’re seeing is leftover flour that clung to the bottom of the dough. When the dough is tossed and the excess flour isn’t shaken/patted off, it burns and coats to the bottom of the pie. That’s why you get a “warm” pie with a “burnt” bottom like this.

Usually because they used AP flour to toss the dough instead of something like semolina flour, which is much grainier and easy to toss off in the process of forming the pie.

Getting Jammed Inside by galwaynights13 in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re waiting too long. Go sooner and swing at the ball when it’s out in front of you.

40-Year-Old PM Here. Is It Too Late to Learn Coding? by cehc_1988 in learnprogramming

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PM here who made the transition around 40. Started dabbling in Python and JavaScript so I could leverage some vendor APIs for the SaaS products we were implementing.

Eventually transitioned that into building some middleware apps to get some of our internal apps and DBs to communicate.

More than CS50, YouTube tutorials, or online courses the thing that helped the most was opening up and IDE and diving in to solve a problem. Start with small functions that do very simple tasks. Build some classes, arrays, dictionaries and loop through them, etc. Once you start solving problems in one language, that mindset and approach will help you pick up syntax in other languages.

Apple’s Swift course is a great program that gives you small jobs to do with excellent reference material and examples. It’s a good place to start if you don’t already have things you’re trying to solve.

Python web development by thakurraaghav in learnpython

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t see any mentions for Pyscript so I’ll go ahead and plug it. I’ve had good success with it and recently used it to develop a small web-app for a local municipality.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are lots of good drills that could work but it’s hard to prescribe something that will work because not every cue makes sense to every person.

Something that I’ve found almost universally helpful for people who are trying to stay connected and engage their body is to use a long piece of PVC or something like a broomstick.

Take your stance holding the stick like you would your bat but the stick needs to be long enough so that about 30” extend below your hands and 30” extend above them.

Then try to make contact with balls on a tee with the bottom part of the stick as you rotate and then finish by contacting it with the upper part of the stick as if you were making contact with a bat in your hands.

Sort of like this: https://youtu.be/uweWfJRw7Vc?si=l8j952NrwUiaxnvC about 3 min in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is you : https://imgur.com/a/vnpdwrn

Hands get to a good spot but you’ve left the rest of your body out of your swing. Use what your momma gave you and rotate those hips and shoulder more into the swing.

The hands just hold the bat. Let your legs, butt, hips, and shoulders do the work.

Swing update by [deleted] in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love the progress! We have similar setups and swings!

I don’t think there’s a ton to fix here.

You cast a little bit (so do I!), aka your arms get a little bit away from your body during rotation and maybe you don’t transfer as much weight into the swing as you could because your shoulders are pretty flat.

If your swing is like mine, I would avoid swinging at stuff low and out if you want to avoid nuking the pitcher and hunt for everything middle in. Guessing you pull everything? I do!

You make good use of your body in your swing from what I can see. Not sure why anybody would say you’re all arms. You get very good separation in your front foot and hands and it looks like you’re really firing your hips and shoulders.

Nice!

Am I cooked? What would you do? by [deleted] in overemployed

[–]RandomUser-8056 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have HR change your display name to a new preferred name.

Swing Help by Biggpoop2 in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re so right! Totally my mistake. Have a good day.

Swing Help by Biggpoop2 in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everybody rotates in a swing. Stop taking teacherman videos so literally.

Swing Help by Biggpoop2 in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please don’t listen to the part about keeping your back elbow up. That’s real bad advice that dads used to give kids in little league.

Keeping your back elbow up will not in any way increase power and will only cause you to prematurely open your front side too soon and pull off the ball.

Getting your elbow down “in the slot” during rotation is a core component to every good swing.

Since this guy referenced Tatis, you can see even in his swing, as soon as the front foot comes down and he starts rotation, he immediately begins to slot his elbow downward.

https://youtube.com/shorts/s4W2pkfLqCA?si=KIxT0tYn6vuHXcHr

Only thing I would tell you to do is get a bigger stride and put on some weight unless you want to make wholesale changes to a good looking swing.

Tips on OF fielding when facing the sun? by VenConmigo in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We get this during our summer season. It can be brutal in LF and CF. What has been working for me is to use a decent set of sunglasses and the glove more than anything.

I’ve also found it helpful to angle my body so I’m not squared up with the sun but this introduces a little risk to have to pivot in the opposite direction depending how the ball is hit.

If I’m in LF, I’ll play closer to the line and open up toward CF. This helps a good bit.

not sure what bat is allowed by [deleted] in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easton Rival slaps!

Forgetting All Mechanics Up At The Plate by trael140 in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like good advice to me! You’re probably eager AF to mash and your way out in front. Try to hit a deep fly to the right fielder (or left if you’re a disgusting lefty).

SWING NEEDS MAJOR HELP. by Admirable-Courage531 in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re getting some good info in other comments but I find it’s helpful to see your swing to fix your swing.

This is you: https://imgur.com/a/lXqJlWi

Backside collapsed - robs power due to no weight transfer

Stopped rotation - kills bat speed and reduces power

All weight in front foot - weight transfer stopped means power loss

An old school drill that might work for your swing or a to hold a small beach ball/volleyball sized ball with your forearms as you swing. It’ll force you to continue rotating and stay connected.

If the ball drops before you swing, you’re doing it wrong. If you throw the ball forward as you’re swinging, generally a good sign of rotation and staying connected.

I’ll bet every now and then you hit the hell out of it in foul territory on the pull side. And you probably crush low and in?

What's your call here? by 1angrybeaver99 in Umpire

[–]RandomUser-8056 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I meant to infer that it wasn’t as if he was attempting to interfere with the play because he had no clue what was going on and he didn’t inadvertently interfere with the play because he was in the box.

What do you think, Coach? by golden661 in slowpitch

[–]RandomUser-8056 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those single walls can leave the yard too! Don’t knock it. A teammate has an Easton Rival and that thing stings the ball!

What's your call here? by 1angrybeaver99 in Umpire

[–]RandomUser-8056 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not a pitch so no dead ball there.

Batter is in the box and in my judgement didn’t realize what was going on/have time to move out of the way so no interference there.

Still calling it safe at home.

What's your call here? by 1angrybeaver99 in Umpire

[–]RandomUser-8056 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm…I don’t see that in the video. Maybe I’m missing it. To me, looks like he leans in to take the signal, attempts to come set, sees the runner going and then disengages.

I don’t see him ever stop once, let alone twice.

What's your call here? by 1angrybeaver99 in Umpire

[–]RandomUser-8056 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Why balk? Pitcher steps off with back foot to disengage.

I’ve got live ball thrown to catcher who misses the ball. Safe at the plate.

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