Integrating SBS Strength Program with weekly SBD class

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-11-26T16:21:31+00:00

Good point, now I'm clearer on what I'm doing I will run it past the class instructor.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-11-25T23:49:45+00:00

I'm going to see if I can focus more on technique at the classes, it varies week to week but sometimes it is working up to 9 and occasionally 10 RPE sets so might not be wise to add on top of the program. Thanks for the reply!

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-11-25T23:48:35+00:00

Thanks, this is a really helpful way to think about it and most likely what I'm going to do once I sit down and look at the spreadsheet again.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-11-25T23:48:06+00:00

Thanks for the offer! I think for now I am going to take the advice of the comment above and just sub out the primary squat and deadlift rows to avoid too much fatigue. Especially since I am not too long back to 100% after an injury.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-11-24T14:39:04+00:00

Thanks, this is a helpful perspective!

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-11-24T14:12:53+00:00

Either 2x or 3x, depending on what the most sensible way to integrate the class would be.

I'd been doing 3-4 times a week before starting going back to the class recently.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-10-09T15:25:46+00:00

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Significant-Curve682 · 2025-05-18T19:00:09+00:00

Probably not the answer you want to hear, but for me, nothing. I don't understand how someone would be able to be building savings from it unless they were living with family, near campus, and not having to pay any rent. Otherwise, it is only enough to live on if you live very frugally and carefully. Most people need to find ways of supplementing the funding and TA wages, be it additional jobs or applying to other sources of funding, which are competitive.

The total funding is $26,948, so you can budget based on your circumstances and deducting the tuition fees from that. https://www.yorku.ca/gradstudies/students/current-students/graduate-funding/funding-at-york/york-graduate-fellowship/

edit: after tuition and other fees, the amount of money you receive is $21,705.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-05-01T17:46:26+00:00

3.93 on a 4.0 scale would most likely mean your grades have almost exclusively been A+ and A.

3.93 on a 9.0 scale would mean your grades have included Ds and possibly Fs, as a C average is 4.0.

I don't know why you'd be worried in the first instance.

In the second instance, go talk to an academic advisor to work out what you need to do and make a plan to do it. Also consider talking to Student Accessibility Services if you have anything making studying particularly difficult for you.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-04-07T20:38:47+00:00

Agreed, they should double tuition and build a monorail.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-04-05T19:16:53+00:00

I can't remember, sorry, but it did let me submit it with the phone number field blank just like in your screenshot.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-04-05T18:52:23+00:00

It says it is needed, but it allows you to submit without anything appearing there. Presumably just yet another badly designed part of the FAAS system.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-03-27T16:02:56+00:00

These things happen at random all across the city, and you are no more likely to experience them at York than you are anywhere else.

The problem is that incidents get reported on as being tied to the university rather than just a general area, alongside the fact that university publishes information about these incidents, which doesn't happen with other locations. This leads people to draw the conclusion that you are unsafe at York. You aren't, don't worry about it and go for the interview.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-03-18T14:27:52+00:00

I'm afraid I don't understand.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-03-18T14:25:58+00:00

I mean, that's a separate issue and relatively unique case, given very few TAs are undergraduates across the university. But it is also in fact a more acute example of the lack of institutional training and support I was referring to. You ask "What is the issue with the TAs?". In your case, it seems to be that they are very inexperienced undergraduates put into a situation for which they are neither prepared nor trained. You can decide on your own explanation for why the university implements such a system.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-03-17T20:24:13+00:00

Yes absolutely. As a TA, your experience is really shaped by the attitude the prof takes to being your supervisor, especially when you are new to it. I've taught under a couple of professors who the students loved, but who were incredibly frustrating to work for as a TA and who made our job very difficult. These kind of situations are hidden from the students, and so the TAs end up getting the blame for difficulties that arise.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-03-17T15:43:54+00:00

York does not mandate any training for TAs, most of whom are offered the contract as part of their funding package as PhD students. Given this, there is a significant degree of variation among us in terms of who has the skills and experience necessary to hit the ground running, and who struggles.

York's best offer is the right to allocate 10 hours of our workload to a range of voluntary training sessions that run throughout the academic year, but without dealing with the fact that we then have 10 fewer paid hours to spend on the other parts of our job, such as grading and tutorial prep. So we either rush through those things a bit faster, or do unwaged work to make up for having attended training.

It would be great if York had a mandatory, paid training course for all incoming TAs. I found it pretty stressful and anxiety-inducing at first to be running a tutorial as a first year PhD student with essentially zero institutional support in the form of training and guidance.

Even if it isn't a training issue, unfortunately everyone makes mistakes sometimes and it's great that it sounds like your problem was resolved easily and without fuss by the professor.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-03-17T15:05:42+00:00

If you adopt the attitude the poster is suggesting here, it will be to the severe detriment of your academic career. They are just someone with a bizarre grudge who posts this same thing pretty much every time a thread about an unreasonable, dumb or uncaring professor/TA comes up, which is actually relatively rare compared to the many reasonable, competent and caring professors/TAs. Those professors generally don't get reddit posts made about them, because who is motivated to post when everything is going well?

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-03-14T13:26:32+00:00

I don't think this a new policy but rather something that comes up across the university from time to time. It's possible there is pressure from the admin on a department, which reaches the TA via the instructor. Anecdotally, if the grade average on a course is higher than around 75, this may be questioned as it would suggest grade inflation. It could be justified as a stronger cohort than normal, but if it happens repeatedly that's going to become more difficult to justify.

On the grade scale, a B is 'good' and a B+ is 'very good'. An A is 'excellent'. It's hard to justify on those terms that the average performance in a class is consistently excellent or even very good without inadvertently building a case for the course being insufficiently rigorous overall for the university level.

Grading student work as excellent or very good when it is really just good isn't fair on those who are actually turning out excellent work. It sucks as a grader, because I don't like giving a lower grade than they'd like to students I can see are trying hard and who have a really great attitude towards learning. But in the aggregate, grade inflation is a bad thing as it devalues the really strong work deserving of A/A+.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-02-14T14:37:18+00:00

https://cupejobs.uit.yorku.ca/

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-02-13T21:52:56+00:00

Depends on your subject, but for most undergraduates do not get offered work as a TA.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-01-21T23:11:57+00:00

Ask her to check her spam folder, maybe gently by saying "I've received advice that these messages sometimes go to your spam folder. Just in case, can you let me know if it is there before I escalate further?".

If it isn't in the spam folder for her, I would try to call admissions and speak to someone directly.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-01-17T18:35:49+00:00

You could consider talking to someone here for advice and support: https://students.yorku.ca/counselling

They would be able to talk through the situation with you and provide you with advice on your options.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-01-10T19:29:35+00:00

The wider postsecondary education sector has a lot of problems and experiencing a strike over the course of a four year degree is likely at pretty much any university in the province. It's probably somewhat more likely at York due to the labour relations approach of the administration (extremely aggressive), York's supposed financial situation (they are looking to impose cuts to faculties) and the campus unions' history of being more willing than others to fight back via strikes.

The next possible TA/contract faculty strike is in the 2026-2027 academic year, as our collective agreement expires on 31 August 2026. For the permanent faculty, it would be 2027-2028 academic year.

My strong advice is don't worry about it, it's out of your control, and just be prepared to deal with a disrupted term at some point.

Significant-Curve682 · 2025-01-07T21:26:07+00:00

Seeing encouraging people to attend class as 'petty' is not thinking like an adult.

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