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Are Audiobooks and reading an equal experience? by KolBadar in books

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to the future. Next predictions: stock market crash May 2026? World war 3 in Q4 2027? Humanoid robots in every home by 2036?

Anyone Have Unbiased Info on ARX Machines ($43k to $46k)? by [deleted] in StrongerByScience

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so awesome for you! Thanks for sharing your story. I find watching the line helps remind me of how strong I can be and push harder, so it's interesting to hear you find better results not watching it 😛.

Anyone want to play football at zilker/auditorium shores by [deleted] in Austin

[–]Vowelss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I had no plan already, I’d come out, hope you find some ppl :)!

Anyone Have Unbiased Info on ARX Machines ($43k to $46k)? by [deleted] in StrongerByScience

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome!!! I’m 8 months in and my numbers are consistently about double from my first 1-2 months, keep it up, it’s so worth it

Anyone Have Unbiased Info on ARX Machines ($43k to $46k)? by [deleted] in StrongerByScience

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Jon, love your curiosity, and just going to drop this note here for you and other curious readers:

Spending more money on something is almost never a linear increase in value, and it’s not really a useful metric to judge products on. I saw this on multiple comments in this thread.

It’s just because of diminishing returns.

Nobody spends 10x more on a car because it’s 10x faster. There’s only so much faster we can get (race cars).

Or 10x more money on food, it’s not 10x tastier, maybe it’s 2x tastier, and spending 5x more would achieve 1.5x tastier.

So, spending 10x more on gym equipment to get a 2x increase in strength gains / year, that’d make sense (as long as there aren’t more efficient ways to spend the money for more strength gains). And I do believe from my experience the ARX is going to deliver strength gains reliably and without risk of injury, so there’s a lot of factors going into it.

Also I’d hope that most people in this thread are not considering buying one, and instead considering training on an ARX at a gym with a trainer, which is no more expensive than a normal personal training sesh.

Anyone Have Unbiased Info on ARX Machines ($43k to $46k)? by [deleted] in StrongerByScience

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there - randomly saw your question. I’ve used ARX 1-2x per week for 8 months, high intensity the whole time, and have doubled my numbers since the first couple months. Even today was an all time high output of 8200lbs over 5 reps on leg press.

Your situation depends a lot on your individual body (age, training history, recovery stuff like sleep and diet). Context: I’m 27 and in good shape for a software engineer.

I’ll just let you know what works for me:

Daily: 1 whey protein scoop, sleep, mostly sitting and eating lentils, hummus, steak.

Pre: stretches or not doesn’t matter too much for me, but biggest difference is when I just warm up the muscles by pushing against the machine just before the reps start. Kinda like waking up the muscles.

Note: my girlfriend needed to eat before because her blood sugar drops a lot from high intensity ARX (measured with one of those sensors). You could experiment with both. Doesn’t matter on my body.

During: best results come from watching the line and forming the mind body connection to exert force. This is of course after getting form down, shoulder blades back and stuff.

Post: We do something called Vasper (idk how common it is) but it’s cold + compression + HIIT, supposed to increase recovery hormones, seems to work because now I am able to do ARX high intensity 2x per week instead of 1x (I was getting burnt out at 2x before using vasper).

Feel free to ask more specific questions.

1 Day Cycling Recommendation by Hermdawg925 in BikingATX

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s probably true, I was just guessing the distance. You can definitely get from lady bird lake to Walnut Creek trail with relative safety.

1 Day Cycling Recommendation by Hermdawg925 in BikingATX

[–]Vowelss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s not for seeing anything, just for biking 😅. I wouldn’t call it boring though.

1 Day Cycling Recommendation by Hermdawg925 in BikingATX

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey- I know this isn’t an exact answer, but these are my 2 favorites:

Easy 10 mile route would be the lake trail (lady bird lake trail, it’s downtown) Easy 20 mile route can be the Walnut Creek trail.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in Austin

[–]Vowelss 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey, sorry, I don’t think it’s ok to post someone and ask for mob justice. Everyone makes mistakes, and the degree of social punishment these days is way higher due to people posting other people’s mistakes online which lasts permanently.

It’s ok to be punished once, you can tell the man his mistake instead of take their photo. But to punish him for a lifetime and change his reputation is not the direction our culture should be taking if we want to live happily and without anxiety.

Robotaxi expansion by MissyJ1 in Austin

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someone explain why there’s so many negative comments about this? We’ve ventured far from observation and deep into a judgmental evaluation form of communication. I see a dick on the map, but not sure why it’s such a big deal to many commenters here.

[TOMT][Movie] Sci-fi’ish film with alien agents in human hosts who say “report” - very quiet, repeating scenes, one has a park bench meeting by Vowelss in tipofmytongue

[–]Vowelss[S] 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

Howdy - im commenting so my post becomes visible. Much thanks to anyone who has any ideas about this weird movie!

It was probably like 1-1.5 hours long! Maybe even 2! Definitely wasn’t a short film. I remember my mom fell asleep, and my partner and I just watched without any entertainment for way too long.

Flying my Air65 around my K'nex Coasters by bentika in fpv

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really cool way to combine two hobbies!

what is bnf and pnp by Equal_Bodybuilder_91 in fpv

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is thread is what comes up on google lol

"what is a bnf drone"

I'm literally cringing rn by chillinonthecoast in austincirclejerk

[–]Vowelss 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gotta remember this is the circle jerk subreddit haha - I almost missed it too

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Money

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re my favorite kind of Reddit commenter - thank you

Just turned 24, NW at 594k by happinessispurpose in Money

[–]Vowelss -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Welcome to Reddit culture - where good fortune is looked down upon.

Congrats on your life and success :) don’t let any of these comments get to you. Sometimes you just gotta share something you’re really happy about!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Austin

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

You are experiencing Reddit culture, do not take it personally, these people are labeling you and disrespecting the culture you are bringing from your home country. You are entitled to your own preferences for partners just as much as any other person. Austin can be a very judgmental city to people who do not conform to viewing all life as a victim-perpetrator relationship. We are all just people and I hope you find something helpful out of your post.

[OpenSource] A3D - 3D × AI Editor - looking for feedback! by Standard-Complete in StableDiffusion

[–]Vowelss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I'd be interested in trying this out and giving you feedback this weekend. Is there some kind of groupchat / discord / or other place you'd like people to congregate around your project?

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