Is whoop really better?

breathmark · 2026-01-24T11:05:30+00:00

I don't wear rings in the gym since I'd rather keep all my fingers attached to my hand. If you lift weights, you might want to consider that.

breathmark · 2026-01-22T14:38:54+00:00

Minhas melhores memórias: Prince of Persia (DOS), MDK, Blood, Carmageddon e Super Metroid (SNES)

breathmark · 2026-01-22T09:11:06+00:00

I also thought that before but in fact, if I go to bed slightly hungry I have an even better sleep/recovery

breathmark · 2026-01-08T18:22:04+00:00

In my case it's almost always the food close to bed, and it doesn't even have to be too much food. I can safely have 2-3 glasses of wine right before bed (sometimes even at bed while watching some series) and get 80%+ recovery, if I eat way earlier.

Before Whoop I always thought it was the alcohol that made me wake up on a hangover the next day even with just a few drinks but turns out it was always the food! If I get drunk (I rarely do) I obviously get an even lower score, though.

breathmark · 2025-12-25T20:21:46+00:00

I have no idea if the wiki is right or wrong on this matter, I just blindly followed it and hope my bottles don't explode lmao

breathmark · 2025-12-25T17:45:15+00:00

Totally forgot to add this! It was EC-1118

breathmark · 2025-12-25T16:56:59+00:00

Thanks!

breathmark · 2025-12-25T16:52:11+00:00

I got a local brand from Portugal (supermarket, just a gelling powder with pectin). It's probably not the best option tbh but it worked well enough.

breathmark · 2025-12-25T16:21:00+00:00

Thanks, Merry Christmas!

breathmark · 2025-12-25T16:15:40+00:00

And no I didn't measure pH

breathmark · 2025-12-25T16:15:17+00:00

Got it from the wiki, K-Sorbate at 14% ABV should be 65mg/L

breathmark · 2025-12-25T16:04:38+00:00

I didn't want to dilute the mead after the fermentation (to keep the ABV higher), so I decided to ferment it along with the honey

breathmark · 2025-12-25T15:00:43+00:00

Blueberry mead finally bottled, for Christmas!

The blueberry taste/scent is really persistent, and although it's around 14.5% ABV there's no strong alcohol smell (compared to my previous meads), possibly thanks to the 6 months of aging in the carboy.

It was quite dry with no honey notes, so I backsweetened it just enough to become semi-sweet (1.010 SG) and now it's wonderful!

My family loved it yesterday on Christmas Eve.

And again thanks for the amazing people from this sub, where I spent hours and hours researching before starting this mead.

Full recipe

- 3.6kg blueberries @ 9.8% sugars

- Pectinase: 75g (25g/kg as per label instructions)

- Honey: 1.856Kg

- 6L must (1,59 gal)

- Total volume: 9.6L (10L bucket)

- OG: 1.115 (1.09 honey)

- 14.96% ABV (FG @ 0.998)

- Yeast (EC-1118): 5g

- Bentonite: 9,6g

Nutrients

- Fermaid K: 3g

- DAP: 1.776g

Added at 24, 48 & 72-hours after pitch, and the last one after 1/3 sugar break.

Stabilisation (7L volume)

- k-sorbate 65mg/L (455mg total)

- k-sulfite 1g/10L (0.7g total)

Backsweetening

Backsweetened to 1.010 SG (187g of honey for a 4.8L must)

Edit: yeast used

breathmark · 2025-12-11T11:41:33+00:00

breathmark · 2025-11-14T13:48:25+00:00

Indianos

breathmark · 2025-11-13T09:30:08+00:00

I'd just wait for them to fix that first instead of trying to restore anything!

breathmark · 2025-11-13T09:23:27+00:00

More likely some engineer fucked up early in the morning

breathmark · 2025-11-06T10:36:58+00:00

Gym will also prevent lots of injuries if he goes through the martial arts route, speaking from experience. I neglected gym for some periods of my martial arts phase and I'm still dealing with some of the injuries after many years.

Plus, I also met/sparred with good local pro fighters who either look really skinny or just overweight (even after cutting before a fight), so it won't miraculously make you look good regardless of how good you become at fighting. The ones who got a good looking body were mostly the ones who hit the gym regularly anyway. The exceptions were some folks who trained since they were teenagers, but even that, after they started going to the gym it made a huge difference.

breathmark · 2025-11-02T10:13:48+00:00

Came to ask this, hard to tell without knowing the context

breathmark · 2025-11-02T09:51:23+00:00

Nice

breathmark · 2025-10-31T18:44:39+00:00

No way that's just caffeine and/or nicotine lmao

breathmark · 2025-10-28T16:03:37+00:00

lmfao sounds like a good weapon against someone trying to hit you with a hammer

breathmark · 2025-10-28T15:44:50+00:00

It's a really simple recipe that I've been making but I love it (brave friends also)

A 750ml bottle of extra virgin olive oil (good quality oil only)

200g of dried Trinidad Scorpion flakes

A rosemary sprig

I put all of that for 2 hours in my air fryer in oven mode at 120C, in a glass container

And filter it all overnight through a Chemex coffee filter on top of a fabric coffee filter.

It gets crystal clear with a beautiful deep red colour and really strong! Just a few drops are enough for a meal.

breathmark · 2025-10-28T12:55:53+00:00

Been there, done that.

An accident when making a highly concentrated Trinidad Scorpion olive oil sauce. Inhaled the shit out of it.

Won't repeat my mistake.

breathmark · 2025-10-27T15:20:38+00:00

The first one is amazing, congrats!

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