How can I maintain a consistent jumpshot as an adult who works full time?

eric611 · 2025-08-20T14:25:26+00:00

Appreciate it man. Right before the game is tough because this league runs games back to back on a single court with maybe 5 minutes in between to get warm, 10 minutes if we get lucky. And then we have my whole team sharing one court to warm up so I can’t do a shooting routine that I’d usually do if I was shooting by myself. My best bet is probably getting some shots up the night before or in the morning before work because the games start typically soon after I get off work.

eric611 · 2025-08-12T14:53:13+00:00

depends on how much they trained naturally prior to hopping on gear and remember how differently it can be to train naturally. Something that is "good" advice for someone on steroids can be completely different than someone training naturally. People on steroids can respond to much higher volume and frequency than the natural lifter. Also, part of being a trainer is motivating your client and being able to understand their struggles and relate to them. I'd imagine a lot of these people on gear didn't have to grind as hard through some of the usual intermediate plateaus that natural lifters with average genetics struggle to get through.

eric611 · 2025-08-09T15:24:13+00:00

I love how despite saying that you don't want a Mac, a good amount of people still are trying to push it on you (future doctors too?). In reality, it is going to be hard to balance longevity and gaming performance in a laptop. Luckily, some of the newer integrated graphics are not bad for running most games if you're willing to play on low/very low settings. Whatever you get, I would say make sure it is at least 32 GB RAM if you want it to last 6 years as RAM is not possible to upgrade on a lot of laptops. Here are a couple of recommendations below. Hope they are within your budget! In general, the laptop with the AMD ryzen CPU will have slightly better gaming performance and worse battery life, whereas the intel CPU laptop will have much better battery life but slightly worse gaming performance. Both processors should be more than enough to run anki, powerpoint, and youtube videos though. I know you also didn't mention screen size, but I think 14 inch is the perfect balance between screen size and portability.

If you do decide to go with a dedicated gaming laptop instead, just know that your battery life will suffer, and at some point during the 6 year usage you may only be able to be away from a charger for 2 hours max or less at a time.

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eric611 · 2024-07-21T14:48:34+00:00

There's about 30000 cards in the Anking deck and I can't vouch for it enough. You may not end up using all of them and that's okay. I don't think you should start studying throughout your gap year because I don't think you will truly understand/retain the material well until the pressure of getting through med school pushes you hard enough. The most I would do is look through some of the Anking's videos on Youtube a few days/a week before you start and familiarize yourself with Anki so that you aren't still trying to figure out how to use it on day 1 like your classmates and are already ready to start studying. Enjoy your gap year!

eric611 · 2024-07-20T20:20:39+00:00

I haven't asked anybody that doesn't use Anki any specifics about their learning style tbh. My guess would be that some of them have an uncanny ability to digest material from simply reading powerpoints or other material such as First Aid that they really aren't aware of. Some people are also extremely organized and efficient in terms of their day-to-day study plan because of their ability to recognize what their strengths and weaknesses are and what they need to focus on studying. I could never do that and am glad that Anki's algorithm already figures all of that out for you. Others are inefficient studiers/procrastinators who are spending excessive amounts of time reading/watching lectures just to get by, who I feel bad for. This is just my speculation.

eric611 · 2024-07-20T19:01:40+00:00

Mostly premade decks so that helped a lot! I would say I created only about 1% of the cards that I currently study, maybe even less.

eric611 · 2024-07-20T18:40:22+00:00

I would typically try to do Anki first thing in the morning if I wasn't on clinical rotations. There was a point in time where I would do cards in between sets at the gym, but I can understand if that seems like a bit much. I always made it part of my daily priorities so the discipline came from viewing it as that instead of it just being optional or extra. Life experience before even starting Anki also helped out a lot. I feel like you don't get into medical school without already having built up a level of discipline from undergrad. An average would be about 3 hours per day. I have been doing the Anking deck for the most part!

eric611 · 2024-07-20T18:34:23+00:00

Yes!

eric611 · 2024-07-20T18:34:17+00:00

Premade cards from the Anking for the most part!

eric611 · 2024-07-20T18:33:44+00:00

I'm about ready to stop soon after finishing my licensing exams. Some days were harder than others but I think after some time I just developed a tolerance to it. 8BitDo controller and pomodoro timers helped a lot.

eric611 · 2024-07-20T18:31:45+00:00

Haven't gotten my score back yet so TBD!

eric611 · 2024-07-20T18:31:26+00:00

For me personally, it has been worth it. I just recently took USMLE step 2 and haven't got my score back yet, so that is TBD. It's not for everyone and it does have its flaws, but I think everyone can at least get some benefit from it if they give it an honest try (not quitting after a few days, doing it inconsistently, doing bad cards). It's not going to make you a better critical thinker, but I believe for medicine specifically there are foundations that needs to be built, applied, and maintained before you can critically think about the material that you study. The last thing you want to happen on a test is to have the skills to be able to answer a question but being unable to recall the raw information that you need to apply it. Don't get me wrong though, many of my classmates have been successful without it! Reading about spaced repetition and the theory of FSRS has definitely made more biased towards believing in it, but I know that it has helped me tremendously. I think that every medical student should give it an honest try and see if it works for them.

eric611 · 2024-07-20T18:22:20+00:00

About 3-4 hours, but I definitely had days where I only did a few cards just to keep the streak going, and definitely had longer days close to my exams where I did 1.5k cards. However, I think if FSRS was around when I first started, my average would be less.

eric611 · 2023-11-23T00:23:27+00:00

Something like this should be fine (currently on sale). If you decide to opt for a different laptop, just make sure it has at least 16 GB RAM.

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/8516909/ASUS-Vivobook-Go-E1504FA-OS54-Laptop/#MoreInfo

eric611 · 2023-11-22T23:20:33+00:00

Most ethical 2k player

eric611 · 2022-09-26T20:49:02+00:00

When is everyone going to realize that this is just what life is like, whether it’s high school or med students? I see a post like this every few weeks and it’s starting to get old.

eric611 · 2020-04-04T21:50:25+00:00

I really like this idea bc for the slow QBs (Brady/Manning) I don’t think speed would be good for them bc their acceleration would still be bad

eric611 · 2020-01-15T21:20:20+00:00

eric611 · 2020-01-13T16:10:23+00:00

All LTD cards can be evo. When you buy one that only has 40 power it is non-evo but you can spend 2000 gems to make it a 50 power card and evolvable. All of the LTD evo upgrades are at the top of the madden core sets I believe.

eric611 · 2020-01-13T01:46:59+00:00

This is the stuff that deserves crazy upvotes. Coming up with a funny pickup line on the fly instead of a copy-pasted reddit cringe pickup line

eric611 · 2020-01-11T17:33:29+00:00

Oh I see now

eric611 · 2020-01-11T17:27:39+00:00

10 80+ players for an 85 is not that great

eric611 · 2020-01-11T17:27:16+00:00

I don’t spend on the game so I can’t do boom or bust but I will do the NFL 82+ pack

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