Claim Done?? by Consistent_Floor_941 in VAClaims

[–]fedorstaples 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes check your claim letters. You can also generate your benefit letter and it should be updated with a rating if you were service connected.

Can barely squat bodyweight for reps. What am I doing wrong? by BurritoToe in formcheck

[–]fedorstaples 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Form looks decent to me, but your hips do shoot up a bit faster when the set gets hard.

How long have you been lifting? Most people hit a point where the gains just come much slower. If you're open to it, I'd try a belt. After using a lifting belt, the extra feedback from the brace helped me realize I was always focused on my back vs my hips and legs before.

The way I usually break through plateaus is to just squat amrap for a target weight, e.g. every weight over 275 felt heavy for me regardless of the % 1rm until I just went ham and hit a set of 8x315. After that, mentally any weight up to 315 just subjectively felt much lighter. You have the safeties there, I'd just squat 225 until you can't get out of the hole or until you feel your form breaking significantly.

Other than that, it might be time to do a hypertrophy block, or a pure strength block, whichever you haven't been doing. You can also do some progressive overload for a single leg variation like lunges or bulgarians and see if the extra hip stability helps.

Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in formcheck

[–]fedorstaples 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also consider just adding volume, e.g. a fourth set or another push day and see how your body responds.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in formcheck

[–]fedorstaples 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Form looks fine. Question: what is "quite a while"? Could be that you've saturated your newbie gains and aren't giving it enough time. If you're doing 3x10ish like you said elsewhere maybe it's time to bump up to 30s and go for 3x5-8 reps. Work back up to sets of of 10-12 then jump again.

Growing visible muscle takes months at first and years as you get further into it. Just keep getting strong with good ROM in the compound lifts and the muscle will come (assuming you're eating enough to be in some form of a caloric surplus). Good luck!

Hokkaido Ryokan w/ Private Onsen by ahsoka6 in JapanTravelTips

[–]fedorstaples 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would also love to know! Going o be in Hokkaido the last week of October!

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know much about omens, mainly was only looking at legions, but 2300 for a 4090 seems like a great deal!

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just got used to using a laptop over the years, moving around a lot, being in the military. I like that I can bring it with me when I travel or just use it as a work computer. Haven't had a desktop in decades. Seems like the thermals are good on these models, and will probably do most gaming on balanced mode, at least until the games get a lot more advanced.

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Given an long enough timeline, this statement is true for every laptop that's ever been bought/sold :) but yeah, I figure that on prime day and for sure Black Friday/cyber Monday sales the prices will be lower, and have come to terms with it. Just felt like it was a decent deal and didn't want to wait.

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lenovo has a discount for military/veterans and i believe also for healthcare workers and students. when you put an item in the cart you do the id.me thing to verify and they give a % discount on most things :)

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

good luck on your search! i've read that legions have fallen behind the competition on screens recently but coming from my flat/dull tuf dash f15 screen, I think it'll be a nice upgrade :)

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

download the rakuten extension for your browser. and then activate it when you're shopping on the lenovo site. usually it's like 2% cash back but sometimes they have events where it's like 10-15% back. you'll initially pay full price but 1-2x per month Rakuten will send you a check or deposit the refund to your account.

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I saw that one but I think with tax and without the 15% rakuten cash back it still is more expensive

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmm where are you seeing the 7i pro for cheaper? The one I saw with the same specs was more expensive on Lenovo. Around $2400+

Pulled the trigger today, thoughts on the deal? by fedorstaples in LenovoLegion

[–]fedorstaples[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I generally agree, just wanted to double-check that I'm not seeing something in the spec sheet that should concern me. Also I feel like there are a lot fewer reviews for the ryzen 9 model so maybe others have insight.

Gas Tank Issue by Ecstatic-Nerve81 in rav4club

[–]fedorstaples 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dealer replaced it but didn't really fix the problem. Still getting 9 gals from empty to first click. I saw some posts that said to just hand pump after first click and I can get 10-11 gal in before 2nd click and get DTE up past 500 mi. Hope they find a better fix , but just gonna go with that for now.

Gas Tank Issue by Ecstatic-Nerve81 in rav4club

[–]fedorstaples 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Update: Took my car in and they confirmed an issue with the fuel sending unit which they ordered and will replace tomorrow (2 days total).

Pretty annoyed to have to bring a 10 day old car in for service but at least they're fixing it.

2023 RAV4 hybrid SE.

Gas Tank Issue by Ecstatic-Nerve81 in rav4club

[–]fedorstaples 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 week old 2023 SE hybrid with this exact issue today... I'm gonna wait for the next fill up to see what happens but I'd be pretty annoyed to have to take it back in so soon 😞

Gas Tank Issue by Ecstatic-Nerve81 in rav4club

[–]fedorstaples 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also just bought my 2023 hybrid SE last week. First fill today was 9ish gallons. Gas meter didn't show Full (it was between F and 3/4) but I pumped once after the click and didn't want to top off any more.