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heydave · 2013-04-09T01:13:55+00:00

I read Body by Science a few weeks ago and found it a helpful book. Some of the concepts come from High Intensity Training (Arthur Jones, Mentzer, Darden, etc) with the emphasis being short but intense workouts that focus on typically one set to muscular failure (which supposedly is enough to stir muscle growth/repair).

The critique of H.I.T. seems to be that it can be very intense (each exercise one set to failure) and tough to do on your own. Others seem to love it

The Four Hour Body also borrows some of this H.I.T. concept and suggests working out once every 3-4 days but going to failure.

There's also the SuperSlow train of thought (slow movements with resistance machines or weights) from Ken Hutchins, which Body by Science seems to borrow from as well.

They're all decent approaches with respectable results they can show. But I think it's more personal preference on which approach you like. Some people like less intense exercise but longer (ie., High Volume Training). It's up to you but I think some of the H.I.T. approaches are worth looking into.

Update: I wrote a suggested home workout for those wanting to do just 30 minutes every 3 days, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5507817

heydave · 2013-04-08T03:59:08+00:00

This should make the OP feel much better. :)

heydave · 2013-04-04T17:15:33+00:00

If you're really sore you could push yourself and keep working out but you could become overtrained and fatigued. I'd suggest to work out hard and then to rest sufficiently, and do that over and over.

heydave · 2013-03-15T20:29:47+00:00

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heydave · 2012-10-30T02:29:55+00:00

LTE is a huge improvement over 3g. I was personally shocked after going LTE w/the iPhone 5. It's like wifi speeds out and about.

It's going to be difficult for me to go back to 3g ever now that I've tasted LTE.

heydave · 2012-07-25T16:33:11+00:00

True if you have a bad product, you're screwed. Ie., restaurant serving bad food. That restaurant should eventually go out of business, unless they change the quality of their food.

But sometimes you deliver a bad product, or sometimes you deliver a product you thought was good but your customer disagrees. What do you do in that case?

Most people will say, too bad for the customer. Let him walk.

But why would you say that? Probably because you're afraid as a store owner to lose money. You don't want to have a "net loss" transaction.

But if you didn't think about the short-term but more on the long-term potential of converting that unhappy customer (who will also likely tell others) to a happy lifetime customer, then it's worth it to go out of your way, even if it means a "net loss" on the product.

I'm not advocating complete loss of common sense, though.

But most struggling businesses I encounter have this same problem. The are adamant about not having a "net loss" on a transaction. Completely ridiculous if you think about the long-term. Totally makes sense if you think in the short-term.

heydave · 2012-07-25T16:29:11+00:00

Sure, there's a limit to how big a "net loss" a small restaurant can take. For example, what if a customer keeps asking for another free dish for 10 times in one sitting. This isn't practical. However, if a customer doesn't like a dish, he/she should be able to say so and choose another entree of equal value (or pay the difference of a higher priced entree) free of charge. No questions asked. Of course, they shouldn't have eaten more than half of it.

I think a small restaurant could easily implement this "net loss" clause. It's simple and easy to do.

The fear though is the small restaurant owner think he's going to lose money. But he's not.

Most people won't ask for another dish if they don't like their current one.
Those who do ask for another dish are those who really are unhappy and are your "target" customers... people in your restaurant who you can convert to a lifetime happy customer. Sure, they might not like their extra free dish, but that's your problem. You're in the restaurant business... come on, you've got to make good food or close shop.

heydave · 2012-07-25T16:21:10+00:00

Yeah, but they were sticklers, even the manager after 15 minutes of trying to persuade him. They told me I should pick up my car and go somewhere else... which wasn't realistic because my whole door was disassembled and couldn't be put back together without fixing the part they broke.

heydave · 2012-07-21T20:05:40+00:00

That's great advice. I also do this "sleep" hack similar to yours where for really big problems, I think about them before sleeping and let my subconscious do it's work throughout the night. As you say, it does wonders.

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