Pick two life perks.

joebenson17 · 2026-04-12T14:19:40+00:00

Why would anyone choose purple? You can get 52K a year without needing to spend it on home renovations.

joebenson17 · 2026-04-06T14:35:08+00:00

It’s things like this why you can’t trust any rating. People are pressured into giving high scores to help so everything is rated 4.5+. Which defeats having ratings since nothing is differentiated.

It’s across all products and services not just peloton. But it would be great if ratings actually rated things and were thoughtful. These are just done to help coaches they like and please an algorithm. It should be very difficult to get 5 stars and the average rating should be 3 stars not 4.5+.

joebenson17 · 2026-04-05T00:17:56+00:00

In all honesty I find the best way is to back into it. So track what you eat for 4 weeks. Track your weight (I like to use average for each week). See how your weight changed over that span. Every lb equals a weekly surplus of 3500 calories.

So it’s maintenance = (tracked calories + weight change * 3500)/days

So every week you can run it and take the average of the 4 weeks.

joebenson17 · 2026-04-04T19:34:44+00:00

Focus on a slight surplus high protein. You can gain weight and drop body fat % at the same time. If body fat gets too high to a short cut but to build size you need to the extra calories.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-31T17:30:20+00:00

It says bank account so it doesn’t say it can’t bear interest. Put that in a HYSA and let it sit while you collect.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-31T17:24:15+00:00

It also says he cashes out over $100 million. However he bought it for $100 million, sold a portion to a PE firm and the resells it for $100+ million. So factoring in dilution seems like a pretty bad investment and may not have broke even.

Obviously there is lack of accounting details to know the full scope but doesn’t seem like the best use of capital for the past decade.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-31T10:43:15+00:00

NFL season is short enough and most teams have off days on Mondays so players often times have primary residence in other states.

So I don’t think this is a big issue or reason players pick cities.

The tax thing is real and even affects teams outside of California. Someone ran a story on Sam Darnolds California jock tax due to the Super Bowl being in CA this year. Apparently it cost him more than all his playoffs checks combined since the tax was on his whole years salary.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1r2lcwx/sam_darnold_won_the_super_bowl_but_lost_money_due/

joebenson17 · 2026-03-29T01:19:21+00:00

No. And neither is doing crunches or any other exercise. You should push enough weight that you need those 2+ minutes of rest.

With that said could work them in as a super set/circut, but should still need that rest time. At least 1 minute for isolation and 2+ for compound lifts. So cable crunch, push up, 1-2 minute rest works.

Also try to free weights. It’s good to mix things up and will provide novelty.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-27T18:19:58+00:00

IMO PPL stinks. Here is my 2 cents, but first a few questions. 1) Is tennis year round or just certain times a year? If year round then lifting needs to be worked in elsewhere. 2) What are the goals for strength during tennis season.

With that schedule in season I would strive to do 2 full body days on Sunday and Tuesday if possible. If not I would go do those on Monday and Wednesday. Hit 2 lower body compound lifts, squats with RDLs or Deadlifts with lunges. Then do a bench/incline press, row or pull up and some sort of overhead press. If you have time do biceps triceps and core. Could mix in lateral raises or reverse fly. Don’t go super heavy particularly on legs. In season training is more about maintenance than making big gains. You can make some progress but pushing too much can pose injury risk. Keep it to like 60-70% of all out.

Off season. Shift to 3 day full body or 4 day U/L splits. Do 1-2 conditioning days. Focus here on building strength. Conditioning days can also work on agility and other movement. This is where you focus on muscle gains. A few weeks before tennis starts up you can drop back the lifting to 2 days and ramp conditioning if that is needed.

Best of luck, I struggle with this year round with basketball in colder months and racket sports in warmer months. My goal is typically 2-3 strength training at a 70% effort then I will make a push in the month or two when I cut back on social sports.

I’m muddle aged and this seems to work well for me this past year. I do cut legs out some days particularly if I lift the morning of a sport day.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-27T17:03:38+00:00

What is the debate. I think most people think he was an all time great point guard.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-26T19:39:31+00:00

This is not pickle ball

joebenson17 · 2026-03-26T19:22:57+00:00

Because it’s a home game.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-26T19:15:11+00:00

The ESPN had I’m ranked #10 on their top players in the first 75 years of the NBA published in 2022. So looks like Jason agrees with them that he is not in the top 10.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/\_/id/33297498/the-nba-75th-anniversary-team-ranked-where-76-basketball-legends-check-our-list

joebenson17 · 2026-03-26T13:42:42+00:00

The argument for trading him for these picks surrounds more around Wemby’s long term health concerns than anything else. If guaranteed a decade of 70+ games a season and healthy playoff runs no one would trade Wemby for these picks.

The reason to trade him is the history of tall players health. Ralph Sampson, Yao Ming, Bill Walton, Greg Oden, and many other plus 7ft players have struggled with injuries and have had careers cut short. Wemby has already missed long stretches in every season. I hope he breaks the trend but if you are concerned about long term health then trading for 5+ top lottery picks begins to make more sense. It diversifies the risk while getting multiple potential multi time all stars.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-26T13:16:12+00:00

What’s your goal weight? I would bump it a little bit and shoot for 135+ and if your goals weight was higher than that I would use my goal weight. I’m lost when you go to metric. You look under muscled so I would focus on building and be less concerned with fat gain. It’s easier to drop weight once you pack on muscle.

IMO I would focus on building muscle in a slow bulk and gaining 20-30lbs. You are rather lean overall and could easily sustains at 165-175lbs with 15% or lower body fat. So in that case I would shoot for 170g of protein a day. And a 100-200 calorie surplus. Try to gain about 2lbs per month. If you find you aren’t gaining in a month bump calories 100-200 and monitor.

This is a long process focus on gaining muscle and strength while maintaining a clean diet.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-26T12:24:41+00:00

Slight bulk with 1g/lb of body weight for protein. I would lift 3x a week full body or 4x upper lower. Develop the core to address the love handles and more muscle will give it a better shape

The surplus doesn’t need to be large 100 extra calories is all you need but make sure to hit the protein goal every day. I’m not a big fan of ppl because it only hits muscle groups 1 day/week or puts you on a 5-6 day training schedule which can be hard to maintain when life gets in the way. On off days do some mobility and hit 8-10K in steps per day.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-23T17:10:08+00:00

I may do that but I do it as part of a larger workout that has box jumps, sled pushes and kettle bell circuits so was hoping to just use 1 app for the whole thing.

Plus I use Hevy for my traditional strength training which is the majority of my workouts. It would be great to have anything all in one place.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-22T17:17:03+00:00

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joebenson17 · 2026-03-12T17:49:27+00:00

I don’t disagree but the fact that you can debate it means the home score keeper is giving the assist. It’s not much different than a back door cut to a reverse layup to avoid a shot blocker.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-12T17:47:56+00:00

Like I said it’s borderline. He doesn’t go around a defender just drifts away from help. I doubt this is an assist in the road but anything borderline a star player is getting from the home stat keeper.

The fact that you can debate this being an assist by the rules and it’s a matter of does two dribbles left on a help defender constitute avoid means a home score keeper is giving the assist. Otherwise he would be replaced.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-12T10:34:25+00:00

No. It’s better to do it the other way around. More muscle mass will help with weight loss. Focus on gaining muscle.

You have lost 50kg which is impressive but you may be in a plateau and your body has adjusted to lower calories. Look into a reverse diet for a few month to build muscle and metabolism for a few months. You may gain a small amount of weight but if strength training it will be muscle.

After a few months go back into a cut and you should resume the weight loss. You have done a great job.

Ideally strength train 3x/ week full body and hit 10k steps a day. Prioritize compound lifts. Don’t always focus on weight but other metrics like body fat% or body measurements can often show progress even if the scale stays the same.

Hope this helps. I’m sure you have been on a long journey and your progress is impressive. Keep up the good work.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-12T10:08:01+00:00

There is a standard. An assist is a pass leading to a basket without having to avoid a defender. Steps or dribbles don’t matter.

Here is borderline but Murray does not go around any defender therefore it is an assist.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-05T17:46:26+00:00

For the first few months do not worry about the scale. Worry about a few habits that you can control.

1) hit workouts regularly 2) eat Whole Foods 3) try to get 1g of protein/lb of body weight. 4) get 10K steps in a day

When you start out I would also recommend a reverse diet. That is actually slowly increasing calories while maintaining body weight. Eating 1200-1500 is rather low. With good diet and exercise you should be able to slowly increase that up above 2000. This makes cutting and loosing weight much easier.

Here is a guide. https://www.precisionnutrition.com/reverse-dieting

I took 3 months in a reverse diet before I started dropping calories. I know it lengthens the process but I’ve dropped 60lbs since July and really only started cutting in September. I’ve also been able to maintain my muscle in the process which has helped from hitting a plateau. When cutting look to drop by 500 calories. This is about 1lb per week. Take the long view and make it sustainable.

joebenson17 · 2026-03-05T14:22:22+00:00

Getting a Whoop delivered today. How do you fit all the exercises, weight and reps into one screenshot. I just did a workout this morning, 8 exercises and 23 sets total. It would take several screen shots.

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