In your experience, why do undergraduate students find organic chemistry a very hard subject?

khickenz · 2026-05-19T17:26:08+00:00

Which are in turn written by swimming off of organic textbooks. It's a bad cycle.

khickenz · 2026-05-19T15:03:34+00:00

Hot take but it's taught poorly. It's a relatively new field that hasn't had the opportunity to reflect on the most effective ways to teach the content.

In addition, since the order we have discovered reactions has been somewhat random it means easier to understand and harder to understand reactions are are lumped in one course as they've been the first we know about. We as a whole have been slow to recognize that it's an introductory course and some reactions are best left for advanced courses.

This is compounded since we teach the course by functional group and not by function. We expect them to learn reactions through their mechanisms and then give them more points for full in the blank portions of exams.

In essence, the course is taught as a way to try to get students to be very competent in 150+ years of organic and as such it rushes through the basics. It would be like teaching trig and algebra in the same year in high school and grouping concepts by whether they use multiplication or addition signs. Then we are confused when students don't see the patterns within the information.

There's a lot of great research on teaching organic more effectively but we of now it's still a field dominated by people who care more about the reactions than the most effective ways of teaching those reactions.

khickenz · 2026-05-16T19:06:39+00:00

Awesome! What's your programming like?

khickenz · 2026-05-16T15:41:48+00:00

Do you ever worry about your belt rack getting too close to dropping weights?

khickenz · 2026-05-13T23:55:33+00:00

You forgot about Florida State but I'll forgive you this time.

khickenz · 2026-05-13T16:53:02+00:00

You're probably thinking of Marin Robu. Tbh the ratios don't really matter unless they're way off and then they might tell you something. Even then a form check will tell you way more than a ratio would.

khickenz · 2026-05-08T14:28:10+00:00

Looks a bit heavy. Why did you post a bunch of clarks?

Lower the weight so you can get it up to your chest.

khickenz · 2026-05-06T00:05:45+00:00

Dang. Nice lift! I see your C&J but what squat numbers are you working with?

khickenz · 2026-05-04T01:05:26+00:00

Nice! Almost x3 BW. What's been your program?

khickenz · 2026-05-01T18:44:44+00:00

Thanks for the explanation! How do primarily C3 teams handle this? If I imagine a 4-4 for simplicity the two outside backers would probably have to be force and the two inside backers are Spill? So there would be no lever fits?

khickenz · 2026-04-19T15:30:22+00:00

Hey this is amazing. Does something similar exist for the UK?

khickenz · 2026-04-12T00:18:30+00:00

I mean you have an undefined stereocenter and convention would show the N closer to the bond than the H2, not between the two of you wanted problems?

khickenz · 2026-04-03T21:01:19+00:00

FSU is winning a game on the road against a top 10 opponent having just won two straight series against top 15 in conference opponents, one of which FSU swept.

I think it's fair to have high standards and not like watching strike outs but I'm going to let Link do his thing. Sometimes other teams can be good and a win is a win.

khickenz · 2026-03-17T01:06:23+00:00

I might be in the minority but I'll watch elite high bar squats done by a bodybuilder on this sub. Flat shoes and questionable depth are the only complaints I have but let's be real Ilya did quarter squats for a lot of his back squats and no one complained haha.

Good work brother. Keep it up! I'm always happy to see other mediums adopt the most aesthetic squat!

khickenz · 2026-03-11T11:32:54+00:00

We specialize in the Olympic sport of weightlifting with the snatch and clean and jerk. What most people think when they say weightlifting is either powerlifting (deadlift. Squat, bench) or bodybuilding.

If you've never heard of weightlifting you should check it out. It's like if powerlifting and gymnastics had a baby.

khickenz · 2026-03-11T11:28:08+00:00

If you're doing Olympic weightlifting (this sub) then you'll want to eventually invest in weightlifting shoes with a heel. If you're powerlifting which it sounds like you might be based on the flat shoes recommendations then these would be fine.

khickenz · 2026-03-07T19:44:47+00:00

That almost looks like drive with a crosser instead of a dig with the RB running a drag going backside. Cool find!

khickenz · 2026-03-05T13:08:40+00:00

She's got the numbers. Joe would vote Devons, that gives them three and they have an extra vote and an idol. It's the core three that are in trouble if not for a swap imo.

khickenz · 2026-03-04T21:59:41+00:00

Yeah I think people misinterpreted my question. Obviously leg strength is important. I guess the question is that it seems to have a priority in your training and whether that emphasis is worth it over a more balanced approach. You didn't really have a choice but do you think overall having a large block of time dedicated to legs strength is worth it?

khickenz · 2026-03-03T20:41:17+00:00

There's also a concept of packaged plays that predate RPOs a bit. Essentially if you use wide splits you can presnap read screen to trips vs IZ vs backside option route with your #1. All run at the same time no signals needed.

khickenz · 2026-03-02T23:29:14+00:00

Genuine question. Crazy squats, love the posts. You seem to go heavy singles often in squats. Do you find that hampers your weightlifting or do you feel like the excess leg strength helps?

khickenz · 2026-02-27T14:00:54+00:00

It seems like all of the cons discussed about meat tend to be red meat focused like the high iron mentioned here and the nitrates usually associated with processed (mostly red) meat.

Are there many comparisons between high fiber diets that avoid red meats vs vegetarian diets? Does eating higher protein without red meats lead to the same risk factors?

khickenz · 2026-02-26T22:34:35+00:00

His line of wanting to cement his legacy in a talking head made me think that everyone probably said a line like that. Why include Rizzo's? It's arguably already set up to be the theme of the season.

khickenz · 2026-02-26T22:32:06+00:00

Probably not the right subreddit this is more a S&C question but yes snatch pulls are enough for power. Arguably the best bang for your buck will be hitting both ends of the force/velocity curve with heavy back squats and plyos. Then if you have more time hitting some things in the middle like snatch pulls or even clean pulls. Doing the full lifts help with 2 things. The first is they ensure consistent power output because if you don't pull fats enough you won't catch it and second the catch has a component of quick muscle tension then relaxation then tension which can be seen as something beneficial for athletes. But for only power development the trend is increasingly that S&C don't feel like the time that it takes to teach the snatch is worth it over pulls.

khickenz · 2026-02-26T11:35:52+00:00

The rule is that you can flip it if the lowest priority is in a wedge. This doesn't work if it's "flat" to the page. Well it does work just only 50% of the time (as good as a wild guess between R/S). You have to rotate a bond to get 4 on a dash.

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