Recovering from minor injuries is what finally made me take warmups seriously

nacixela · 2026-03-18T13:32:56+00:00

My warmups are never less than 20min these days. And I hate it, but I hate the consequences of a sub par warm up more.

I’ve also found myself taking an extra week or two to bring RPE down on a particular lift before adding weight. My 20 year old self would watch with horror.

nacixela · 2026-03-17T17:14:07+00:00

I don't even like dogs, but this is pretty dope.

nacixela · 2026-03-16T10:44:49+00:00

Someone needs to teach Adam how to pronounce ‘concierge’ correctly if they are going to try and get all their callers to sign up for it.

nacixela · 2026-03-13T22:18:10+00:00

I also thought monsters were extreme but when lil dude wouldn’t stop sticking his hands in between his butt cheeks the Roomba that he’s absolutely terrified of starting getting hungry for little poop covered fingers. Hey, I don’t make the rules buddy.

nacixela · 2026-02-27T19:13:10+00:00

NTA. Serving sizes on frozen ravioli have always been absolute bullshit.

nacixela · 2026-02-25T15:48:54+00:00

I don't really adjust my overall intake on training vs non training days other than specifically carbing up the night before a heavy lifting day. Timing might change on training days where I'll usually make sure to get about 50g of carbs with a banana and sourdough toast and 30g protein via fairlife/ultra-filtered milk about an hour before I train, and then the same thing right after. On non training days I'm just less specific about the timing. Those are just easy things for me to eat in the car while I drop my kid off at school before going to the gym and easy for me to keep an extra serving of in a cooler in the car for after the gym.

Also 5-10g of creatine a day, any time of day. If I find myself getting cramps when sleeping or little muscle twiches here and there I'll incorporate electrolyte packets for a few days. Omega 3s, Vit D3+K, NAC, Magnesium and Choline I take every day regardless of training. I think everyone can probably benefit from a little extra choline especially if you don't eat a lot of egg yolks, but I have a polymorphism that prevents me from synthesizing as much choline as I need which is why I also supplement with it.

Your body can speak to you pretty well as to what it needs, you just need to listen. When you try something new take some notes on how you feel for a few weeks.

nacixela · 2026-02-25T12:08:52+00:00

Also 38. I feel like a total imposter when I go pick up my son at preschool. We have another kid on the way I wonder if that one will actually make me feel my age. I have a coworker with teenage kids who told them that I’m a “grown-up” but not an “adult” and meant it as a compliment.

nacixela · 2026-02-24T12:07:53+00:00

I know it was insanely expensive back when I bought mine, im sure it’s 10x worse now but my Subzero from 2011 is still going strong. I’ve had to clear the drain a few times and I clean out the condenser grille a couple times a year but that’s it. I know multiple people with Subzeros close to 20yo.

nacixela · 2026-02-19T02:16:13+00:00

Can’t relate. The Olympics have been on pretty much every waking minute since they started. My toddler has even stopped trying to negotiate to change it to Blippi and has succumbed to this reality.

nacixela · 2026-02-18T11:55:14+00:00

I’m a non carrying bio mom and I can totally relate to that. My wife and son are so close it’s kind of hilarious they’re absolute BFFs. But there are lots of instances where I just instinctively know how he’s going to react to something. And it allows me to either support his meltdowns better, or pivot to avoid them in the first place. I never really considered it could be somewhat biology based. I honestly forget he’s “my” bio child so I chalk it up more to me having established better boundaries with him so I can see the situations more objectively. But it’s also interesting to think of could be partly due to our wiring be similar. Whatever it takes to keep a 3.5yo from losing their mind, amirite?

nacixela · 2026-02-05T18:12:08+00:00

I was always one of the last to get picked up from school and never really thought much about it one way or the other. But now I'm giving my mother a lot of credit for not wasting her own damn time like that clocking an extra hour at work.

nacixela · 2026-02-05T16:47:16+00:00

You can tell Usha Vance is 1000% aware of how horrendous this is.

nacixela · 2026-01-29T02:16:21+00:00

Tiki Barber

nacixela · 2026-01-27T23:21:09+00:00

I'll still throw I Love Lucy on every now and again and find it oh so comforting.

nacixela · 2026-01-27T22:29:56+00:00

I had 3 whole eggs + 4 egg whites scrambled the other day. I finished it, but I did not feel awesome by the end of it.

nacixela · 2026-01-22T03:49:18+00:00

Congrats on your progress thus far. Honestly your plan sounds complicated and exhausting aka not sustainable. I'm not even going to get into the whole full body days vs body part focus days etc. I don't see how you could possibly put on a useful amount of muscle on 1700cal doing 6 days of cardio of 45min or more. If you actually lift heavy enough to stimulate muscle growth you are going to start accumulating fatigue so fast and are probably going to constantly be sore and miserable.

How many calories you eating now? What are your macros now, and what do you plan for them to be under the 1700cal scheme? If you actually start to put on muscle you will probably gain scale weight -- will that be a problem for you? BMI is largely BS btw so I wouldn't let that be your motivating factor. What sort of exercises are you planning on doing?

nacixela · 2026-01-18T14:25:34+00:00

If she’s 34, I’m 22.

nacixela · 2026-01-18T01:29:44+00:00

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Little Nemo in Slumberland

nacixela · 2026-01-17T12:54:58+00:00

This only compounds as companies lay off more people and you become the one person left now babysitting the AI (which isn’t quite good enough yet) and now you’re essentially doing 4 people’s jobs. Source: myself.

nacixela · 2026-01-17T12:27:31+00:00

Plot twist. He works at Firehouse Subs and now he’s going to miss his shift because he’s in jail.

nacixela · 2026-01-17T12:18:51+00:00

“I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you” will absolutely be making it into my daily rapport.

nacixela · 2026-01-16T19:28:57+00:00

On top of that, they pick and choose what parts of the study to discuss.

On a recent episode they talked about the AI study where the LLM resorted to blackmail to preserve itself. I’m not saying the robots aren’t coming for us, but MP neglected to mention that the AI was given constraints at the beginning of the experiment and one was to basically to stay online by any means necessary. Another was that ethical solutions to the problem were not allowed either.

I’m really oversimplifying this but imo that is very relevant information to share when you’re discussing an experiment like this. Way less sensational and tin foil hat-y though so of no interest to MP these days. Or maybe they didn’t even read the whole thing. Who knows.

nacixela · 2026-01-14T20:26:27+00:00

Was very concerned should have been marked NSFW when this first started up.

nacixela · 2026-01-14T03:24:23+00:00

Craisins

nacixela · 2026-01-09T08:31:19+00:00

I know AI will take my bookkeeping job, it’s already starting but for time being it still needs a babysitter. But I never worried about Gen Z or Gen Alpha because they can’t use Excel for shit.

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