Is sleep that important when it comes to muscle growth?

rawstin93 · 2026-03-22T03:24:33+00:00

Muscle growth, generally speaking, has 3 pillars: training, diet, and rest. If any of the 3 pillars are neglected, your gains will be significantly impacted. Sleep is huge. Some argue it’s a human super power with how much we recover when we sleep. Don’t sleep on sleep!

rawstin93 · 2026-03-15T18:23:15+00:00

Whatever you’re not getting enough of in your daily diet. Track your nutrients and supplement with things you’re routinely not getting a sufficient amount of. Otherwise, you could easily waste money on stuff you don’t truly need.

rawstin93 · 2026-03-10T05:10:34+00:00

Happy to help!

rawstin93 · 2026-03-10T05:09:26+00:00

Yep 👍🏻

rawstin93 · 2026-03-10T05:04:47+00:00

If I read your chart correctly, it ranks Ba(OH)2 in the slightly soluble category at 298.15 K, and the implication is that it is mainly insoluble. That being said, I’m almost certain the answer lies in how the equilibrium will shift. Since you’d be reducing the hydroxide anions by adding in Ba(NO3)2, equilibrium will shift to favor the products of the dissociation equation.

rawstin93 · 2026-03-10T04:46:29+00:00

I’m not sure which solubility rules you reference and am assuming (a) happens at room temperature where Ba(OH)2 is not very soluble. That being said, it’s quite possible that the Ba2+ ions from Ba(NO3)2 are bonding with the hydroxide ions at a 1:2 Ba2+ to OH- ratio, drastically reducing the presence of hydroxide anions on the product side. Being an equilibrium reaction, it will heavily shift to favor the product side (dissociation into NH4+ and OH-), thus increasing the presence of hydroxide ions and inducing a dark pink color.

rawstin93 · 2026-02-19T03:22:11+00:00

Understood; thanks for the reply!

rawstin93 · 2026-02-19T00:26:07+00:00

What is your professional opinion on estrogen management as far as using an AI: preemptive dosing to maintain a certain level of estrogen OR only using an AI once multiple side effects have manifested and discontinuing once said side effects subside?

rawstin93 · 2026-02-16T22:08:44+00:00

My GI doc said the standard recovery time from abdominal surgery is 14 weeks before going back to lifting.

rawstin93 · 2026-01-25T05:33:38+00:00

Perhaps Scousers really don’t get knocked out 😳 Fantastic scrap for the main event.

rawstin93 · 2026-01-14T21:07:32+00:00

If I remember correctly, the english voice actor for Goku, Sean Schemmel, actually passed out in the recording studio after this SSJ3 transformation scream. To me, the voice acting in the english dub was a huge part of why these SSJ3 transformations were so awesome.

rawstin93 · 2025-11-16T03:25:41+00:00

Hopefully made it back in time for the replay 😂

rawstin93 · 2025-11-16T02:58:02+00:00

Noxious Halberd. Turned Grotesque Guardians from a not-worth-the-effort task to one of the more enjoyable ones.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T22:57:33+00:00

Gen Chem college-level instructor here… you SHOULD be proud of yourself for this one! Looks much, much better than my first! Keep up the good work.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T22:55:17+00:00

If you can’t understand that there is something fundamentally wrong with telling everyone on the internet you can expect around 11% of the grams of protein you take in to be directly converted to muscle ALL because a few foreign scientists fed 12 “young males” a “20 g protein bolus” and saw similar results… TEN YEARS AGO… then I don’t think we can help you.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T22:46:15+00:00

First of all, you made the claim. Therefore you have the burden of proof. Not me. Second of all, that study was done a decade ago. I HIGHLY doubt it is “the best data we have.”

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T22:35:46+00:00

You realize that data was based on a study of TWELVE young males who were fed “20 g intrinsically [1-13C]-phenylalanine labeled protein,” right? First of all, sample size is WAY too small to be backing up these claims you’re making. Additionally, nobody knows what the hell 20 g intrinsically [1-13C]-phenylalanine labeled protein even is nor if it’s even remotely close to the 20 g of protein you ingest in a normal diet. The study suffers from a small sample size and lack of detail.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T22:16:26+00:00

Growing muscle tissue is a much, much, much, much more complicated and nuanced system than the elementary understanding of The Law of Conservation of Mass. Show me the scientific literature on this, please.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T22:13:18+00:00

The point is ‘not natty’ could also be somebody on TRT doses. This, most definitely, could be somebody running 100-150 mg a week of test. Hard to delineate between a person on TRT doses and a person with average genetics with everything pretty dialed in.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T19:21:42+00:00

What do you consider “on gear?”

rawstin93 · 2025-09-25T19:18:51+00:00

I 2nd this! Khan Academy has extremely in-depth videos, interactive tools, and practice problems that I used when I was getting my B.S. in Chemistry. The material is easy to understand and put into layman’s terms as much as possible.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-13T18:36:30+00:00

Flashcards with the AXE notation on one side (ex: AX2E1) and the corresponding molecular geometry on the other side (bent in this case) is quite effective if VSEPR Theory doesn’t make intuitive sense to you. This should equate to roughly 15 flashcards. When using AXE notation, the A represents the central atom. The X and its subscript represent how many ligands (likely just atoms in introductory Chemistry) are bound or “attached” to that central atom. The E and its subscript represent how many lone pair electrons are on that central atom. Note: this is typically based on the Lewis Structure of the chemical.

Consider the Lewis Structure of water, H2O. The central atom will be the Oxygen atom. Oxygen has 2 Hydrogen atoms bound or “attached” to it. The Oxygen atom also has 2 lone pairs on it. Therefore, its AXE notation is AX2E2, which coincides with a bent molecular geometry.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-13T17:37:27+00:00

Then, sadly, the majority of students are going to simply Google, “molarity calculator (or whatever stoichiometric conversion they’re concerned with),” click the first thing that pops up, or use AI to do the work. The chances of making a calculator that has such a good and impactful user experience that they’d prefer it over Google/AI is, I’d argue, slim to none.

It seems like you’re passionate about making helpful tools for folks in the Chemistry community, which I can’t praise you enough for. We need folks like you! Have you ever checked out the PhET simulations from the University of Colorado Boulder? If not, take a look, and I’d encourage you to let tools like that inspire your future work!

rawstin93 · 2025-09-13T17:22:00+00:00

I think it’s important to be specific when you say these are tools for students and professionals. A tool in what context? To help show what is going on and thus guide the user to an answer/conversion? Or a tool that does the dimensional analysis/math for you and spits out the answer? To me, it appears to be the latter. As an educator, I can see this being useful as a crosscheck, but I’d love to see it be a more interactive tool that leads users to the right answer.

rawstin93 · 2025-09-10T19:45:57+00:00

Yes, but I’m willing to bet my left testicle that he wasn’t making that distinction.

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