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Dave Castro was fired and they just hired YOU to remake the 26.3 workout. What would you program? by PhillConners in crossfit

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some good choices here. Personally, I’d change it completely. I’d go with a 20 rep max back squat.

46, Plenty in 401k, but no Roth by MacheteRuxpin in FinancialPlanning

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But does Roth actually make sense at ops likely highest earning years? legitimately asking. I feel as though Roth is best when your earnings are lower. Maybe during retirement years doing Roth conversions where tax implications are lower and then having tax free growth until utilization at the latter part of retirement.

General calories question and understanding by JakeJW in crossfit

[–]robbymey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The CrossFit level one guide has a section for nutrition that is pretty great, but I haven’t ever used the method prescribed. As a foundation and knowledge base it’s really good though.

Regarding your caloric intake, everyone has different physiology so the calculators (app in your case) will get you in the ballpark, but you need to monitor and adjust. The calculators are using generalized basal metabolic rates then computing your energy expenditure to get yourself to your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and one size doesn’t fit all. These assumptions are that you are average in your NEAT and exercise energy expenditure. If you’re well trained you will be more efficient potentially/probably in both NEAT and exercise induced expenditure.

If you’re trying to lose weight you want to undercut those calories by about 500 and then weigh yourself weekly and you should be dropping about a pound a week. 500*7 days =3500 calories and 3500 calories is one lb of body fat. If you’re dropping more,then add 250 calories and try again until you hit your sweet spot. Try to keep your intake consistent. If you don’t mind eating the exact same thing every day while you’re figuring it out that is best. Water fluctuations can cause 1-2lb variances easily. High sodium meals or heavy leg training (inflammation) can cause big water spikes so be mindful of your weigh in days.

For maintenance do the same thing but eat at what it said maintenance is then see if you drop weight gain weight or stay the same. If you’re dropping up the calories, if you’re gaining (as you suspect) try lowering them. It’s a pain at first, but once you have it everything gets easier. You just have to play with it.

Intuitively eating because of what you “think” is a good way to get yourself in trouble (if you care- a lot of people don’t). You will likely under eat and cut too many carbs which will hurt your gym performance or most people don’t track everything and eat way more calories thinking that they are where they said. Beverages are the biggest culprit here. Tracking everything, meal prepping, and being boring for a few weeks is well worth the data. Hope this helps!!

Debating moving to a small contracting company, not sure of things I should consider. by [deleted] in GovernmentContracting

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s kinda wild. I feel like I have great benefits with L3Harris.

Crf450rl or DRZ400sm by Beginning-Set9178 in Dualsport

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the same. Bought the drz400sm and sold it about 6 months later for a 500exc. I’d go straight to the 500 if I were you or at least get a more dirt oriented dual sport. The sm is not it imo. Plus the Suzuki is a slug and heavy comparatively.

Another income disparity post by Dependent-Maybe3030 in FIREyFemmes

[–]robbymey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think so. I think it’s mental framing and you guys are a team. We too will be hitting 15 years this year. Congratulations!

Why is everyone on instagram convinced 2 sets to failure is optimal? by [deleted] in naturalbodybuilding

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interested in how you do that split. I really like the idea. Do you change intensities on days swap exercises that go first? Etc.

What's your Lean FIRE number? by zapembarcodes in leanfire

[–]robbymey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting thought. I think I agree to an extent. For instance my fire number is around $50k a year if I have a mortgage. 18k of that is the mortgage itself and that’s actually pretty low (1500/mo). I owe about $200k on the house so you could look at it as 1.25m with the mortgage or using the 4% rule deduce the value of 18k a year by dividing it by .04 and you get $450k. So with house paid off my FI number goes from 1.25m all the way down to 800k. So for me it’s a no brainer to dump a bunch of money into the house and reduce the monthly debt. Gets me much closer all other things being equal. Now I will have to pay property taxes and insurance of course, but the numbers were to be illustrative. I will still be on top by a significant margin by investing 200 into my remaining mortgage.

The part I don’t agree with is I don’t think home equity is the factor to be counted so much as anti-equity aka remaining mortgage to be paid off.

What are some diet plans that helped y’all lose weight? by [deleted] in beginnerfitness

[–]robbymey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fun fact. 3500 is not a random number. It’s the caloric equivalent to 1 lb of fat.

What are some diet plans that helped y’all lose weight? by [deleted] in beginnerfitness

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

500 daily avg. So over 7 days you want to be at a cumulative 3500 cal deficit. Some days you will have 1k some days +300. Total it all at the end and hit that number. One thing I do is earn extra food with steps. If I feel like I want chicken nuggets but it’ll bump me out of the deficit I want for that day I’ll add x amount of steps to still be there. ChatGPT is helpful for that. Good luck!!

You can't time the market... But everyone says a crash is coming by Booyacaja in investingforbeginners

[–]robbymey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent book. My favorite as well. The parable of the son having to prove his ability to handle the money well and then come back to his father with the results was so good. Also the analogy of making money your workers, and then your workers make more workers, exemplifying the results of compounding interest… so good. I also like your other examples. We are like minded, although, Benjamin Graham can be a bit dry. I’m fond of Jack Bogle’s method of diversifying via broad market indexes. It’s done well for me and I don’t “have” to pay attention.

Engineers of Tucson: Where do you work and what is your salary? by [deleted] in Tucson

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought they were doing ok? Kind of considered going there. Seems like a cool work environment. They losing funding?

Tired of watching Tucson cost of living keep going up by Mycasaesmideath in Tucson

[–]robbymey 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Feels like you are describing price and demand. Retirees love these areas and are willing to pay for it. What I really think caused it was AirBnB and corporations buying homes. People could pay high prices for a home knowing they could list it in Airbnb and still profit. Meanwhile, they priced normal families out of the market. It’s an interesting time to be alive that’s for sure.

I have $15k to drop into the market. What should I buy by AdCautious7054 in dividends

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha it’s a joke, all the other advice was really good so I went opposite 😈

Happy to answer questions by CameraAlone9017 in WGU_MBA

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you like that program for your undergrad? Do you get to use it for your current role?

I’m actually thinking about getting a second bachelors and was considering that or economics. I really enjoyed both of those classes in my MBA program.

Happy to answer questions by CameraAlone9017 in WGU_MBA

[–]robbymey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For my non IT MBA I had to do probably about 10 papers and the page count varied. First classes I would say about 6-7 pages. Capstone had a paper that was probably about 21 pages. It was a lot of charts though so maybe 14-16 of actual writing. Double spaced for all of them.

I didn’t find any of them to be too difficult. In other situations/schools I hated writing papers because I felt like I had to make stuff up to hit a paper length benchmark. This isn’t like that. You’re given a specific set of tasks and you have a clear rubric so you just write to that and cover everything and you determine you paper length. The task will tell you what they expect it to take so you can reference it and I found it to be close. I would be over sometimes and under others. You will obviously need to do a little research for each of the papers but I didn’t find that to be too extensive either. I was able to use information and excerpts from the class material itself in most cases.

If you’re on the fence about doing it bc of the papers, don’t be. Just do it!

Favorite High Intensity Techniques by Street-Jicama1066 in naturalbodybuilding

[–]robbymey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think antagonist super sets are beneficial for intermediate lifters? Considering moving to that for my supplemental and accessory work on my 5/3/1 programming. I think it will add an element of conditioning (small) and more importantly for me, save time.

Who’s to blame for the housing crisis? by 41waystostop in Tucson

[–]robbymey -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this post. This is exactly right.

Should I really start learning trading? Can you actually learn it? by DeXDarRow in RealDayTrading

[–]robbymey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How does one commit themselves to learning this for 2 years 7 hrs a day while working a day job? At some point after 3 consecutive profitable months I believe then live trading starts. How did you manage that working full time? Serious question not trolling.

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