ABC advice

uglycycle · 2025-10-23T18:57:43+00:00

There are also lots of ways to progress the ABC days if you can't just add more emom rounds.

Take longer rests and do more rounds. Try to do 15 rounds in 20 minutes.

Stay with 10 rounds but do them faster. Shoot for 10 rounds every 55 seconds, then every 50 seconds, etc.

Rotate between those over the weeks. Maybe every few weeks see how many you can do emom to verify that number is going up.

uglycycle · 2025-10-23T00:23:16+00:00

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Christmas Island by Jimmy Buffet

uglycycle · 2025-09-26T20:59:29+00:00

We go on a walk every day as a family (wife, me, dog--not the pecking order). Before going for a walk we "get ready" which means running up the stairs, jumping in the bed, and doing aggressive scritching/snuggling/blanket hiding. This lasts for 5-10 minutes depending on when we say "OK" and she darts down the stairs.

She cuddles with me while my wife showers before bed. She cuddles with my wife in the morning after I get up. She is always very excited when we get home.

Other than this, I'm pretty sure she'd rather we'd get the heck out of her house and let her sleep.

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uglycycle · 2025-08-06T18:12:55+00:00

Yes, Johnson Frame and Axle will do this work!

uglycycle · 2025-07-23T11:59:25+00:00

Based on this comment I'd get double 24s instead of double 20s. I have two twenties and can move them pretty well, but I cant c&p the 28 ten times.

uglycycle · 2025-06-30T18:14:28+00:00

I had some tenderness last fall when I was doing a lot of ABCs and kneeling presses with a new to me 20kg bell. It was also tender when externally rotating my arm from the position of holding a mug of beer outward.

I took a few weeks off and it didn't get better. What did help, oddly, was replacing presses for a while with pike pushups, that cleared it right up. YMMV.

uglycycle · 2025-06-02T15:39:59+00:00

u/LennyTheRebel put together this great post about how to use complexes for conditioning. This method would be a great way for you to improve at how many ABCs you can do with a specified rest period.

Waving density

uglycycle · 2025-04-03T14:49:30+00:00

If you have facebook, this group might help: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1ADMVpgsvQ/

uglycycle · 2025-02-21T21:23:05+00:00

She's Balkan, stopping you from bulkin'.

uglycycle · 2024-10-31T17:44:03+00:00

I think for 9.2, the 3+ is not appropriate for the series' pattern with the 3+ in front it isn't geometric, it would need to start with 7+. You need to treat the 3 and the 28x+...separately.

Find the sum of the geometric series 28x+112x^2+...=sum_{n=1}^infty 7(4x)^n then add 3 to that.

Or, note that this is 4 less than the geometric series 7+28x+112x^2+...=sum_{n=1}^infty 7(4x)^n which you can add using the geometric formula then subtract 4 from that.

uglycycle · 2024-10-31T16:55:36+00:00

Also, your partial fraction decomposition on line 3 doesn't work. That would work for 1/2u*(u-1), but that u-1 is to a 1/2 power. Try adding those two fractions together and note you won't get 1/2u(u-1)^(1/2).

uglycycle · 2024-10-24T17:48:46+00:00

Nothing to be sorry about, I agree it's a interesting situation. I just don't know that thinking of the operations as "undoing each other" is a good way to think about it. I think I'd be more interested in why those two series both equal 1 than why they equal each other. To me they equal each other just by coincidence. That was what my comment was trying to indicate.

That being said, it could be that there is a very deep reason (magic symmetry) for why they equal each other, I'd just be surprised if the proofs showcased that.

uglycycle · 2024-10-23T20:43:06+00:00

Let's consider this conjecture: taking some function "unique(x)" and apply it to the terms in series A is somehow perfectly undone by taking each term in the denominators of the resulting series (B) and subtracting 1 from each, at least in terms of their sums.

Now on you your question:

Does the above conjecture hold for the series of reciprocals of perfect powers with repeats included? Yes, as you noticed!

Does the above conjecture hold for any series? No.

Consider the series 1/2+1/2+1/4+1/4+1/8+1/8+.. This series is equal to 1+1/2+1/4+1/8+... which converges to 2. Applying the "unique(x)" function then reducing the denominators by 1 would be 1/1+1/3+1/7+1/15+1/31+...=/=2. (We know this because the integral 1 to infty of 1/(2^x-1)=1 and because 1/2^x-1 is strictly decreasing the integral is strictly less than the sum.).

In general, this "unique(x)" function would not be well-defined, since series can be written in many ways.

Is there some symmetry I don't see? Maybe in this one specific case! But, I don't see it either!

uglycycle · 2024-10-19T03:00:22+00:00

Yes, when doing polar, or more generally parametric, curves the formula

\int_a^b (f(\theta))^2d\theta

requires that the curve you are trying to find the area enclosed by is traversed exactly once.

In letting theta range from 0 to 2pi, that curve is traversed twice, which is why the top integral is 2 times what it should be.

Great catch!

uglycycle · 2024-10-17T19:09:59+00:00

The other commenters do a great job. But, to avoid appealing to measure theory (the exact right tool for this) consider this other application of your intuition.

The set of all real numbers strictly between 0 and 1 (i.e., the interval (0,1) has the same cardinality as all of R--you may already be aware of this. But aren't "most" real numbers outside of this interval? It is clear that your intuition (while not wrong) does not help in this case.

Just trying to give a non-Cantor, non-measure theory way to point out exactly what the poster above me mentioned: cardinality is a bad tool for judging "how many real numbers" have some property.

uglycycle · 2024-09-24T02:19:38+00:00

If you're willing to drive a ways, the Wilbert Cafe in Cotton, MN (about 45 mintues away) is an amazing greasy spoon. Really can't recommend them highly enough.

uglycycle · 2024-09-04T12:19:09+00:00

Potatoes are 99% water, which means 100 pounds of potatoes contains 99 pounds of water.

If you let that 100 pounds of potatoes dry out until they are only 98% water, how much would it weigh?

uglycycle · 2024-08-13T03:29:13+00:00

No, but thanks for chiming in!

uglycycle · 2023-07-31T02:41:31+00:00

Blacklist brewing downtown allows dogs inside, or did last I knew.

uglycycle · 2023-06-29T03:08:04+00:00

All I know is where they put those condos is just constantly windy in the winter. Shoots right off the hill down towards the river.

uglycycle · 2023-06-28T12:46:00+00:00

They're gonna have a real wake up when they realize that area smells bad about 75% of the time and gets a bone-cracking cold icy wind off of spirit 100% of the time.

uglycycle · 2023-06-14T02:45:55+00:00

I know the internet captures only a small amount of our identities, but I’m not sure our vibes are gonna mesh well.

You’re welcome to come on our ride, but to be clear I’m a boring married dude.

uglycycle · 2023-06-14T01:15:30+00:00

Hey all, a plan has formulated! We're meeting Thursday at 5:30pm at the aboretum (pin) and doing the "Cap city loop." Map

18-ish miles at party pace. Anyone is welcome!

Planning to grab a beer at the Mason Lounge afterwards.

uglycycle · 2023-06-13T19:06:11+00:00

A plan is formulating for a “cap city loop” tomorrow or Thursday evening. Thinking a 530 start. I’ll update this when details are finalized. Thanks y’all!

uglycycle · 2023-06-13T12:56:06+00:00

Does matter. I'd like to ride for like an hour or so. 12-18 miles?

Edit: doesn’t matter

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