On April 05 2024 20:25 Salazarz wrote: Welp, I'm officially mad. Decided to get a bit more serious than usual about my cycling this year, had an okay time in pre-season, treated myself to a fancy new bike and all which just came in last week... then today while doing some light openers for my first race tomorrow some drunk guy on an ebike decides to cut across the lane for no reason and takes me right out D:
No serious injuries thankfully, but the fork and the fancy carbon wheels on my bike look completely fucked, not sure if I can recover the hype to wake up at 4 am for the race tomorrow, given the road rash and the bruises -.-
Still plenty of months in the season of course but man, being all excited for a fancy new toy only to have something like this (completely unavoidable from my side, IMO) happen right after is some serious 'we live in a simulation' level nonsense.
Noooo. Same thing actually just happened to my good friend last weekend but luckily it was on a backup and well insured bike. If you're lucky the manufacturer might have a replacement policy and you can also see if your renters/homeowners/credit card insurances have any coverage you could claim. First thing I do with a new bike is insure it because I don't trust all the idiots out on the road/path. What race were you prepping for?
On April 06 2024 06:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote: it is fascinating how scummy the Ophthalmology profession is. Lasik is a bad procedure.
There are plenty of good Ophthalmologists out there. There are also lots of scumbuckets. As with everything in 2024: one must be a diligent consumer of any and all medical services. It does not matter how many letters the person has after their name. Caveat Emptor.
On March 23 2024 14:17 decafchicken wrote: Idk, a bunch of people that are statistically going to be dealing with obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease in a world heading towards disaster might also get glaucoma? Pretty low on the pecking order in terms of low hanging fruit rn so maybe I'll just invest in mid market PE fund buying up vision clinics and hope for the best.
issues with glaucoma , optical nerve damage, and capillary damage around the eye are intertwined with cardio vascular issues. so you can get an early warning of upcoming cardio vascular issues with a thorough eye exam.
Previously you gave the "mostly an asian thing" comment. Now, you've made this comment about impending world disaster. I'm assuming this is all just disingenuous babble. I'll conclude with: its a good idea to get a thorough eye exam every year. Twice a year is even better.
The mostly Asian thing was a statistic based comment, the world ending comment was a dry hyperbole to drive my point home that there's better uses of your time than using this thread as a blog for your myopia rants and/or if you'd like to continue with them maybe there's a better place for it somewhere else.
On April 05 2024 20:25 Salazarz wrote: Welp, I'm officially mad. Decided to get a bit more serious than usual about my cycling this year, had an okay time in pre-season, treated myself to a fancy new bike and all which just came in last week... then today while doing some light openers for my first race tomorrow some drunk guy on an ebike decides to cut across the lane for no reason and takes me right out D:
No serious injuries thankfully, but the fork and the fancy carbon wheels on my bike look completely fucked, not sure if I can recover the hype to wake up at 4 am for the race tomorrow, given the road rash and the bruises -.-
Still plenty of months in the season of course but man, being all excited for a fancy new toy only to have something like this (completely unavoidable from my side, IMO) happen right after is some serious 'we live in a simulation' level nonsense.
Noooo. Same thing actually just happened to my good friend last weekend but luckily it was on a backup and well insured bike. If you're lucky the manufacturer might have a replacement policy and you can also see if your renters/homeowners/credit card insurances have any coverage you could claim. First thing I do with a new bike is insure it because I don't trust all the idiots out on the road/path. What race were you prepping for?
Bicycle insurance isn't really common here in Korea + the policies that exist are usually aimed at covering theft / damage while the bike isn't actually being ridden. Pretty much no coverage for events / races, even getting reimbursed during a practice ride is a pain in the neck so most people don't really bother.
Thankfully I overestimated the extent of damage to the bike, lol. The wheels were fine after replacing a couple spokes and truing, fork needed replacing which is a pain in the ass with an integrated bar-stem and already cut cables etc, but the guy who built the bike for me was sympathetic enough to just charge a token fee for all the repairs done so all in all, it could have been much worse. Miraculously the frame itself doesn't even have a single scratch so once the road rash is gone I'll be over this whole thing I guess haha.
I ride a lot of sportives aka gran fondos. Road cycling is actually really big in Korea, we have events pretty much every weekend (sometimes even multiple things in a given week) from April to November with about 2 months break in the middle for the monsoon season and a healthy amateur scene, with teams ranging from fancy sponsored folks who show up in team vans with their own mechanics, photographers and such to local clubs with t-shirts printed off some Chinese website and of course lots of solo riders as well. Since it's such a small country, most events are usually like a 2-3 hour drive away so we're pretty spoiled for choice. That ride was actually the first open event of the season so it got pretty crazy -- top ~50 or so was basically all pros or aspiring juniors, including a few dudes from our Olympics team. Was quite fun, if a little humbling, especially the bit where I was huffing and puffing up a double gradient climb then this dude just blasted past me and vanished out of sight within what felt like seconds. :D Looked him up on Strava later, turns out he's an Asian games gold medalist so yeah okay, can't feel too bad about that I guess.
All in all not too shabby. Tweaked my back a lil bit warming up for snatches so didn't go quite as aggressive as I wanted to but smoked 110kg and 115kg then a close miss at 120kg behind. For clean and jerks opened with 130kg which I stupidly nearly lost forward out of the hole so basically had to re-front squat it but jerked it ez. 138kg much better clean but my shitty shoulder didn't cooperate on the jerk so took a small jump to 140kg with a solid if not laborful clean (my best front squat recently is only like 145kg lmao) then really threw it behind me so my shoulder would have to sit and it did, giving me a 255kg total @ 102kg. Still almost 60kg off my best but pretty happy considering I was building up from basically empty barbell 5 months ago after my rugby injuries.
On April 06 2024 06:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote: it is fascinating how scummy the Ophthalmology profession is. Lasik is a bad procedure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tFs5XVrH4
There are plenty of good Ophthalmologists out there. There are also lots of scumbuckets. As with everything in 2024: one must be a diligent consumer of any and all medical services. It does not matter how many letters the person has after their name. Caveat Emptor.
On March 23 2024 14:17 decafchicken wrote: Idk, a bunch of people that are statistically going to be dealing with obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease in a world heading towards disaster might also get glaucoma? Pretty low on the pecking order in terms of low hanging fruit rn so maybe I'll just invest in mid market PE fund buying up vision clinics and hope for the best.
issues with glaucoma , optical nerve damage, and capillary damage around the eye are intertwined with cardio vascular issues. so you can get an early warning of upcoming cardio vascular issues with a thorough eye exam.
Previously you gave the "mostly an asian thing" comment. Now, you've made this comment about impending world disaster. I'm assuming this is all just disingenuous babble. I'll conclude with: its a good idea to get a thorough eye exam every year. Twice a year is even better.
The mostly Asian thing was a statistic based comment, the world ending comment was a dry hyperbole to drive my point home that there's better uses of your time than using this thread as a blog for your myopia rants and/or if you'd like to continue with them maybe there's a better place for it somewhere else.
Myopia is a serious health issue. "mostly Asian thing" ... the contribution of genetics to myopia progression is considered small.
Myopia development and progression is considered to be multifactorial, with genetic and environmental factors contributing, although the contribution of genetics is considered small.
Not discussing the topic will not make the Myopia epidemic go away. In fact, complete oblivion on the issue will make things worse.
On April 30 2024 13:06 decafchicken wrote: All in all not too shabby. Tweaked my back a lil bit warming up for snatches so didn't go quite as aggressive as I wanted to but smoked 110kg and 115kg then a close miss at 120kg behind. For clean and jerks opened with 130kg which I stupidly nearly lost forward out of the hole so basically had to re-front squat it but jerked it ez. 138kg much better clean but my shitty shoulder didn't cooperate on the jerk so took a small jump to 140kg with a solid if not laborful clean (my best front squat recently is only like 145kg lmao) then really threw it behind me so my shoulder would have to sit and it did, giving me a 255kg total @ 102kg. Still almost 60kg off my best but pretty happy considering I was building up from basically empty barbell 5 months ago after my rugby injuries.
On April 06 2024 06:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote: it is fascinating how scummy the Ophthalmology profession is. Lasik is a bad procedure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tFs5XVrH4
There are plenty of good Ophthalmologists out there. There are also lots of scumbuckets. As with everything in 2024: one must be a diligent consumer of any and all medical services. It does not matter how many letters the person has after their name. Caveat Emptor.
On March 23 2024 14:17 decafchicken wrote: Idk, a bunch of people that are statistically going to be dealing with obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease in a world heading towards disaster might also get glaucoma? Pretty low on the pecking order in terms of low hanging fruit rn so maybe I'll just invest in mid market PE fund buying up vision clinics and hope for the best.
issues with glaucoma , optical nerve damage, and capillary damage around the eye are intertwined with cardio vascular issues. so you can get an early warning of upcoming cardio vascular issues with a thorough eye exam.
Previously you gave the "mostly an asian thing" comment. Now, you've made this comment about impending world disaster. I'm assuming this is all just disingenuous babble. I'll conclude with: its a good idea to get a thorough eye exam every year. Twice a year is even better.
The mostly Asian thing was a statistic based comment, the world ending comment was a dry hyperbole to drive my point home that there's better uses of your time than using this thread as a blog for your myopia rants and/or if you'd like to continue with them maybe there's a better place for it somewhere else.
Myopia is a serious health issue. "mostly Asian thing" ... the contribution of genetics to myopia progression is considered small.
Myopia development and progression is considered to be multifactorial, with genetic and environmental factors contributing, although the contribution of genetics is considered small.
Not discussing the topic will not make the Myopia epidemic go away. In fact, complete oblivion on the issue will make things worse.
Re: Asian Prevalence: "Globally, myopia is the leading cause of distance refractive error, affecting 1.45 billion or 27% of the world's population in 2010. In certain age groups in several Asian countries, the prevalence of myopia is over 80%. Among late teenagers and young adults in Korea, Taiwan and China the prevalence is now between 84% and 97%."
"The myopia epidemic in Asia is evident because the prevalence of high myopia among young adults is higher among Asian (6.8%-21.6%) compared with non-Asian populations (2.0%-2.3%)."
Re: Genetics - Might not directly contribute to it but possibly a nature + nurture combination: "genes are thought to determine one's susceptibility to environmental factors.15 Several environmental factors have been identified,15–18 including too much time spent on near work;18 insufficient time spent outdoors;19 low levels of vitamin D;20 inadequate light exposure;21 and poor diet."
Re: Not discussing Myopia will not make it go away: Spamming this thread about it will also not make it go away. -There's no way to reverse it -If you are myopic than you are probably already seeing an ophthalmologist and managing the condition -It's likely the only way to prevent it is during childhood by doing less near work and being outside more -Eyes are done growing by teen years and done developing by 20 so I doubt we're going to help anyone here unless there's some 8 years lurking the TLHF thread that are concerned with their eyesight
On April 30 2024 13:06 decafchicken wrote: All in all not too shabby. Tweaked my back a lil bit warming up for snatches so didn't go quite as aggressive as I wanted to but smoked 110kg and 115kg then a close miss at 120kg behind. For clean and jerks opened with 130kg which I stupidly nearly lost forward out of the hole so basically had to re-front squat it but jerked it ez. 138kg much better clean but my shitty shoulder didn't cooperate on the jerk so took a small jump to 140kg with a solid if not laborful clean (my best front squat recently is only like 145kg lmao) then really threw it behind me so my shoulder would have to sit and it did, giving me a 255kg total @ 102kg. Still almost 60kg off my best but pretty happy considering I was building up from basically empty barbell 5 months ago after my rugby injuries.
Nah 102kg is my sweetspot. 109kg would be obnoxious and detrimental to rugby/cycling. Will focus on rugby/bikes a bit and start working towards the American Open Series 2 meet in september
Good to be back trying to lift heavy decaf, nice to see it!
I'm doing a lot of vertical jump training which is going to add more Olympic stuff as we get out of beach volleyball season later in the year. Aiming for a 100kg clean by Jan 25 (currently about 75kg). The strength is there, but I need the technique and explosiveness down.
I'm also progressing on Nordic curls and let me tell you, that's a feeling like no other. I'm about 30 degrees off full range at the moment, hoping to progress to a full nordic over the next few months.
USA Today reported this same thing in a more PC fashion. Hidden in plain site folks. Keep that circulatory system in tip top shape folks. Avoid sitting for long periods. Play stand up arcade games rather than PC games. Or play less video games period.
On April 06 2024 06:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote: it is fascinating how scummy the Ophthalmology profession is. Lasik is a bad procedure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tFs5XVrH4
There are plenty of good Ophthalmologists out there. There are also lots of scumbuckets. As with everything in 2024: one must be a diligent consumer of any and all medical services. It does not matter how many letters the person has after their name. Caveat Emptor.
On March 23 2024 14:17 decafchicken wrote: Idk, a bunch of people that are statistically going to be dealing with obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease in a world heading towards disaster might also get glaucoma? Pretty low on the pecking order in terms of low hanging fruit rn so maybe I'll just invest in mid market PE fund buying up vision clinics and hope for the best.
issues with glaucoma , optical nerve damage, and capillary damage around the eye are intertwined with cardio vascular issues. so you can get an early warning of upcoming cardio vascular issues with a thorough eye exam.
Previously you gave the "mostly an asian thing" comment. Now, you've made this comment about impending world disaster. I'm assuming this is all just disingenuous babble. I'll conclude with: its a good idea to get a thorough eye exam every year. Twice a year is even better.
The mostly Asian thing was a statistic based comment, the world ending comment was a dry hyperbole to drive my point home that there's better uses of your time than using this thread as a blog for your myopia rants and/or if you'd like to continue with them maybe there's a better place for it somewhere else.
Myopia is a serious health issue. "mostly Asian thing" ... the contribution of genetics to myopia progression is considered small.
Myopia development and progression is considered to be multifactorial, with genetic and environmental factors contributing, although the contribution of genetics is considered small.
Not discussing the topic will not make the Myopia epidemic go away. In fact, complete oblivion on the issue will make things worse.
Re: Asian Prevalence: "Globally, myopia is the leading cause of distance refractive error, affecting 1.45 billion or 27% of the world's population in 2010. In certain age groups in several Asian countries, the prevalence of myopia is over 80%. Among late teenagers and young adults in Korea, Taiwan and China the prevalence is now between 84% and 97%."
"The myopia epidemic in Asia is evident because the prevalence of high myopia among young adults is higher among Asian (6.8%-21.6%) compared with non-Asian populations (2.0%-2.3%)."
Re: Genetics - Might not directly contribute to it but possibly a nature + nurture combination: "genes are thought to determine one's susceptibility to environmental factors.15 Several environmental factors have been identified,15–18 including too much time spent on near work;18 insufficient time spent outdoors;19 low levels of vitamin D;20 inadequate light exposure;21 and poor diet."
Re: Not discussing Myopia will not make it go away: Spamming this thread about it will also not make it go away. -There's no way to reverse it -If you are myopic than you are probably already seeing an ophthalmologist and managing the condition -It's likely the only way to prevent it is during childhood by doing less near work and being outside more -Eyes are done growing by teen years and done developing by 20 so I doubt we're going to help anyone here unless there's some 8 years lurking the TLHF thread that are concerned with their eyesight
On May 10 2024 02:16 decafchicken wrote: -Eyes are done growing by teen years and done developing by 20 so I doubt we're going to help anyone here unless there's some 8 years lurking the TLHF thread that are concerned with their eyesight
People's myopia conditions and axial lengths change throughout one's lifetime. This is why prescription changes occur at any age.
Eyes consist of connective tissue, fascia, brain matter etc. Fascia fibres can cross link over time leading to tightness and limited muscle movement. Fascia fibres can also unlink allowing for great muscular flexibility. This is one reason among many about why people's myopia goes up and down over months and years AT ANY AGE. Myself, I have better than 20/20 vision every summer and I'm usually between 20/30 and 20/40 every March 1 after a long dark winter without playing any baseball.
On May 10 2024 02:16 decafchicken wrote: -There's no way to reverse it
Behavioural ophthalmologists disagree. They claim you can cut your myopia in half. Most of the habit changes recommended by this profession are similar to the habits of serious baseball players and Bates Method guys. I can name more than a dozen OD's in Canada who work on substantially reducing the myopia of their patients.
In the USA we've got, just quickly off the top of my head: Dr. Sam Berne, Dr Julie Steinhauer, Dr. Marc Grossman. Pretty much any behavioural ophthalmologist will work to eliminate or reduce myopia so there are prolly 100+ Drs in the USA. Most OD's will only advertise that they can cut myopia in half to keep the orthodoxy away from their practise. The 3 I named claim eliminating myopia is easily possible if you have no other vision issues.
On May 10 2024 02:16 decafchicken wrote: Re: Not discussing Myopia will not make it go away: Spamming this thread about it will also not make it go away. -There's no way to reverse it
it is not spam. i've provided plenty of detailed info to go on. Again, my vision is measurably different every September 1 compared to every March 1. Most baseball players experience this. Their vision is much better September 1 compared to March 1. Usually in early March I can barely pass a motor vehicle vision exam. By September 1, my vision is better than 20/20. For me and most baseball players whose vision improves throughout the summer it boils down to better vision habits in the summer than in the winter. Better vision habits leads to better vision.
So I'm going to do a bit of gushing about tempo training:
As a general bit of background, I've been doing strength maintenance and some plyometrics over summer during the beach volleyball season, and now that's basically over, we've switched to a tempo/geek to freak/mentzer style of training.
The basic conceit is for each lift: 5 seconds down, 5 seconds up, until failure or 22 reps. If you hit 22 reps, increase the weight by some amount for next time. We're doing a rotation of two workouts a week, one for mobility and prehab and the other for squats, presses, deadlifts.
I really love it and I'm here to recommend people give it a try if they want to do something a little different. It seems to be clearing up a lot of my issues, increasing strength, muscle size and giving a healthy mood boost. The slow speed in the lifts means you have to learn to get comfortable in your weak points and you become incredibly aware of the whole lift and how it feels. You have to breathe steadily throughout because you can't hold your breath so it teaches you about that calm breathing too. It blows up your muscles for hypertrophy and you get consistent strength gains throughout. I find I can usually do 3-5 reps more each time on the exercise, even for things that otherwise progress really slowly (like imbalance corrections).
We're only about three weeks in to the full program after three weeks of testing and setup, so I'll come back with updates as we finish the cycles and so on, but if you're doing seasonal training, I would say doing a round of this training is incredible for catching up to where you could be, and pushing your limits.
EPT
