Viewing profile — davidvarela_us

Isn't this just the anthropic principle[0]? e.g. "conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist" [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_princi…

- mostly science based strength: Jeff Nippard, The Bioneer - athletic movements/ injury prevention: overtimeathletes, AthleanX - mobility: Tom Merrick, GuerillaZen - overall health…

Thanks for sharing this. I'm a huge nerd when it comes to optimizing training programs. This seems like it could be as big of a hack as Zone 2 training [0] was when I discovered it…

Any exercise is better than no exercise. But in my experience, bodyweight training will not put you anywhere near the ballpark of size/strength that a good weight training program …

There is a technique known as "cheat reps" in strength training. The idea is to recruit more/stronger muscles to cover the concentric motion and to isolate the muscle you are train…

I strongly disagree. Weight training is one of the best gifts you can give your body. It keeps you healthy and event prevents injury if done correctly. What you did wrong was not w…

And the comment section is filled with people saying that these changes are not so bad. I fear our fate is that of the boiling frog as the general population still appears overwhel…

I was just going to ask about gravity. TIL that gravity travels at the speed of light. Thanks!

few things inspire confidence like companies putting their literal money where their mouth is

I disagree with that conclusion. Humans are surprisingly efficient at minimizing calories spent on exercise. Exercise is great to optimize other systems in the body, but it shouldn…

No kidding. When I was heavily contributing to Julia's Pkg (which uses roughly the same model for modules as NPM, at least in terms of the file system), our test suite would run ro…