Sam Ashen Winter Weight Program

[Urgan]

[Sam Ashen]

10 hours ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

Doesn't Crossfit count as a different hobby?

 

1 hour ago, darkfoxx said:

Crossfit even involves being social theoretically!

 

It is more than theoretical, from what I have been told.  You make friends at Crossfit.

 

1 hour ago, Urgan said:

 

Ha!

 

Still, it is kind of hard to talk about my life outside of work when they are not thrilled about what I choose to do.

[Urgan]

6 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

Ha!

 

Still, it is kind of hard to talk about my life outside of work when they are not thrilled about what I choose to do.

 

Well, that is a shame. Should we talk about the weather? And other R.E.M references, perhaps? If the parents do not lift, it is hard to explain to them the value in terms other than the clinical. And that is so boring. 

[Sam Ashen]

10 hours ago, Urgan said:

If the parents do not lift, it is hard to explain to them the value in terms other than the clinical. And that is so boring. 

 

Pretty much - and the conversation on this topic moves along very slowly.

 

Something very amusing from a year ago:  My father was calling my sister and commented how much into lifting I am.  Of course my sister already knows all of this because that's all that is ever on FB.

 

Today was a rest day.  Dinner was taco salad without the taco and some kind of smoothie.

 

Score for Today:

2603 Calories - who knows, really

306 Carb

109 Fat

203 Protein

 

-3.7 Overall

 

Tomorrow is errand running, looks like.

 

In other news, my property is rented and I am a landlord for another year or so.

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

2 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

2603 Calories - who knows, really

Your parents are starving you.

[Sam Ashen]

Sam Ashen Summer Swole Program, Day 9 of 30:

 

I could not ditch my parents for CounterFit this morning.  I could not ditch my parents at all today.  So today was obviously not going to be a gym day.  So I did something completely unthinkable today.  I ran.

 

So it turns out my route is only 2.21 miles each way, or 4.42 total and it takes me at least a whopping 48 minutes to complete that.  The pace is 5.5 miles per hour.

 

Well.  That makes me a warrior and not a ranger.

 

Score for Today:

3233 Calories

197 Carbs

183 Fat

192 Protein

 

-3.9 Overall

 

Some stuff missing from that list, of course!

 

23 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

Your parents are starving you.

 

I am sure stuff is missing from the list.  It is one more week, then back to normal for a couple more weeks.

[Sloth the Enduring]

You did couch to 5k+ in just one step and you almost did it in 10 minute miles. You might be a scout. This might be the hobby your folks are looking for.

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

10 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

I could not ditch my parents for CounterFit this morning.  I could not ditch my parents at all today.  So today was obviously not going to be a gym day.  So I did something completely unthinkable today.  I ran.

 

So it turns out my route is only 2.21 miles each way, or 4.42 total and it takes me at least a whopping 48 minutes to complete that.  The pace is 5.5 miles per hour.

 

Well.  That makes me a warrior and not a ranger.

 

I hate to break it to you but that's incredible for someone who hasn't run in who knows how long. Your performance does not exclude you from the Ranger Corps.

[Sam Ashen]

23 hours ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

You did couch to 5k+ in just one step and you almost did it in 10 minute miles. You might be a scout. This might be the hobby your folks are looking for.

 

12 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

I hate to break it to you but that's incredible for someone who hasn't run in who knows how long. Your performance does not exclude you from the Ranger Corps.

 

11 minutes is not almost 10 minutes.

 

Sam Ashen Summer Swole Program, Day 10 of 30:

 

2 Snatch Pulls plus Snatch at 94, 104, 114, 124, 134, 144, 154, 164, 169 pounds

Clean, Hang Clean, Jerk at 134, 154, 174, 184, 194, 204, 214, 219, 224 pounds

Squats: 5x44, 3x134, 3x184, 3x224, 3x254, 3x269, 3x3x254 pounds

Funky Hip Stabilization exercise: 3x60 seconds each side

Superman: 4x15, superset with

Stability Ball Cobra: 4x15 with green 3 pound dumbbells.  The pink ones were 5 pounds.

 

Hard to tell exactly what I ate today, but it included a DQ Buster Bar!

 

Score for Today:

2613 Calories

221 Carbs

119 Fat

184 Protein

 

-8.0 Overall - I am thinking I ate more than that somewhere.

[WhiteGhost]

3 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

 

11 minutes is not almost 10 minutes.

 

Rounding error

 

Either way, given the distance that is still a respectable pace

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

5 minutes ago, WhiteGhost said:

 

Rounding error

 

Either way, given the distance that is still a respectable pace

For true. Must be all that counterfit giving him cardiovascular endurance or something.

[Raxie]

I'm a Ranger and I don't even run - I've probably got like a 15 minute mile. So, this cannot be added to your list of excuses

[Sam Ashen]

Sam Ashen Summer Swole Program, Day 11 of 30:

 

Front-Squats: 3x134, 3x184, 3x3x219 pounds

Jerk Recoveries: 3x134, 3x184, 3x224, 3x244, 3x264, 3x5x239 pounds

Bent-Over Rows: 3x10x134 pounds

Eccentric Pull-ups: 3x8

Dumbbell Bench Press: 10x40, 10x50, 3x10x55 pounds

Single-Arm Seated Row: 4x10

 

Destroy the back.  We will see how we did tomorrow.

 

Score for Today:

2826 Calories

245 Cars

123 Fat

182 Protein

 

-4.5 Overall

 

I still have doubts about numbers.  We are still on Parental Visit Bulking Program.  So I will simply track as well as I can.

 

Wednesday is County Fair!

[Sam Ashen]

An article for you @Br0din

 

 

 

[Sam Ashen]

It looks like I am not the only person asking if the problem is ambiguous.  Here is an EE Professor asking Dr. Math a question.

[Sam Ashen]

@Emerald_Dragonfly - What do the rules say?  (besides shooting the person who wrote it that way)

 

x=a/bc

 

Is it clear or is it ambiguous?

 

Does (a/c)(b/d) = ab/cd or does it not?

[Emerald_Dragonfly]

It should be clear, but parentheses are preferred to avoid confusion.

[Sam Ashen]

7 minutes ago, Emerald_Dragonfly said:

It should be clear, but parentheses are preferred to avoid confusion.

 

I agree that parentheses should be used to avoid confusion.  I deliberately put up the problem like that to find out who has been taught what.  Right now on FB, there is an amazing argument going on.

 

I was particularly interested in your interpretation of the problem, because you teach this stuff and you have closer access to textbooks than I do.  We have the same interpretation and I was never aware of anything different until I ran into the discussion on FB a few months ago and I looked up the question.

 

x=a/bc, where

a=24

b=2

c=12

 

I consider the rules to be a mule.  Therefore:

x = a / b * c = 24 / 2 / 12 = 12 * 12 = 144

 

I am in Camp 144, because I find NO Rule anywhere in the Order of Operations Rule Book saying that multiplication by juxtaposition must be resolved by inserting a multiplication operation between b and c, and now I have to resolve the operations from left to right, like a mule.

 

I agree with the clarity.  If I wanted to be clear on the answer being 1, then I would write:

 

x = a/(bc)

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So if I go into the realm of physics, here is a Wikipedia article on calculating eddy current losses due to magnetic field.

 

 

If I were texting this in the absence of advanced formatting tools, I am forced to type it as:

 

P = (πBdf)²/(6kρD) instead of

P = (πBdf)²/6kρD

 

....and I still can't make a subscript!

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Online, I had people both in Camp 1 and Camp 144 telling me this is basic algebra.

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Sam Ashen Summer Swole Program, Day 12 of 30:

 

Snatch Balance + Overhead Squat: 1x94, 2x2x94 pounds

Squats: 5x134, 3x184, 3x224, 4x5x254, 5x244 pounds

BB Split Squats: 4x10x104 pounds

Leg Press: 10 x 2 plates, 3 plates, 4 plates, 5 plates

FLR: 3x60 seconds, super set with

Overhead KB Sit-ups: 3x12

Farmers Carries: 4 x 70 yards x 65 pounds

 

Score for Today:

3285 Calories

248 Carbs

178 Fat

217 Protein

 

+0.8 Overall

[Sam Ashen]

Tomorrow, I will check the Mathematica manual and see if they have any comments on the issue.

[Sloth the Enduring]

I'm with you in the math camp. That's how we teach it in sixth grade. If there are operations of equal rank (like multiplication and division) you work from left to right.


ETA: of course teachers teach a lot of things that are a bit incorrect in order to make things easier to understand. So I may be wrong.

[Sam Ashen]

4 minutes ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

I'm with you in the math camp. That's how we teach it in sixth grade. If there are operations of equal rank (like multiplication and division) you work from left to right.

ETA: of course teachers teach a lot of things that are a bit incorrect in order to make things easier to understand. So I may be wrong.

 

I honestly get the impression that there is a minority competing convention - Camp 1.  Meanwhile, nowhere can I find an Ultimate Authority.

 

In board game terms, somewhere on one of my FB groups, there is an extremely heated argument over a nuance in the rules.

[Sam Ashen]

Meanwhile on teh internetz, the war is still going strong.  Here is something I found:

 

Quote

 

I have found that depending on how I type an expression into my TI-85,
it comes out with two different answers.  If I type 36/6(25-11*2), the
answer comes out to be 2.  However, if I type 36/6*(25-11*2), the
answer comes out to be 18.  The difference is whether I put the
multiplication symbol between the 6 and the parenthesis or not.  

I've been under the impression this should make no difference; with or
without the symbol, a number up snug against the parenthesis still
implies a multiplication symbol.  Help?

.......

 

Your two expressions in the calculator are

  36 / 6 ( 25 - 11 * 2 )

and

  36 / 6 * ( 25 - 11 * 2 )

The problem is that some calculators that allow multiplications to 
be implied as in the former case treat that as a higher precedence 
operation (as some algebra texts say), while others treat all 
multiplications alike (as most texts do, in my experience).

 

 

My world is still upside down. D:

 

My next quest is to find a text that says one thing, and then find a text that says another thing!

[Emerald_Dragonfly]

I have never seen a text that disagrees with me and Sloth.  To be fair, I have only taught Algebra from two texts...

 

https://commoncoretools.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/ccss_progression_ee_2011_04_25.pdf

 

Page 6 may give you interesting reading (although it doesn't specifically answer your question).

[Sam Ashen]

On 7/26/2017 at 3:02 PM, Emerald_Dragonfly said:

I have never seen a text that disagrees with me and Sloth.  To be fair, I have only taught Algebra from two texts...

 

Online, that is where I am at.  Absent knowledge of any special rule, I have to execute equal-level operations in order from left to right.  Right now I cannot find a text that disagrees, but the number of texts I have distinct recollection of reading is zero.  I will add to that your count of two text books.  I will also assume that the two text books you taught from are silent on the issue.

 

I did look at my physics text and my calculus text.  They explicitly avoid the issue.  I am also "pretty sure" I have been taught to avoid this specific issue with brackets.  The writers usually avoided single-line text, unless it was easy to make the expression clear.  What I saw in my calculus text was:

 

x=-b/(2a) in reference to a line of symmetry in a parabola.

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Yesterday I decided to take a rest day.  I forgot to list last nights macros.  Score from last night:

 

3390 Calories

260 Carbs

158 Fat

214 Protein

 

+5.2 Overall

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Sam Ashen Summer Swole Program, Day 13 of 30:

 

Snatch Pull and Snatch Complex: 3 at 94, 3 at 104, 3 at 114, 2 at 124, 2 at 134, 1 at 144, 1.F at 154 pounds - We were going over technicalities.

Clean, Front-Squat, Jerk at 134, 164, 184, 204, 214 pounds

Squats: 3x184, 3x224, 3x254, 3x274, 3x3x259 pounds

 

Score for Today:

3379 Calories

344 Carbs

139 Fat

186 Protein

 

+1.7 Overall

[WhiteGhost]

So I asked Ghostlet about this. In his school (Chinese public school) the rule is hard and fast - equal level operations must be done left to right unless specifically noted by parentheses. 144 is the only valid answer.