Hey, I'm a CS engineer + CS Masters grad (from the US), planning to do all the MND prerequisites at UBC as a non-degree student before applying. Anyone gone this route? Curious how registration actually went, whether you got into the courses you wanted, and any stuff you wish you'd known going in.
CW : 118-120 lbs ; Height : 5'3 ; Daily Cals - 1500-1600 (120g protein)
So my current physique looks like this. I am open to suggestions for taking it to the next level. I know its mid physique especially my core and I am training abs 3 times a week minimum. I am eating 1500-1600 kcal per day, lower carb but higher protein. Walking avg of 5-7k steps. I play a tonne of racquet sports (badminton, pickleball) - 6-8 hours per week so don't feel the need to do extra cardio
My ab routine looks like this (3x per week)
- 15 min youtube vid by caroline girvn for abs
- weighted cable crunch - 3-4 sets
- cable woodchopper high to low (or low to high) - 3-4 sets
I do this circuit before my actual lifting session. My actual session is a combination of 2-3 compound movements + 2-3 isolation movements. I have good upper body definition. Looks flat here but If i increase carbs slighly it looks much better.
My goal is to shred my core but i do have this wierd loose skin from being 50+ lb overwieght before.
I have heard so many advices around bulk, cut or recomposition -- and im just not sure what to do now.
So my current physique looks like this (i know its mid). I am open to suggestions for taking it to the next level. I know its mid physique especially my core and.I am training abs 3 times a week minimum. I am eating 1600-1800 kcal per day, lower carb but higher protein. Walking avg of 5-7k steps. I play a tonne of racquet sports (badminton, pickleball) - 6-8 hours per week so don't feel the need to do extra cardio
My ab routine looks like this (3x per week)
- 15 min youtube vid by caroline girvn for abs
- weighted cable crunch - 3-4 sets
- cable woodchopper high to low (or low to high) - 3-4 sets
I do this circuit before my actual lifting session. My actual session is a combination of 2-3 compound movements + 2-3 isolation movements. I have good upper body definition. Looks flat here but If i increase carbs slighly it looks much better.
My goal is to shred my core but i do have this wierd loose skin from being 50+ lb overwieght before.
I have heard so many advices around bulk, cut or recompose -- and im just not sure what to do now.
Something I didn't expect about your mid-thirties .. you can have the relationship, the career, the house that finally feels like home, the dog who somehow completes the picture, and still notice this quiet little shape of something missing. Not in a sad way!! More like, oh, this is the thing nobody warned us we'd have to actively build from scratch as adults... Cool, lets build it i guess
So hi 🙋♀️ I'm 35, my husband is 35, and we've moved across four countries together which means every single move meant leaving behind people who actually knew us. The kind of friendships where you don't have to set up the context before getting to the thing you actually wanted to say. We've been in Vancouver 3-4 years now. Long enough to know the freeze is real... and frustrating. Long enough to stop waiting it out
We're looking for other couples in the Tri-Cities (Port Moody, Poco, Burquitlam, Coquitlam, Burke Mountain as far as Maple ridge) who might be somewhere similar.
A bit about us - we love hiking a lot. Badminton (I'm a beginner, obsessed and mildly competitive about it, he is the calm zen one who's actually genuinley good and takes the sport seriously, it's a whole thing). Our dog runs the household. We cook, we host, movie nights, casual dinners, the occasional "we just opened a bottle, come over" text on a random Tuesday. Both of us take care of our bodies. Both night owls, we genuinely come alive after 7pm which we're aware is borderline unhinged for this city. Child-free by choice. Always down to drive into the city for something worth driving in for. Love concerts and tours. Recently attended
The other stuff is harder to pin down. We follow politics closely (the kind of closely where we have Opinions but also know when to shut up and listen). we love Office (Us version), rick and morty and usually keep up with new shows. We send each other podcasts at 11pm and actually talk about them the next morning. I'd rather have one real conversation than five polite ones, my husband is the centered grounded one who'll quietly drop the sharpest observation of the night and then go back to eating. We notice things. We like people who notice things.
What we're not looking for -- a social calendar that feels like a second job, or the kind of friendship where someone's keeping a quiet tally on who texted last.
What we'd love -- the kind of couple friends you eventually end up on camping trips with. People who get that plans fall through sometimes and don't make it weird. People who can hold a real conversation and also just sit in comfortable silence halfway up a trail. We wanna celebrate small milestones and vent over first-world problems..
We've mutually decided that the vancovuer freeze ends with us..
Have you felt this way too?? Have you been sensing a kind of void but never done anything concrete enough about it? DM me and lets see if we can be your tribe 🫶
Something I didn't expect about your mid-thirties .. you can have the relationship, the career, the house that finally feels like home, the dog who somehow completes the picture, and still notice this quiet little shape of something missing. Not in a sad way!! More like, oh, this is the thing nobody warned us we'd have to actively build from scratch as adults... Cool, lets build it i guess
So hi 🙋♀️ I'm 35, my husband is 35, and we've moved across four countries together which means every single move meant leaving behind people who actually knew us. The kind of friendships where you don't have to set up the context before getting to the thing you actually wanted to say. We've been in Vancouver 3-4 years now. Long enough to know the freeze is real... and frustrating. Long enough to stop waiting it out
We're looking for other couples in the Tri-Cities (Port Moody, Poco, Burquitlam, Coquitlam, Burke Mountain as far as Maple ridge) who might be somewhere similar.
A bit about us - we love hiking a lot. Badminton (I'm a beginner, obsessed and mildly competitive about it, he is the calm zen one who's actually genuinley good and takes the sport seriously, it's a whole thing). Our dog runs the household. We cook, we host, movie nights, casual dinners, the occasional "we just opened a bottle, come over" text on a random Tuesday. Both of us take care of our bodies. Both night owls, we genuinely come alive after 7pm which we're aware is borderline unhinged for this city. Child-free by choice. Always down to drive into the city for something worth driving in for. Love concerts and tours. Recently attended
The other stuff is harder to pin down. We follow politics closely (the kind of closely where we have Opinions but also know when to shut up and listen). we love Office (Us version), rick and morty and usually keep up with new shows. We send each other podcasts at 11pm and actually talk about them the next morning. I'd rather have one real conversation than five polite ones, my husband is the centered grounded one who'll quietly drop the sharpest observation of the night and then go back to eating. We notice things. We like people who notice things.
What we're not looking for -- a social calendar that feels like a second job, or the kind of friendship where someone's keeping a quiet tally on who texted last.
What we'd love -- the kind of couple friends you eventually end up on camping trips with. People who get that plans fall through sometimes and don't make it weird. People who can hold a real conversation and also just sit in comfortable silence halfway up a trail. We wanna celebrate small milestones and vent over first-world problems..
We've mutually decided that the vancovuer freeze ends with us..
Have you felt this way too?? Have you been sensing a kind of void but never done anything concrete enough about it? DM me and lets see if we can be your tribe 🫶
