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From my research, looks like I would be eligible with the military paradox. What do others think.

Grandparents:

Grandfather:

\* Date, place of birth: January 16, 1907, Porzow, Poland

\* Ethnicity and religion: Polish, Baptist

\* Occupation: Farmer

\* Allegiance and dates of military service: Did not serve.

\* Date, destination for emigration: July 6, 1936, Minetonas, MB, Canada

\* Date naturalized: July 6, 1936

\* Date, place of death: Swan River, Manitoba, 1996

Grandmother:

\* Date, place of birth: March 9, 1908, Plaszow, Poland

\* Ethnicity and religion: Polish, Baptist

\* Occupation: Homemaker

\* Allegiance and dates of military service: None

\* Date, destination for emigration: July 18, 1927, Yellowgrass, SK, Canada

\* Date naturalized: Unknown

\* Date, Place of Death: Swan River, Manitoba, 1999

\*Marriage Date: August 15, 1938, Minetonas, MB, Canada

Father:

\* Date, place of birth: 1946, Minetonas, MB, Canada

Me:

\*Date, place of birth: 1983, Canada

I just finally jumped on board and started binging earlier this week and I'm blown away with how well structured the show is in terms of story and pacing.

It never feels overly drawn out and doesn't suffer from any "speed-plotting" issues either. It's just a good, well-written show that holds your attention and tells the story with exactly the level of detail it needs.

That's rare enough these days that I just wanted to give props where they are due. .

Most lifters have a set program they follow and try to adhere to consistently. That's the key to seeing growth and gains.

But I'm curious how many people manage to nail their program perfectly every week. How often do you have to cut a workout a little short and miss an exercise or two. Condense your warmup if you have one. Or skip a day due to life circumstances and either make it up somehow or just live with doing a little less.

My routine is M-F at the gym 3x upper, 2x lower. 30 min warmup (shoulder and hip issues so it's necessary) and 1h15m workout. It can be a lot to maintain so I frequently have to condense a bit, skip a day and push to the weekend, or skip the third upper day entirely. I generally figure if I hit about 75% adherence to my plan and hit everything 2x per week then that's still pretty solid.

Just curious how common this is and what other people consider being "consistent", if it's not perfect adherence to your program.

Most lifters have a set program they follow and try to adhere to consistently. That's the key to seeing growth and gains.

But I'm curious how many people manage to nail their program perfectly every week. How often do you have to cut a workout a little short and miss an exercise or two. Condense your warmup if you have one. Or skip a day due to life circumstances and either make it up somehow or just live with doing a little less.

My routine is M-F at the gym 3x upper, 2x lower. 30 min warmup (shoulder and hip issues so it's necessary) and 1h15m workout. It can be a lot to maintain so I frequently have to condense a bit, skip a day and push to the weekend, or skip the third upper day entirely. I generally figure if I hit about 75% adherence to my plan and hit everything 2x per week then that's still pretty solid.

Just curious how common this is and what other people consider being "consistent", if it's not perfect adherence to your program.

Edit: Thanks to everybody who responded! It seems like there's two main camps on this. Those who over-aim and are happy with hitting 75-80% most of the time. And those who prefer to always hit 100% but have streamlined their workouts to make that more achievable.

I'm guessing both approaches work equally well and since I'm firmly in Camp A, I'll take it as permission to cut myself some slack as long as I'm hitting that solid 75%.

RS has been running Reta and KLOW for 4 months with great results.

Added Tesa about two weeks ago at 2mg every day to help with stubborn mid-section/visceral fat and to promote better sleep. Since then has been having some unpleasant side effects. Weight had been steadily declining before, but now has jumped up by about 6 pounds since starting Tesa and generally noticing a lot of bloating and less muscle definition. Diet and workouts have been on track if not better than the last few months.

On top of that sleep has been messed up and RS seems to be stuck in a cycle of barely being able to sleep at all one night, being exhausted all day and then crashing out and sleeping in the next day which causes the cycle to repeat. RS is still making decent gym gains despite the fatigue, but gym time drags more rather than the energy it normally produces.

I've heard that water retention on tesa and sleep issues can be common the first few weeks, but these sides are frustrating so I'm curious whether people think it's better to change dosage (either by dropping to 1.5 or 1/day or moving to M-F rather than every day) or just push through at current levels for a few weeks and wait it out.

RS was dosing fasted in the evening but when the sleep issues kicked in after the first week, switched to morning dosage and holding off eating for a few hours after.

Looking into signing up for one of these two services and looking to see if anyone has had experiences with either. My family doctor is not open to testing in any kind of preventative capacity.

Almost pulled the trigger with NiaHealth but got a bit turned off that on top of the yearly fee of $300 (with discount) they wanted an extra $900 to add some of the tests that are actually important to me.