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[deleted] OP t1_j5iyfzj wrote
Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
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DaMailmann t1_j5ixz7q wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
This only works if you make a low hourly.
tacticalpotatopeeler t1_j5ixyfr wrote
Reply to comment by pzzia02 in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
Is that your regular hourly or adjusted after taxes and fixed expenses?
I’d recommend figuring that number out, and use 8 hour days (or whatever your usual shift is) to determine how long it would actually take for you to earn that money, after paying your other obligations (rent, utilities, food, transportation, etc)
Unless you’re living at home and don’t have bills to pay, my guess is that it would take at least 2-3 months to earn enough extra to pay for $1,000 phone if your non-adjusted hourly wage is $9.
DroolingSlothCarpet t1_j5ix23t wrote
Reply to LPT: Want something sweet right before bed? Eat a spoonful of honey. It's a natural cough suppressant, it soothes your throat and it tastes delicious. by Nolan-
Smokey Bear has nothing to do with honey.
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Arananthony t1_j5iwnk7 wrote
Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
For the goal of sculpting these are probably least efficient exercises you can do.
TheMarsian t1_j5iwgg2 wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
This cost a whole day at work.
Me at work the whole day: 🙄😁🤣😴😎🥂🍜🍔🍟💑🙄🤗😎🤔😴😀
kingcarcas t1_j5ivwna wrote
Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
Spine experts though warn, too much weight and be careful with squats and deadlift or you'll be in the operating room one day.
bolteon593 t1_j5ivwhc wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
A better tip would be to just make more money.
RoastedRhino t1_j5ivepc wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
I have heard this advice multiple times but I don’t think it works well. I think this way you severely overestimate your budget.
If something costs 1 hour or work, it seems like one eight of a day. In your brain, you could think that you can make 8 of those expenses a day.
In reality, you are probably working from 9 to lunch break to pay rent. Then another couple of hours to pay taxes. And one hour to pay insurances. You are left with one or two hours of time when you are working to earn money you can dispose of freely. And part of it should go to savings for your old age.
So effectively the LPT is ok if you think of an expense in terms of time and then you ALSO know how many minutes you are working for fun money per day, but at that point why don’t you just learn how to do your budget in dollars and get an estimate of your weekly budget for shopping/ dining out/ entertainment, etc.?
Maybe it takes some effort, but it seems to a good investment of your time.
Chris_ssj2 t1_j5iuq94 wrote
Reply to comment by humvee911 in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
What's a lifestyle creep?
EmilyLovs t1_j5iud47 wrote
Reply to comment by RedditUserWar in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
Throw in some sandbags, and a few kettle bells, and you can get a pretty good workout at home.
Still though, I haven't found any good solutions to replace good old weighted deadlifts and squats with bodyweight alone.
Beowulf33232 t1_j5it5lg wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
First time I mentioned this to the new kid at work you could see his brain making new connections.
Loko8765 t1_j5ispqh wrote
Reply to comment by divepilot in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
Came here to say this. It should be disposable income per hour of work. Does the book mention this?
divepilot t1_j5isaaf wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
Take off fixed costs first to calculate your "hourly income". You still need to pay taxes and stuff anyways.
(Income - Taxes - Housing - Interest - Insurance)/(hours worked)
It may be less than you think.
PoorMansTonyStark t1_j5is71w wrote
Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
Something something rippetoe physique.
AllNighty t1_j5is1dg wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
Cries in Nintendo games here on Brazil's close to 300$ BRL so like, 3 days of my worktime. :(
THEzwerver t1_j5irchg wrote
Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
I like to divide my spendings in 12 and see how much a product would 'cost' over a year.
ackermann t1_j5iqd6j wrote
Reply to comment by AnimaLepton in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
Hmm, so even with inflation, there weren’t too many places you could park your money, and do better than just leaving it in your checking account? Precious metals maybe? Gold and silver?
At least we bought the maximum of I-bonds. Lol, those were probably our best investment last year, haha
AnimaLepton t1_j5iq582 wrote
Reply to comment by ackermann in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911
VGSLX (a REIT) also dropped like 25% last year. Individual areas of real estate may have done well, but plenty did poorly with the continued influx of remote work, RTO failures, and higher monetary concerns due to layoffs and fears of a looming recession. By the end of 2022, quite a few residential properties in my area (suburb of a large city) listed at initial sky-high valuations, didn't find any takers, and have been seeing a continuous slow decline while bleeding money in utilities, listing prices, and property taxes.
RedditUserWar t1_j5ippzz wrote
Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
Or you could just learn calisthenics, it's pretty much only compound exercises. Plus, you can do them almost anywhere if you know the movements that work the specific muscle group you are targeting. Has a bigger learning curve but the freedom and fun it brings are worth it imo.
There is a downside however, there isn't any progressive load, so once you are able to lift basically your entire weight in any position, you will just be doing more and more reps to get the same effect which is not good for strength building. At that point its mainly endurance training. So it isn't the end all be all sadly.
Btw with calisthenics youll look HELLA cool being able to defy gravity hehe. 😎
Scuka1 t1_j5ipkof wrote
Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
Been doing that for almost 10 years now.
It's true, as a recreational lifter, you only need a few basic compound exercises. No need to bother with all the isolations, 5 exercises per muscle group, and all the other bro bodybuilder BS.
Scuka1 t1_j5ipghj wrote
Reply to comment by Salkin8 in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
Something is better than nothing, but there are limitations to bodyweight exercises.
The big advantage of barbell exercises is the fact that they can be adjusted for each individual, regardless of where they are. From complete beginners to elite athletes, everybody can perform a barbell exercise in a way that's beneficial for them. You can precisely dose the weight you need at that particular moment, which is something that's much more difficult to do on many bodyweight exercises.
But, if you don't have access to a gym, do bodyweight by all means, it's still a great thing to do.
Btw., I believe the OP didn't mean "buck" in the literal sense, as in money.
[deleted] OP t1_j5iyobl wrote
Reply to comment by dfreinc in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]
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