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Cake day: September 19th, 2023

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  • Deloads as in a full week break from training generally isn’t the recommended way to deload, active deloads is the way to go. You also have to take into consideration that different groups of muscle accumulate fatigue at different rates. Your forearms and shoulders won’t need as much rest as you posterior chain, etc…

    If you go heavy on compound exercises and you aren’t a freak of nature like Eddie Hall that can progressively overloaded every week into a ~400kg DL, you’ll likely experience at some point that you (temporarily) regress in strength. That would be a clear sign that you should have deloaded already.

    Most people I see in the gym don’t push themselves anywhere near hard enough for deloads to be a necessity though. So you need to do some introspection and ask yourself if you consistently train hard enough for fatigue to truly accumulate, or if you mostly show up at the gym and just autoregulate based on your feel for the day. Neither approaches as necessarily right or wrong.












  • Norway is a sparsely populated and poorly defended country with a lot of natural resources and a long, often strategic, coastline. We’re better off being allied to countries that share our ideals, in a union that has actually brought peace to the continent, than being gobbled up by some other superpower that believes in one or another variant of ethnic supremacy.

    Eh, Russia could have taken parts of Norway back in the days if they wanted. It’s clear they are more interested in the parts of Europe they consider “theirs”. Their hostility towards us nowadays is likely because they view us an American army base. I’m not against NATO, but I think we would be mostly fine without it too.

    NATO is to a large degree “USA with friends”. An EU defence is looking more and more needed.

    It’s getting a bit off-topic but NATO without USA is still functional. The only serious threat in Europe would be from Russia, which can’t even take on Ukraine. And again, it’s far different from what EU is. USA deciding to ban X or enforce Y has no bearing on the other NATO members.




  • They did not. We are in the EEC and Schengen, but not in the EU.

    EØS is essentially the same as joining, just worse

    Your anecdote is just that. The Finns and Swedes had a sudden change of heart about NATO after Putin invaded. Norwegians might similarly have a change of heart about NATO and the EU if NATO starts rotting at the head.

    Why mix a defensive alliance with what is mutating into “United States of Europe”, those are vastly different kind of deals. You’re not giving up any serious form of autonomy by joining NATO.



  • 1994 is not that long ago, and the politicians still entered EU regardless.

    When we visited Brussel during VGs ~10 years ago we had a guide show us around the EU headquarters, when the guide asked how many wanted to join EU only two people raised their hand. Small sample pool, but I don’t think the younger voting generation are overwhelmingly pro EU or anything. A 2023 poll also had 56% in opposition to joining EU, and only 52% in support for EØS.