IRC log for #brlcad on 20070525

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00:33.13 b0ef brlcad: yup, that didn't slow things down, but the render was black; I'll try with some simple geometry
00:40.35 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/TODO: progress status during raytrace
01:08.30 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/libbu/semaphore.c:
01:08.30 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: fix raytrace synchronization bug introduced via valgrinding. release pairs up
01:08.30 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: with acquire, not init. need some other (new) routine to release the memory
01:08.30 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: allocated during init and probably some atexit() handler to free that memory.
01:52.26 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/configure.ac:
01:52.26 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: fix anonymous report of configure failure on 7.10.0 where turning off urt would
01:52.26 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: result in a configure failure. the problem was a variety of checks for
01:52.27 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: configure settings that checked for the wrong value (!no instead of !yes, where
01:52.27 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: default is "auto"). so the default worked, but not when the 3rd party lib was
01:52.29 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: disabled.
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02:29.16 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/TODO: auto_path tcl initialization startup code was once again re-written and verified via valgrind. this should fix a crash (that I don't have ready access to) reported via irc on a debian platform.
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02:51.34 Joel1 hey....umm brlcad, do you remember the command line you told me to put in yesterday to allow the tesselation tolerance to not go kaput on my computer? i can't find any logs...and my computer shut down before i wrote it down :(
02:52.13 brlcad run the command without any args and it should display usage
02:52.32 Joel1 ah, but i don't know exactly what the problem was...
02:52.45 brlcad i believe it was the distance tolerance
02:52.55 brlcad so, probably -D
02:53.04 Joel1 ok thank you
02:53.09 brlcad no prob
03:17.53 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/include/brlcad_version.h: fix horrible, horrible oversight typo that prevents brlcad_version() from working
03:19.21 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/conv/g-dxf.c: extensively improve the g-dxf usage statement, add options, add version info
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05:11.19 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/librt/db5_scan.c: quietly return -1 if given null or there is no file pointer opened
05:25.08 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/configure.ac: check for sync for db_sync()
05:26.24 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/librt/db_open.c: condense the windows section, using the 'b' mode identifier is fine on non-_WIN32 platforms (c90 defines it to do nothing)
05:27.00 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/librt/db_open.c: ws
05:38.36 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/librt/db5_scan.c: return quietly if dbip is null or if the file pointer isn't set, plus some ws
05:47.24 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/tclscripts/mged/openw.tcl: quotes
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13:24.17 Haleiwa brlcad: how many days do you rest before exercising a muscle again?
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14:14.26 brlcad Haleiwa: depends on the muscle and whether I'm bulking or conditioning
14:15.57 Haleiwa brlcad: for bulking?
14:16.10 brlcad if i'm bulking, it's usually 48 hours after it stops hurting or 72 hours after working out, whichever is longer -- which is basically if you workout a particular muscle heavy on monday, it's not focused again until thursday (and it's left alone in the days in-between)
14:17.37 brlcad some mucles like abs can take more, and it depends on your frame, but that's a schedule that's pretty good for most -- the trick is really hitting only one or two mucles on any given day, and then leaving it alone
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14:21.54 Haleiwa brlcad: I go to gym every 3 days and work out all the muscles and they don't hurt then it's the same isn't it?
14:22.36 Haleiwa brlcad: I have problem with biceps then increase weight only very slowly is there some trick?
14:23.01 Haleiwa I feel like the signal into the muscle is too weak, like the muscle could do much more but the brain tells it too little
14:23.55 Haleiwa other muscles like triceps go forward like hell I already hit the limit of the machine with triceps
14:30.43 brlcad Haleiwa: that "could" be fine, but not for biceps -- the smaller muscles need more than that to rest once they start getting bigger, even after they don't hurt
14:31.17 Haleiwa so I should train the biceps less often?
14:31.20 brlcad i usually give biceps another 24 at best, e.g. monday to friday
14:32.21 Haleiwa and if I do biceps only once per week is it fine?
14:32.30 Haleiwa cause getting into the gym costs some time
14:32.39 brlcad the other thing, though, is that if you're going every three days (presumabely M -> Thu -> Sun -> Wed -> Sat -> etc) .. I don't buy that you're focusing on the given muscles enough :)
14:32.50 Haleiwa Thanks for advice, these words help much more than mindless incorrect lifting of irons
14:33.09 Haleiwa I do all the muscles every time I go
14:33.29 brlcad that can be a problem
14:33.42 Haleiwa what can it cause? what should I do instead?
14:34.31 Haleiwa or I could actually train the biceps asynchronously because I have a little dumbbell for that at home
14:34.32 brlcad i mean, you can't be doing benchpress and triceps and shoulders on the same day and expect all three to max out nicely
14:34.38 Haleiwa so you say every 5 days the biceps?
14:34.42 brlcad once you do any one of those three, you cheat the other two
14:34.46 Haleiwa no I get tired
14:34.57 Haleiwa sure yes I get tired
14:35.08 Haleiwa and the others just the signal from the brain gets weaker
14:35.30 brlcad that's what I mean about sticking to just two muscles -- I give about a half-hour to each muscle
14:35.51 Haleiwa and what you do with the muscles you don't focus? No training or do you give them some low-intensity?
14:35.54 brlcad low, slow, heavy, controlled reps
14:36.18 Haleiwa and the focused get what?
14:36.40 brlcad if you're lifting for bulk, leave the ones off you just worked out alone
14:36.40 Haleiwa I think my training was crap :)
14:36.54 Haleiwa I don't get it
14:37.03 brlcad they really are in recovery mode until they've had their three days or so of rest
14:37.04 Haleiwa I want to lift for bulk only
14:37.31 Haleiwa but then I have to go more often than every 3 days
14:37.40 brlcad if you lift light in the meantime, you're pressing them to respond to strength training (which limits growth capacity)
14:38.07 brlcad yeah, every 3 days isn't ideal
14:38.24 Haleiwa so if I go every 2 days and I do half of the body every visit?
14:38.33 Haleiwa Plus do the bicepses asynchronously at home every 5 days?
14:38.34 brlcad every day or even every other day lets you respond to each muscle after they've had their recovery
14:39.19 Haleiwa wohoo, this training will surely work :)
14:39.20 brlcad depends what you mean by half the body, but yeah, that's more doable
14:39.27 brlcad i hear that and it sounds like a 4 hour workout
14:39.30 Haleiwa I mean half of the muscles
14:39.58 Haleiwa half of the machines
14:40.39 Haleiwa is it a problem that the muscles get 4 days for recovery instead of 3?
14:40.43 Haleiwa cannot they get lazy?
14:41.20 brlcad seriously, a half hour per muscle -- intense focus on getting the muscle to fail within a few heavy reps with some warmup and cooldown reps -- and if you do something like shoulders one day, that means you can't do low chest or arms that day
14:42.26 Haleiwa what's the factor that gets optimized?
14:42.42 Haleiwa that I feel the muscle is maximum tired after leaving the room?
14:43.48 brlcad like if you want shoulders on some day, you do heavy military or incline (but not both) followed by shoulder raises followed by heavy shrugs, followed by dumbell shoulder work to finish -- something like that
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14:44.06 brlcad specifically avoiding bench, arms, and back
14:44.56 brlcad if done on monday, that would/should basically leave your shoulders out until wed/thurs
14:45.31 brlcad also means you can't do bench/arms/back until tues/wed at the earliest
14:45.51 Haleiwa what is the best exercise for upper pecs?
14:45.57 Haleiwa my upper pecs are total crap
14:46.01 Haleiwa and the lower are much better
14:46.18 brlcad incline and pec deck
14:46.42 Haleiwa incline is incline bench with dumbbells?
14:47.59 brlcad and yes -- the factor that's optimized is that the muscle you are working on is noticeably tired, but not those immediately around it (i.e. isolate the area somewhat)
14:48.25 brlcad then the trick is to get that fatigue with as few reps as possible using patterns that your muscles respond to
14:48.40 Haleiwa why as few reps as possible?
14:48.43 Haleiwa to save time?
14:48.49 brlcad max'ing out is critical for the big muscles, but really hard without spotters
14:49.17 Haleiwa harry spotter is the guy who catches falling barbells?
14:49.33 brlcad no, not to save time -- even 30 reps can take a half an hour if done right
14:49.57 Haleiwa why as few reps as possible then?
14:50.10 brlcad fewer heavy reps build bulk, stimulate muscles for growth
14:50.25 Haleiwa but one superheavy rep just tears the tendons away doesn't?
14:50.55 brlcad the more reps you add for a given set, particularly on the big muscles, the more it becomes conditioning and strength training
14:51.58 Haleiwa what if I lift the weight halfway but cannot complete? What should I do?
14:52.06 Haleiwa Terminate the series?
14:52.56 brlcad if done incorrectly, yes, you can tear tendons and cause all sorts of bad stuff to happen -- thats why the workouts are supposed to take a long while, to do them controlled, to rest extensively between sets, to have a spotter for failure and to watch you're doing proper form, etc
14:53.30 Haleiwa 6-8 reps is that OK for bulking?
14:53.35 brlcad heh, yes definitely -- if you absolutely cannot complete with proper form, you've presumably reached failure
14:53.57 Haleiwa I can complete if I twist my body or use other muscles but I don't do it
14:54.02 Haleiwa That's incorrect form right?
14:54.14 brlcad you ideally reach failure on each muscle at least once during the workout, and then move to a light cooldown on that muscle
14:54.24 brlcad very incorrect
14:54.25 Haleiwa or if I can complete but instead of 3 seconds it takes half a minute?
14:54.34 brlcad that's a good way to give yourself a hernia or rip something
14:54.45 Haleiwa and I also try to keep the speed constant that's right too?
14:55.05 brlcad relatively slow, but more importantly very controlled
14:55.18 Haleiwa but if it's too slow then it's aerobic isn't it?
14:55.35 Haleiwa controlled means smooth?
14:55.54 brlcad 6-8 reps is fine for most muscles -- smaller muscles can take more, and you can play with that number some as you get familiar with how yours respond
14:56.03 brlcad smooth, proper form, full range of motion
14:56.30 Haleiwa and if I cannot complete the whole range say only 90% then declare failure, right?
14:56.35 brlcad if you're pressing 300 lbs, there's nothing aerobic about it
14:56.39 brlcad no matter how slow you go
14:56.54 Haleiwa just the static tension consumes enough leakage power?
14:58.21 brlcad ideally you don't declare failure -- your spotter does (at least if it's a big muscle group)
14:58.32 brlcad or rather, your body very clearly will
15:00.26 brlcad there's is a point where a given muscle will outright fail under an increasing heavy load
15:00.27 brlcad for smaller loads, it's very different
15:00.27 brlcad but for heavy ones, you want them to fail with a heavy weight at least once -- and then each time you work that muscle out, you push towards making that heavy weight failure happen 5-10 lbs heavier
15:02.02 Haleiwa what we want to induce is a damage, right?
15:02.09 Haleiwa but microscopical and not macroscopical
15:03.31 brlcad example workout, I might be doing a pyramid set on incline, doing 10x120 warmup, then 10x180, 8x200, 6x220, 4x240, and then failing at 2x260 (with a spotter, and presuming I already knew my max was around 270) -- followed by maybe a two-set cooldown of 10x120 and 20x80
15:03.55 brlcad right
15:04.10 brlcad macro bad, micro great
15:04.26 Haleiwa so it's like bending an aluminium strip ten times back and forthn
15:04.30 brlcad if I was doing that workout, and I failed on the second set, that'd change everything
15:04.36 Haleiwa not like tearing it outright over
15:04.54 brlcad not a great analogy :)
15:06.12 Haleiwa how long do you wait between changing weights?
15:07.02 brlcad that's a hard one, depends how it feels and how close to failure .. generally a few minutes at least
15:07.20 Haleiwa you're right with the biceps because when I start with the biceps after some time of not using it, I feel it's powerful but next time it feels like crap
15:07.30 Haleiwa what do you do in these minutes?
15:07.59 brlcad not so long that the muscle has entirely cooled down (like 30 minutes later) and not immediate (like 1 minute later)
15:08.22 brlcad otherwise, you can play with different recoveries depending on what you're trying to achieve
15:08.44 Haleiwa what's best for the biggest muscles?
15:08.57 brlcad biceps are a good example -- once they fail, they're pretty much useless, but they have a fast recovery
15:09.15 Haleiwa fast recovery?
15:09.18 Haleiwa You said it's slow, 5 days
15:09.41 brlcad so you can just wait 2 minutes after a set, and even if you were close to failure with 8 reps, you could still get 6-8 reps on the next with increased weight
15:09.56 Haleiwa oh that recovery
15:09.57 brlcad i mean on the spot recovery between sets
15:10.28 brlcad you can generally do more reps with the smaller or more toned muscles
15:10.42 brlcad you can work out your abs just about every day, for example
15:10.54 Haleiwa wikipedia says that that is a myth
15:11.00 brlcad but then you generally don't "bulk" your abs
15:12.38 Haleiwa abs are small or big muscles?
15:13.00 brlcad with workouts, just about everything is a myth or bad advice in certain concepts or put to certain practice -- as it all depends heavily on your own body, your muscles, your frame, etc
15:13.40 brlcad as a group they're pretty big .. but they're a collection of a lot of smaller muscle bundles
15:14.02 brlcad i was referring more to the difference between working your biceps and your quadriceps
15:14.58 brlcad still, 8 is a good general number if you're starting out to stick to that doesn't start to matter until/if you've plateau'd a muscle
15:15.15 brlcad 8-12 or so
15:15.45 brlcad reducing reps as you hit more serious weights
15:16.32 Haleiwa I mean the biceps on the arm
15:16.37 Haleiwa isn't there another on the leg?
15:16.58 brlcad huh?
15:17.03 Haleiwa then probably not :)
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15:45.04 Tanelorn brlcad: how does it come that the recovery time (the one in order of days) depends on muscle size?
16:11.52 ``Erik heh
16:12.03 ``Erik my biceps still hurt from tuesday :(
16:23.13 Tanelorn brlcad: actually could I say that the recovery is complete when I feel the muscle is fresh and I cannot stop myself from playing with the weights?
17:19.15 brlcad ``Erik: heh
17:19.38 brlcad that's not a good sign if that little bit of effort makes ya sore :)
18:25.45 ``Erik <-- puss, and did bunches of carrying and lifting before you got there
18:27.35 ``Erik nothing else hurts *shrug*
18:27.40 ``Erik just my biceps
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