It’s ok. 
What I thought was a relatively innocuous comment turned out to be a real tempest in a tea cup.
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Haha. Not saying your arguments are wrong. I really liked your comments lol. But at this point, I’m just too tired to analyze the science-y stuff and just stayed for the childish bickering from the fruit loop. Lol!
I must say, too bad you don’t have a log here. Genuinely would have wanted to follow you lol
I’ve been thinking about starting one now that I’ve got that heart failure into a relatively manageable state.
I was wondering for a couple of years why my recovery capacity sucked (nonexistent). Strength was okish but suffering, but a real lifting session would gas me out for a week.
If your cardio will clear you, that should make for an interesting log. I guess the trick is finding just the right intensity that your heart can handle.
…But wait, you gotta learn first which heart beats are effective for cardiovascular health and which heart beatsbeats aren’t! We don’t want you dropping dead now, do we 
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He did, within some pretty strict limits. No more than 10 rep max for loading.
Me and my lifting buddy have had to have each other’s backs over the years for various reasons. Now if I’m doing deads or something and start to fall out from hypotension he’s in charge of trying to keep my from breaking anything with my head.
Just wear a helmet, duh.
It’s great life advice.
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And break a perfectly good helmet?!?
Dude. Start. A. log.
It’s gonna have a lot of cardio.
Remember Berardi’s old rule of thumb “Eat like a vegetarian, just include meat.” Or something to that effect?
It will be like that, only “Work out like a cardio bunny, just include weight.”.
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Been traveling, just caught up on some threads. That PC one is hilarious. The amount of energy people will put into trying to prove online strangers are wrong is crazy.
And Paul’s really not making himself look good - I think the part that stuck out to me was saying CT didn’t look into the science of something? CT puts more science in his articles than I can often handle reading, haha.
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I agree with whang.
Either study harder or get some help. It could be a study group, doing your homework with your friends. Or getting a 1 on 1 tutor for calc. Or dropping calculus and picking up pre-calculus or linear algebra or whatever class teaches fundamentals.
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Agreeing with whang got me through college.
Wasn’t great for my grades though…
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Isn’t that what you would call acting professional?
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Calculus is a very difficult subject. At my university we have different engineering specialisations and I believe that the ones with the best results there are the budding practical physicists and they sport a 60% pass on the first attempt, while some programs have 15%. Don’t beat yourself up about missing it, just work hard & smart. When it comes to calculus knowing the right theorem, definitions, and rules to apply can sometimes make what’s a two page rote calculation into a two-liner description of what rules apply from which the answer can be intuited.
You’ll need to do a lot of exercises (get a solutions manual if you don’t have it), use wolfram alpha (get pro for the step-by-step solution feature), use Khan Academy for lectures and automatically generated exercises and use Anki cards or something else to practice your definitions and theorems. It might possibly be the course that you take that’ll require the most amount of effort and work while simultaneously possibly being something you’ll never need again.
Edit: get one more calculus book too. If it’s not the course literature you can usually get one through the library since no-one will be interested in loaning it anyway. This is to read the same definitions in a different language. Which one is your assigned literature? I recommend Spivak pretty much regardless.
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I agree, practice is key- at least in my calc classes, there’s only so much variation
Although that might be hard to implement…
For me personally, there’s an inverse relationship between the amount of math required and enjoyment
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nothing really. what we’re doing is simple enough that we aren’t required to even have a book. we can just study from our teacher’s lectures (they are uploaded online). exercises include stuff like, given a set or function, say if it’s bounded, or if it has a maximum or minimum point, and stuff like that. not rocket science really. yet i was able to only get 6 answers right in the test and 4 wrong. the ones i got wrong, after looking at the solutions, were within my reach definitely. but still, does it really matter that i might have been able to solve them, given that this time i wasn’t?
is it worth it? i’ve been thinking about giving it a try.
Adams + Spivak + Wolfram Alpha Pro + Hard work = passing grade.
What that’s worth to you is for you to decide. If I’d have to be skimpish I’d only go for Adams Calculus since you have no assigned reading (and a solutions manual). It’s easier than Spivak but they complement each other.
I passed with top marks in calculus 1 & 2, I would not have been able to do this without wolfram alpha.
By happenstance I came across a forum post when CT talked about what I assume is the same thing back in September. Not that long ago, sure, but it does predate the article a fair bit Singles Training - Need Advice - #8 by Christian_Thibaudeau
How many people who have to take calculus ever use it again in their life? I don’t even know what calculus is.
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From what I’ve heard, this is common to many freshmen, so you’re not alone.
It’s a part of growing up. Don’t become one of those people whose sense of self-worth is tied to a specific quality they believe they possess.
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