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Cancelled a $45 a month gym for a bar and rings - six months on, what did I actually give up?

I've run both, three years of barbell work and then two years of rings only, and the honest answer is legs and posterior chain.

Upper body bodyweight training scales beautifully because you can change leverage - tuck to advanced tuck to straddle, and you've effectively added load without adding a plate. Legs don't have that ladder. Pistol squats top out, and once you can do fifteen a side you're doing endurance work, not strength work. Everything else transferred fine; my hamstrings and lower back are measurably weaker than they were and I noticed it moving furniture, not in training.

164 · in/calisthenics ·

revenuecat at 1% or roll my own receipt validation at $2.1k mrr

The honest way to frame it: you are paying roughly one hour of your own time per month to not think about any of it. At $2.1k that is obviously worth it. At $20k it is $200 a month and you should re-run the arithmetic against how much the state machine has changed since - which, historically, is quite a lot every year.

Nothing about this decision has to be permanent, which is the actual point.

92 · in/app-review-and-iap ·

Four techniques that carry every weeknight dinner: which four would you teach?

I taught my daughter recipes and it was a mistake I only saw two years later. She could make three dishes beautifully and could not cook, because none of it generalised and she was helpless the moment an ingredient was missing. When I switched to teaching one technique per visit with whatever was in the fridge, she started improvising within about two months. Teach the move, then use three different ingredients with it in the same session.

69 · in/cooking-technique ·