So I have a similar routine (push, pull, leg/ab), but different workouts and set/rep combination

One of the cool things about the present is we no longer have to guess which exercises are most effective at stimulating muscle development.

By using a technique called Electromyography (EMG), which measures the electrical activity of muscles during exercise, we have a good proxy for how much of the muscle is being used.

Results are below, hopefully they help you in further refining your workout plan (all numbers are % of muscle stimulated)

Lower Chest

• Decline dumbbell bench press – 93
• Decline bench press (olympic bar) – 89
• Push-ups between benches – 88
• Flat dumbbell bench press – 87
• Flat bench press (olympic bar) – 85
• Flat dumbbell flyes – 84

Upper Chest

• Incline dumbbell bench press – 91
• Incline bench press (olympic bar) – 85
• Incline dumbbell flys – 83
• Incline bench press (Smith machine) – 81

Lats / Back

• Bent-over barbell rows – 93
• One-arm dumbbell rows – 91
• T-bar rows – 89
• Lat pulldowns to the front – 86
• Seated pulley rows – 83

Side Deltoid

• Incline dumbbell side laterals – 66
• Standing dumbbell side laterals – 63
• Seated dumbbell side laterals – 62
• Cable side laterals – 47

Rear Deltoid

• Standing dumbbell bent-over laterals – 85
• Seated dumbbell bent-over laterals – 83
• Standing cable bent-over laterals – 77

Front Deltoid

• Seated front dumbbell press – 79
• Standing front dumbbell raises – 73
• Seated front barbell press – 61

Biceps

• Biceps preacher curls (olympic bar) – 90
• Incline seated dumbbell curls (alternating) – 88
• Standing biceps curls (olympic bar/narrow grip) – 86
• Standing dumbbell curls (alternating) – 84
• Concentration dumbbell curls – 80
• Standing biceps curls (olympic bar/wide grip) – 63
• Standing E-Z biceps curls (wide grip) – 61

Triceps

• Decline triceps extensions (olympic bar) – 92
• Triceps pressdowns (angled bar) – 90
• Triceps dip between benches – 87
• One-arm cable triceps extensions (reverse grip) – 85
• Overhead rope triceps extensions – 84
• Seated one-arm dumbbell triceps extensions (neutral grip) – 82
• Close-grip bench press (olympic bar) – 72

Quadriceps

• Squats (parallel depth, shoulder-width stance) – 88
• Seated leg extensions (toes straight) – 86
• Hack Squats (90 degree angle, shoulder-width stance) – 78
• Leg press (110 degree angle) – 76
• Smith machine squats (90 degree angle, shoulder-width stance) – 60

Hamstrings

• Seated leg curls – 88
• Standing leg curls – 79
• Lying leg curls – 70
• Stiff Legged Deadlifts – 63

Calves

• Donkey calf raises – 80
• Standing one-leg calf raises – 79
• Standing two-leg calf raises – 68
• Seated calf raises – 61

RECTUS ABDOMINIS

Mean: Chin Up, Hanging Leg Raise, Ab Wheel

Peak: Chin Up, Hanging Leg Raise, Swiss Ball Crunch

INTERNAL OBLIQUE

Mean: Ab Wheel from Feet, Ab Wheel from Knees, Bodysaw

Peak: Ab Wheel from Feet, Bodysaw, Tornado Ball Slam

EXTERNAL OBLIQUE

Mean: Ab Wheel from Feet, Hanging Leg Raise, Bodysaw

Peak: Turkish Get Up, Hanging Leg Raise, Bodysaw

ERECTOR SPINAE

Mean: Kneeling Cable Lift, Landmine, Reverse Hyper

Peak: Kneeling Cable Lift, Tornado Ball Slam, Lumbar Extension

Not military but my understanding is:

Commissioned officer: starts at second lieutenant, can go all the way to lieutenant general, have to go to specialized school (like West Point) to be eligible. Receive their “commission”/assignment directly from president. As the other commenter mentioned, BG is fairly high up.

Each service can have slightly different names for certain positions. And yes they split CO positions into three types, company, field and general, BG is the lowest “general officer”. As to how, you could always ask, but some combination of seniority/achievements. He almost certainly serviced in combat in Afghanistan/iraq as a field officer given the timelines.

Non-commissioned officer: these people joined as rank and file, and got promoted to oversee/command people below them, but didn’t go to specialized school, and can’t rise above sergeant major. So you could have a guy with 20 years of experience commanded by a brand new second lieutenant.

Rank and file: privates and the like.

The other thing to understand is, this may be something his wife wants more than he does.

Unfortunately in relationships, after both parents have made a decision (and sometimes one parent might not have wanted it, but agreed to it because it wasn’t their highest priority and they wanted to avoid a fight), it’s still that parents job to communicate that decision to their side of the family.

But I had a similar situation to you and you brother, and similarly my dad made us play outside basically whenever it was nice outside, so your correct that regardless of what tech a kid has, ultimately parents decide how to use it.

But it may also be that they know their kid well enough that they know the restricting of that tech will cause more tantrums/problems then giving it in the first place.

Parents have lots of strange rules not rooted in logic or reason unfortunately, it’s part of the insane crazy love we feel for our children. All you can do is what you’ve done, say your piece and move on.

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What data do you have to say neither of those options are relevant?

“Mid-priced homes are becoming more popular with investors, making up 32% of investor purchases in the fourth quarter, a record high. Low-priced homes are still most popular with investors, making up 37% of purchases.”

Low cost homes, exactly the ones in rural/historically low income area you described, are the most purchased category of residential real estate.

Also, the downtowns of those areas, which are almost all single story commercial/retail, are exactly the places most in need of walkable, dense development I’m describing, especially if there’s a housing shortage and most of the surrounding areas already have built up residential developments.

So both of those options are actually more relevant for your example then the US as a whole.

https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-q4-2021/

You seem to attribute the housing affordability crisis the last few years to WFH-ers, but isn’t it more fair to say that there are multiple other factors contributing to it?

Not just the post COVID appreciation for housing, but things like historically high percentage of investor owned homes (including corporate and foreign buyers), and historically low building rates compared to projected need, to name a few.

So then the question becomes, which of these should we focus on? For me, that means what gives you the most positives, and least negatives.

Let’s look at three options:

1. Banning corporate and foreign non-occupying homeowners from owning American residential real estate
2. Rezoning low density areas (particularly single story commercial/retail in smaller cities and towns’ downtowns) into vertical dense mixed use residential and commercial/retail development
3. Ending work from home

1 and 2 accomplish our primary goal of reducing home prices across the country, both by increasing supply (1 would too, since those investors would need to sell, increasing supply), and 1 would also reduce demand. 3 does not, because any price reductions in rural areas will be offset by higher rates in urban one

2 also gives us positive secondary benefit of encouraging walkable cities, which leads to health improvements, less traffic, and reduced climate impact. 1 would also increase business investment, encouraging long term growth, if the “money printer” option of buying US residential properties and collecting rent is not available.

3 gives us no positive secondary benefits, and since it does essentially the opposite of 2 in terms of walkability, it also is the only one with a high negative cost.

So pretty clearly that idea is the worst one for solving housing affordability. So why support it when their are other much better options available to accomplish your goal?