Hmm, I only listened to a few minutes here and there. He says something like mindfulness may be helpful since there shouldn't be any downstream effects. Then she goes on a rant about how it nocebos* kids into thinking they are doing something wrong/disregulated/etc.

Ummm, dude just said to have kids sit for a minute or two practicing mindfulness. There's no nocebo there.

Not gonna watch more lol.

*opposite of placebo - Most doctors I've used the term around don't seem to be familiar. Which is...alarming, considering they need to be the most careful concerning noceboing people. Going to Dr. visits with my wife recently has really made me wonder how poor doctor's word choices are when discussing interventions and diagnosis. Anyway, /endrant.

Pull
Pullups: bwx17, 14, 11 (second 2 sets neutral grip was feeling better on my elbow)
Unilateral pulldowns: 2ppsx15, 10, 8
Underhand rows strapped: 60kgx15, 10, 11
EZ curls: 20kgx30, 2 more sets myorep match

Prob gonna reduce to 3 sets myorep match on pull days since I'm already curling on push days too. My biceps have continuously gotten stronger despite cutting so that's good.

I can't lift today because I have a work dinner. Just going to go on Sunday and do legs tomorrow b/c I wanna train push monday at the new gym.

That's racist and ignorant as ****. And I'm not at all surprised to hear that from a therapist because most of them are unintelligent people.

He has a pretty huge fanbase of like 50k subscribers on youtube. He's kind of become vulnerable to "audience capture". The worse his life is, the more the audience agrees and amplifies b/c most of them are also low status young males in similar situations. It's sort of a crabs in a bucket thing where they gang up on anyone who has productive advice and all echo "it's over bro" memes.

Steps were 20k yesterday and 22k the day before. It's wild how my tolerance to stepcount has increased so much. That used to be exhausting before... even when I first stopped bicycling to work/gym and started only walking and was averaging 12k it was "exhausting" at the time. Now I really need to do something like 25k steps+high stims+a leg workout all on the same day to really fk myself up. I feel like I could get 20k on basically any normal day where time permits it indefinitely. Foot care/calluses is the only limiting factor. I finally started using moisturizer on my heels and that's helped a ton, but I think monthly medical pedicures are probably inevitable when steps are this high.

Amish average around 18k/day and the average bodyfat of males is around 8.9% despite eating enormous amounts of saturated fats and high calories in their diets.

I think there's something magical about very high activity levels throughout the year for body composition. This is another thing that is the opposite of what we were told in the rippetoe era where cardio/activity/being on your feet too much is 'bad for your recovery'. I think one of the reason I got a lot less fat from SS+GOMAD in 2009-2010 was because I was bicycling several miles a day at that time because I lived in an off campus apartment that was pretty far away from my school at the time and even just going to the grocery store was like a 30 minute walk. For peaking strength athletes a few weeks out from a meet, yeah high activity probably isn't so desirable. Shane hunt does 2 hours of steady state cardio with a weight vest walking in the mountains outside 3x/wk on his off days (he trains 4x/wk). I'm not even really convinced its bad for offseason strength athletes. I'll probably stay around 13-15k with 45 minute fasted morning walks throughout my entire bulking phase (again, time permitting)

Less soy-addled gaslighting therapy and psych meds, Less DBDR incel hopelessness and self pity, more chad bodybuilder copefulness.



Dave Palumbo has been awful the past 3 years, but once in a while he does some actual journalism. This interview was just great. The guy's name is Ali Bilal and he's a legit contender to the Men's Physique Olympia title. His life story is really amazing. He escaped war-torn Afghanistan as a 13 year old boy on his own without and friends or family, floated around europe working various peasant jobs for survival, and eventually rose to becoming an IFBB men's physique pro despite very humble beginning. The story of him destroying everyone at his first show was hilarious. Basically he was working construction in his early 20s in Belgium eating Nutella sandwiches earning slave wages and training with a typical bro split 5x/wk. Him and his friends wanted to go watch a musclemania bbing show (musclemania is far less competitive than other feds) and he pretty much entered from the audience since he was always ripped from working a high activity level job and ended up not only winning his class but the overall despite the lack of a structured diet. His story of how he learned English in just the past 3 years was also 100% YesChad.

Men's physique is way less gay than it was at its inception. Around 2019 the division started to really improve a lot and now legs are actually being judged. If they can just make the board shorts about half the length they are now I'd consider switching to it over classic given my cursed hamstrings and glutes. I'd be exactly right for the pro weight cap without having to gain much size. The posing for it is so radically different than the other divisions and right now I have no ****ing clue to to do Men's Physique poses. I appreciate the increased focus on glam/pageantry/metrosexuality in Men's Physique relative to classic and open, frankly.

Yugo,

I think a lot of that is your own projection rather than the reality of my life. But tbf it is much funnier to post about bad things and outwardly portray a dismal, dark existence rather than talk about all the interesting stuff I do. (I got offered a cofounder gig with El D working on developing an AI chatbot recommender system, might take that, might not. Dunno!)

I posted some pretty obvious lies that were outted nearly instantly (for a message board) probably a decade ago by people I personally know. (One guy had literally posted a photo of the two of us.) Yet some people still quote that story as a universal truth rather than "mentally unwell person posts lies on internet for self-amusement".

Tho in this specific moment things are pretty bad since my electric kettle is having a hissy fit and refusing to boil water. So this is probably the worst thing that has happened to me so far today. Yesterday I had to switch seats on the tram because a homeless man who had obviously pissed himself >1 day before decided to keep wearing the same clothes. 15 minute cities, free public transit, Yurop, yay!

Guy,

If you like gay stuff, Eurovision is always there.

I don't know enough forum lore to understand any of this. But plz hope no e-fighting.

The second part is part of my extensive history of trolling the sports betting forum and depicts events that happened nearly a decade ago. But there are definitely more than a few genuinely miserable people in that space.

But I think how you view other people on the internet says a lot more about you than about the poster. Like loco says insane stuff p frequently. But he's a p good looking guy who isn't poor and has someone who will s his d. That has to be top 1% or so? There are definitely folks who are unhappy and have actual problems, but they are p far and few between. Even YTF seemed rather happy in his own blissfully ignorant way. I'm more remarking on human nature and seeing what we wanna see in things rather than the way it may be.

FWIW I think Yugo prob has some weird exogenous dread since his life seems p much fine. Maybe something is DEEPLY NOT FINE that I am unaware of, but who knows.

Actually those events were nearly 12y ago. Been posting on this aidsy site for too long.