HOW TO LOVE YOUR BODY

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Pragmatic thoughts on loving your body:

1. Both physiological AND mental.

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This is where people get suckered — thinking that loving your body is only mental. It is also physical and physiological as well. In other words:

To love your body, you must both change your mindset about a ‘perfect’ body (seek a great body instead) AND you must physically change it (more muscle, less body fat).

2. Why have we learned to hate our bodies?

Too much obsession with media. Simple solution:

For a month, don’t use social media at all, don’t watch any movies, don’t read any magazines or media forms which is supported by advertising.

Instead, use this time to read books, think, walk, and workout on your own.

Rock Workout Park by ERIC KIM

3. The best workouts?

ERIC KIM RINGS AND MUSCLE UP PARK WORKOUT

I say do it all. For myself I like weight lifting, working out at my home gym, at the park, or in my apartment doing bodyweight stuff.

Barbell warmup
Floor bench press 230 pounds

The goal is eumorphia (loving your body).


My Muscle Philosophy:

Treat your body as sculpture.

This is not my body

The first thing:

I don’t see my body as belonging to me. I look at my body like it belongs to someone else.

When I look at the Lamborghini of someone else, I admire it. When I see the muscles and physiques of anyone else, I admire it. Then I had the epiphany:

Why not transform my own body into a Lambo, and admire my own body instead?

The logic

The great logic:

  1. It is far cheaper to get buff than to buy a Lambo.
  2. The human body is the apex beauty. This means your personal goal in life should be to beautify your own personal body to the maximum (without plastic surgery, steroids, etc).
  3. Ultimate democratic approach: Genetics doesn’t matter. Sex doesn’t matter. Racial ethnicity doesn’t matter. Anyone can both add muscle mass and subtract fat.
  4. It doesn’t cost much to get ripped. Just intermittent fast [no breakfast, no lunch], one big ass meal a day, and mostly a ‘ketogenic’ diet.
  5. Your body is always with you. Why not beautify your body to inspire yourself?

The joy of sculpting your own body

To sculpt your own body is insanely fun. Why? You can see the change over time!

Once again, the goal is simple:

Never stop adding muscle mass, and never stop reducing body fat, or keeping it low (around 10%).

Muscle and your body is highly practical.

The more muscle you have, the more energy you got. The more power you got to make art-work, and live with gratitude, joy, and hyper-vigor.

Strengthen on, and flex on!

ERIC

MUSCLE 101

  1. Is Working Out at the Park Superior to Working Out at the Gym?
  2. Why I Workout
  3. WHY PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD WORKOUT
  4. How to Increase Your Testosterone
  5. My Workout Philosophy
  6. How Appearance Matters
  7. How I Workout at Home
  8. My Philosophy of Food
  9. The Best Park Workouts
  10. How to Quit Sugar
  11. How to Workout in the Streets and Park
  12. How Much Meat Can You Eat in a Day?
  13. APEX MALE MASCULINITY
    HOW I WORKOUT AT THE PARK
  14. How to Lose Fat
  15. How I Became Stronger and Buffer and More Swole During and After Quarantine
  16. What is Skinny-Fat?
  17. In Praise of Working Out at the Park
  18. Why Meat is Good
  19. Flesh over Metal
  20. Why Lower Your Bodyfat?
  21. How to Augment Your Recovery
  22. Increase Intensity, not Reps
  23. My Park Workout
  24. How to Fast
  25. HOW I WORKOUT FROM THE PARK
  26. How I Got So Swole
  27. Pure Power or Sculpture?
  28. How to Workout in the Streets
  29. How to Workout At Home With No Equipment
  30. Super Saiyan is the Goal
  31. MY POWERLIFTING PHILOSOPHY
  32. MY EXERCISE/WORKOUT PHILOSOPHY
  33. What if Mood Originates in the Stomach and Gut? Digestion Health
  34. Why I Don’t Consume Protein Powder or Supplements
  35. Real vs Fake // Natural vs Unnatural
  36. You Can’t Fake Strength
  37. How to Grow Your Muscles
  38. How to Add Muscle and Subtract Fat at the Same Time
  39. ERIC KIM BODY MUSCLE FLEX
  40. Don’t Build Muscle, Build Strength.
  41. Visual Kinesthesia: Muscles and Art
  42. How to Maximize Muscle Growth and Fat Loss