Beautiful body, beautiful mind:
I would not trust a skinny fat guy philosophizing about beauty, the human soul, or the body.
Why is this important? The body is real, the mind is not.
Also, what manifests as our “mind“, is simply an offshoot of our body.
Body therapy, not mind therapy
The reason why this is such an important and radical idea is this: all of this talk about mental therapy, mental health, etc., is misguided. The focus should be bodily health, and physical health, not mental.
Or another words, if your bodily health is great, your mental health will also be great.
Why does nobody seem to have good mental health?
Besides myself, I don’t really know anybody who has good mental health, nor good physical health. Why is this? My theory is that it seems like other guys are too dependent on steroids, drugs, alcohol, marijuana, or other unnatural things, protein powder, creatine, pre-workout powder, etc.
Also, the problem is that the typical American is far too addicted to media, spends too much time indoors, and is typically an office slave.
What does a beautiful or healthy body even mean?
This is where philosophy is important; what is the meaning of a beautiful body, or a beautiful soul?
The reason I cannot trust anybody as role models is that I don’t know whether they have taken steroids, or “cheated†or not. I can only trust myself in my own experiences. Because I cannot lie to myself.
For example, my successful 540 pound deadlift, at a body weight of around 160-165 pounds, and at a height of around 5 foot 10 to 5 foot 11. Also, doing it all fasted, not eating breakfast or lunch. Also, Not using protein powder, creatine, pre-workout powder, steroids, drugs, human growth hormone, etc. in my strength building. Just plain old black coffee, and meat.
Man or woman?
I’m not gonna talk too much about female matters, because I am a man. I feel uneasy philosophizing too much about woman beauty, if I’m not a woman.
As a man, I could comment about male aesthetics, and male beauty. My first thought is what do we really seek as men? I think it is to become more sexy. Not necessarily to become more buff, or bigger.
For example, when it comes to women, it seems most women prefer more of the Brad Pitt physique in fight club, than the modern day bodybuilder look. In fact, it is only typically men who are more interested in becoming a super super massive, rather than being an attractive quality to women.
Why is this? My theory is that humans we know what is naturally proportional and what is not naturally proportional. Even me, I was naive for so long, but essentially I’ve learned that when it comes down to it, essentially everybody is on steroids, or some unnatural form of human growth hormone. This includes not only bodybuilders, but powerlifters, strong man, cross fitters, even the people in yoga and the natural “calisthenics†crowd.
Less adipose tissue
My first thought is this: for man, to have less body fat, a.k.a. adipose tissue, is more attractive, sexy, and beautiful.
What is the ideal? You don’t want it to be too low, as when men dip into the single digits for body fat percentage, they often lack testosterone and vigor. I suppose a good ideal it’s just whether you could see your six pack abs or not.
Testosterone
Then it seems like the next thing is this: to increase your testosterone, which is the life force energy of a man, as testosterone is the hormones which comes out of her testes. A.k.a. our balls.
Now this is my critique; there are a lot of guys for slightly older, who rely on unnatural forms of testosterone injection to “even the playing field“. But I think this is a bad idea, as it probably negatively affects your health. If you’re a man who does external testosterone injections, your health will lesson, not improve.
The more meat-based cholesterol you consume, the better
Also, what is the most superior way to naturally boost your testosterone? Simple, consume more fatty red meat, more cholesterol, more organ meats like liver and heart.
Cholesterol is the natural steroid. Therefore, if you want to boost your testosterone, consume more (meat based) cholesterol.
Things you can control, things you cannot control.
As an American, I like the idea that I have some control over my fate, and myself. I do not like the idea of being at the mercy of your genetics.
This is the huge benefits of weightlifting, bodybuilding, powerlifting, etc.; there are certain things you cannot change about yourself, like your height, however, there are things you could change, like your muscle mass, your haircut, or your physical strength and valor.
A big thing you can control at the gym, how much hype you exert, how loud you get, how loud you scream, I call this hypelifting.
Beauty for the sake of what?
Assuming that you’re already married and have a kid, what is the point of becoming more beautiful? I say it is partly for yourself; you look at yourself in the mirror 1 billion times a day, and you always yourself naked before you shower. Therefore, you want to look beautiful to yourself in your own eyes.
Secondly, the more beautiful and strong your body, the more elevated wall your thoughts will be, creative artistic or philosophical. I trust no philosopher who doesn’t deadlift.
For example, how can you trust a skinny fat, overfat male nerd, who is scrunched over his desk all day, commenting about masculinity and courage, when he has never attempted a one rep max lift in his life?
Third, maybe it is a good idea to look sexy, in front of your spouse, if your goal is to have more children.
Fourth, it seems that being more beautiful is also advantageous from a social economic perspective. For example, if I want to be in a Hollywood movie, I must look as handsome as Brad Pitt if not more handsome. In fact, I aspire to become the next Brad Pitt, which is good timing considering Korea is on the up and up. Being Korean American is finally an advantageous thing for me.
ERIC