Month: May 2023

How to do it like a real G: HOW REAL MEN LIFT:

With weight lifting and life? High ain’t high enough for me!!

Achilles as a good role model, as he was the strongest, most powerful fighter of them all.

Assuming that grip strength is strength, I suppose the end of it all is strength training. To become stronger. Rule one: all real men, Stoics, lift weights.

My passion and interest in life is innovative concepts. New contacts I have never witnessed before. Or in other words, if somebody else has done it before, I’m not interested. Truly brand new.

To maintain your extreme arch and not slip around during your one rep max attempts?

Odysseus as praised by Homer for being “quick witted”. The opposite is to be “slow witted”— slow. This was the original definition of being “retarded”— being slow. Not being “autistic”, etc.

The art of becoming more virtuous and manly:

First, more black robusta coffee. Death wish coffee is a good deal!

This is why I find the home charging cable very unaesthetic? Maybe one day in the near future, you could just charge a Tesla at home, kind of like a powerwall or powermat? I …

Insane abundance as the precursor to great innovation?

The ultimate privilege as the privilege of innovation? When you no longer need to be “efficient“ about things.

First, desire. The first question is, do you desire to become a stoic? Second, practice. Perhaps we should seek confrontations, instead of trying to avoid them?

A military aesthetic as more beautiful? War, battle, conquest, military is beautiful? Martial things as more beautiful. Note war movies, FURY, 300 etc.

The new field:

Vlog Don’t maintain anything:

Vlog No zero sum

It is funny once guys at the gym start telling me: “Just be careful.” When people tell me this, especially guys who are bigger than me, what they really mean to say is, I …

Incoming!

Priest vs Pastor — priest is sacred, pastor is profane. Why I prefer a priest over pastor.

Logic is for the weak!

EKTUBE

The real manly way to lift:

True power:

One rep: EKTUBE

Perhaps the reason why I love one rep max lifting so much is how it gets my adrenaline up. An interesting superficial difference I’ve discovered is that the adrenaline level that I get with …

Perhaps it is wise to overcompensate. For example, maybe it is better to overly hype yourself up before a one rep max, even if you don’t really “need it”. Also, when it comes to …

What is wisdom? Knowing when it is wise to pick a fight, knowing when it is foolish.

Even the salty looks!

Fake manliness is comparing your manliness with other men, and trying to one up other men. Real manliness is when you are just too self-absorbed into yourself, that you don’t even see anyone else. …

In other words, striving to become even more of an attention whore is a virtue?

What is manliness?

Don’t invest in other people, only invest in yourself.

Yoga is very good for weightlifting, powerlifting, bodybuilding, etc.

Ultimately, are you willing to sacrifice for it or not?