New Fitness Ideas

Trying to think carte blanche first principles about fitness.

First, thinking of Milo of Croton.  The very useful thing here is considering his notion of the calf and progressive overload training. The very very general basic idea was as the bull got heavier, milo of Croton continue to carry the bull upon his back in his shoulders, and march the bull around town, ever since the bull was a calf, up until the bull became 2000 pounds or so. 

Some mythical quotes, apparently Milo of Croton ate 10 pounds of meat a day,  and 3 gallons of wine. This is most likely an exaggeration, or who knows… It might be real! When I tell people I could lift 1000 pounds, which is over 10 plates on each side of the barbell… People think this is an exaggeration but it is not. Just google or YouTube it. Or better yet, ChatGPT it.

Strongman?

Something which piqued my interest for a bit, for a minute was strongman, strongman training, yoke training, yoke lift training etc. 

Essentially, it is a bunch of 7 foot guys, very very fat but also very very muscular strong guys, like giants, all on steroids, doing incredible feats of strain, lifting insanely heavy things, and some sort of competitive form.

Currently, I find this to be the most interesting thing, to an extent… Because let us say you have a 1500 pound yolk, and to have a race between two guys to see who could carry it across the finish line, 50 m sprint or so is interesting.

Also… The 400 pound sandbag. To simply lift a 400 pound sandbag off the floor, is an insane feet of strength. You cannot fake it. However the problem is once I lifted it once successfully, it no longer interested me that much anymore.

So I suppose the first idea is that once I have done something or accomplish something once successfully, it no longer interests me anymore.  

For example, I think this is where the whole notion of personal records, in the context of weightlifting is so fascinating to me, inso far much as  the desire to have new experiences, to attempt to lift some thing that I have never attempted before is really fascinating because this is true novelty:

For example, up until I have lifted 1000 pounds, I had no idea what it felt like to lift 1000 pounds. And I can now tell you… It requires supreme focus, 1000% hype, and I really really do not believe it to be possible to do, assuming that you’re not on steroids or whatever weird stuff… You gotta slap yourself in the face, Slap yourself in the thighs, let out a war cry, like Ares the god of war, with the lungs and the voice of 10,000 men.

And this is where my uplifting notion is so magnificent and great; a lot of these loser emasculated modern day men, are essentially domesticated to be quiet, yielding, antisocial with their loser AirPods on etc.

In fact, real men do not use AirPods, or stick any sort of condoms in their ears. 

AirPods make you into a coward… And also sunglasses, and also hats.

The best is to have nothing on your eyes your face, no ugly facial hair, no hats etc. Just naked eyes, naked ears, fresh shaven face,  and no condoms in your ears. Making eye contact with people, and shooting the shit with people, beautiful women, pretty guys, kids and the like.

What is the issue here

Everyone likes to blame social media, but I think more critical issue here is AirPods. And maybe even music, podcasts, Spotify?

For example, the next time you go to the gym, look at anybody who does not not have headphones on, or earplugs on, or airplugs on etc.

Deadlift walk

A new fascination of mine how much can you walk out? The same thing goes with squat walk… Load up the barbell on the squat rack, see how much you could just lift off the barbell, walk back a few steps, and put it back. Could you do seven plates, eight plates, nine plates, 10 plates, 11 plates?

Also, dead lift walk. The basic idea is put your barbell on the rack, at around waist level,  lifted up, just use chalk and a mixed grip, walk it out a few steps, and rack it back… And see how many plates you could do. Could you do four plates five plates six plate seven plates eight plates?

The funny thing is for these imaginative people, they have a hard time coming out with new ideas. It is much easier to just follow the crowd, follow all these foolish weightlifters bodybuilders and even powerlifters. My critique of powerlifters is that they get focused on bench lift and squat, and they compare their numbers with other people who are all on steroids. , Is there any sport in which people are not on steroids? I can almost guarantee you that which you would not think that people are on steroids, like soccer or water polo these guys are on steroids. Also the girls and the women.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these calisthenics skies were also on the juice. And almost definitely these fake ass CrossFit athletes, rich froning and the like are all on steroids, even the women.

What is the point of weightlifting?

Obviously, to become stronger. And what is the upside of becoming stronger?

Strength, power… These are all things we desire for the sake itself. Or more practically speaking… Assume that your life was the Eliott… Obviously you would want to become Achilles or Hector, and be able to be the most lethal fighting force or person on the battlefield. Everyone wants to be Achilles or Hector. more specifically, everyone wants to be Achilles

the notion of the powerman

I have this new notion, I call it the power man.  the very very basic idea is that the goal is to become more powerful.

So to flawed concepts: powerlifting (power, lifting) and strongman (strong man). Also interestingly enough, there is no strongwoman competition.

So the general idea is first, you ain’t competing with nobody. Because nobody’s on your level.

For example, everybody knows that Achilles is the goat. Nobody is even half a chance for Achilles. Even Hector knows this.

So assuming that you’re Achilles, then, how do you proceed?

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