ERIC KIM ₿

Very simple:

1. One rep max style lifting— only single reps.
2. 100% carnivore diet. Only non meat item is kimchi, no sugar added.
3. No alcohol, no weed, no supplements. Only beef, beef liver, beef heart, beef small intestines, beef ribs, etc.
4. Intermittent fasting — no breakfast no lunch. Only one massive meat dinner a day. Do it when the sun goes down; Ramadan style every day.
5. Only drug to consume is black coffee — espresso. No cream or sugar (whether “real” or “fake”).
6. No nuts, no fruit, no vegetables. No carbs, no starches.
7. Lifts to do — Atlas Lift, Rack Pulls, Renegade Rows, and yoga.

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On the road to become a billion dollar body:

Insanely heavy rack pulls, atlas lift.

Also heavy renegade rows — 145 pounders and above.

7 rack plate pull attempt!

Hypelifting by KIM

The art of the hype:

1. Squat Hold, Rack Hold
2. 640 POUND RACK PULL ERIC KIM
3. Squat Hold
4. 610 POUND RACK UNRACK SQUAT
5. 630 POUND RACK HYPELIFTING PULL ERIC KIM SUPER SAIYAN
6. The Zen of Hypelifting
7. How to Start Hypelifting

Thinking about the new year, it seems like everyone’s goal is to become more fit, stronger, more powerful, etc. However, what does this really mean?

Power vs Strength?

Currently speaking, the most interesting thing to me is strongman. Strongman competitions are insanely interesting to me, I am very interested in more traditional, ancient Greek styles of strength and weight lifting and feats of strength, rather than the modern day ones.

My personal ideal:

Become strong like a strong man, but look like a demigod.

This means, I don’t want to be strong, muscular and fat. I want to have insanely low body fat percentage, which I do with intermittent fasting and abstaining from all starches, vegetables, fruit, sweet things, etc. Even something I’m starting to realize, even tea, green tea is quite sweet. Even arabica coffee, is too sweet for me. I want to start shifting to robusta, maybe just sticking to the Deathwish coffee.

On becoming more of yourself

Don’t strive to become EK — strive to become yourself.

For example, I have many heroes who include Steve Jobs, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Jay Z, etc. Yet my big epiphany is that ultimately, I do not desire to become them. I want to become more of myself.

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Billionaire body?

A simple thought for the new year includes optimizing this year for yourself, your well-being, your body.

It seems that the foolish trade-off we do is this:

We sacrifice our health and our well-being, in order to increase our money earning potential.

For example, finishing work or being “productive“, typically is related to the end pursuit of any more money.

Or, work for the sake of work, or being more productive, working more is considered more virtuous. We must get rid of this silly notion. Work is a vice. Being productive is a vice.

Power Not in things

When we desire to buy new devices, cars, tools, etc., I think what we’re trying to do is augment our power. But the simple question; does buying “Pro“ products actually make us more powerful?

No. What is power in regards to work? Ironically enough to become more powerful in the realm of work, is to do less work. To do more work is the servile slave mentality. For example, apparently Oprah Winfrey only uses an iPad mini for her “work“. All of her peons and minions do the heavy work on their laptops.

Thus first realization:

The goal is not to buy a MacBook Pro laptop, even the impressive 14 inch. I wonder if buying more powerful, more capable devices actually make us more servile and slave-like.

What is power?

I am still trying to figure this out, but, it seems that the most real type of power we could gain is physiological power. That is, to strengthen our own human body. This means, more powerful muscles, lower body fat percentage adipose tissue, more powerful spine, more powerful sinews, more powerful ideas, etc.

Everyone wants to become a thought leader

Ray Dalio— even him, after making billions of dollars seems that his ultimate life goal is to become a thought leader. To create some sort of legacy that goes beyond him.

Even the joy of a Nassim Taleb; his ultimate pursuit is philosophy, in creating ideas and innovative ideas.

Perhaps a goal for you this year is to strive to become a thought leader. How does one become a thought leader?

Honestly speaking, as long as your ideas can influence the thoughts and behaviors of one other human being on planet earth, you’re doing your job.

Simple ways to become a thought leader:

1. Start a self-hosted website blog via bluehost.com and install wordpress.org. Publish your thoughts as a blog posts.
2. Start an email newsletter, I recommend Sendy.co. Even though we all hate email, it is still one of the best ways for you to propagate your thoughts, open source. A simple thought; write emails that you would actually like to receive.
3. Start a podcast. Just use anchor.fm, which is owned by Spotify. Publish either video podcasts or audio podcasts.
4. Just Vlog out your thoughts and upload them to YouTube. Go deep. Think philosophical Vlogs.
5. Think at the decade, two decade, 3 decade + level. For example, with my email newsletter, it took me at least 12 years to gain 10,000 subscribers. at this point, I don’t think I really need any more subscribers. Instead, my simple goal is to gain longevity for at least another 30 40 50 60 70 years etc.

Assignments

1. Sign up for a gym membership, or a CorePower membership, and start chatting with the people there. Ask them what their New Year’s resolutions are.
2. Quit sugar, carbs, starches, fruit, and vegetables this year. 100% carnivore diet — beef liver, beef heart, beef small intestines, beef ribs, etc.
3. Only shoot small JPEG this year. Choose a good in camera black-and-white preset, or a good in camera color preset, and stick with it. Buy a RICOH GR IIIX if you haven’t already.
4. Use Apple photos exclusively this year. Ditch Lightroom.

ERIC KIM WORKSHOPS

Conquer the street and beyond with EK:

1. Conquer Boston March 25th
2. Conquer Innovation in Berkeley April 15th
3. Conquer South Korea June 19-23rd

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Powerful ideas

Via HAPTIC PRESS:

1. Creative Every Day / Print
2. Masters / Print
3. My first photography book (only 3 left)
4. How to See

MORE HAPTIC >

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New year resolutions

1. Anytime you’re tempted to buy a new camera, just buy a photo book instead.
2. Don’t buy any electric cars. Don’t buy the Lucid, don’t buy the Tesla, etc. Today I hung out in the Tesla model S plaid and the model X plaid and I’m kind of over it. Instead of buying the Tesla, just use that $150,000 to buy Tesla stock instead.
3. Workout at least twice a day. During the day, weightlift and do yoga at least once. Sometimes I do yoga in the morning with Cindy and then we lift in the afternoon, and sometimes I weightlifting the afternoon and do yoga with Cindy in the evening. Both are good.
4. Upload your photos to arsbeta.com for critical feedback.
5. Have a chat with WHY APP?

Future thoughts

1. Isn’t it so funny that every single new year, 99.9% of peoples New Year’s resolutions has to do with working out more, and eating healthier? Apple and everyone else should take note; the future of fitness is weightlifting, and some sort of functional fitness meet yoga. CrossFit should go harder on their marketing.
2. One of the best ways to motivate people to start working out more and becoming healthier is promoting some sort of clothing lifestyle. I think the reason why Lululemon is so insanely successful is because they have actually figured out a way to motivate women to become more beautiful by doing yoga, eating healthier, etc. Everyone wants to aspire to become more beautiful.
3. Optimize your life for health, not work or productivity. Ironically enough, the more you optimize your life for health, the healthier you will become anyways.

Powerful philosophy

1. Stoicism.
2. Nietzsche
3. Nassim Taleb — any and all of his books.

Share your power

Ironically enough, the more you share your power with others, the more powerful you will become as well. Therefore as a simple suggestion, if you have any ideas thoughts or other techniques that could help empower another human being, just share it with them.

I also think it is better to attempt to help somebody in the spirit of goodwill, than to not.

Don’t be afraid of offending others. Once you have conquered this fear, you can do anything.

Powerful Photography

This year, let us drive to become more empowered in our photography. A simple way to do this is take it back to basics, go back to your spirit of photography of fun, jubilant joy, and fun experimentation. Let us strive to make photography fun again!

ERIC

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Better to attempt the insanely audacious and fail than to never have even attempted it at all.

EK NEWS

If this has sparked even a thought or two within you feel free to forward to a friend!

EK NEWS

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Everyone wants to become a thought leader:

Ray Dalio— even him, after making billions of dollars seems that his ultimate life goal is to become a thought leader. To create some sort of legacy that goes beyond him.

Even the joy of a Nassim Taleb; his ultimate pursuit is philosophy, in creating ideas and innovative ideas.

Perhaps a goal for you this year is to strive to become a thought leader. How does one become a thought leader?

Honestly speaking, as long as your ideas can influence the thoughts and behaviors of one other human being on planet earth, you’re doing your job.

Simple ways to become a thought leader:

1. Start a self-hosted website blog via bluehost.com and install wordpress.org. Publish your thoughts as a blog posts.
2. Start an email newsletter, I recommend Sendy.co. Even though we all hate email, it is still one of the best ways for you to propagate your thoughts, open source. A simple thought; write emails that you would actually like to receive.
3. Start a podcast. Just use anchor.fm, which is owned by Spotify. Publish either video podcasts or audio podcasts.
4. Just Vlog out your thoughts and upload them to YouTube. Go deep. Think philosophical Vlogs.
5. Think at the decade, two decade, 3 decade + level. For example, with my email newsletter, it took me at least 12 years to gain 10,000 subscribers. at this point, I don’t think I really need any more subscribers. Instead, my simple goal is to gain longevity for at least another 30 40 50 60 70 years etc.

In order to become a thought leader — some ideas:

Vascular, veins are beautiful:

Vena — maybe same as via, road?

To pursue, to be strong. *weyh–

To chase, to pursue.

Look like a billionaire:

PODCAST

AUDIO

Our new ideal and goal:

First of all, intermittent fasting. No breakfast no lunch, just one insanely 100% carnivore dinner.

Second, insanely high weight lifting. Strive towards a one rep max in your lifts. I call it hypelifting.

Third, get a tan. This means spend as much time humanly possible outdoors, walking around without your shirt on. Even in the winter time.

Gas now is so cheap. Waaaaay faster to “recharge” your gas car when compared to an electric Tesla.

My thought: electric cars/Teslas will only be better than gas cars or hybrids or plug-in hybrids once the recharge time of a Tesla or a supercharger is actually faster than refilling your gas tank.

iPad Pro (smaller size) is the one:

How did I get so swole, intermittent fasting, no breakfast no lunch, and also on 100% carnivore diet?

Also, no supplements, no protein powder, no creatine, no pre-workout powder, etc. certainly no testosterone, steroids etc.

Also, lifting while fasted. Only one insanely massive dinner a day, aiming for at least 3 to 4 pounds of meat, beef ribs, beef liver, beef neck bone, etc. no sugar, no carbs, no fruit no vegetables. Only kimchi.

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Open letter to TSGCONSUMER firm:

Hi there,

Not sure if this is the right person to write to, but some thoughts for CorePower especially now the new StrengthX is launching:

First of all, I think there should be a focus on encouraging men that by doing yoga or corepower, they will increase their overall strength (at the gym as well). The StrengthX can be a massive opportunity for CP to increase their men numbers, a hugely untapped market.

Also, the focus on social life. A lot of silicon Valley men (a great group to target) are quite solitary. Focusing on the social aspect of CP yoga is a great opportunity to get more men to enroll. Also, focus on community building events such as birthday parties for teachers and students, free introductory courses for men who are curious, and also a focus on–

How can yoga help benefit my weight-lifting?

Third, I believe the focus that yoga was originally started by men (India). There needs to be a new shift in the culture that yoga is (not) only for women.

StrengthX should also be focused on terms such as increasing your ‘gains’ and power.

For further discussions and ideas please shoot me an email at eric@erickim.com

Cheers,
ERIC KIM

My open letter to defense.gov

Hi there,

I have a simple suggestion in regards to the Talent Management 2030 plan in regards to the Marines:

I believe that a ripe group to increase enrollment numbers is the 30-40 year old age range (I am 34 years old). Some suggestions:

First of all, target men who desire a greater challenge. A lot of men in Silicon Valley can be good for cyber-defense, and also desire more physical challenges.

Also in regards to prestige and rank. Many men in their 30s and 40s desire more honor. A military badge seems to be a good idea.

Also pride. The basic notion is a lot of men in their 30s and 40s can be great for doing part-enlistment, in order to augment their self esteem and courage. A focus on increasing the self pride of men is a good idea.

I understand this is not the correct portal for sending this message, but if you could please forward this to the necessary individual I would greatly appreciate it.

Also for further discussions and suggestions, please shoot me an email at eric (at) erickim.com

Best regards,
ERIC KIM

Not a hypebeast, but a hypegod.

Nassim Taleb.

So no rock climbing. Bouldering seems good.

Also weight lifting as insanely safe. Not sports, football, soccer, basketball etc.

No bungee jumping, driving and texting or listening to music or podcasts. No AirPods — whether the pro or normal ones.

No alcohol, drugs or weed. Don’t drive while high or even “tipsy”. Or tired.

Also to the pragmatic extent avoid excessive moment when it is raining. Car accidents in the rain.

Also no race cars or racing cars. Just hypelift instead.