{"id":648879,"date":"2024-11-17T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=648879"},"modified":"2024-11-17T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T18:10:56","slug":"kaizen-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/kaizen-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaizen Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"648884\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/kaizen-gains\/9c80dc47-f7b7-4391-ab2e-e8d50dfd7270\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-id=\"648884\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?resize=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?resize=920%2C920&amp;ssl=1 920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/9C80DC47-F7B7-4391-AB2E-E8D50DFD7270.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So with weightlifting, my strategy has been super simple,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Week over a week workout after work workout, just simply try to add another 2.5 pounds to each side of the barbell. This insanely simple strategy has helped me lift the mythical 1000 pounds, my insanely epic 1000 pound atlas lift,\u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is 10 1\/2 plates on each side of the barbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I think we could also apply this line of reasoning to investing; just keep stacking Satoshis and bitcoins, steadily gradually and conservatively but consistently \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and within four years, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna be insanely mega!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-economics-by-kim\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/economics\/\">Economics by KIM<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"648782\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/physiology-is-mentality\/d492eb36-966d-4cff-b9d7-46791b5a0542\/\" 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This insanely simple strategy has helped me lift the mythical 1000 pounds, my insanely epic 1000 pound atlas lift,\u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is 10 1\/2 plates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648885,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648879\/revisions\/648885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}