the GAINS thread

[Wonkie]

Your PM box is 90% full.

GAINZ

[Cen]

Thanks, haha.. Went bald at 16. Its funny because few my age have been bald longer then not bald in their whole life, so when I see the more typical guy in his thirties stressing over it so much I find it adorably humorous. :p my haircut has been a simple razor for as long as I can remember.

[bigjeff100]

Thanks, haha.. Went bald at 16. Its funny because few my age have been bald longer then not bald in their whole life, so when I see the more typical guy in his thirties stressing over it so much I find it adorably humorous. :p my haircut has been a simple razor for as long as I can remember.

Yeah man. I parted ways with my hair around 22? 23? I never once thought twice about it.. Noticed thinning, shaved it immediately.. I feel bad for those losing hair in the later half of their life haha, probably gets tougher to deal with losing ur hair the longer u have had it!

[America]

bald is beautiful

[bigjeff100]

bald is beautiful

Amen BigJ!!!!!!!

[Cecily]

Sometimes good things happen to bad people. Just how the world works.

[Irulan]

I've been slamming the whole foods vegetarian and fruit fibers hammering out at least a double length perfectly formed unbroken soft log each morning from my improvised squatty potty.

I figure this is doing God's work and is as good a reason to live a loveless hate scarred cold dead lonely life as any.

[America]

gross

[America]

38 years old every hair accounted for

you're pretty old for such a gay

[Irulan]

you're pretty old for such a gay

gross

[Irulan]

I don't find myself attractive. My therapist was curious about this. I thought about it for awhile then looked at her and said "I guess I am, I suppose so, people have said I am attractive". "But, no, I am not particularly attracted or attached to myself."

[Irulan]

only one thing left to do

Are you implying that I should kill myself?

[bigjeff100]

only one thing left to do

Ok, that's enough outta you for the week little man.

[Irulan]

2 days HIIT 2 days bikeride during what I believe will be the final florida cool front, today is cleaning and relaxation and paperwork

Delivering meth via bike is a very green and economical business model. I commend you.

[Irulan]

crunches hormone pill and taps submit

Be more of an effective edgelard plz.

[Patriam1066]

Back day again

Fucked up yesterday and had a patty melt at whataburger. Getting peer pressured by ducking Hispanic 20 something nurses

time for GAINZ

[bigjeff100]

Haha go get it Patriam! If it helps i ate like shit this weekend too...... Hopefully my body found something to take from all the shit i put in it haha. Leg day for me today! Happy Monday gainers!

[bigjeff100]

Also- Gnite Irulan! We'll see you soon, we miss you!

[Cecily]

Weight keep dropping~

188.8 188.8 188.8 188.6 188.4 from 206 in January. Weather finally nice enough to go outside recreationally, so I’m gonna step up the exercise to push this further. Think in about 10 lbs I’ll be wearing size 10/medium clothes. My size 12 jeans aren’t skin tight anymore, which I’m totally fine with because I was a JNCO/baggy T-shirt skater kid and form fitting stuff is an abomination.

TIL the average American woman is size 16-18 now. That’s encouraging for dating prospects down the line.

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17543266.2016.1214291?journalCode=tfdt20&

[bigjeff100]

Nicely Done Cecily!!!!! JNCO's!?! YES!!!!! Haha, awesome.

[Cecily]

Ty. Lol yeah... I (kinda) miss them.

https://i.imgur.com/qFj5TM2.jpg

I don’t think I’ll ever or ever really want to outgrow Kurt’s grunge style influence.

https://i.imgur.com/dILLTf9.jpg

[America]

i wouldn't mind seeing you in some shredded jeans dear

[maskedmelon]

jeff I am on keto and doing too much exercise, my body cannot keep up with electrolytes

I have not had a carb in 2 months, and by not one carb I haven't had even a bean or lentil.

I started eating a full size florida avocado everyday at breakfast and my diet basically consists of 3 piece of turkey bacon and 3 eggs for breakfast ( I sautee a red pepper and half onion first for the eggies ) I have a mens one a day multivitamin after.


and for dinner a monster salad of fresh gourmet lettuce I grow and a good serving of protein. In the salad I put lots of goodies ( zero sugar ) but it seems after 2 exercise days I melt all the electrolytes I have and start to get dizzy

What can I do about this?

eat moar fat, salt everything, take a magnesium supplement and don't be a dick.

[Cecily]

i wouldn't mind seeing you in some shredded jeans dear

I’ve always been opposed to the idea of purchasing pre-ruined jeans, but they look good and I’m gonna buy some soon.

[Patriam1066]

jeff I am on keto and doing too much exercise, my body cannot keep up with electrolytes

I have not had a carb in 2 months, and by not one carb I haven't had even a bean or lentil.

I started eating a full size florida avocado everyday at breakfast and my diet basically consists of 3 piece of turkey bacon and 3 eggs for breakfast ( I sautee a red pepper and half onion first for the eggies ) I have a mens one a day multivitamin after.


and for dinner a monster salad of fresh gourmet lettuce I grow and a good serving of protein. In the salad I put lots of goodies ( zero sugar ) but it seems after 2 exercise days I melt all the electrolytes I have and start to get dizzy

What can I do about this?

Onions and peppers have carbs numb nuts

Nuke Florida

Avocados have double the potassium of a banana. It isn’t an electrolyte issue. Add Himalayan salt. But again, not an electrolyte issue. Probably your hate filled heart giving out on you. Accept Christ while you still can

[Patriam1066]

its electrolytes dude

peppers are very low in carbs, and all the carbs in veggies are fiber based.

Onions have more but the serving is very small, as for Christ well,,

only poor people believe in god

and iran will be nuked long before florida

Fake news

Also you’re poor. You pick lettuce

LOL

[Cecily]

How much water are you drinking, Mario?

I think you probably have chronic hyponatremia and should go see a doctor, tommorow. It’ll take a bit to get back your urinalysis. Na+ is kinda important for neurons... brain damage / death possible.

[maskedmelon]

ceci is right, you tend to lose a lot of sodium on keto. You can also lose potassium, which can be exacerbated when you try correct sodium levels by adding salt. patrium's suggestion of avocado is good for that, but even better is large amounts of leafy greens, liek kale, spinach and arugula. it's pretty easy to burn up your carb allowance just getting the potassium and other vitamins/minerals that you need.

Also onions actually have quite a bit of sugar in them. garlic has a fair amount of starch too. one of the disappointing things about keto.

[America]

how about go veg with a tiny amount of meat for nutritional supplement. and control calories.

u nerds. dinguses.

[maskedmelon]

how about go veg with a tiny amount of meat for nutritional supplement. and control calories.

u nerds. dinguses.

thats not bad actually. id be okay eating that way. keto doesn't require that you eat lots of meat. in fact it is actually hard to do right with lotta meat because most meat is so lean. Cheese, cream, butter are good sources of fats though, alongside avocado, olives and nuts.

[America]

thats not bad actually. id be okay eating that way. keto doesn't require that you eat lots of meat. in fact it is actually hard to do right with lotta meat because most meat is so lean. Cheese, cream, butter are good sources of fats though, alongside avocado, olives and nuts.

nice sidestep.

carbohydrates are dope. eat leafy greens buffoon dingus. all y'all just begging for ostomies.

[maskedmelon]

nice sidestep.

carbohydrates are dope. eat leafy greens buffoon dingus. all y'all just begging for ostomies.

gosh, SOMEONE sure is extra feisty this morning... im gonna have to agree on the leafy greens. i liek them lots. also good to eat them with cheese to nullify the oxalates in your gut and avoid kidney stones. i do not remember where I read that calcium combines with oxalates in the gut to prevent later accumulation in th kidneys, butt I will acknowledge it could be utter bulshit. sounds plausible though and the cheese is my own extrapolation because it contains calcium. i stand by this advice:cool:

[America]

gosh, SOMEONE sure is extra feisty this morning... im gonna have to agree on the leafy greens. i liek them lots. also good to eat them with cheese to nullify the oxalates in your gut and avoid kidney stones. i do not remember where I read that calcium combines with oxalates in the gut to prevent later accumulation in th kidneys, butt I will acknowledge it could be utter bulshit. sounds plausible though and the cheese is my own extrapolation because it contains calcium. i stand by this advice:cool:

i just wanted you to kiss me :o

ty!

[maskedmelon]

i just wanted you to kiss me :o

ty!

lol /bonk

[clevergirl]

Does greek yogurt or cottage (((cheese))) count?

[Jimjam]

I like fresh baby leaf spinach recently.

Either in a sandwich as the salad or on its own sprinkled with a little salt/vinegar/olive oil.

Does that count for them leafy greens?

[America]

I like fresh baby leaf spinach recently.

Either in a sandwich as the salad or on its own sprinkled with a little salt/vinegar/olive oil.

Does that count for them leafy greens?

Yes. Spinach is about as good as it gets.

[Mead]

nice sig bb

strong support

[America]

nice sig bb

strong support

it is a privilege to wear you

[bigjeff100]

nice sig bb

strong support

Hahaha!

[Cen]

I really don't like low or no carb diets.

You know that old addage about CrossFit and vegans... I feel like its died down on those and now its keto.. Lol

Just eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables. :p

[Mead]

thanks for the support guys but I do eat a big avocado for break with eggy and turkey bacon

for dinner massive salad and the lettuce is the gourmet type with spinach and stuff

I did second HIIT Day yesterday and im fine, problem is long bikerides seem to deplete me and I love doing them.

I think maybe ill try a ride tonight then an off day, the second day in a row seems to be the problem

you eating a lot of nut butter these days

[Jimjam]

Speaking of carbs, baked some cupcakes today. Replaced 1/3 of the sugar with strawberry jam (I believe you call that jelly?) and didn't ice (frost?) them.

Instead I halved them and served them with a smear of jam and some butter. Tasty!

Was very pleased that the experiment worked well!

[Cecily]

Why are carbs exceptionally good energy compared to other macronutrients?

They aren’t.

[America]

Why are carbs exceptionally good energy compared to other macronutrients?

They aren’t.

they're not worse and they are more practical, orders of magnitude cheaper, easier on the environment, and generally do not involve the torture and slaughter of feeling beings.

[America]

I closed a big important piece of business today it was pretty dank

[Jimjam]

Career gains or fired?

@shoes that was an interesting exposé on jelly vs jam.

I actually tried this experiment as I wanted to clear out some cheap jam I had (only 33g/100g prepared fruit content).

I know the way things work here is the lower the fruit content the more the sugar (they just replace fruit with sugar) so just using the jam as a sugar substitute seemed passable.

[America]

gainz JJ dear ^_^

[Patriam1066]

Shoulders and dentist today

GAINz

[America]

killer bikeride yesterday, could not get out of bed today but I love that feeling : )

there are so many people in this world who don't exercise, I have no idea how they can live like that.

how many miles? what kinda terrain?

[Patriam1066]

Cycling causes erectile dysfunction

haha!

[Mead]

I’m negative gainz today sitting at the fuckin’ mercedes dealership 4 hours now for a recall. Got my gym bag with me ready to go hard as long as this doesn’t take any longer and I’m not starving.

Took last week off had to do acls and work all week/weekend. Feeling fresh this week.

[Cecily]

Networking gains. Reconnected with the MD who taught my micro/nutrition class 10 years ago and have an open invitation to ask him any medical questions I have related to my studies. He’s so nice and smart, one of the most influential teachers I’ve ever had — although the fucker never did pat me on the head for my answers or comments in either of his classes. Still a little salty about that, but.. this is huge to have him as a resource and possible character witness/reference.

[bigjeff100]

I’m negative gainz today sitting at the fuckin’ mercedes dealership 4 hours now for a recall. Got my gym bag with me ready to go hard as long as this doesn’t take any longer and I’m not starving.

Took last week off had to do acls and work all week/weekend. Feeling fresh this week.

My man! What's it gonna be today if you ever get outta there??

[bigjeff100]

Networking gains. Reconnected with the MD who taught my micro/nutrition class 10 years ago and have an open invitation to ask him any medical questions I have related to my studies. He’s so nice and smart, one of the most influential teachers I’ve ever had — although the fucker never did pat me on the head for my answers or comments in either of his classes. Still a little salty about that, but.. this is huge to have him as a resource and possible character witness/reference.

Heyooo!!! Nicely done Cecily!! I'm no doctor that's for sure.. But you can have a pat on the head from me!! Proud of you!

[Cecily]

Lol. Ty, Jeff!

[Mead]

My man! What's it gonna be today if you ever get outta there??

Going hard on legs today. Maybe do some deadlifts too.

At some point I’m probably going to need surgery on my right wrist. We’re pretty sure it’s a TFCC tear. I just got approved for the mri so just need that to confirm. But everything is pointing to that. That surgery won’t be for a while though. I have too much shit going on at work to get that fixed now. In the meantime it’s a tape job + tight wrist wraps.

[Cecily]

School has a program for free IT cert education. I’m gonna try for the Health IT and management systems track. Versus CCNA or user support. Hopefully this plays out with me getting a nursing education along with professional tech skills, so I end up stupidly marketable.

[bigjeff100]

Going hard on legs today. Maybe do some deadlifts too.

At some point I’m probably going to need surgery on my right wrist. We’re pretty sure it’s a TFCC tear. I just got approved for the mri so just need that to confirm. But everything is pointing to that. That surgery won’t be for a while though. I have too much shit going on at work to get that fixed now. In the meantime it’s a tape job + tight wrist wraps.

Any ideas what caused the'ol triangular fibrocartilage complex?? just wear and tear? A previous injury?

[America]

School has a program for free IT cert education. I’m gonna try for the Health IT and management systems track. Versus CCNA or user support. Hopefully this plays out with me getting a nursing education along with professional tech skills, so I end up stupidly marketable.

Excellent idea. I stamp it enthusiastically. you are really cool Cecily!

i envy your tracked climb btw. I'm like 100% sure you will be hitting financial dunks in 10 years. Whereas I have worries about myself! I gotta hang on to this impulse and keep cranking out wins and be wonder girl or I could totally stagnate. You're on, like, the clink-clink climb part of the roller coaster and there's really no getting off unless you throw a terrible fit.

[Mead]

Do they not have courtesy vehicles? take one and go to the gym

what about an uber?

who sits at a dealership for 4 hours???

I got one. I took the guy at his word as far as what time it would be done, but they got backed up so I just took a courtesy car.

[Mead]

Any ideas what caused the'ol triangular fibrocartilage complex?? just wear and tear? A previous injury?

Most likely tri pull downs and close grip bench. No more of those for me. There are plenty of other things i can do that I don’t have to put that stress on my wrists.

[bigjeff100]

Most likely tri pull downs and close grip bench. No more of those for me. There are plenty of other things i can do that I don’t have to put that stress on my wrists.

Have you always worn wrist straps? If not, do you think having them in the past could have prevented this? I picked some wrist support straps up a few months ago when i was finally able to commit to heavier lifts and less reps. And man, they are a blessing..

I'm hoping i got my hands on these wraps just in time for this next phase of my lifting.. Which is heavy....

[Mead]

Have you always worn wrist straps? If not, do you think having them in the past could have prevented this? I picked some wrist support straps up a few months ago when i was finally able to commit to heavier lifts and less reps. And man, they are a blessing..

I'm hoping i got my hands on these wraps just in time for this next phase of my lifting.. Which is heavy....

Yea, I’ve always worn them. My triceps have always been one of my strongest muscles. I think I was just doing too much weight at the time and the rest of my arm wasn’t able to support the weight, causing it to put a lot of pressure on the wrist.

[Thorondor]

I go one month hypertrophy with half-1RM x20 (+15%)x 16 (+15%)x12 (+15%)x8

then the next month its all strength training 4repx90%/1RM 6repx85%/1RM 8repx75%/1RM

On the third month I go 2weeks of strip-sets starting at 80% down to 40%/1RM shedding 15% of the starting weight with as close to no-break as possible, followed by 2 weeks of supersets push/pull.

1RM on the core 5:
DL 290
Squat 245
BP 235
OHP 170
Row 160

Aiming for 1000lb club by end of year, and yeah straps, back brace, and wristwraps pretty much necessary for strength month, which starts again next week. I'm thinking the bulk of the target is going to need to come from DL. If i can break 365 on DL and 320 on Squat I can get there, but I don't do that half-rep crap with my squats so the struggle is real.

[America]

how many miles? what kinda terrain?

im the only one here who can talk to u about cycling. would love to!

by the way there's nothing wrong with not killing it until 45. my bf is near meeting that descrip and he is nothing to be ashamed of. fetishization of youth is for weirdos and TV fans. God bless.

[Patriam1066]

35 and 0 dollars, so by 45 he will be killing it? OH WAIT SHIT that's right he is an unhireable trans gender oh well

better luck next time !

chomps hormone pill

I had spinach today. Thank you and your family for harvesting it. Not sure what we’d do without migrant labor

[Cecily]

35 and 0 dollars, so by 45 he will be killing it? OH WAIT SHIT that's right he is an unhireable trans gender oh well

better luck next time !

chomps hormone pill


https://i.imgur.com/wLSoaPJ.jpg


And yet I feel thankful for what I do have and really like being me somehow. I look like I'm in my early 20s, have good health with no electrolyte imbalances, and I have a pretty good shot at being wildly successful with multiple long term goals focused on making the world a better place. You're just another crazy person from Florida suffering from poor diet due to a lousy understanding of nutrition. Being you must suck.

"We joke online about “first-world problems,” but we really have become victims of our own success. Stress-related health issues, anxiety disorders, and cases of depression have skyrocketed over the past thirty years, despite the fact that everyone has a flat-screen TV and can have their groceries delivered. Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities (https://markmanson.net/you-cant-have-it-all) that we don’t even know what to give a fuck about anymore."

[JurisDictum]

El-Erian’s priority was $100 million per year. His priority was CEO. His priority was private helicopters and stretch limos and bankers jerking off all over his balance sheet wherever he went. And to earn those things, he chose to give up being present in his daughter’s life.

Until one day, he chose the opposite.

Lol,

I'll keep this article in mind if I ever start making a 100 million a year and feel depressed.

Bit I like the rest of what you said. I think less money paid out to capitalists and more paid out to descent wages, trans humanism, and non-war technological developments might go a long way.

[Cecily]

I dunno if it'll matter. Facebook informed me the planet is gonna be irrecoverably screwed by 2050 if we don't stop using fossil fuels... now. That's our lifetime and certainly any of our generation's children are going to reap whatever cataclysm we've sown. I've been kinda sad I'll never have kids, but honestly... it's kind of a shitty thing to have kids when the apocalypse is on the horizon, one way or the other, so I don't feel so bad about it now. You're all my children and I love you, even that slow one from Florida.

[Thorondor]

Decided to pull out of stocks today and invest in pursuing a CSCP cert with the market looking like its finally
committing to a bearish trend.

Wish me luck, folks.

[JurisDictum]

So I had the last cigarette left around here -- didn't buy any but they were a few here. Won't buy any -- that's definitely not a bridge ill cross.

I had my second to last one in a parking lot today. I was feeling good, having just worked wearing my sun glasses etc. Some gaggle of young girls drove by and said some kind of catcall I guess to me.

Then I realized I was doing Phillip Mores dirty work for him and thought: "alright, now its time to take off the glasses and put the cig out you douche bag."

I had to have the last one though. Nicotine really is amazing mentally. But I can't keep radiating my lungs and aging my skin etc. The world to smoke in now anyway. Can't be trying to take breaks all day for smokes and have that tobacco smell all over me. Yellow finger nails and teeth and all that other bullshit.

But its a bit anxious for me lately and I feel like those few helped me through that.

[bigjeff100]

My G.F and i switched to vaping about 4 years ago.. Randomly a few months ago we asked a friend if we could have one of her smokes. It was morning, i had coffee in hand, and a smoke.. The perfect morning starter kit.

I learned that morning, smoking now makes me want to throw up haha.. So if i have anything to thank from 4 years of vaping, it's that at least i can't go back to smokes.. Part of me was bummed i didn't get to enjoy that last smoke tho haha.

That being said- Vaping is not healthy, in fact i smoke more now cause i can vape everywhere! In the house, in my office haha. It's too convenient. The only reason i truly promote vaping over smoking, is purely because vaping is strictly the vapers problem now..

With cigs.. They are everybodies problem..
-They get littered all over.
-They start fires.
-You can smell it everywhere
-And the smoke stains everything

Nobody is throwing their vapes on the ground when it runs out of juice. Nobody ever said " Ewww what is that smell, strawberry shortcake delight"?

You got this Juris buddy!!

[d3r14k]

Good luck to the brave souls putting down cigarettes. Been on the path myself for about a year now since I started swimming again. I had zero yesterday but bought a pack this morning on the way to work. If I can get down to 2x cigs a day and really enjoy them when I smoke them instead of it just being a habit, then I'll be where I want to be. One in the morning and one in the evening seems harmless when compared to a pack a day that I see other people sucking down.

My brother vapes and swears by it, but I also see him smoking cigarretes too, which seems counter productive. I've tried vaping, but it doesn't give the same sensation and I'm left feeling like I smoked a thing but didn't fill the urge. I also agree with J that it is way too convenient. Having to get up, going outside 2x times a day, and consciously having to think about it is better (for me) than having an alternative that I can do anywhere.

In any case, good luck, JD!

[bigjeff100]

Good luck to the brave souls putting down cigarettes. Been on the path myself for about a year now since I started swimming again. I had zero yesterday but bought a pack this morning on the way to work. If I can get down to 2x cigs a day and really enjoy them when I smoke them instead of it just being a habit, then I'll be where I want to be. One in the morning and one in the evening seems harmless when compared to a pack a day that I see other people sucking down.

My brother vapes and swears by it, but I also see him smoking cigarretes too, which seems counter productive. I've tried vaping, but it doesn't give the same sensation and I'm left feeling like I smoked a thing but didn't fill the urge. I also agree with J that it is way too convenient. Having to get up, going outside 2x times a day, and consciously having to think about it is better (for me) than having an alternative that I can do anywhere.

In any case, good luck, JD!

The convenience thing is where vapes get dangerous.. I know many people that haven't gone all in on the vapes, and still dabble with smokes.. Part of it is finding the right combo.. A device that provides the power you want, and a juice that hits the spot. I was able to attach immediately to vaping once i tried it.. I was lucky enough to have a setup i enjoyed from the beginning..

My issue is i need the vape/juice to have a hit on my throat. And that can be trial and error with brands. If a juice is too smooth, then it does nothing for me. I'm still left with a craving after each puff. But once you find a device that works for you, paired with a juice that has the hit/flavor you want. Is very, very enjoyable.

Nothing will ever match the first smoke of the morning with a cup of coffee.. But if you stick with vaping, you'll realize gagging and dry heaving to have a cigerette is not very pleasing haha.

[America]

JD, good job recognizing the example and advertisement you set by smoking. Creating a context of apparent consensus for dark things is bad. This motivates a lot of my puritanism.

I strongly advise the gum to all y'all having trouble. It's the mechanism of delivery of nicotine that makes it such an obsessive sort of addiction. Nicotine itself is not particularly hard to withdraw from; it's the pavlovian mechanism of addiction to an instant high linked to an action that is really terrible. It's comparable to addiction to IV heroin; the instant results reprogram your brain powerfully.

I've switched to gum from a 4ish-month habit of constant vaping and smoking in this last week. Now that the impulse to reach down, pick up an item, put it in my mouth and intake drugs (reminds me of my nailbiting habit) is semi-extinguished, I am naturally doing less and less gum already. My nic intake is down by like 2/3. I'm planning a week off of work to withdraw from several of my nerve drugs and bootcamp hiking; I'll probably cease nic in that time too.

Btw, the gum is actually pretty good recreationally. It's like a super-special cup of coffee and it isn't that much more addictive.

[Cecily]

My G.F and i switched to vaping about 4 years ago.. Randomly a few months ago we asked a friend if we could have one of her smokes. It was morning, i had coffee in hand, and a smoke.. The perfect morning starter kit.

https://i.imgur.com/LD7vRsV.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/ewqmi0d.gif


Coffee and cigarettes is probably my favorite movie. I love it so much, especially this part:

Tom Waits & Iggy Pop scene (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=49tTzEifY6M)

[bigjeff100]

yeah im gonna need jerry seinfeld to pick this up.

"Hi, I'm Jerry Seinfeld. And this is, comedians, in cars, smoking cigarettes, on our way to get coffee"!

[Patriam1066]

I quit when my kids were born. Wasn’t bringing that shit into the house

When shit faced on occasion I’ll smoke one with the Czech rednecks out at the ranch. Filthy habit, waste of money, etc etc

[Patriam1066]

Lol,

I'll keep this article in mind if I ever start making a 100 million a year and feel depressed.

Bit I like the rest of what you said. I think less money paid out to capitalists and more paid out to descent wages, trans humanism, and non-war technological developments might go a long way.

How do you fund these things? Do you recognize the connection between luxury, leisure, and an economy that has excess to pursue things beyond subsistence?

Zimbabwe exists bud. It’s the paradise you seek

[Thorondor]

He wants us to funnel money into "trans-humanism". These dumbfucks believe that its possible to transport their consciousness into a digital signature lol.

Even if you're an athiest materialist/humanist, you have to concede "consciousness" is an emergent property of being an organic meatbag. So, even at the most godless fringe of science, consciousness is not transferable.

It's a complete and utter waste of money and a fantasy of pure techno-retards. "Step into my suicide booth, err, i mean, consciousness uploader!" So lost.

[clevergirl]

Calm down before your hypertension breaks a vein in your male Anus contributing to colon cancer and massive testicular atrophy due to the tax payer funded chemos.

[Thorondor]

Calm down before your hypertension breaks a vein in your male Anus contributing to colon cancer and massive testicular atrophy due to the tax payer funded chemos.

Lol diving butthole first to defend ur transhimanist comrade? Step into my mind blender! I already invented the machine you're hoping for. Step on in!

[America]

He wants us to funnel money into "trans-humanism". These dumbfucks believe that its possible to transport their consciousness into a digital signature lol.
This isn't the full extent of "transhumanism". Another aspect is the use of medical science to augment and improve humans. For instance, the HRT which segued me from an aggressively sociopathic nihilist to a very nice and calm and far more economically productive human.

I do, actually, think making such therapies available to young people (youngens stand to benefit the most / experience the best results) is a fantastic investment. It is at least as sound as state investment into mental health services. It gets people interested in their own bodies and their presentation. In a good candidate, it kickstarts an aesthetic renaissance in the individual away from being a fat shit who smokes and toward a lifelong pursuit of fitness and pursuit of one's dream aesthetic. It grants people an agency over their own bodies and destinies which invites success. And it puts more pretty girls who enjoy traditional gender roles into the world.

Even if you're an athiest materialist you have to concede "consciousness" is an emergent property of being an organic meatbag. So, even at the most godless fringe of science, consciousness is not transferable.

Pretty retarded. There is nothing fundamentally organic about consciousness. It is an emergent electromagnetic system. An equivalent electromagnetic field can be generated by silicon.

Obviously, your personal experience would cease the moment your particular field-instance was terminated. But a perfect copy, be it conjured from silicon or organic matter or a thousand voices singing the right notes at a Tesla coil, of the emergent EM field your meat generates, equally sentient and equally human, would experience a continuous existence. It would experience your past, but you would not experience your future. It's the Star Trek transporter conundrum and I personally wouldn't get into one either. But you are an utter mongo for stating that consciousness can only exist in the medium of Earth-meat my dude.

[Patriam1066]

My point was you can’t steer resources towards a goal in an entirely command economy because there will be no excess resources. People buying useless shit like 100,000 cars assembled in BMW plants in South Carolina allow us to have surplus Dollars American to fund research

Hope this helps. Please don’t make decisions without first consulting your friendly neighborhood persian or Armenian

[Thorondor]

This isn't the full extent of "transhumanism". Another aspect is the use of medical science to augment and improve humans. For instance, the HRT which segued me from an aggressively sociopathic nihilist to a very nice and calm and far more economically productive human.

I do, actually, think making such therapies available to young people (youngens stand to benefit the most / experience the best results) is a fantastic investment. It is at least as sound as state investment into mental health services. It gets people interested in their own bodies and their presentation. In a good candidate, it kickstarts an aesthetic renaissance in the individual away from being a fat shit who smokes and toward a lifelong pursuit of fitness and pursuit of one's dream aesthetic. It grants people an agency over their own bodies and destinies which invites success. And it puts more pretty girls who enjoy traditional gender roles into the world.


Pretty retarded. There is nothing fundamentally organic about consciousness. It is an emergent electromagnetic system. An equivalent electromagnetic field can be generated by silicon.

Obviously, your personal experience would cease the moment your particular field-instance was terminated. But a perfect copy, be it conjured from silicon or organic matter or a thousand voices singing the right notes at a Tesla coil, of the emergent EM field your meat generates, equally sentient and equally human, would experience a continuous existence. It would experience your past, but you would not experience your future. It's the Star Trek transporter conundrum and I personally wouldn't get into one either.

How many angels fit on the head of a pin? Even if a digital emulation were possible, that is not "consciousness". "Consciousness" is the experiencer that is rooted at the base of the electochemical reactions it is not the pathways the electrochemical signals follow and it is intrinsically rooted in the organic being. Any attempt to trabsplant experiences would merely be an echo, if it were even that.

[JurisDictum]

My point was you can’t steer resources towards a goal in an entirely command economy because there will be no excess resources. People buying useless shit like 100,000 cars assembled in BMW plants in South Carolina allow us to have surplus Dollars American to fund research

Hope this helps. Please don’t make decisions without first consulting your friendly neighborhood persian or Armenian

It was everybody buying a Ford that built that developed America. Not a handful buying multiple Europeon sports cars.

We actively take money from the private economy -- right now -- and spend it on research. It's that research tends to be bombs, planes and ships we don't need.

We don't have to go all the way to command economy to redirect resources into more productive areas.

BTW not all rich are equal on a macro-scale. Some are just complete speculative leeches that should probably be taxed out of their line of work. Which was my point on the trail-lawyer quip.

The beautiful thing about truly talented wealth-seeking workaholics is they simply do whatever yields the most for them within the parameters you give them to function. If Wallstreet speculation paid less, less would do it.

[America]

How many angels fit on the head of a pin? Even if a digital emulation were possible, that is not "consciousness". "Consciousness" is the experiencer that is rooted at the base of the electochemical reactions it is not the pathways the electrochemical signals follow and it is intrinsically rooted in the organic being. Any attempt to trabsplant experiences would merely be an echo, if it were even that.

Dogshit gibberish soul talk. A perfect "echo" of a human consciousness embedded into a machine and provided equivalent inputs/outputs is clearly a sentient being. Imagine a silicon brain emulator strapped in to a farm-grown meat-suit which has all the same nerve outputs and inputs as a regular human body, but passed through a translation mechanism so that the appropriate field equivalent can be generated inside of the silicon. That entity has an experience indistinguishable from that of a normal human being.

Dissociating those inputs/outputs does not disable the sentience of the being. Therefore that emulated echo of a meat-consciousness trapped in a silicon prison, though it would have a bizarre experience, is a sentient and living being for so long as the electromagnetic transformations that occur in time in real space by biological means are properly emulated. Regardless of whether that being was endowed its existence by your God or by technology.

[Thorondor]

Dogshit gibberish soul talk. A perfect "echo" of a human consciousness embedded into a machine and provided equivalent inputs/outputs is clearly a sentient being. Dissociating those inputs/outputs does not disable the sentience of the being. Therefore that emulated echo of a meat-consciousness trapped in a silicon prison, though it would have a bizarre experience, is a sentient and living being for so long as the electromagnetic transformations that occur in time in real space by biological means are properly emulated. Regardless of whether that being was endowed its existence by your God or by technology.

Blah blah blah

[Thorondor]

I want to be a cyborg, I only need my brain.

I want 100% metal body so I never get tired or need rest. I want to live forever.

Fuck yeah, bro! And pop tarts!

[Thorondor]

Everyone should be forced to dump their money into it too, because faith!

[Thorondor]

Except me, of course, because im self-proclaimed Dx so yall can hold my beer

[Thorondor]

Btw, this is precisely why such bullshit should not be paid for with tax dollars. Its a belief based on blind faith, aka religion.

[JurisDictum]

Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international philosophical movement that advocates for the transformation of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology.[1][2]

Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations as well as the ethical[3] limitations of using such technologies.[4] The most common transhumanist thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the current condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings

It's a pretty broad category to go claiming has no merit or use. It's that kind of small minded BS post that proves we have sorted very well in meritocracy.

[America]

quadruple throndor tweakerpost calling my bizness "faith"

while the tweak hinges his argument on consciousness being a phenomenon that may only occur in carbon based meat

[Thorondor]

So youre saying that taxpayer money should be diverted to investigate your religious beliefs? Cool story bro

[America]

nah bro im saying we should be prepared to provide hormones and spring-loaded legs to young people

i don't want humans uploaded into machines i think that opens the way to some really horribly gross shit beyond the normie's imagination. i've read enough hentai to know better. the idea of a world where human brains can interface physically with The Net fills me with dread.

[JurisDictum]

About 80% of the population should be female anyway. We don't need as many laborers as we used to -- especially with appropriate technology. Females are more orderly and compliant. Men are much happier with a surplus of women and the kinds of men worth keeping around can generally handle more than one.

With enough transhumanism people could theoretically switch back and forthwith or change for the needs or their job or desires. Now it tends to be more of a one-way ticket where the best results come from those that decide as a child...far from an ideal situation.

And that's just the gender piece. The other huge area might would be mental health and cognitive abilities. Both can be greatly improved if your not all techno-phobic about this stuff.

Life greatly extended (and more youthful) and human potential can truly become unbound by some of natural barriers. It is the future as I see it.

Zuckerberg is already working on that thought reading machine of his. We are severely limited by language ATM.

[FatherSioux]

I started running again now that the weather has turned up in the Northern climate. Quickly regained my 9m mile pace by the 2nd run. Need to work on adding distance though.

This thread appears to have gone off the rails though? Talking about only needing 20% of the population to be male...we miss you Skarlorn.

[bigjeff100]

I started running again now that the weather has turned up in the Northern climate. Quickly regained my 9m mile pace by the 2nd run. Need to work on adding distance though.

This thread appears to have gone off the rails though? Talking about only needing 20% of the population to be male...we miss you Skarlorn.

Hahaha sometimes we get a little derailed.. Don't worry, we'll get back on track :) Just let this conversation run it's course :)

Today- Back day! Gym time in 2.5 hours!!! Wooooooooooo!

[Wonkie]

I started running again now that the weather has turned up in the Northern climate. Quickly regained my 9m mile pace by the 2nd run. Need to work on adding distance though.

This thread appears to have gone off the rails though? Talking about only needing 20% of the population to be male...we miss you Skarlorn.

https://i.imgur.com/9HOUwHj.jpg

[Cen]

So let me get it back on track then? If you are at that 9 minute mark and want to get to 8, try speed holes.

Here are the speed holes I use at my races

https://i.imgur.com/9Md9hKv.jpg


They really make you go faster.

I'm going to get this to be a reborn fad someday. For everyone. Trust me.

[clevergirl]

So let me get it back on track then? If you are at that 9 minute mark and want to get to 8, try speed holes.

Here are the speed holes I use at my races

https://i.imgur.com/9Md9hKv.jpg


They really make you go faster.

I'm going to get this to be a reborn fad someday. For everyone. Trust me.

Drowbutt

[clevergirl]

Quaker oats was one of the first transhuman technologies that artificially extended life. Change my mind.

[bigjeff100]

Who wants to be brave enough to post some oldie photos of themselves?? I feel like my photos will blow minds.... Chubby, ridiculous hair... I don't know how my old self morphed into what i am today.

[clevergirl]

Who wants to be brave enough to post some oldie photos of themselves?? I feel like my photos will blow minds....

I wish I had some lol. That shit was hilarious.

[bigjeff100]

I'd assume most folks know what i look like by now.. bald, half japanese, 5'8, 150lbs, lean muscle :) Here is a sneak peak of teenager me....

https://i.imgur.com/DXk8SMn.jpg

[bigjeff100]

Now im this guy....

https://i.imgur.com/tOyvEId.jpg

[Patriam1066]

About 80% of the population should be female anyway. We don't need as many laborers as we used to -- especially with appropriate technology. Females are more orderly and compliant. Men are much happier with a surplus of women and the kinds of men worth keeping around can generally handle more than one.

With enough transhumanism people could theoretically switch back and forthwith or change for the needs or their job or desires. Now it tends to be more of a one-way ticket where the best results come from those that decide as a child...far from an ideal situation.

And that's just the gender piece. The other huge area might would be mental health and cognitive abilities. Both can be greatly improved if your not all techno-phobic about this stuff.

Life greatly extended (and more youthful) and human potential can truly become unbound by some of natural barriers. It is the future as I see it.

Zuckerberg is already working on that thought reading machine of his. We are severely limited by language ATM.

If the population were 80% female, this hypothetical world would have me mead and big Jeff as triumvirs banging all the women and the rest of you’d be dead

A surplus of women changes nothing. If you can’t attract a female now you still couldn’t. I’ve always been a 6-7/10 max but thought of myself as a 14 and 88% of women love me. Its a gift that really can’t be explained except to say it’s how dad did it, it’s how America does it

[America]

If the population were 80% female, this hypothetical world would have me mead and big Jeff as triumvirs banging all the women and the rest of you’d be dead

A surplus of women changes nothing. If you can’t attract a female now you still couldn’t. I’ve always been a 6-7/10 max but thought of myself as a 14 and 88% of women love me. Its a gift that really can’t be explained except to say it’s how dad did it, it’s how America does it

no, Patriam, the rest of us would be women. And that would be fine. I think the 1800s Mormon family model with an unrestrained sexual connection between all parties holds a lot of promise.

anyway, you're right that boundless confidence/ego expression really is all you need to be eligible to attract anybody. I learnt it from my first bf, this colombian boy huge slut with a tongue piercing. Maybe 6/10, he was a little fat. I was a 10/10 at the time and thought I was str8. He acted like he knew eeeeverything (and he was a reasonably sharp chemical engineer with MIT pals and such, so, it was credible). and he spoke about sex so directly, in a way that at first made me blush and made me find him crass and embarrassing, like he was putting on a show. But he just let it flow liek that and that's how he was. It wasn't really an act. unrestrained. 100% irresistible. So one day he pinned me to a wall and made out with me and I was down.

I basically cloned him for my boy persona. And I never did face rejection ever. In fact, I'm the only person in that boy's life to ever con him into monogamy, so I think my adaptation must be pretty top shelf. Fake it til you make it rly is all u need in this life.

[Patriam1066]

no, Patriam, the rest of us would be women. And that would be fine. I think the 1800s Mormon family model with an unrestrained sexual connection between all parties holds a lot of promise.

anyway, you're right that boundless confidence/ego expression really is all you need to be eligible to attract anybody. I learnt it from my first bf, this colombian boy huge slut with a tongue piercing. Maybe 6/10, he was a little fat. He acted like he knew eeeeverything (and he was a reasonably sharp chemical engineer with MIT pals and such, so, it was credible). and he spoke about sex so directly, in a way that at first made me blush and made me find him crass and embarrassing, like he was putting on a show. But he just let it flow liek that and that's how he was. It wasn't really an act. unrestrained. 100% irresistible. I basically cloned him for my boy persona. And I never did face rejection ever. In fact, I'm the only person in that boy's life to ever con him into monogamy, so I think my adaptation must be pretty top shelf.

Hispanic men pick lettuce

Not clowning on you, but it is food for thought. Also, not about ego. It’s about embracing yourself. Women can tell if you’re insecure. Insecurity is weakness. Weakness is un-American

[America]

Hispanic men pick lettuce

Not clowning on you, but it is food for thought. Also, not about ego. It’s about embracing yourself. Women can tell if you’re insecure. Insecurity is weakness. Weakness is un-American

that pushy, chauvinist hispanic masculinity turned out to manifest down the line in physical abuse. so ya I stick with White guys anymore.

You're right that it's not about ego. The slogan is "the most valuable thing you have to offer is yourself". But mustering the energy to put on a little bit of rogueish raconteur style show, in a way that is genuinely fun, is extremely effective.

[JurisDictum]

Now im this guy....

https://i.imgur.com/tOyvEId.jpg
10770

[JurisDictum]

Hispanic men pick lettuce

Not clowning on you, but it is food for thought. Also, not about ego. It’s about embracing yourself. Women can tell if you’re insecure. Insecurity is weakness. Weakness is un-American


Therefore, date Asians if you're insecure.

Feining weakness is one of the most effective military and fighting strategies ever invented.

[Wonkie]

what would the carbon footprint ramifications be for a supermajority female society? wouldn't expanding womb access surely increase the fertility rate, dooming are planet?

assume the following:
1. installable wombs
2. no fascism

[America]

what would the carbon footprint ramifications be for a supermajority female society? wouldn't expanding womb access surely increase the fertility rate, dooming are planet?

assume the following:
1. installable wombs
2. no fascism

females consume alot more, in clothes and medical and makeup. I think it would stimulate the economy. Also we'd be a huge tourist destination, a paradise of beauty. I think ideally we would keep the rest of the world regular male/female 50 50 and be the matriarchal crown of the Earth, and btw that apparently is not fascist so I think it is legal in this scenario. Red meat consumption wuold go down so, less cow farts. And small cute cars would be a larger market. And virtue signalling about being a pure waifu who only eats lentils and rice, like i do, would be like the thing. Therefore the carbon footprint difference would be negligible or possibly even negative. We would be the medical and info and tech and entertainment capitol of the planet. And I still would place high enough to secure primary mate status with one of the rarified alpha males, harem mammy style. It's a wonderful imagining.

[JurisDictum]

what would the carbon footprint ramifications be for a supermajority female society? wouldn't expanding womb access surely increase the fertility rate, dooming are planet?

assume the following:
1. installable wombs
2. no fascism

Well I'm sure we could improve "the pill" at some point here. Were talking about literally being able to construct female anatomy. I'm sure by then we could have the pregnancy thing more dialed in.

If just ease up on number 2 there, we could require licensing for children. Which I think would help a lot.

[America]

If just ease up on number 2 there, we could require licensing for children. Which I think would help a lot.

thats a facism though.

I personally have no interest in hosting a child in my guts. Talk about entropy. It would be dope to fertilize an egg with my & my male's DNA and having a beautiful young girl host it tho :cool:

I don't think more wombs would actually mean more chirren. I think the culture would change a lot in a fem/transfem majority civilization and pivot away from breederism into a more hedonic and delightful existence with less shrieking and bad odors. butt maybe i'm wrong and it would be dogmom hell. This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, cuz I would place even higher in the strata of heterosexual females.

[Wonkie]

Well I'm sure we could improve "the pill" at some point here. Were talking about literally being able to construct female anatomy. I'm sure by then we could have the pregnancy thing more dialed in.

If just ease up on number 2 there, we could require licensing for children. Which I think would help a lot.

you've got that right. plug & play uterii require a level of scientifuc advancement far beyond wut yeet extant.

[clevergirl]

Bigjeff ur amazing past and present, but big props on no longer being a weeb.

[bigjeff100]

Bigjeff ur amazing past and present, but big props on no longer being a weeb.

Thank you Clevergirl!!!!!

[clevergirl]

you've got that right. plug & play uterii require a level of scientifuc advancement far beyond wut yeet extant.

We could always just go for designer vat grown babes. Sorta like Leelu aka 5th element.

That would even allow us to enforce copy protection and supply. Tbh that is the ideal we should strive for as a species.

[clevergirl]

thats a facism though.

I personally have no interest in hosting a child in my guts. Talk about entropy. It would be dope to fertilize an egg with my & my male's DNA and having a beautiful young girl host it tho :cool:

I don't think more wombs would actually mean more chirren. I think the culture would change a lot in a fem/transfem majority civilization and pivot away from breederism into a more hedonic and delightful existence with less shrieking and bad odors. butt maybe i'm wrong and it would be dogmom hell. This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, cuz I would place even higher in the strata of heterosexual females.


Dogmom hell without the spartan gauntlet enforcement of the strictist eugenics. And I am not talking about ever quest raids irl.

Our species needs an incredible predator.

[Cecily]

what would the carbon footprint ramifications be for a supermajority female society? wouldn't expanding womb access surely increase the fertility rate, dooming are planet?

assume the following:
1. installable wombs
2. no fascism

This is politics or trans thread material.

I think we’re about 10 years from same-sex pregnancy. That would make a post-male society possible because I think how that works out is all the children are female due to Xs involved. (Which may be for the best because the Y chromosome these days isn’t what it used to be.) I was so happy to read about that a week ago, I could legit be a mother; but I’d need a surrogate unless artificial wombs happen and I don’t trust anyone else to do that.

[America]

btw speaking of gainz, i am taking a couple weeks off from responsibility to get off all my nerve surgery era medication. just about through that gauntlet, y'all. Man it almost killed me.

[Wonkie]

This is politics or trans thread material.


everybody else was doing it :(

[Cen]

I started rock climbing. Any climbers?

[bigjeff100]

I used to climb 3 days a week at a climbing gym years ago. Was probably the most fun physical activity outside of my skateboarding. However, ripping my hard earned callus's from the gym always sucked.

Anyways, one day climbing i dislocated my shoulder and fell straight to my back on the bottom mat. Luckily i wasn't high, but the fall popped my shoulder back in.. Months later after it was healed, i tried to climb again.. The second i had to make a touch reach, it popped out instantly.

That was the end to my climbing.. That being said Cen- I know you just started, but is popping ur shoulder out normal for climbers? And how can i fix/stop it from happening? That shit hurts.

https://www.stonegardens.com/bellevue/default.aspx

[Cecily]

I'd assume most folks know what i look like by now.. bald, half japanese, 5'8, 150lbs, lean muscle :) Here is a sneak peak of teenager me....

https://i.imgur.com/DXk8SMn.jpg

Now im this guy....

https://i.imgur.com/tOyvEId.jpg

I love these pictures.

[America]

I started rock climbing. Any climbers?

I do sorta "free climb" - I've never been a gear and ropes and carabiners climber, but I definitely scale things that are pretty vertical and treacherous. Like taking the shorter route to a summit instead of trail. My bf thinks it is symptomatic of an impulse control mental illness lol.

Where is the dividing line between scrambles and climbs? Real question. Are you only a climber if you use gear and/or are hanging onto stuff by yer fingertips?

And what sorta climbing are you doing? Gym or what?

I used to do a lot of scrambling or climbing around Red Rock, NV. Involves pretty fun maneuvers like pressing across both sides of a tube shaped shaft to slowly descend. I rly like the thrill of heights :o

here's my really hot friend J the football star going through a crevasse we went through on acid. I used to initiate wrestling with him even tho I stood no chance - ha ha boy fun. It was real claustrophobic and I had this sense of impending doom like an earthquake was gonna squash me. this day involved some gnarly stuff like jumping huge pits from rock to rock. luv it.

https://i.imgur.com/vMFF6Rn.jpg

[Cen]

I do sorta "free climb" - I've never been a gear and ropes and carabiners climber, but I definitely scale things that are pretty vertical and treacherous. Like taking the shorter route to a summit instead of trail. My bf thinks it is symptomatic of an impulse control mental illness lol.

Where is the dividing line between scrambles and climbs? Real question. Are you only a climber if you use gear and/or are hanging onto stuff by yer fingertips?

And what sorta climbing are you doing? Gym or what?

I used to do a lot of scrambling or climbing around Red Rock, NV. Involves pretty fun maneuvers like pressing across both sides of a tube shaped shaft to slowly descend. I rly like the thrill of heights :o

here's my really hot friend J the football star going through a crevasse we went through on acid. I used to initiate wrestling with him even tho I stood no chance - ha ha boy fun. It was real claustrophobic and I had this sense of impending doom like an earthquake was gonna squash me. this day involved some gnarly stuff like jumping huge pits from rock to rock. luv it.

https://i.imgur.com/vMFF6Rn.jpg

I dont know if you have a knack for romantic writing or if you just lived a pretty crazy life, but its cool :p coming from a vanilla never taken a vacation or done a drug in his life guy.

Im just referring to artificial indoor bitch climbing to cross train my ability to hang pull and other stuff. Top roping.

[America]

I dont know if you have a knack for romantic writing or if you just lived a pretty crazy life, but its cool :p coming from a vanilla never taken a vacation or done a drug in his life guy.

Im just referring to artificial indoor bitch climbing to cross train my ability to hang pull and other stuff. Top roping.

Never taken a vacation!!! What's up with that? let's see you elaborate on it.

as for drugs, they are bad and I salute your virginity.

[America]

oh oh I forgot, when I was a little kid there was this place called Gameworks, a huge arcade with pretty unique multiplayer games and stuff, like there was a Formula 1 game where there was actually an attendant and he'd commentate the games and congrat the winner. It also had some really early "vr"; there was a street fighter or mortal kombat controller adaptation where a camera watched you and you'd throw a punch to throw a punch etc. I remember tix to get in there were only $15. This was back when Vegas was still trying to be a Family Destination.

Anyway there was a 50 or 60 foot climbing wall that went up through this 3-story building. There was some sort of reward if you climbed it; can't remember. I scaled that fucker at like 10 years old, definitely pre-everquest for me, with mom cheering me on & everybody was floored. one of my dearest memories. indoor climbing is rly fun .

[bigjeff100]

oh oh I forgot, when I was a little kid there was this place called Gameworks, a huge arcade with pretty unique multiplayer games and stuff, like there was a Formula 1 game where there was actually an attendant and he'd commentate the games and congrat the winner. It also had some really early "vr"; there was a street fighter or mortal kombat controller adaptation where a camera watched you and you'd throw a punch to throw a punch etc. I remember tix to get in there were only $15. This was back when Vegas was still trying to be a Family Destination.

Anyway there was a 50 or 60 foot climbing wall that went up through this 3-story building. There was some sort of reward if you climbed it; can't remember. I scaled that fucker at like 10 years old, definitely pre-everquest for me, with mom cheering me on & everybody was floored. one of my dearest memories. indoor climbing is rly fun .

Hahaha, you know gameworks is still here in seattle! But man that place has seen better days.. Any time i go with a buddy, somebody gets stuck on a machine with a janky joystick or buttons that don't work..

Tryin to battle the homies in street fighter, and i can only do a light punch and move forward in direction.. Real fair!!!!!!

[Patriam1066]

We have a place in Houston that is unlimited games the last Friday night of every month and they have a bar right next door that they let you bring drinks in from. My wife and I go probably every other month and battle each other in street fighter. It’s hilarious watching the millennials not know what to do about Kaveh and Nazanin in their middle age out drinking and out dunking on them in street fighter. God I love this town

[Wonkie]

We have a place in Houston that is unlimited games the last Friday night of every month and they have a bar right next door that they let you bring drinks in from. My wife and I go probably every other month and battle each other in street fighter. It’s hilarious watching the millennials not know what to do about Kaveh and Nazanin in their middle age out drinking and out dunking on them in street fighter. God I love this town

they're worried you're trying to recruit them for swinging

hope this helps

[America]

have you ever swung, patriam?

[Wonkie]

have you ever swung, patriam?

[Patriam1066]

Nope. Don’t think my wife could handle that, the emotional betrayal. Also, I would murder any man who touched her with my bare hands. I’d use my fingernails to flay him alive. I’d probably kill his entire line actually, before entering Valhalla

Honestly, I’m wearing my Apple Watch right now and my heart rate is normally 55ish resting. Even thinking about my wife with a hypothetical man it’s gone up 88 beats per minute.

(not that she’d ever cheat, I don’t deserve her)

[Patriam1066]

they're worried you're trying to recruit them for swinging

hope this helps

I lol’ed

But no it’s just people who aren’t on opioids or obese from my generation are cooler than yours. Your generation is a bunch of nihilistic pussies who let fear and insecurity keep them indoors. You can’t be disappointed or rejected in mom’s basement (a surrogate womb). You’d think they’d be better at street fighter though

[FatherSioux]

Patriam = Gad Saad?

Or is Gad from Lebanon? I forget where Patriam hails from.

[Jimjam]

I went climbing recently.

My clothing did not sufficiently consider the range of motion and change in shapes climbing encourages. I bent and extended my legs to make a traverse on the ascent, accompanied by a sudden rip.

https://i.imgur.com/dKo7DDNb.jpg

It was fun hiking back through the park to the car with my arse hanging out. It wasn't easy getting the crotch shot either!

I tore my jeans up.
Too much booty to contain.
Cold bum got me down.

[bigjeff100]

I went climbing recently.

My clothing did not sufficiently consider the range of motion and change in shapes climbing encourages. I bent and extended my legs to make a traverse on the ascent, accompanied by a sudden rip.

https://i.imgur.com/dKo7DDNb.jpg

It was fun hiking back through the park to the car with my arse hanging out. It wasn't easy getting the crotch shot either!

I tore my jeans up.
Too much booty to contain.
Cold bum got me down.


Hahahaha! Yes!!! Good post man!

[Jimjam]

Thanks!

Speaking of arcades, I went to a nice 'Barcade' in Bristol. Street Fighter II, metal slug and a bunch of other classics. Also ping pong and table football.

Was a good weekend. We also did an escape room, laser quest (first time in years, great fun with a good mix of kids, adults and a broken smoke machine) and a counter strike LAN party.

Not sure how the tangent of SFII relates to gains... Staying in touch with old friends and revisiting old common interests is probably a worthwhile social gains?

[Mead]

Does she party?

I would be willing to take your pig out for a fun night in Miami beach and plow her regardless of how ugly she is just to make you mad since you are such a little bitch.

Dirty arab lol

you live on the beach?

[Patriam1066]

Does she party?

I would be willing to take your pig out for a fun night in Miami beach and plow her regardless of how ugly she is just to make you mad since you are such a little bitch.

Dirty arab lol

She’s neither fat nor ugly. I’m not an Arab

Move to resolved. I had a salad today. Thanks for harvesting lettuce Juan

[Jimjam]

22% body fat, 24 BMI

[Patriam1066]

Chest day

Get it jimjam

[Jimjam]

Got remeasured for a suit fitting. Neck and shoulder gains meant I had to go up a neck size and switch to longer sleeves!

On Friday a neighbour asked if I had lost weight, I replied I was a few kilo heavier and he told me I was looking better form (with a tighter tum)!

Lots of room to make more substantial gains. I might start pushing for it come May (I don't want to have to remeasure for this suit hire a third time, gotta get the wedding out the way first)!

[Patriam1066]

Neck gains. Impressive!

[Thorondor]

Neck gains. Impressive!

Deadlifting and shrugs. Youll need to improve your grip strength though.

[Jimjam]

Neck gains. Impressive!

Yea, not sure how it happened. I think its the racking cider boxes onto shelves and stacking barrels in the lock up.

[Thorondor]

Yea, not sure how it happened. I think its the racking cider boxes onto shelves and stacking barrels in the lock up.

Shrugs
Deadlifts
Lateral Raises (when overexerted)
Fireman Carries
The top arc of wide grip pullups
overexertion of reverse curls (especially if you have a spotter for eccentric reverse curls)
bent-over dumbell rows
Reverse Flys (Rear Deltoid)

Will all increase neck size

[Patriam1066]

Deadlifting and shrugs. Youll need to improve your grip strength though.

Grip is fine. I’ve never had neck gains though I’ll admit. I do shrugs but don’t deadlift or squat much. Too afraid at my age

[Thorondor]

Grip is fine. I’ve never had neck gains though I’ll admit. I do shrugs but don’t deadlift or squat much. Too afraid at my age

Its all about proper form. I was pretty apprehensive about it when I started. Start on a smith machine if it helps to allay your fears.

For D/L Setup, you should be able to see the very front loop of your laces peaking out from under the bar, bend over until your fingertips are parallel with the top of your kneecap, then squat directly down from there. Lean back a little and push directly down on the ground keeping your back square (use a back brace to assist you in keeping everything tight and aligned back there.)

Most of the lifting is with your hamstrings with the secondary force primarily being your grip strength. You can start as low at 75, but most say 135 (1 plate and the olympic bar) is entry level for men. You dont really straighten your back up until your 2/3rds of the way up on your hamstring's force alone.



For squats, again you can start with a smith machine, which gives you a bit of an mechanical advantage because on a smith the bar path is slightly angled back, which allows you to position your feet in front of you slightly, and push back against the ramp (so the chances that the weight would bend you forward into a position where you can hurt your back are substantially lower).

Once you can do 200 on each, you can easily drop 20% of the weight and transition to freeweight on an olympic barbell and you'll have developed enough lower back strength to significantly reduce your risks. The key is to add weight gradually to avoid backstrain or developing exertion headaches. You'll also want to be well hydrated before performing compound lifts like these, or, again, your chances of overexertion and developing exertion headache related injuries is increased.

[maskedmelon]

what would the carbon footprint ramifications be for a supermajority female society? wouldn't expanding womb access surely increase the fertility rate, dooming are planet?

assume the following:
1. installable wombs
2. no fascism

what's the point of installable wombs in the context of a female super-majority? not much utility in dual-wombing given one womb can facilitate multiple conceptions. is it just the mechanism to effect such a state?

i'd expect an appreciable increase in IQ and/or for women to become more masculine depending on the environment. in the current context, I'd expect more of the former given that other masculine traits are largely unnecessary and women express aggression more often in mental and emotional arenas than physical ones where they are disadvantaged.

i would expect that those changes would result in a reduced carbon footprint, though smart people are still capable of great stupidity, so I dunno. I also agree with J on less consumption of animal products, if for no other reason than there would be fewer people willing to work in related industries thereby resulting in lower supply.

[maskedmelon]

https://i.imgur.com/3Ko7CFn.jpg

This was my purchase this morning after eating Jack N the Box.

Don't worry about the protein, bros. I have a lot of whey powders and frozen chicken meat and turkey paste and fish back at home

(plz notice the 5 types of cream - butter - ice cream - heavy cream - milk cream - sour cream)

just noticed the Kerrygold in that pic.

[clevergirl]

Gross

[maskedmelon]

Gross

why so sour, Mae?

[FatherSioux]

shoes2 will be banned soon, it's best to just ignore. They go around trying to incite anger/divisiveness. Could be a Russian Bot.

Anyways, took a break from running for the weekend, was sick (first time in a long time). But prior to that I was getting my 3 mile runs in the 8:10-20 range. I run with the Vibram style shoes, not actually Vibram because they are over priced. Anyone else run in these barefoot style shoes?

[clevergirl]

why so sour, Mae?

Just a lot of sugar in that picture. Otherwise its all great choices. Especially the Kerry gold which aside from my local amish butter is the best butter I've had.

Im moving in a more "granola-y" direction myself. Buckwheat, barley, oats, brown rice etc..

[clevergirl]

shoes2 will be banned soon, it's best to just ignore. They go around trying to incite anger/divisiveness. Could be a Russian Bot.

Anyways, took a break from running for the weekend, was sick (first time in a long time). But prior to that I was getting my 3 mile runs in the 8:10-20 range. I run with the Vibram style shoes, not actually Vibram because they are over priced. Anyone else run in these barefoot style shoes?

No but I do like to run barefoot, nice times Sioux. Tbh I fell off the running horse, I need to get back on it.

[maskedmelon]

Just a lot of sugar in that picture. Otherwise its all great choices. Especially the Kerry gold which aside from my local amish butter is the best butter I've had.

Im moving in a more "granola-y" direction myself. Buckwheat, barley, oats, brown rice etc..

oo, yeah, I just saw the kerrygold. the other stuff not so fantastic. I used to be super granola-y just didn't work well for my health. my body doesn't like grains :*c Was tasty though! ^^

[FatherSioux]

No but I do like to run barefoot, nice times Sioux. Tbh I fell off the running horse, I need to get back on it.

Thanks! Yeah I seem to have some genetic gifts for running. Running is one of those things that you really need to stay on, but once you are on it's great. But it is easy to fall off, I suppose lifting, exercise are all the same.

[clevergirl]

Thanks! Yeah I seem to have some genetic gifts for running. Running is one of those things that you really need to stay on, but once you are on it's great. But it is easy to fall off, I suppose lifting, exercise are all the same.

Agreed, and I feel like some people are truly gifted with the ability to run. I didn't have all that hard a time getting back on, only been 2 weeks, so maybe today I will just go do it. Take it easy, than try and get back out in a few more days.

To be honest the running part was never really hard to me. It was the structural discipline part. Once I am moving I just zone out happily. Feel great afterwards. Wish there where a bit more interesting areas to go running at here. Where I wasn't exactly afraid of being eaten alive by wild animals.

[Wonkie]

https://i.imgur.com/kG84ASS.jpg

[clevergirl]

https://i.imgur.com/kG84ASS.jpg

My afternoon snack after fully dusting my quarters was low fat cottage cheese and a 1/3rd of a cucumber.

https://i.imgur.com/27svQAc.jpg

[America]

started wellbutrin a couple days ago

1600kcal yesterday

it works

[America]

1400kcal yesterday and i got from lvl 22 to 30 in EverQuest.e

[America]

so i had bout 1200kcal yesterday. i am doing pretty good on that. been about 50% soberer for a week (reduced / removed 6 diff drugs lol) and i still feel pretty ruff, but it's definitely improving. pray for me.

[Cecily]

186 new high score. I ate like crap yestersday, but I think I can hit "healthy" BMI 24.9 @ 184 this week.

[bigjeff100]

Any Arm Wrestling fans? Got myself into arm wrestling over the last 6 months or so.. Super excited for the matches coming up!!! The more i learn and watch the more fascinated i am.. The technique, the raw power, the training.. All of it i find interesting.. Anyways, here's to the man- Devon Larratt, hoping he gets that W!!!

http://www.walunderground.com/home

[bigjeff100]

Also Larry just had his first log competition.. Did well, wish he woulda gotten that 214 up for 1 rep though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c11JtUMjGvg

[FatherSioux]

Ripped off some more runs, last two 3 mile runs are under 8 minute pace so I'm happy there. Going to try and tear off a longer run this week, looking to target 5+ miles under 40 minutes.

[Mead]

Probiotics are always essential for gut health and digestion. I prefer taking a pill every day. I drink a lot of kefir and kevita. The main thing is doing it consistently / daily since they don’t stay very long in our gut.

[Mead]

Generally speaking most people eating "super foods" are pretty health conscious with a decent diet. But you can still max out on probiotics, vitamins, and minerals and still be a fat and unhealthy. So just incorporating fermented foods and shots of wheat grass aren't going to do much for you if you're still eating mass amounts of carbs and no exercise.

[Cecily]

185.8 today. Little less than a pound before I'm healthy BMI again. It's been years... I'm feeling so skinny.

[America]

lost like 8lbs in glycogen reserves since mid-march! highly malleable situation but I am near goal weight already, after 10 days of good behavior. Lol.

[Cecily]

I'm forgetting to eat and having trouble with lifting things / holding my arm over my head that I don't notice and forget to attribute to lack of Kcals, but that's fine. I'm getting way more in touch with how my body responds to food for energy. I think food was always more or less a drug for me. Not starving by any means, but calories are way down.

[JurisDictum]

Probiotics are always essential for gut health and digestion. I prefer taking a pill every day. I drink a lot of kefir and kevita. The main thing is doing it consistently / daily since they don’t stay very long in our gut.

I also overpay for sparkling black tea. It helps me when I'm craving something but I don't know what I could possibly do without resorting to drugs or shit food.


Today I did some deadlifts with this rowing routine

1000m

10 push ups

750m

20 push ups

500m

30 push ups

250m

40 push ups

normally you do 20/30/40/50 push ups but they are still a little hard for me. I blame having long arms.

Anyway its a pretty good one. Especially after heavy Deadlifts because the rowing is a similar motion.

[Cecily]

Probiotics are always essential for gut health and digestion. I prefer taking a pill every day. I drink a lot of kefir and kevita. The main thing is doing it consistently / daily since they don’t stay very long in our gut.

Do you have a preference on brand or organisms for pills?

[Mead]

Do you have a preference on brand or organisms for pills?

I usually just get whatever is on sale with the most bacteria. They can get pretty pricey.

[clevergirl]

I am with mead on keeping the fresh biota inflowing.

I try to eat something probiotic every day. Not always a pill. But stuff they live on / are living on and digest.

Would do pills with money and more knowledge.

Wheat grass is a nice chaser or addition to a green smoothie.

Artichokes are a super food. Also the critters love all that extra fiber :p

[Jimjam]

Does ale count under the something fermented category?

Live yeast, right!?

[JurisDictum]

I think probiotics are a good thing. They say people on a high processed western diet have a lack of diversity with their stomach bacteria and its associated with all kinds of problems. There was some study where natives from Latin America lost most their stomach bacteria diversity over the course of a few decades and they all got obese after moving to America.

That being said it can make the whole digestive processes a bit more gassy and smelly (especially at first) in my experience. But I think a lot of that improves once your body adjusts.

Same thing with beans I noticed. Beans are great though once you adjust.

[JurisDictum]

Does ale count under the something fermented category?

Live yeast, right!?

Believe it or not -- yes. Microbrews are considered a little better I think than the bland yellow mass produced stuff. But It'll still make you fat and obviously unhealthy with excess.

[clevergirl]

I think probiotics are a good thing. They say people on a high processed western diet have a lack of diversity with their stomach bacteria and its associated with all kinds of problems. There was some study where natives from Latin America lost most their stomach bacteria diversity over the course of a few decades and they all got obese after moving to America.

That being said it can make the whole digestive processes a bit more gassy and smelly (especially at first) in my experience. But I think a lot of that improves once your body adjusts.

Same thing with beans I noticed. Beans are great though once you adjust.
Ya. Trying to get people to change their diet and they think they are allergic or whatever...

[Cecily]

Vicarious gains: My childhood friend Chris just got promoted to Senior Chief in the Navy! Enlisted rank 8/9.

“Advancement to senior chief petty officer is similar to that of chief petty officer. It carries requirements of time in service, superior evaluation scores, and peer review. In the Navy, it is the first promotion that is based entirely on proven leadership performance; test scores do not play a part. A chief petty officer can only advance to senior chief if a board of master chiefs approves, convened every year around March. Senior chief petty officers make up just 2.5% of the total enlisted force of the Navy and overall fall within the top 4% of the enlisted ranks.”

Him getting chief last year:
https://i.imgur.com/NJiX3dF.jpg

[clevergirl]

GOOOD FOR HIM and his hot knockout babe with the TRANknees.

[Patriam1066]

I think probiotics are a good thing. They say people on a high processed western diet have a lack of diversity with their stomach bacteria and its associated with all kinds of problems. There was some study where natives from Latin America lost most their stomach bacteria diversity over the course of a few decades and they all got obese after moving to America.

That being said it can make the whole digestive processes a bit more gassy and smelly (especially at first) in my experience. But I think a lot of that improves once your body adjusts.

Same thing with beans I noticed. Beans are great though once you adjust.

They are obese in Mexico too. I’ve been there. They eat tortillas and drink horchatas and cokes 24/7. Drones and A-10s at the border

BACK DAY

[clevergirl]

Horchatas are so damn gud.

[bigjeff100]

Horchatas are so damn gud.


Agreed. Horchata is damn good!

[Jimjam]

I like churros!

Are they just a Spanish thing or is it Mexican too?

I read a really interesting (and humorous) perspective on BMI.

Instead of saying "by BMI I am overweight", instead say "by BMI I am underheight"!

Yesterday I accidentally discovered bierkellers in the UK sell beer in 2 pint steins. Seeing as I was meant to be driving, I had to stay out extra late just to sober up. Which in turn meant drinking too many sugary colas. Dang.

[DMN]

Get a deep fat fryer. Dump a few torn up pieces of bread in it. Fry them until brown. take them out and dump sugar on them. Viola, churros. Also known as a fucking donut.

[Patriam1066]

I admit, horchatas are good. But Hispanics are diabetic obese and have too many kids, so it’s time to go in a different direction

[Cecily]

So I’ve learned that when I’m actively losing weight my face goes bloodless vampire mode or something. Like all the fat goes away and I look real drawn and bony. It comes back super fast when I increase calorie intake with a higher fat proportion.

Any of you young registered dietitians know what’s going on? How do I lose weight without looking like a drug addict?

[clevergirl]

Keep losing weight u eventually will equalibriumize

[Cecily]

It’s mostly lose 5 gain 4, but it’s dropping.

[DinoTriz2]

Ever get the feeling that everyone was lying to you when they said you were attractive, but in reality you're really ugly?

What do they call that? Insecurity?

Wow, my self esteem is fucked.

[clevergirl]

Ever get the feeling that everyone was lying to you when they said you were attractive, but in reality you're really ugly?

What do they call that? Insecurity?

Wow, my self esteem is fucked.

Seriously?

Yes. It is insecurity. Join the club. It's probably because we don't have super strong attachments towards other attractive people that like us.

[clevergirl]

Also that isn't a churro really.

[clevergirl]

https://www.trifectanutrition.com/blog/how-much-weight-can-you-gain-in-a-day

Interesting article discussing metabolism

[America]

https://i.imgur.com/EGAjGgI.png

[clevergirl]

I read about a hot Aryan woman whom I look like.

Apparently we have a similar opinion on diet.

Also yes. That was me today. I ate a ton of cookies and cakes. Getting back on the horse tomorrow.

[Cecily]

I know it’s mostly water weight, but it’s discouraging to go from 184 to 190 in 3 days.

[JurisDictum]

I know it’s mostly water weight, but it’s discouraging to go from 184 to 190 in 3 days.

Yea, I'm sure you're aware that weight fluctuates a few pounds day to day even hour by hour normally. Also muscle weight. Stress can make it harder to lose weight btw. So you might be making youself fat thinking about it too much!

[DinoTriz2]

I gained a boner watching a video about Belarussian women

[clevergirl]

You don't look like any women actually

Don't worry keep taking womens vitamins youll be there soon

https://i.imgur.com/7xT09fY.gif

[Cecily]

Yea, I'm sure you're aware that weight fluctuates a few pounds day to day even hour by hour normally. Also muscle weight. Stress can make it harder to lose weight btw. So you might be making youself fat thinking about it too much!


I decided to eat a whole deep dish pizza because I was upset that my face was all gaunt and bony looking.
Face (and boobs) looked 100% better in the morning. I might have to stick at 190.

[JurisDictum]

I decided to eat a whole deep dish pizza because I was upset that my face was all gaunt and bony looking.
Face (and boobs) looked 100% better in the morning. I might have to stick at 190.


What kind of pizza, from where?

[Cecily]

Little Caesar's deep!deep! dish pepperoni because I'm classy like that. I think they're dead to me as my go to depression food though, because they raised their price on everything by a dollar or so. Came to like $9.53 or something like that. Think I'm made of money Caesar? I'll get my pizza, pizza elsewhere from now on.

[Wonkie]

attention pizza hipsters i will beat you up so dont even start

[Cecily]

https://i.imgur.com/AkiCygO.png

[Cecily]

2770 calories, so thats far less than a pound, but the 5g of salt probably has a little more to do with it. Also, I read that for every 1g of carbs you store as fat, you keep 3g of water. So ~300g carbs = 900g H20 = +2 lbs on top of the extra H20 retention from a multiday dose of NaCl. I drank like 40oz of water when I woke up that morning. +Weight of an entire pizza moving through GI tract probably accounts for all 6 lbs.


~1 lb from calories
~2 lbs from carbs
~1.5 lbs weight of food (estimated)
~1.5 lbs water retention from hypertension diet (estimated)


Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go purchase some Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia. Should I go for the lactose free one, for reasons, or just do the regular milk?

[Cecily]

alright so non-dairy frozen dessert product is absolutely not ice cream, it was ok but I feel cheated and paid extra for the privilege.

[America]

2770 calories, so thats far less than a pound, but the 5g of salt probably has a little more to do with it. Also, I read that for every 1g of carbs you store as fat, you keep 3g of water. So ~300g carbs = 900g H20 = +2 lbs on top of the extra H20 retention from a multiday dose of NaCl. I drank like 40oz of water when I woke up that morning. +Weight of an entire pizza moving through GI tract probably accounts for all 6 lbs.


~1 lb from calories
~2 lbs from carbs
~1.5 lbs weight of food (estimated)
~1.5 lbs water retention from hypertension diet (estimated)


Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go purchase some Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia. Should I go for the lactose free one, for reasons, or just do the regular milk?

alright so non-dairy frozen dessert product is absolutely not ice cream, it was ok but I feel cheated and paid extra for the privilege.

stopit you psycho

[America]

pizza in the oven JD throwing only minimal shade

he eats really good, its hot. but I need more calories. get doxed

[Cecily]

Pouring melted ice cream over everything was one of Chris Pratt’s tips on how to get really fat. Don’t worry, I’m going back to unhealthy eating habits tomorrow.

[DinoTriz2]

attention pizza hipsters i will beat you up so dont even start

Little CEASERSDDASS#SSSSSS?!?!

[Vheran]

i ate wings from my hilton double tree lounge saturday night and i lost a couple pounds in body water as a result.

[Cecily]

holy shit look at the numbers on the chart, even for a full pizza most people aren't going to eat 1/8 of a pizza ( probably one small slice )

I imagine those are "Large" Sized pizzas which basically feed 2 people

It’s like 3x3” square slices cut into 8. I think 2 is a reasonable meal. 3+ makes me judge myself, so usually eat half the pizza and vow to never go there again. Then I eat the rest in the morning.

[Patriam1066]

CHEST DAY

MMMMM

[DinoTriz2]

What's the difference between a large pizza and a...damn, I forgot the rest.

The large pizza can feed a family of four.

[Patriam1066]

What's the difference between a large pizza and a...damn, I forgot the rest.

The large pizza can feed a family of four.

Not on LEG DAY

[America]

HIKE DAY

[Vheran]

Haven't played this game solidly for months but still stalk this thread. Proud of all of you for the gains you're all making.

Edit: deploying in a few weeks so the gains will be real real real.

[Patriam1066]

Did deadlifts today. The form was good. Felt good.

[America]

Did deadlifts today. The form was good. Felt good.

did hike yesterday. Was not near as weak as ya might think after a 6 month heavy drug use and frozen pizza binge. I think I can describe myself as "sober" officially today.

[bigjeff100]

did hike yesterday. Was not near as weak as ya might think after a 6 month heavy drug use and frozen pizza binge. I think I can describe myself as "sober" officially today.

Friggin congrats BigJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woooooooooooooo!

[Cecily]

did hike yesterday. Was not near as weak as ya might think after a 6 month heavy drug use and frozen pizza binge. I think I can describe myself as "sober" officially today.

Congrats!

[maskedmelon]

I'll echo the congrats here too. Happy for ya :)

[Patriam1066]

Yeah frozen pizza and opioids. Add nascar and you had the trifecta

Glad you “saw the light”

[JurisDictum]

So I spent all weekend hiking with some hot redhead. It really good at first -- then I started to notice a stabbing pain in my heals -- but wtf you going to do? "Oh sorry we got to cancel everything because I'm a pussy" -- wasn't going to do that. So I just dealt with it.

Unfortunately, now my heals look like this:

10824

So I still got to work out -- but running is kind of out of the question. Figure ill just do some lifting stuff. I just probably be able to just bandage them up and be good for more.

But take my advice, read up on blister prevention before big hikes.

[clevergirl]

Your first problem is that your feet are just stubs there's like no foot or toe there. Also they are backwards.

Also, you will heal and then u won't get blisters again. Hopefully.

I had like mad blisters when I did my first FTX but I eventually stopped getting them and my feet aren't totally destroyed either.

[America]

whoa you must be pretty tough to do that like without complaint!! or did she hear and blow it off?

anyway here's a recommender (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfHvThw2oE4) to help prevent what might have happened.

here's (https://blog.outdoorherbivore.com/camp-tips/saving-your-toes-hiking-downhill/) the other big tip I had sorta divined. basically you want to make the thing real tight at the ankle while you're headed downhill so you aren't catching your weight by smashing your toes into the toebox. i have a prob with this one. Sounds like you're probably getting heel slippage on the way up, too, so probably worth deploying early. For some reason I don't find it blister-making to slip and slide inside my shoes on the way up (and if I lace tight on uphill, my feets will go numb). I'm guessing all anyone can give you is guidelines since every feet to shoe interface is unique.

anyway yes lacing makes a huge difference and there's a different optimum for every shoez. You should take it slow and relace as soon as you start feeling a hot spot next time, so you can gather the data points to improve. It ain't a contest of speed butt endurance :cool:

[DMN]

I took a shit today.

[clevergirl]

The poster above u doesn't appreciate that info. Cuz it's uneccissarily verbose. It's not godly to poop. U should be a cyborg that doesn't poop. U should just print little pellets with designs that get melted down into fresh batteries in a nukereactor. That is godly.

Also fucking backteria live in nuclear pools with fuel rods amiright? do they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans

Fucking radioactive orgapooneryisms. Living in fucking nukewaste. That is the universe right. Like for the next way beyond the life expectancy of the entire human race.

[maskedmelon]

today was SHOULDERS. shredded 'em good. can't even lift my fork. tearing chunks of Jarlsberg straight off the wheel on my counter with my teeth. feelin good pals. hAppy fRiday!

[Thorondor]

Blew my AC joint on the bench two weeks ago. Hoping to get back on the horse after Easter Weekend.

[maskedmelon]

Blew my AC joint on the bench two weeks ago. Hoping to get back on the horse after Easter Weekend.

how'd you manage that? too much internal rotation? gotta keep them shoulders back, lead with your CHAST.

[Thorondor]

Positioned the bar to come down just below the sternum the first chest day after transitioning from Hypertrophy month to Strength training month. Protracted shoulders correctly etc, 220lb loaded up, was a stupid attempt to target the lower chest, should've just done that with the Decline bench after.

Felt the strain on the first rep. Put the bar back up. Stretched for a minute thinking maybe it was just a strange twisting/kink of the muscle group. Stubbornly went back at it, pressed it 3 times, profaned and left the gym pissed off.

Next day it hurt to turn my steering wheel. Bad juju

[clevergirl]

I hope u heal up soon. That sux.

[bigjeff100]

today was SHOULDERS. shredded 'em good. can't even lift my fork. tearing chunks of Jarlsberg straight off the wheel on my counter with my teeth. feelin good pals. hAppy fRiday!

My shoulder day today too!!!! Twinsieeeees!

[maskedmelon]

Positioned the bar to come down just below the sternum the first chest day after transitioning from Hypertrophy month to Strength training month. Protracted shoulders correctly etc, 220lb loaded up, was a stupid attempt to target the lower chest, should've just done that with the Decline bench after.

Felt the strain on the first rep. Put the bar back up. Stretched for a minute thinking maybe it was just a strange twisting/kink of the muscle group. Stubbornly went back at it, pressed it 3 times, profaned and left the gym pissed off.

Next day it hurt to turn my steering wheel. Bad juju

ohh, I see. damn that sucks dude. hope it heals up rq liek and you'll be back in the horse Monday as planned. I've incurred a handful of injuries in the pursuit of fitness and the time off is what was most frustrating for me.

My shoulder day today too!!!! Twinsieeeees!

hell yeah.

*daps shoulders*

[Thorondor]

Decided to give it a go today. Had to keep the right shoulder really tight, half-weight. Mild discomfort on the 4th set @16 reps. At least got a good burn in on the last two sets. Tricep pushdowns, and hammer curls. Kept it short n sweet.

[Cecily]

I've decided everyday is gonna be shoulder day. Shoulders back posture does magic things to my frame and I need to remember to do it.

[Thorondor]

I've decided everyday is gonna be shoulder day. Shoulders back posture does magic things to my frame and I need to remember to do it.

Monday ill start it out with pullups in alternating all 3 hand-positions, pulldowns, rear delts, and preacher curls.

[maskedmelon]

I've decided everyday is gonna be shoulder day. Shoulders back posture does magic things to my frame and I need to remember to do it.

oo! get a band and external rotation pull aparts off and on throughout the day. it works fricken wonders for posture.

[Cecily]

What exercises are good for posture? I'm doing shoulder rolls now to get shoudlers in position.

oo! get a band and external rotation pull aparts off and on throughout the day. it works fricken wonders for posture.

Cool, thanks! It's really hard for me to maintain atm.

[maskedmelon]

Decided to give it a go today. Had to keep the right shoulder really tight, half-weight. Mild discomfort on the 4th set @16 reps. At least got a good burn in on the last two sets. Tricep pushdowns, and hammer curls. Kept it short n sweet.

good deal, glad it's functional