Pro tip: the kitchen floor is a poor place to store cereal. That handy ice cream tub would work better.
I honestly think you’ll like having a few meals just frozen and ready to go man. Looks like you have plenty of days where the last thing you want to do is cook, and now you have an option on standby.
Also: don’t listen to that cockwomble in the PUA thread. Anyone who tries to tell you “what women want” with a graph has yet to meet any.
What the fuck is this shit??
I have to see this
Some dude in the friend zone thread.
Summary: some dude can’t get any girl friends because they all allegedly want to fuck him, so instead of examining his actions and behaviours, some dudes come up with some incel bullshit theory with graphs and stuff trying to reduce 50% of the worlds population down to some magic formula you can crack if you think hard enough.
It has turned into a more serious conversation of his conditions now, FYI.
I don’t, but I’m interested by these theories. I mean, the guy spouted that women look at your facial features and instantly decide, based on genetic anthropomorphic factors, either if you’re long term material, one night stand, short term etc ahahahah what is this bullshit 
The big red flag for me is when anyone says “women behave like this”. Because whatever they’re saying is not true. Human beings are more varied and complicated than that.
25/01
A1. Seated press tempo contrast (6040) 3 x 8 with 40 kgs
A2. Lats pull-down isometric contrast (12-10-8…) 3 x 7 with 50 kgs
B1. Straight-arms pull-downs tempo contrast 3 x 8 with 35 kgs
B2. Lateral raises isometric contrast 3 x 7 with 7 kgs
C. Rear delt raises 3 x ? with 3130 tempo
40 mins of bodybuilding posing
D. Running
E. 30 min HIIT 45/15 with various exercises such as KB swings, push-ups, burpees, 200 m sprint…
So insomnia this night, woke up at 2 AM and couldn’t fall asleep. Probably stressed a bit by the paper I had to submit yesterday, and my crush.
Legs still destroyed from friday, horrible DOMS on quads, glutes and my right calf is still a terrible mess. Also hurt myself at work yesterday when I crushed a box with my leg and hit the floor… Could have really hurt myself. Legs still cracking and popping and after today’s session, still limping…
Little pump session this morning, nothing crazy. Then 40 mins of bodybuilding lol it was super hard! Also I was looking like ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. Stress + shitty food, I really need to diet NOW. Only good pose for me was side tris, I was loonking real nice, veins on delts and tris, and abs looking really defined and slim. Abs and Thighs not so bad. The rest, horrible. My abs were so horrible rofl. It’s so hard to pose!
Then the cardio stuff… My CNS was fried… I was able to do the 200m in 30 secs but the other exercices, I had no juice… Really hard. Afterwards the coach told me to eat some fast sugar and that I had a “sale gueule” (ugly face). We were so sleepy this afternoon. Gonna go to bed at 8 PM max
I deleted the whole vids so here’s snippets
Here’s the only thing I could get from the posing
Ah the old graphs.
I remember when I used to whip them out in my single days. The words hands and putty spring to mind.
So many fucking weirdos in this place. Seen many a good poster chased off here by these reprobates
This might be partially true, but the target is off. My wife and I are pretty open about being attracted to actors and actresses because we’re secure enough to do that. We’re watching The Last Kingdom again (her second time, my third) and she is a big fan of Alexander Dreymon. She has also talked about another character on the show and she refers to the eyes. I think a woman who is serious about the future possibilities of a relationship look into your eyes and decide if they like what they see.
We’ve all met a variety of people and there is something different about people who are truly genuine and it shows in their eyes.
But then there is also the occasional sociopath who looks great but is a complete psycho.
Indeed! I think honesty and “genuiness” (if this word exists) are amongst the most important qualities you can search for in a person, friend or romantic.
26/01
A. Bench press 1/6 contrast with 100, 85, 105, 90, 110, 95 kgs (9 reps)
B. Incline bench press 8/6/4/2/max with 60, 70, 80, 90, 75 kgs
C. Machine flyes HDL sets 3 x 5" iso - 5 reps - 4" iso - 4 reps - 3" iso - 3 reps - 2" iso - 2 reps - 1" iso - 1 rep
D. Fat gripz barbell biceps curls 21’s 2 x 21 with 30 kgs
Then cardio, and lots of plyo at the stadium. Leaps, drop jumps in the tiers, hurdles etc…
Nice little session, feels good to feel the muscles actually! Introduced the mates to 1/6 and 21s, overall good sensation and nice session with lots of intensity!
The plyo was fun as well, and I think it helped me recover my legs also for some reason (and power/speed work always amps me up/makes me feel good). But I’m HORRIBLE at hurdle jumps. I’m gonna incorporate stuff like that as well as proprioception. My balance is terrible. Gonna do an athletic program this spring/summer. Plus I love power/speed work even though I’m slow as fuck ahah
Legs feeling better right now even if right calf is still a bit sore and right knee cracking ahah.
I’ve been experiencing quite a drop in self-confidence and paranoia these last few days. probably the intense exercice and lack of sleep of these last couple weeks that might have tanked my T, energy and mood?
I’m feeling horrible ahah. Either during the posing the other day or in general. Having developped a paranoia about my receding hairline, like I’m BALDING. maybe I’ve watched too much More plates more dates? But for instance in today’s vid I looked terrible:
Been scrolling through my phone to see pics and check my hairline lol. Feeling very self-conscious and depreciating.
But yesterday I was talking with a teacher and he was saying he was talking about me as an example to his girl and for sure it made me feel better. Something about how she should motivate herself and all, and that he had a student, that a body to play the part, but understands the classes, works super hard and also drives a long way home to work at a shity job!
Yeah this felt good. Sometimes in our society it’s all about competition, and you rarely know if what you do is good enough or not because the compliment is so rare! Also probably as I lacked a father-figure, this always hits me extra from my coaches or teachers. I want too much to please them
Are you taking any action to actively boost your self-confidence? If not, that could explain the drop. Like most qualities, the absence of practice results in a decline.
“Should the shoulders be elevating during adduction of the shoulder such as in the Pec deck machine?” is the only thing I see worth commenting on watching that video that could be construed as being negative but I mean it in a value-neutral way.
Active work on your self-esteem would be healthy.
Doesn’t sound like the healthiest thing to watch, just by the name.
This probably is a venue where stoicism really shines. If it will recede, it will. Inevitably. I understand emotional attachments to hair, and I’m not saying it’d be easy but having shaved my head plenty of times in the past it is amazing how quickly one can adapt to a dramatic change in appearance.
Hang in there man, and be kind to yourself. You’re not horrible in anyway. Maybe you perform horribly sometime. That will also mean you have leeway to improve rather rapidly.
I guess I have? But in the absence of results, well…
Probably not! I was just focusing on my chest, and it’s probable my lower traps/serratus were pretty tired from the bench (serratus was instantly sore after the session)
For sure, but I have plenty of physical flaws, and I thought I’d have hair at least since there are no balds in my family. it’s just, I don’t want to be Johnny Sins/Hitman. For real if I get too bald I jump on gear so that I can get a beard
He talks a lot about hair is all ahah
Perhaps, but then it means I have done things terribly wrong for too many years
Most likely, if you guess you have, you haven’t. It should be obvious if you have. If you haven’t sat down and dedicated time to thinking positively about yourself, you’re not going to see your self-confidence increase.
No joke, I factor into my daily schedule time looking into the mirror post workout and appreciating my pump. Along with that, I WON’T look at myself in the mirror under other circumstances. I cement the image in my brain of me looking at my absolute best. I also tend to speak positively to myself when given a moment to do so. These things are worthwhile activities. If you don’t think you’re awesome, neither will anyone else.
I don’t think perpetuating this narrative is healthy for you. I know a lot of people have had this, and achieved a great many things, but sadly they never got to enjoy the fruits of their labour because they brainwashed themselves to never being happy with anything that they’d did.
Alright guys, thank you. I’ll try this, I have work to do. Always easier to see the wrong than the right!
With practice, that will flip. I’ve learned to specifically look at the things I appreciate about myself and avoid the things I don’t.
Definitely all possible factors. What about diet - especially carbs and fats?
Not restrictive, not regarding at all ahahah
Just an extra take on this. This is a practice I’ve used myself and heard of many others use with success, sometimes in pretty extreme circumstances. What I, and others, have found helpful is to make those things you like about yourself behaviour based. The reason being that behaviours can never be taken away from you. You can always be hard working, you can always be brave, friendly, whatever.
Only the other hand you may not always have a full head of hair or even a full set of working limbs so basing any kind of self confidence on that is short sighted.