Does this really surprise you?
Thanks for the link but I’m trying to look like Rich Piana, not Richard Simmons.
No, i didn’t read it.
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Yup I’d agree here, it’s why I’ve not sought any diagnosis or help. What would you say was your most effective strategy for being productive and achieving in life?
I’d say we differ on our reasons for going down that road, but agree on this:
100%.
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My bad, I think I posted this in the wrong place, as I thought I was responding to someone looking to shed belly fat so their abs would show through. What I suggested is a solution for that specific need; it was not intended as a proposed training program.
I’m working on a response to this so i can gather my thoughts in full. I’ll get back to you on it once ive gotten some sleep… working on like 10 hours between the last 3 days lol
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Week 3 Check-In
| Day | Weight | Cals | Pro | Carbs | Fat | Train | Steps | Cardio | Sleep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goal | 2270 | 275 | 200 | 40 | - | 10,000 | >7.0 | ||
| Monday | - | 2209 | 272 | 179 | 45 | off | 2500 | 0 | 7.5 |
| Tuesday | 209.8 | 1786 | 206 | 164 | 34 | Push | 14338 | 15 | 8.5 |
| Weds | 210.5 | 1786 | 206 | 164 | 34 | Legs | 16201 | 35 | 4.5 |
| Thurs | 208.7 | 1786 | 206 | 164 | 34 | Pull | 8422 | 15 | 6 |
| Friday | 207.2 | 2309 | 273 | 203 | 45 | Off | 9200 | 0 | 4 |
| Sat | 208.3 | 2862 | 221 | 250 | 179 | Off | 5500 | 15 | 5.2 |
| Sun | 207.4 | 2028 | 223 | 203 | 36 | Push | 25 | 6.3 | |
| Avg | 208.65 | 2109 | 239 | 197 | 41 | 15 | 9360 | 15 | 6 |
Supplements
- P5P, 100mg
- Bromelain, 500mg
- Zinc, 30mg
- 2:1 EPA:DHA Fish Oil, 3g (1 at each major meal)
- Ephedrine, 25mg (Pre WO)
- Aspirin, 81mg (Pre WO)
- Caffeine, a lot
- TB500, 500mg
- L-Carnitine Injection, 600mg
I struggled to eat all my food a few days this week… food was just so boring I didn’t want it.
Sleep was aweful this week and I’m not sure why. I have to fix this.
Need more consistency with training on the weekends.
Change from Week 2:
209.1 > 208.6
6.9 > 6.5
I think my back looks a little leaner. Hard to tell when the new picture has me looking like a half cooked lobster
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Hey Andrew, what is your work schedule like?
Mon-thurs i work 10.5 hour shifts with an hour drive there and back.
Fri-sun i have off
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Would you say that set-up is better than working M-F?
You do something with computers, rights?
Ever thought about negotiating more work from home days?
Not pitying you in any way or fashion, just curious.
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Push
Sunday, Oct 06, 2024 at 7:11pm
Lateral Raise (Machine)
“Rest Pause
3010”
Set 1: 125 lbs x 24 [Failure]
Set 2: 125 lbs x 14 [Failure]
Set 3: 125 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Incline Chest Press (Machine)
“Top set, backdown rest pause
3010
+30s extreme stretch”
Set 1: 275 lbs x 12
Set 2: 185 lbs x 14 [Failure]
Set 3: 185 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Set 4: 185 lbs x 5 [Failure]
Butterfly (Pec Deck)
“Top set, backdown Rest pause
3010
+30s extreme stretch”
Set 1: 150 lbs x 19
Set 2: 115 lbs x 16 [Failure]
Set 3: 115 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 4: 115 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Triceps Rope Pushdown
Set 1: 80 lbs x 18
Set 2: 60 lbs x 15 [Failure]
Set 3: 60 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 4: 60 lbs x 5 [Failure]
Rear Delt Reverse Fly (Machine)
Set 1: 130 lbs x 17
Set 2: 100 lbs x 22
Triceps Dip (Weighted)
Set 1: 0 lbs x 21 [Failure]
Set 2: 0 lbs x 10 [Failure]
Set 3: 0 lbs x 5 [Failure]
+25mins LISS
Push muscles felt drained before i even went in… but sure why.
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In terms of work-life balance? Yeah. It would be even better with a shorter drive, but this is undoubtedly better.
Not into tech yet, still applying and searching for the right opportunity. WFH isn’t an option.
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Using ankle weights on a treadmill help me get down from 275 to 218 since January and remove the belly fat that covered my abs. If you are happy with yours, then more power to you, bud!
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Good for you.
If you’re done being defensive that I’m not interested in your unsolicited advice, you’re welcome to stick around. Otherwise, you can find your way out of my log.
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It might take him a lil while, he got ankle weights on.
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Pull
Monday, Oct 07, 2024 at 2:21pm
Lat Pulldown (Cable)
“Top set, backdown
3010”
Set 1: 170 lbs x 18
Set 2: 150 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Straight Arm Lat Pulldown (Cable)
“Top set, backdown
3010
+30s extreme stretch”
Set 1: 70 lbs x 14
Set 2: 60 lbs x 13
Seated Row (Machine)
“Underhand, top set, backdown
3010”
Set 1: 315 lbs x 22
Set 2: 275 lbs x 16 [Failure]
Shrug (Barbell)
“Scrape, top set, backdown
Fuckin yeet it”
Set 1: 315 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 2: 275 lbs x 15
Bicep Curl (Cable)
“V Bar, top set, 3x DS
3010”
Set 1: 80 lbs x 25
Set 2: 70 lbs x 18 [Failure]
Set 3: 50 lbs x 7 [Drop]
Set 4: 40 lbs x 5 [Drop]
EZ Bar Biceps Curl
“Reverse Grip, rest pause, fat gripz
3010”
Set 1: 55 lbs x 17 [Failure]
Set 2: 55 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 3: 55 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Was short on time, will have to make up cardio.
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So this is going to be a long one that’s going to delve into topics you probably weren’t expecting.
First and foremost: lifting. It’s the backbone of what got me started on self improvement and its what’s kept me sane in times of stagnation.
- Primarily, it was therapy for me.
- Later did it become a thing of passion, but I still don’t feel right when i go too long without lifting.
Then I’d say that I started to see the world for what it really is by getting strung out to dry by everyone closest to me. Friends, family, chain of command, even my wife. This happened when I was enlisted, so I was legally trapped in every sense of the meaning, until my contract was up… this was for the better part of 2 years.
- The first thing i learned, was that no one cares about my struggles and no one’s coming to help.
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- I started fixing my shit in very short order after my enlistment was up… seeing how much the stick hurts was a powerful motivator for me.
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- Something I later learned is this is known as “scarcity mentality”… something that must be dealt with. I can go into more detail here if you’d like.
- The next lesson i learned, much much later, is that i held a large amount of responsibility for all the shit that went wrong in my life. No matter how much i wanted to blame everyone else for screwing me over and leaving me out to dry, i had to learn to take maximum accountability for my role in my own former misery. This was necessary for personal growth as well as letting go of anger… something that ruled my life for too long (as indicated by my log title).
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- NOTE: Victimhood mindset is very easy to slip into, and it’s so damaging… Its absolutely critical that this is nipped in the bud and closely monitored. One cannot be accountable for their actions if they’re the victim of someone else’s.
Learning dopamine management is huge.
Take inventory of what you do when you’ve got time to kill, and see how much time you actually kill when doing these things… it’s likely more than you think it is.
I realized Instagram was eating up so much time that id started missing things I actually wanted to do. I’d start by thinking “I’ve got like 20 minutes to kill, lets see what’s going on with IG”.
20 minutes would go by, then I’d be thinking “I’ll wrap it up after one more good video”.
That good video would take 40 minutes to find, then I’d miss the thing I was killing time to do.
I deleted IG shortly after this realization. I didn’t have any other social media, but I would have included that with this.
Anything that gives you dopamine, you should monitor. If you get dopamine from something that isn’t good for you and your long-term goals, then you should consider reducing it or cutting it out entirely.
I’m a bit of an outlier for how normal people think. At least, I think I am, anyways. I’m a troubleshooter.
I see a problem, and I ask “why”, and feel compelled to keep asking “why” until I understand it. This eats up a LOT of fucking time, and it makes me overthink the shit out of everything - as you’ve probably noticed in my log.
While this trait is good, professionally speaking, and maybe even for the beginner-intermediate stages of bodybuilding, its absolutely detrimental to the advanced stages of bodybuilding. Something I’m dealing with now.
This leads me to my last major point of self-development.
Some of this response is going to irritate or trigger the quasi-feminists that comprise 95% of society, and that’s okay. Nothing here is intended to be offensive or insulting, and if anyone reading this feels that way, they are welcome to stop reading 
If anyone feels like this resonates with them and wants to discuss offline, andrewgenreceptors@proton.me
*I’m going to preface this by saying that my marriage is now great, and my wife acts mostly the way that I’d want any romantic partner to act… any disparaging comments are aimed at who she was, not who she is.
A few years ago, I saw a couple in their 60s arguing in the gym parking lot. Not like a normal argument, but like a full blown screaming Jerry Springer style shit-throwing argument… between 60 year olds…
These two miserable fucks went on for a few minutes, then got in the same car together and drove off like nothing happened.
In that moment, I realized that I’d rather be fucking dead than live my life like that at 60.
I didn’t know why it stuck with me at the time, but I understand now.
I sat on this revelation for a couple months, unsure what to do with it. All I knew is that something was wrong with my life.
One day I’m walking around the house, doing something. IDK what, its not important. My wife makes some intentionally shitty remark out of the blue. Like, I was truly just minding my own business and probably heading into the office to do school… and this miserable bitch just wanted to make me feel like shit for no reason.
In this moment, I realized that my future is going to be exactly the way these two 60 year old’s lives were if I did nothing, so I did something I never used to do, and I called her out on it.
Something to the effect of “what kind of wife treats her husband like that? If this is what you want for the rest of our lives together, I don’t want to spend it with you.”
Anyways, shit throwing argument ensued, just a regular Tuesday… but this time I just didn’t take her shit anymore. The light flicked on, and I knew what was wrong… or at least, I thought I did.
Maybe a month goes by, and my wife decides to pick another argument over nothing.
Normally, I’d respond all argumentative and be all mad and everything… This time was different.
This time, I kept my composure. She was flying off the handle and I was completely unaffected.
This made her even more angry, and she kept losing her shit until she realized her shit wasn’t working on me.
Then she started crying and I went to comfort her like a pussy, lol.
A few months later, I was watching a youtube video that I normally wouldn’t watch, but a particular line stuck with me… “If your girl doesn’t enjoy making your life better, there’s something very wrong with your relationship dynamic”.
Another lightbulb moment.
At the time, I was blaming it all on my wife. I later learned this was not the way, but we’ve already talked about accountability.
A short while later, I discovered The Red Pill. Not the youtube videos where some dudes get drunk bimbos on the show just to make them look like fools. Not the republican/conservative shit the term is twisted to mean. I mean The Red Pill on reddit.
I then started to understand the whole picture of why my life felt… wrong. Why I felt like I was living my life to make my wife happy, and why that was making her fucking miserable. Why I could have a 6 pack and make 6 figures and couldn’t get my own wife to sleep with me.
It ALL started to make sense.
So I started to unplug, learned how to set effective boundaries, learned how to disengage from arguments, learned how to be both physically and emotionally attractive, how to flirt effectively, how to make a girl want to fuck - while also not being a scumbag.
I learned how to be okay with walking away from a marriage that wasn’t suiting me or my interests/needs anymore.
Most importantly, I learned how to be the kind of father a girl needs so she doesn’t get turned out the way society would have her. I know how to raise her so she attracts the kind of man both she and I would want her to marry.
I had to tear down so much of myself and who I’d built myself up to be that I had no more morals, values, identity, etc.
It was necessary so I could rebuild.
I like who I am now that I’ve been able to remake myself into the person I am today, but I’m not done - I hope I never am.
From lifting to red pill, this whole process helped me get to a point in Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs that I don’t think I could have achieved otherwise.
I was somewhere between safety and social before I discovered Red Pill.
*This is not content that is easily consumed.
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I’m not who this was post was directed at but I’ve been a lurker on your log for a while and I’m curious to hear more detail about this
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When I was young, I had a friend riding in the back seat of the car with me.
We had a bag of popcorn to share.
I didn’t want to miss out on the yellowest, most buttery tasting pieces of popcorn, so I started cherry picking just these ones, and eating them way too fast to be casual.
We ended up not being very good friends.
^This is scarcity mentality.
If instead of hoarding the tasty pieces of popcorn, I had been actively trying to share these pieces, I probably could have made a much better friend.
*You might be noticing a slight hitch here, that there was a finite amount of popcorn, so there was quite literally a scarce amount of it.
To address this, we have to address our beliefs.
Scarcity belief: Popcorn is limited, and if someone else has it, I won’t.
Abundance belief: Popcorn is a tool that can be shared and used to create valued friendships.
This applies to many things in life - far more than popcorn.
If you believe that you cannot find another romantic partner, you will probably be jealous, controlling, and unbecomingly invested your current partner.
How will your partner react in response to such treatment? More likely to leave, I imagine.
If you believe that you can find another romantic partner (even if you don’t want to), you will probably give them the freedom to do as they will.
How will your partner react in response? They will probably give you more of what you want in the relationship so that you’re more likely to stay.
It has more to do with your beliefs of how resources ought to be utilized than the reality of the finiteness of said resource.
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I’ve heard of this before but I really like this write up to explain it!
I’ve heard this explained like a rubber band too. If you have a rubber band around your fingers at tension, but your fingers too close together it falls. If you have the rubber band at tension and pull it too far apart, it’ll snap.
I like this a lot especially tied in with the popcorn example.
Thanks!
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Cardio
60mins MISS
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