Great blog post by @T3hPwnisher. Really resonates with me.
I grow ever disdainful of this continuos micro management of lifting.
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In the warehouse space next to mine, someone dropped what must be a dolly or something similar a couple feet. It sounded exactly like dropping a barbell with bumpers.
I thought to myself how cool! Then realized they’re definitely just working, but it’s a potato chip company, so still cool.
If they are hungry, yes.
Interesting. I feel I will have to agree to disagree.
I’ve seen a TV show where they dump people out in the wilderness with no food.
After awhile they get really hungry and just stop doing anything. Often they just lay around and cry in their little huts or lean tos.
Part of that is being starved and weak. But part of it is mental. Like they can’t do anything because they are too hungry to think and move.
So in my opinion, yes, with no food around, the Urge to Eat is super-duper hard to fight.
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I’m with Punny on this; I think hunger is a very easy thing to just ignore.
It’s like being hungover. You feel like shit, but you’ve been there a million times so you know how to just block it out and keep going.
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Are they fighting the urge to eat though, or are they simply experiencing extreme hunger? In the example you present, it would seem like the opposite of fighting. They are doing no things at all. No abstaining from temptation as there IS no temptation to abstain from.
And they’re naked!
Is that the show where they’re allowed to pick one item to take with them, and no one ever picks shoes?
Seriously - if you ever go on that show - pick shoes!
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Bu… but, a picture of my cat, jinxy.
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I’d go with a sat phone myself.
a caravan would be a pretty good choice too
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I’m having a difficult time with words.
Some hungry people are depressed and give up.
Some hungry people get motivated and fight through hunger and do stuff.
If not having food around where easy, people wouldn’t give up.
Like enduring true suffering is much harder than just not eating a cupcake.
Don’t worry about the difficulty with words; it’s a weird conversation to have. However, this is something I’m wanting to arrive at. One observes that, in the absence of temptation, the need to “resist” temptation becomes minimal, if not non-existent. There is no need to “fight” the urge, because the urge ends up not existing. The hunger is there, but the urge to eat is not fought; it is just experienced.
If the urge to eat can be experienced without being fought in the absence of temptation, it begs the question of if it could also exist without being fought in the presence of temptation. And perhaps the solution is for temptation to still not “exist” even when present. To condition oneself to not even be aware of the presence of temptation.
Or maybe this is too ascetic and, sometimes, you should just eat the cheesecake.
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Naked and Afraid!!! Almost brought this up earlier.
Easier said than done when you’re spending the night in a farmer’s barn and there’s three holes in the wall calling your name.
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Is not ignoring the feeling just a form of resisting? The person who is hungover powers through it but, still feels like shit. Often times not shutting up about the fact that they are hung over and feel like shit.
Who cares? When I’m hungry, I ignore it and get on with it. Same with a hangover.
that’s the one!
When I read most new threads outside of training logs, the T-ransformation 2018 one and this one I can’t post because all I want to say is you’re an idiot, stop wasting everyone’s time and either go train or find something else to do.
So, basically, I’m morphing into a really impatient SOB with a degree of self control.
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