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@CryoCove @Breedlove22 Is this where we're at? I ask you a question, start a conversation with you and you just have AI take over. Then I'll have Grok reply to your Chat and humans never need to think or speak again.

@TVision68356 @Breedlove22 .

I trained naturally for almost 30 years before adding anabolics and peptides into my fitness protocols. Here's why I quit being natural & the advice I plan to give my son when he is old enough to hear it: To give you a bit of backstory, I started weightlifting at 13 to gain muscle for football and wrestling, but it quickly became my main athletic focus. Competing in the 16 and under age category at 105kg body weight, I held American records in both the snatch and clean and jerk and in total for a couple of years. Standing at 6 foot 4 I was a head taller than most guys I competed against at a high level. Because the competitive movements are overhead lifts, Olympic weightlifting is a short man's sport. As much as I loved it, I finally decided to take my athletic life in another direction. After quitting Olympic lifting I started training for size, strength, and aesthetics. I wanted to get jacked and look good. I read everything I could find about nutrition, fitness, and supplements, and in college, I worked part-time at GNC where I spent hours studying the science behind all of it. At 20 and 21, I did a cycle of testosterone to get jacked before a spring break trip to the Bahamas. I had studied Anabolics by William Llewellyn beforehand and followed what I learned, cycling off when spring break was over. I also tried what was sold to me as tren but I either got a bad product or responded terribly to it because the weight gain was excessive and the side effects were awful. That is when I swore off anabolics. I stayed completely clean and spent the next two decades training naturally. Beyond the weights, I got into almost all yoga, pilates, kettlebells, TRX, and bootcamps were in heated rooms, boxing, rock climbing, paddleboarding, surfing, trail running, beach sprinting, swimming, hiking, and meditating. Those years built the foundation that everything else would eventually sit on top of. 2 decades of natural training built more than just a physique. My skeletal density is 2.5 standard deviations higher than the mean, meaning my bones are denser than of 99.4% of men. This is due to almost 3 decades of heavy and high intensity weight training. You cannot juice up skeletal density with anabolics or peptides. You cannot fake time under tension. Tendons and ligaments adapt much slower than muscles do. When young men jump on anabolics early, their muscles grow faster than their connective tissue can handle and the injuries that follow can end a training career permanently. My connective tissue had 30 years to strengthen before I ever asked it to support enhanced muscle growth. I had considered using anabolics again throughout my 30s but my testosterone levels were still good so I chose to keep waiting. While I was training naturally and biding my time, I set a goal to turn 40 in the best shape of my life. I have shared the full protocol in previous posts so I won't repeat it here. This post is about something more important… I will tell my son to train naturally until he is within 6 months of turning 40. The only exception would be if he had low testosterone or a hormonal deficiency sooner. Build the bones, the connective tissue, the discipline, and the self-knowledge that only comes from decades of doing the work without anabolics. Based on everything I know today, this is the best advice I could give my son about the proper approach to performance enhanced training. I am open-sourcing everything I've learned across almost 30 years of training, all my looks-maxing and biohacking activities, and all my future experiences with performance enhancing protocols. Follow along if you want the full roadmap. PS. This is not medical advice

@Rob47904528 @Breedlove22 Lol. All the girls talk about is how they want a man who can run far. It's all I ever hear.

@Breedlove22 You left out the Holy Grail of true fitness, athleticism, and masculinity. Distance running.

@CryoCove @Breedlove22 How so?

@Breedlove22 Do you think at all that you’re robbing from your future to be in that shape today? Genuinely curious.

@ShannonJean You order double, return half.

I need new 4x6 redwood deck boards. A lot. I would really like to have them delivered to my house. How do you ensure you don't get garbage? Contractors, help me out.

@AlexForbesOps No it's an under quoted job. Happens all the time.

Most contractors are killing their own business. I just awarded a $22,000 patio job to 1 out of 4 contractors who came out to bid the job and they went silent after I approved the quote. Here is how this played out. Of the 4 contractors that stopped by, 2 of them provided quotes when they said they would and were very punctual. 1 was 50% more than the others. The 4th contractor said he couldn't get me a quote for 2+ weeks... I chose one of the first 2, had them make a few changes to the scope, and approved the quote through Jobber. Then 2 days passed without any follow up despite my texts and voicemail for the office confirming we are on their schedule. I just awarded them the $22,000 job and that's when they decide to go silent??? I say this time and time again. If you can't master the fundamentals of communication and manage expectations, don't expect to build a great business. Also, a word of advice. Lock in that job you've been awarded vs. ghosting your lead. I will give the guy until Monday to respond to my approval from Wednesday but if I don't hear from him, he just lost a teed up customer. These guys act like it's rocket science to return a text.

@FiredUpCoug Wait till it dies in front of your eyes, like your soul.

My fellow dudes on x, I need to ask you a favor. My wife has discovered a new hobby, landscaping. We've spent $2,000 on plants, dirt, bark over the last 2 weeks. I'm sunburned, and out of ibuprofen I need this post go viral so I can pay for all this. Why couldn't she have chosen sourdough bread? Or crochet? Or triathlons?

@Timcast Cream in coffee makes your penis shrink.

how do you people drink black coffee im trying but man i need some cream

@IrvanSteve @SmilemoreFL @matthewbaszucki How many medications are you on?

@TVision68356 @SmilemoreFL @matthewbaszucki Beans, rice, cheap protein, it really depends. 8 pack of sausage patties $1.78. dozen eggs $1.47. 6 pack English muffins $1.62. hash brown patties 10 count $3.42, 12 pack of sliced cheese $1.67. $9.96 total. Divide by 6 muffins, $1.66 for a sausage egg and cheese McMuffin.

I eat the same meal every single day. A ribeye, eight eggs, and beef tallow. Around 3,100 calories. 263 grams of fat. 186 grams of protein. 3 grams of carbs from the eggs. My ketones stay between 1 and 4.5 millimolar. My mood is stable. I haven't had a manic episode in years. I've been on a strict ketogenic or carnivore diet for over five years. People ask if I miss food. I miss having a manic episode less.

@IrvanSteve @SmilemoreFL @matthewbaszucki The question was "what do you eat for less than $20 a day",. So what exactly are you feeding your family for $10 a day.

@TVision68356 @SmilemoreFL @matthewbaszucki My wife, son and I eat a meal and a snack everyday for around $10/day total, around $3/person. Depends on the meal, I guess.

@SmilemoreFL @matthewbaszucki Seriously? It's less than $20 a day. What do you eat that's less than $20 a day?

@matthewbaszucki How do you afford that? I would love for everyone my house to eat like that! But impossible! 💰

@aphrodite891 @SamaHoole You can't afford $7.99 for a lb of organic ground beef? Or $6.99 for a pack of clean bacon?

@SamaHoole Love it, you look amazing! My question is, what about us who can't find or afford grass-fed meat? We are left with the mass-farmed grain-fed types.

Quick one for the carnivore concern committee, if you've got a minute. You all warned me, very thoroughly, about the scurvy. The constipation. The cortisol crisis. The muscle wasting. The kidneys giving up. The colon cancer. The widow-maker waiting for me at 40. The deficiencies. The brain fog. The brittle bones. The thyroid going dark. Truly comprehensive briefing. I took notes. Signed up because, frankly, life had been a touch easy and I fancied a medical drama to talk about at parties. It's been six years. Sorry to bother, but, when does it start? Because the body fat won't stop dropping. The sleep is, embarrassingly, the best it's ever been. The joints went quiet around year two and have nothing to add. The teeth, despite the lack of fluoride toothpaste and the absence of a single plant, are all present and accounted for. I lifted heavier last week than I did a decade ago, which I assume is the muscle wasting kicking in. Starting to think I might be doing it wrong. If one of you could pop back to the manual and let me know roughly which year the wheels come off, that would be enormously helpful. Cheers.

@SandyyyShores @mariotomich The problem isn't that you don't know shit, the problem is that you speak as if you do.

@TVision68356 @mariotomich Dude, you just chose an athlete known to require high amounts of protein... saves me from arguing my point 😂 game, set and match! Have a nice day.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but 4 eggs is not a high-protein breakfast for a grown man.

@SandyyyShores @mariotomich 120g for a ballerina maybe.

@mariotomich I'd argue it is! More than 20g in one sitting is plenty, because you should be having another 4 meals or so of 20g+, probably reaching 120g+ per day. Also, eggs are the best absorbed protein, bioavailability is 100%, so you get all of the 24g.

@BoJaxGOAT @mariotomich Meat. It's not hard.

@mariotomich what would you substitute that with?

@CalisthenicKyle @mariotomich You're just assuming the return is equal. It's not even close.

@mariotomich Highest ROI on your time? No. Training wherever you’re at is.

I feel bad for people that still go to the gym 3-5 days a week. Do you really expect to do this forever? You’re enslaving yourself. Break the chains! Workout whenever, wherever, & with whatever when convenient. This approach is far more practical & fun.

@everettmjr @OCpatriot_ You ever consider that is exactly why he is "barely making it"?

@OCpatriot_ Clearly you aren’t in the trades professionally. Glad you could do it yourself. Decent chance the guy running that repair business is barely making it. Costs me almost $200 to fill the truck to show up to your house to hear that you think the repair is too much.

Water heater died last night. 5 yrs old, still under warranty. Called Manufacturer, they said they'd send parts, but that'd be 4-6 days. Couldn't leave my family without hot water that long. So I called local repair company, they'd been there 5 minutes when they quoted me $1,100 to fix it. Wouldn't break it down to parts and labor until I leaned on them hard. - $300 parts - $800 labor For 30-40 minutes of work. For a water heater that cost me $700 with sales tax. I called the manufacturer back and told them the situation and that I planned on buying a new unit at The Home Depot and install it myself (I'd installed my current one). Rheem said no problem, take your old one with you and we'll give you full credit towards your new one. With the military discount from my buddy that was helping me, I was out of pocket a whole $65 when it was all said and done, and even traded up a model with a longer warranty. Thank you Rheem, thank you Home Depot. Fuck off predatory appliance repair companies.

Here it is: Bribery—caught on secret recording: Arizona Republican Party Chair Jeff DeWit caught on a secret recording trying to bribe @KariLake not to run for the Senate. That didn’t work—so they rigged the voting machines instead. “There are very powerful people who want to keep you out,” he said. At one point during the recording, @KariLake was asked to name her “number.” DeWit: “Just say, is there a number at which—” Lake: “I can be bought? That’s what it’s about?” DeWit: “You can take a pause for a couple of years. You can go right back to what you’re doing.” Lake: “This is not about money. It’s about our country.” @FBIDirectorKash @DAGToddBlanche

4 days left for the DOJ to indict Anthony Fauci. He lied to Congress about NIH funding dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan and engaged in the worst cover-up in modern medical history. The American people want Fauci behind bars.

@RestaWilmar Jewelry usually works.

simple trick

@SamaHoole Curious how many sets you do and if you do same upper/lower workout twice a week? Thanks

Six years on a carnivore diet. Six years training in the 4 to 6 rep range. Four days a week. Upper, lower, upper, lower. I eat 20% ground beef. Eggs. Bacon. Goat butter. Goat cheese. Salmon when the mood takes me. I do not add salt. I do not weigh my food. I do not track macros. I do not own a shaker bottle. I do not own a foam roller. I do not have a deload week scheduled because I have never trained myself into a hole that required one. Strongest I've been. Leanest I've been. Sleeping like a Victorian. The anxiety I used to take for granted as part of being a man in his twenties has been quietly missing for years and I have not gone looking for it. The brain fog has, similarly, decided to live elsewhere. People ask what I'm planning to change. Nothing. I am planning to change nothing. When something works, you stop fiddling with it. The Romans worked this out about roads. The Japanese worked it out about tea ceremonies. I worked it out about beef. If I'm wrong, I will be wrong with visible abdominal muscles and an inexplicable absence of suffering, and I will accept the verdict of the scientific establishment with grace, eventually, in approximately forty years, from a deck chair, holding a steak.