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@theZia10 @wanted4mogging My suits are tailored but good looking out once again big bro!👊

@f_dt11 @wanted4mogging Too big and you basically never loose muscle already messed up. Won’t look good in a suit = lost out on all career paths that actually matter = broke

one thing i have come to observe in those around me, and in my former self, is that many people use the gym as a way to artificially replicate a sense of forward momentum in their life it’s sort of like porn for improving your life. you can go in every week and get a little better, get a bit stronger you can have no love life, you can be stuck in the same dead end job, you can have no real goals and ambitions but because you’re doing this one thing which takes “discipline” you can pat yourself on the back and feel like you’re doing well in life. especially cause you look better for it but you don’t have the things you want, you don’t have the life satiation you desire, you aren’t surrounded by the types of people you want to be around and the longer you do it and the better you get at it the more time and effort that could go towards changing those things is eaten up by weighing your food and making sure to space out your eleven meals evenly across the day i got caught in this loop for a large part of my adult life and i got very good results from it, but i can honestly say that it reaches an extreme cutoff point in terms of what it can do for your life satisfaction i really scoff at people who’s entire “self improvement” idea revolves around the gym, really just people into bodybuilding trying to justify it being their entire existence with like philosophy quotes or whatever being jacked is cool, i think it’s better than not being jacked, and that’s why i pursue it and still advocate for it; but there are worse things you can be than not jacked, such as poor, unhappy, purposeless and enslaved. if it comes at the expense of fixing those things then you have a problem past a certain point the gym really just has to become a chore you do like any other or a hobby you enjoy (and sometimes a mix of the two), but if a thing you do to just look better is really where you get your entire sense of pride from then you need to reevaluate what the fuck you are living for i have known a lot of very exceptional lifters in my life but very few of them live anything remotely close to exceptional lives. it’s actually very funny as my hometown which is probably the most drab boring and depressing place i’ve ever been to has produced some of the best bodybuilding/powerlifting talent in north america. doesn’t surprise me since there isn’t shit better to do than just hit the gym and meal prep little tupperware containers here, no other way to feel like your life is going anywhere like i said its masturbatory, you are simulating the sense of forward momentum in your life with little micro victories in the gym everyday that ultimately just amount to t shirts stretching a little bit more around you. it’s a good habit if you just keep it to that, but this is not the big difference maker that’s gonna give you what you deep down want from life

@RomanticRapist @wanted4mogging 0 good sir, the lighting was just favourable (remember, it’s the internet!!) for example this is me at 20 where I arguably look better

@f_dt11 @wanted4mogging what roids you on bro ?

@DegenRepellent @wanted4mogging I don’t take anything bro but thanks for the concern! It’s a common thing people say to me but I reverse it and say, if you started anything at 14 (running, chess, even crypto) and constantly iterated based on feedback, how much progress do you think would be made 8 yrs later?

@f_dt11 @wanted4mogging Bro you should stop juicing ASAP. It's going to kill you in the long run and you've already got all the foundations you'll get from it. Think of your future health.

@wanted4mogging post is spot on though it’s insane how reinforcing it feels compared to online biz or anything with an asymmetrical effort-reward system. I tell myself I’m probably good now to ease up from 4-5x a week to focus on online biz and my further academics but it’s ironically difficult

@wanted4mogging I’m 22 and I’ve been gymming for nearly 8 years now. But I have no interest in professional bodybuilding or like tripling down for the next 10 years. My logic at 14 was “if I just go hard from now until 25, when I hit 25 I can drop to 1-3x a week and look insane”

no fucking way the only way out is through

@kleeposting The issue is, what if they think the exact same thing and everyone’s fear of being the one to speak up is what’s causing the group to drift? I feel like a lot of people are in this similar position, and it’s likely not all members have pulled away for some adverse reason.

I think we underestimate the psychosocial impact of losing your entire friend group and see them move away after college, and to some degree already after highschool. We can all rationalize it because that's just how our modern society works, but I think it leaves us with a subliminal feeling of being betrayed and left alone by our friends - people who were supposed to remain on our side and offer comfort and stability.

@BlondB00 How does one pivot then? I’m 22 and started at 14, I went pretty hard for these 8 years so honestly I think I can begin easing up and reaping my rewards but online biz is quite hard, the most I made was around 4k a month but more is needed.

bodybuilding could be such a seductive (and dangerous) beast: it could singlehandedly quench your thirst for being productive and your Nietzschean desire to “transcend yourself”, especially when you’re lost in life and purposeless (it’s convenient and readily “within reach”), allowing you to see physical progress unfold in real-time (reward barely lags effort, unlike, say, building a business), while you start to feel better about yourself not only because people start to respect you more but because your posture and overall health genuinely improve, developing bit by bit an acquired taste and high from it (because you have finally become good at something), hijacking the need to be productive in the more important professional / spiritual areas of your life leading you to slowly but surely tie your identity around it, such that you now judge the moral integrity and character of someone by their physique and benchpress metrics. beware of this.

@kromit_ Path of least resistance, requires minimal risk, reinforced by environment/surrounding culture, no reason to change if no one around you is changing

Your options at 22: 1. good new grad job: 500k-1m/yr 2. sit in your room and make 20% on 100m: 20m/yr + no rigid tax cattle schedule isnt option 2 clearly better? why does everyone choose to "go to college" and "get a job"?

switch up on my day ones? brother as soon as i get even the smallest taste of power and fame i am killing you all, you’re all getting sacrificed

new city, relearning how to make friends, signing up for a woodworking/tennis, going to nerd events, dming some cool strangers to hang, its time to socialmaxx

I knew a kid who would only respond to questions with "up your butt and around the corner" and literally no one cared when he went missing over the summer

Everybody on here rich and strong and got hella hoes and never made no mistake ever and fly as hell and great at everything they do

Was just chatting with my old man and he dropped a good one on me: "You can't let the bastards make you give up hope. That's their whole gameplan, those bastards. Don't let the bastards win."

Fucked around and realized that it doesn’t have to make sense to anybody but me.

A friend of mine used to say: "Confidence isn’t built by thinking positive thoughts. It’s built by doing difficult things while your brain screams at you to stop." Damn, was he right.

Thou shall not give af

I love endings bc they are secretly beginnings

I guess what I've learned is you have to be more afraid of wasting your life than of embarrassing yourself