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heavy deadlift is probably the worst exercise for a non athlete man in terms of risk and reward the risk is literally breaking your back for life against the reward of posting your videos on instagram circle

I wrote my first article today. What a fucking waste of time that was. Yes, I got to write long form and really detail my thoughts. No, nobody will ever see it because: A) The algo never promotes articles regularly on the For You tab. B) Your followers don't count so nobody who follows you will know you wrote one. C) Articles ARE NOT THE POINT OF X. X is about fast, micro blogging updates on realtime events. Nobody comes here for the articles. (insert old Playboy mag joke here).

Life advice nobody told you: Violent consistency is the only path to achieve what you want. It's not going to be pretty. It's not going to draw oohs and aahs from the crowd. Because it looks messy in the days. It's getting out of bed when you don't want to. It's sitting down at your desk when you're tired. It's pounding your head into a wall one more time. It's ugly. It's unimpressive. But it works. Quantity is a necessary precursor to quality. You cannot create once and hope for it to be perfect. You have to create a lot. Every single day. I recently came across a story in Art & Fear that I love: A ceramics teacher split a class into two groups. One would be graded on the quantity of their output, the other would be graded on the quality of their output. On the final day, the first group would have their total output of pots weighed, while the second group would have one pot judged. When grading day arrived, something fascinating happened: "The works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the 'quantity' group was busily churning out piles of work—and learning from their mistakes—the 'quality' group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay." Quality is a byproduct of quantity. Violent consistency. That's the real recipe.

Tip for novice runners: You don't need a gel/gatorade for your 5k or 10k race. It's doing nothing except maybe giving you GI issues. Energy intake isn't a limiter until we get close to ~2hr of racing For ~60-90min, it can help via modulating perception of effort, but not necessary

Wear more sage/light olive green.

It's uncanny how accurate this is. My coworkers always show me their healthy, meal prepped lunches. They want to seek my approval (in a tongue in cheek way as they know am I "fitness guy") But they all still struggle to make progress - and I tell them the same thing: Your weekend eating is probably jamming you up. And they all laugh and nod in agreement.

A 1500 calorie meal is nothing for me. Even when I'm eating whole foods. I typically only eat a couple times a day and my maintenance is around 3300-3600 calories.

Monday: -500 deficit Tuesday: -500 deficit Wednesday: -500 deficit Thursday: -500 deficit Friday: +500 surplus Saturday: +750 surplus Sunday: +750 surplus “Dieting doesn’t work for me!” Don’t let this happen to you. Many such cases...