Bodily Vitality
#21
(04-30-2022, 08:57 PM)skorr Wrote: Anyone else practice a barefoot lifestyle?

My Dad read about it about 7 years ago or so and got me into it.

I go barefoot as much as possible, and when I can't do that I wear Bedrock sandals, very thin so they are almost as good. Haven't had a foot injury of any sort since I started (besides stepping on a pinecone occasionally), and I can run faster barefoot than with shoes.

I lift barefoot now and really enjoy it. I’m pretty sure I got an ingrown toenail last year from one of my big toes repeatedly striking the inside of my shoe on lifts so that inspired the change. I haven’t gone barefoot much else though. Do you walk barefoot on pavement too?
#22
(04-30-2022, 10:23 PM)Exile Wrote:
(04-30-2022, 08:57 PM)skorr Wrote: Anyone else practice a barefoot lifestyle?

My Dad read about it about 7 years ago or so and got me into it.

I go barefoot as much as possible, and when I can't do that I wear Bedrock sandals, very thin so they are almost as good. Haven't had a foot injury of any sort since I started (besides stepping on a pinecone occasionally), and I can run faster barefoot than with shoes.

I lift barefoot now and really enjoy it. I’m pretty sure I got an ingrown toenail last year from one of my big toes repeatedly striking the inside of my shoe on lifts so that inspired the change. I haven’t gone barefoot much else though. Do you walk barefoot on pavement too?
Yes, pavement is great. Asphalt can be a bit rough but it builds resilience. Only terrain I really cant do is woodsland, i'll end up more cut up than a teenage girl with dyed hair. Grass/sand is easiest. 

I used to have flat feet and going barefoot + some other exercises helped fix those.
#23
Curious what your guys' numbers are? I lift mainly with strength in mind, which I think aesthetics tends to follow naturally from so long as one isn't already fat and/or doesn't harbor cope about "bloatmaxing" and so forth.

I'm currently 5'8, 202 lbs. 15-18% bodyfat if I had to guess. 320 lb bench, 435 squat, 500 dl. A little under 4.5 years of progress. Still natty and have no plans to juice, though I don't feel anywhere near a genetic plateau and I'm addicted to self-overbecoming. I follow a 5 day a week modified PPL where 2 of the 5 days are for miscellaneous volume so i can emphasize/compensate and movements/muscles as I feel is appropriate. Greatly enjoying it. 

Beyond avoiding a few bugaboos (seed oils, plastics, etc.) my diet is fairly brainless. I hit my macro targets and enjoy whole milk a lot.
#24
It is impossible to get laid as a 5’8 man.

You dare to SHILL this gymcel garbage on our forum? Your muscularity makes you look even shorter. You probably look like a CUBE.
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#26
I have no specified diet, but I'm pushing past a 3 plate squat for reps, a 2 plate (unspotted) bench for reps, and a 1 plate clean (don't do them that often). I earnestly think that even in this sphere, exercise (bodybuilding included) has an understated importance.
#27
What's everybody's estradiol dosage?

How frequently do you guys dilate?
#28
Started working on my olympic lifts, so far they're pretty lacking but I'm greatly improving in form.

Clean and Jerk: 185lbs
Snatch: 135lbs

For reference for how piddly those numbers are, and as an illustration of how important technique is, these are my traditional lift numbers:

Deadlift: 465lbs
Squat: 350lbs
(I don't bench)
OHP: 205lbs

I highly recommend anyone getting into olympic lifting follow these drills by Clarence Kennedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qIVRgE5yRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjfXHe7ZCDw
#29
(04-30-2022, 08:57 PM)skorr Wrote: Anyone else practice a barefoot lifestyle?

My Dad read about it about 7 years ago or so and got me into it.

I go barefoot as much as possible, and when I can't do that I wear Bedrock sandals, very thin so they are almost as good. Haven't had a foot injury of any sort since I started (besides stepping on a pinecone occasionally), and I can run faster barefoot than with shoes.

How are you supposed to go barefoot in an urban centre though? or in suburbia? You don't really notice when wearing shoes how many of the textures used for the artificial ground would absolute pain to walk on barefoot. I tried it once and got blisters on both of my feet.
#30
I used to do a high volume powerlifting focused routine. At my peak at 167lbs I hit 275 bench, 425 raw squat, 465 deadlift. Chasing numbers was fun, and being able to toss women around was a nice perk in college, but I maxed out my body and couldn't push those numbers higher without injury or test.

Took up rock climbing and did that for a while. It's good cardio, and I did a light aesthetic focused P/P/L routine when I finished. It's a meme sport, but climbing is a good filter. Anyone even slightly overweight can't hang, which makes it a great place to not be surrounded by bio refuse everywhere else.

Moved to a different city for a job, and there's no good climbing gyms here so I took up bodyweight fitness and running. A set of rings and a pullup bar can go pretty far. Still doing a P/P/L, but now I run every other day too.

Imo, >8hr sleep and >45min sunlight are non negotiable for vitality maxxing. Daily walks outside (no music), then dedicating one day a week to spend outside in the woods or a park (again, no music) keeps me in touch with the seasons. If I go three or four weeks without spending a whole day outside, my sense of time gets warped. Everything blends together, and I forget that there are different tempos of consciousness.
#31
(05-03-2023, 10:29 PM)kythustra Wrote: (no music)

Why?
#32
(05-04-2023, 12:02 AM)anthony Wrote:
(05-03-2023, 10:29 PM)kythustra Wrote: (no music)

Why?

I view the walks as active meditation rather than cardio, and to that end music negates the benefits. If it’s a nature day, something really special happens around the ~4 hour mark if you can resist headphones.
#33
(05-04-2023, 09:32 AM)kythustra Wrote:
(05-04-2023, 12:02 AM)anthony Wrote:
(05-03-2023, 10:29 PM)kythustra Wrote: (no music)

Why?

I view the walks as active meditation rather than cardio, and to that end music negates the benefits. If it’s a nature day, something really special happens around the ~4 hour mark if you can resist headphones.

I've always had an extremely strong aversion to all things "meditation".
#34
(05-04-2023, 10:01 AM)anthony Wrote:
(05-04-2023, 09:32 AM)kythustra Wrote:
(05-04-2023, 12:02 AM)anthony Wrote:
(05-03-2023, 10:29 PM)kythustra Wrote: (no music)

Why?

I view the walks as active meditation rather than cardio, and to that end music negates the benefits. If it’s a nature day, something really special happens around the ~4 hour mark if you can resist headphones.

I've always had an extremely strong aversion to all things "meditation".

That’s fair, though I’d recommend giving it a shot before writing it off to see if it does anything for you. Many of the best writers had a walking routine resembling the one above.
#35
(05-04-2023, 10:37 AM)kythustra Wrote: That’s fair, though I’d recommend giving it a shot before writing it off to see if it does anything for you. Many of the best writers had a walking routine resembling the one above.

I probably would too if I lived in Europe.
#36
quick leg day workout:

find a steep grass hill

sprint up 1x
shuffle to the left up 1x
shuffle to the right up 1x (shuffle as in
sprint in a zig zag up 1x (emphasis on hard cuts, change of direction)
backpedal up 1x (to balance out muscles worked on front and back of body)

2-3 sets of this is a decent workout. More practical to me than squat/DL just for my body type (lanky, tall, fast)
Won't have quite the same effect of putting on mass but legs will become toned pistons, you will be more explosive and overall light on your feet in life.
#37
I am also averse to "meditation" but I agree with kythustra here. Even just sitting outside improves my mood a lot. I was at the beach recently and had a view of the ocean from my balcony and I could easily sit there doing nothing for a good long time. But maybe this is my lazy Mediterranean blood.
#38
(05-04-2023, 02:38 AM)guest Wrote:
Women are retarded and normies ARE DISEASED:
"Consider this: “By the age of 19, 80% of US males and 75% of women have lost their virginity, and 87% of college students have had sex. But this number appears to be much lower at elite colleges. Only 56% of Princeton undergraduates have had intercourse. At Harvard 59% of the undergraduates are non-virgins, and at MIT, only a slight majority, 51%, have had intercourse. Further, only 65% of MIT graduate students have had sex.” [8]" @anthony @Chud

Fascinating article, it is a little bit thuletidian but he is a very intelligent fellow: https://exousiology.org/Dysgenics

Mac Lir spotted some alpha on this issue. The cross-gender sterilizing tendency of the highly intelligent reminds me of something that t3x.org guy said about intelligent people having a tendency to captivate themselves in their thoughts.

https://twitter.com/ChevaucheeN/status/1...9384368129
#39
I hurt my lower back doing deadlifts, and even though I could lift pain free again after reducing load and taking short breaks, the injury reoccured. It has gotten to the point where I stopped pulling from the floor. Does anybody have experience with this?
#40
(06-20-2023, 12:27 PM)Hamamelis Wrote: I hurt my lower back doing deadlifts, and even though I could lift pain free again after reducing load and taking short breaks, the injury reoccured. It has gotten to the point where I stopped pulling from the floor. Does anybody have experience with this?

Lower back strains are tricky because they can take forever to fully heal and are quick to reagitate if you're not careful. In my experience, heating the area before you work out and applying ice afterwards for about 20 minutes each helps more than you'd think. I'm assuming that you were doing barbell deadlifts - they're fine and I know a lot of people consider them essential but I started avoiding them outright for this very reason. Trap bar deadlifts are your best alternative if you still want to deadlift but need something less taxing on the lower back. If it still hurts doing those, I'd just supplement deadlifts entirely for some time with accessory exercises until the pain subsides.
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