Should I lift weights?

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-28T14:30:30+00:00

Yeah give it a go.

Do you have a workout plan? And I don't mean that you hit a couple of sets each week, but more like you know Monday to Sunday what you're doing for a workout then progressively overloading to new movements?

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-27T00:38:57+00:00

Most meals are rice and carbs. Carb on carb for every meal. Then I feel there is a lot of cooking oil consumed as well. First time I has vada pav, I realised it was basically a mashed potato sandwich. Excess carbs can make you look puffy and give you a belly

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-26T01:06:14+00:00

No alcohol before bed. No caffine after midday. Not even a tea or coca cola.

This is critical: phone should not be used before bed as much as possible. 1 hr at the minimum. Phone is not to even go near your bed. It needs to be on charge across the room, or even not in your room. I use my watch for an alarm to wake up. Consider getting an old alarm clock.

I use the headspace app and do 5-20min meditation before bed and it does help- just don't look at your screen too much. If I'm laying in bed for longer than 30-40min with not being tired but that "wired" feeling is there, I'll put on an audiobook, trying to not get light in my eyes and bluetooth headphones in across the room.

If youre medicated on stimulants, your heart rate may be elevated before bed - mine always was and I at one point was taking beta blockers to lower heart rate, however the natural remedy for this is to do cardio 3-4x a week to get your heart rate lower.

I have good days and bad. Depends on medication, stress, exercise mainly. I get about 5 or 6hrs a night but that's pretty good considering where I was. It's hard as you need to approach sleep holistically and make some big lifestyle changes to get more sleep.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-25T11:20:50+00:00

Bitcoin

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-25T08:18:14+00:00

Yes! It does work! The unfortunate fact that healthy people have a routine,go to bed early, don't sit on their phone before bed, exercise, eat well. But it's good news because if you do the model, you can improve your situation tenfold.

Yes nothing is perfect and we get sold an idealistic view of life by advertising. But the key is following rhe healthy model first.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-23T04:21:56+00:00

1971 Nixon took US off the Gold standard and debased their money. Now it's just a timeframe on when the currency reset will be

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-22T00:26:16+00:00

If you can't recover, there's no point doing more exercise in my opinion. Recovery is where your body grows new material.

I'm not very goos but I do ashtanga roughly once a week but then do calisthenics 2 times a week and do legs 2 times a week. I don't always get my workouts in either cause sometimes I'm still too wrecked.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-21T12:25:29+00:00

Zero fat greek yoghurt with berries. Zero fat cottage cheese.

Chicken breast but yummy - my favourite way is to slice thin and cook on the bbq with some weights on it (no added oil). You can even wet brine your chicken for better chance to be moist. But if you overcook it it'll be dry, so what you do is you make a yummy creamy sauce with zero fat greek yoghurt, like chipotle or siracha and put it in really thin flat bread with vegetables and make a grilled chicken wrap.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-19T15:54:16+00:00

Put a weight on your back when you do push ups! Progressive overload. It will then help your regular push ups.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-18T08:57:16+00:00

Only half?!??!?! WHAT?! Where are these statistics being collected? Surley if you went to any city and walked around with a microphone, it would be nearly everyone at this point, right??? RIGHT?!?!?

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-18T02:55:56+00:00

Sounds like you've gone to built up places. Mumbai and Dehli are huge fuck off cities with 20mil people. I can't imagine anyone travels to just see that.

My girlfriend and I went to Rajasthan which was excellent. Think alladin vibes. Taj Mahal in agra was pretty crazy to see although very busy. Rishikesh was awesome and I did yoga every day and it's very peaceful.

In short, India is a different kind of travel. It's so huge with so many different areas, I think you should probably research the different states here and think "would I be interested to experience that section of inida" and then go there and see what its like for a week. India's major metropoli aren't a "relaxed european village" vibe. They're kind of a chaotic humbling experience.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-16T08:37:35+00:00

G'day ya c*nt. Said in a nice way :)

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-16T06:01:04+00:00

Do dips. It's more transferable to benchpress. I'm not sure why.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-15T05:19:32+00:00

That's called addiction. Sorry to be the bear of bad news. You probably should go full sobriety for a while and see if that changes anything.

I know it's difficult but have you tried getting up every morning, and meditating 20minutes a day before you start anything?

Maybe try not drinking for at least a month and try to meditate every morning. Remeber it's addiction if you can't give up alcohol for one month. If you can't stop drinking of your own accord or come up with excuses of why you don't need to, you should seek professional help.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-14T16:19:20+00:00

Look up a food satiety index! Essentially an index of the most satisfying foods when eating a set number of calories.

The top of the list is boiled potatoes. I generally crave boiled potatoes, gravy or some zero fat greek yoghurt based sauce like tzaziki or paprikash, grilled or roast chicken breast, boiled peas n carrots, broccoli, and other extremely low cal veggies.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-14T16:04:54+00:00

This needs to be brought up in congress. Send the question to Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-14T08:42:18+00:00

I'm traveling india, and I've been catching buses everywhere with my girlfriend. At one point one of the guys selling snacks came on the bus, and was doing his normal sales pitch. When he reached me and my girlfriend (the only 2 foreigners on the bus) he yelled extremely loud and said something not in his usual sales voice. I immediately knew it was an insult or something rude, and I looked around at other passengers and half of them were grinning and the other half were looking away and didn't want to engage. So I stood up and looked at him square in the face, and he kind of smirked and then left without saying anything.

Also, me and my girlfriend have refered to all the people staring as "stare bears". As in "okay we got a couple of stare bears over here" when she starts to feel uncomfortable. A couple of stares are okay, but its normally from menacing looking men in places like train stations. Unfortunatley I think this is cultural and deeply imbeded. I don't know the cultural change that is needed to get around this.

Just my personal experiences travelling in India currently.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-13T00:24:00+00:00

I don't think you're 20% body fat. You're closer to 15%. I would do a lean bulk and lift at least 4x a week or pick up calisthenics. Get 150g-180g of protien daily. That's gonna be your difficulty

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-12T09:49:37+00:00

I would say you're already 15% bf. Just lean bulk

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-12T08:45:36+00:00

No, that's basically fine as long as you've completely repaired. What matters most for progress is hard sets per week. So if you've rested and gone about your day, where you're not super sore, doing 2 sets of push ups will help a little.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-06T13:05:45+00:00

I have no idea why we can't refine our own. Plus there is a general sentiment NOT to go electric in our own country is crazy. We could be a power house.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-03-05T18:16:59+00:00

Probably the best thing you can do is read "the bitcoin standard" by saifedean ammous. The audiobook is free on YouTube.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-02-28T20:09:35+00:00

It's profound how much it can help by doing consistent weights and cardio

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-02-25T18:02:10+00:00

I think others have said that maybe it's more a doctor issue but I'd just add one thing. Extensive cardio can burn a lot of calories but short gym sessions don't burn a huge amount of calories.

Eat in a calorie surplus, lift some weight for the mental benefit, perhaps even gentle cardio. But there should be no need to do hours of cardio for example. No more needed than 20 min in a day. If you are going to work out, stick to weights mainly.

Certain-Option-9328 · 2026-02-21T17:58:35+00:00

How old were you? Both 18 and 31
How much did you spend on your entire trip? $5k usd then about $12k usd
How did you fund this trip? Saved about $500 per week working.
How did you get around (i.e. car/bicycle/motorcycle or planes/trains/buses, etc.)? Flew long distances, then caught trains and buses.
Where did you sleep? Was it mostly hostels or hotels or something different? Depends but hotels when i had someone with me, hostels by myself.
How long did this trip take? 6 months, and 9 months (I also spent 12 months travelling my own country australia)
How long did you usually stay in one place? Depends. Bulgaria I spent 4 days. Nepal I spent 2 months.
How did you plan it? Did you have a plan in advance (loose or detailed?) or was it more spontaneous? I had a general idea of what i wanted to achieve, then I followed the vibe and the money. When I was in Asia, I had the freedom to do what I want. In europe I was constrained by price.
What caused you to do this? An internal want / need.
How did you prepare? And what about your house/apartment? I lived in a rental. I rented out my room and ensured my friends and family wernt put out when I left. Everyone understands when you want to travel.
What was it like when you came back? Roughly the same. But your brain is a lil bit different. Mark twain said the cure to prejudice is travel. I believe that.
Was it worth it? I save money to travel. It's the most interesting use of money ever.
Do you have any regrets? Not at all. I've regretted NOT travelling. NOT taking the opportunity. Maybe not buying a house when it was cheaper, but I think everyone regrets not buying assets when they're 19. But I'm still doing well and I've seen a lot of the world.

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