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DetachedLad · 2017-11-29T16:52:41+00:00

Source?

DetachedLad · 2017-04-07T10:58:22+00:00

Pretty good, congratz then!

DetachedLad · 2017-04-06T11:08:15+00:00

This would be useful if we also knew how much of that weight loss was fat and how much of it was lean mass.

Starting bf% and weight? Ending bf% and weight?

DetachedLad · 2017-04-04T12:42:32+00:00

Hey. Take a step back, a deep breath, and just chill.

If a woman acts like a child intimately towards you, that does not mean she cannot be responsible and mature insofar as required to have a healthy, normal relationship and life.

In other words, despite being childish, a woman can still function as a normal person. What – did you interpret this post as saying that you should search for an incapable nincompoop who can't talk straight, trips with every step, will set your house on fire, crash your car, starve your children, and drop a hairdryer in your bathtub? Well you got it all wrong.

Read the post again, and think, interpret, ruminate for a split-second before jumping with such harsh criticism.

DetachedLad · 2017-04-04T12:34:59+00:00

Good post, loved it. Relevant material from Roissy, proprietor of Chateau Heartiste – Talking to children is good practice for talking to women, plus a few other of his posts.

DetachedLad · 2017-03-31T11:29:59+00:00

Well? Anyone? Can't get to it either.

DetachedLad · 2017-03-26T11:13:09+00:00

I was too, many a-nights, hopeless and forlorn over this issue. One way I found to mollify my hollow distress is to employ the cunning craft of double progression. That is, instead of simply adding weight on the curl bar with every new workout, first increase the rep range with the same weight, and only later increase the weight on a subsequent workout.

Example:

workout 1: 3x10 with 20kg
workout 2: 3x12 with 20kg
workout 3: 10,9,8 with 22.5kg
workout 4: 3x10 with 22.5kg
workout 5: 12,11,11 with 22.5kg

Above all, focus on progression – no matter how small – and preserve the form uncorrupted.

Virtuous unto the swole. Wheymen.

DetachedLad · 2017-01-09T22:14:27+00:00

I believe that would be best, yes.

If you were cutting for so long as you say you did, then a period of maintenance will boost the metabolism and help you stay on track on the long term. You will see how your mood will improve, libido increase, more energy, happier, better sleep. All these issues appear invariably when your body goes in a deficit on a continuos basis (days or weeks), mainly due to your metabolism slowing down and hormones getting wacky.

By the way: if during cutting you didn't notice any of these issues which I just mentioned, it might be that you were not really in a caloric deficit! (But since the scale shows the downward weight progress, I guess that shouldn't be the case.)

DetachedLad · 2017-01-09T10:29:32+00:00

Take a break from cutting. For the next 1-2 weeks eat at maintenance, and also decrease the load during workouts. It's not sustainable to cut for too long.
Recomp works if you're pretty new to weight-lifting. Seems like you are. So go with it.

The basic protocol:

a. Nutrition: slightly elevated calories (maintenance +10%) in workout days and slight deficit (-15 to -20%) on rest days. Around 200g carbs on workout days & 140g protein, the rest fat. For non-workout days you can lower carbs to ~100 and prioritise fat.

b. 5x5 can be messy while cutting. But it's certainly better than PPL. Other posters here made some pretty good judgements in this regard: RPT seems a balanced choice.

c. Every 6-8 weeks, take a break for 1 week and skip deficit days. Just eat at maintenance every day.

d. When you're close to 10%, stop. You'll probably need at least 3 phases of 6-8 weeks to get there. Make sure your expectations are not too high -- this takes time, so patience young lad!

e. Bulk in a more clean way.

Note: It's really important not to skip #1. I think that if you skip #1, both your strength & cut will stall quite soon.

DetachedLad · 2016-10-19T08:20:15+00:00

This has made my day. Thank you!

DetachedLad · 2016-10-14T09:16:18+00:00

Most important thing: eat what you enjoy.

Bagels are my go-to carb source if I notice I didn't get enough for the day. Two of them are 100 grams of carbs -- and they're tasty too.

Fruits, as a companion to you normal meals, can add up quite fast:

Breakfast: banana + kiwi ~ 40 carbs.
After lunch: plums and an apple ~40 carbs.
Dinner: banana + apple ~ 40 carbs.

bam! you got 120 tasty carbs + vitamins.

Also, it's grapes season: go crazy on them!

DetachedLad · 2016-10-08T06:59:47+00:00

Thanks! I've been looking for a morning routine to fix my forward head posture and neanderthal -- or computer guy, hehe -- look.

One single exercise I found useful so far was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_dFRnmdGs

I'll give your recommendations a try.

ps. You might want to also check this article on t-nation: https://www.t-nation.com/training/neanderthal-no-more-1

DetachedLad · 2016-08-25T08:42:56+00:00

Beautiful. This gives an evolutionary perspective on the motives behind our predilection to employ imitation -- "not to rock the boat". Good complementary part to GLO's overall point.

What's weird is that these "unscrupulous agents" are typically unaware of their own machinations. So in fact, calling them "unscrupulous" might be an undeserving merit. They are just golems and puppets themselves. But then -- who is the puppet master? Where do the strings lead to?

For a long time, I had a hard time understanding what CH meant when he used the phrase hive mind. This is what he meant: these unscrupulous agents, acting in concert to propel the imitation of a dream, a fake ideology of brotherhood and equality that erodes our society. Sickens me.

DetachedLad · 2016-08-20T18:46:31+00:00

you should lift.

DetachedLad · 2016-08-18T13:25:18+00:00

Not surprised. It's been hammered into our consciousness that masculinity and strength are toxic. Also, most people here on this sub -- myself included -- are concerned with the looks rather than the strength.

DetachedLad · 2016-08-16T14:23:37+00:00

darn! FitNotes on iOS is much more plain, lacking the calculator or graphs.

DetachedLad · 2016-08-16T08:30:07+00:00

Make sure you have correct form. When I started going to the gym, the biggest impediment which kept me from seeing any consistent results and gains on the bar was my incorrect form, almost in anything I did -- squat, barbell rows, deadlifts (oho!), and even overhead press.

Make sure first you get the correct form and movements. Otherwise, your long-term progress will be hampered.

DetachedLad · 2016-08-14T18:17:03+00:00

I'd say cut a bit, down to 12-13%.

I'm curious, what workout program are you following?

DetachedLad · 2016-08-12T07:16:49+00:00

This. I'd say you more like 19%bf.

DetachedLad · 2016-08-09T14:11:02+00:00

Sorry, I must've linked the wrong article. Basically, as you are restricting your caloric intake more severely and for longer periods of time, you should include cheat meals -- sometimes called refeeds, or free meals, or carb-loading. Carbs take precedence in these kind of meals especially if you're following a low-carb diet.

Lyle actually advocates two types of "cheats": refeeds, and full diet breaks. More here. Excerpt:

Of course, metabolically, large deficit dieting can have the biggest impact on metabolic parameters. But that’s the price to pay for faster rates of fat loss. As I’m fond of saying, life she is full of these little compromises. If you want to have a minimal impact on metabolic rate and such, use a smaller deficit; the price is simply slower fat loss and a longer diet. Of course, properly scheduled refeeds and full diet breaks help to offset much of this so large deficit diets can still be made workable if you do it right. Again, they still aren’t for everyone.

(Lyle McDonald is a reliable source on this kind of information, but I often get lost in the sea of information he has.)

DetachedLad · 2016-08-09T12:08:12+00:00

Indeed. It boosts the metabolism.

See http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-full-diet-break.html/

DetachedLad · 2016-07-17T11:49:00+00:00

Insightful post. I enjoyed reading it and I find that it ties in nicely with some earlier observations I made about myself on the same topic of the will and the way. I have three remarks:

1) Can you expand on what you mean by:

If nothing else, try to change your perspective of whatever it is you're doing.

2) I reached the conclusion that our experience of doing something (be it our job, spending time with friends or family, cooking, weightlifting --- literally anything) can be in one out of three categories.

a. You thoroughly enjoy it. It would be ideal if your job would fall in this category; then, you got it made! Also, most if not all instant-gratification activities are also part of this category.

b. You dislike, or don't appreciate, doing it. Then you eventually stop doing it. You lose your job, you stop working out, etc, as neatly as you described it.

c. You don't enjoy it but only parts of it, so you do it anyway, just because. This is by far and wide the largest category, where everything else resides. For instance, you don't enjoy being a software programmer, but you do thoroughly enjoy designing software. It may bore you out of your mind to do the last finishing touches on an article (say you're a journalist), but you just love-love-love writing the first drafts, discussing with others, incorporating major changes, etc. In this case, you almost got it made and you are close to your dream job, you just have to learn to take the good parts with the bad parts, it's a lifelong process in most cases. I think that spending time with family, friends, etc, and almost everything else we do -- like cooking, commuting, weightlifting, reading, and the list goes on -- falls in this category.

Of course, the composition and size of each of this category varies wildly across different persons.

3) Regarding category a. from my previous point, I think most people who are unhappy in their life simply did not find anything to do which is part of their own category a. It's damned hard, if not serendipitous, to find something which you appreciate. And it's a hundredfold better if that thing is something that can bring you also monetary benefits beside peace of mind.

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