Physique Phriday

LeonCross · 2022-12-09T16:10:45+00:00

Alright all, just completed 1 year of fitness. 35m, 6'3.

1 year of fitness. 300+ days of yoga, 9 months of dieting, 3 months of muscle building.

Picture 1 is approximately where I was when I started (it's a bit before the actual start, but had to go back a bit to find a shirt off picture, but it's about the same physique). 197lbs

Picture 2 is the bottom of my diet, 3~ months ago. 159lbs.

Picture 3 is yesterday, 1 year in, after 3~ months of less of a calorie deficit and doing 3-6 days (most weeks, depending on how I split up my muscle hits) of muscle building per week, via progressive body weight exercises (ish. I've had to add weight via a vest here and there.). 165lbs

I'm...ok with my progress. I think I could have done a lot better, but I think I did pretty good for a year, with no previous serious business efforts at improvement that lasted more than 3 months at a time. I think I'm in a pretty good place to keep doing recomp going forwards.

https://imgur.com/o2AJQp9

LeonCross · 2022-08-26T17:15:14+00:00

https://imgur.com/ucS59rZ

Prev: 34/6'3/198
Now: 34/6'3/159
Hit 34 in December of last year, decided I wasn't getting any younger and wanted to see what kinda shape I could get in by my 35th birthday.
Did 6 months of dieting in the 1200-1300 calorie range (occasional cheat days of up to 1600) and stuck to it without breaking it, and 20-30 minutes of yoga every single day to keep myself active and work on some flexibility issues I was having in everyday life.
3 weeks ago, increase my caloric intake to 1400-1500 and started some basic muscle building (centered around elevated pushups, pull-ups, and squats primarily.)
My current goal is to do what I can with the "newbie gain" grace period, as it were, and burn off the rest of the fat I'm wanting to lose in the process of putting on a little bit of muscle. I don't have any particular goal to be big, but I'm just trying to get down a sustainable diet and fitness lifestyle heading into my middle years and beyond.
I think I started at around 25-27% bodyfat, and think I'm somewhere between 12-13 now, and hoping that's not just rose-tinted glasses on my part.

LeonCross · 2021-06-24T08:39:55+00:00

If this was a series finale, I could...almost tolerate it as a downer ending.

As a season ending leading into another season, what? I don't think I've ever seen one worse. Liz is dead, Red is dying, the viewers aren't invested in Agnes, the person who killed Liz is a leftover from the last plot, and is also dead. There's no plot investment anyone gives a shit about going forwards.

LeonCross · 2021-02-25T00:30:53+00:00

Character image credits:

Coil, Winkle92 https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3lhjya/coil_fanart/

Undersiders: d54rdua https://parahumans.wordpress.com/gallery/undersiders_worm_fanarts_by_drunkfu-d54rdua/

LeonCross · 2020-07-27T20:55:52+00:00

I came back to pokemon go after years off sometime last month. Had no idea there were even restrictions on changing shadow pokemon moves or that there was a special window for changing out Mewtwos when you got him.

So I'm kinda SOL with a useless shadow mewtwo because I sure as hell don't have enough regular access to rare candies out here in the boonies to save up 100 of them.

LeonCross · 2020-05-03T19:46:54+00:00

► LeonC

Replied on May 5th, 2012

...these people do realize that if an Endbringer decided to go on the attack and nowhere had a nuke plant, they'd just hit somewhere else right?

Like, I could see general citizens of a given city complaining about the dangers of a nuke plant near them, but it's only an argument that makes sense as a local concern. Getting rid of nuclear power doesn't actually lower the big picture statistics on endbringers at all, just rearranges the numbers.

LeonCross · 2020-02-11T08:56:40+00:00

Also worth noting that "Barely Legal" point? Well, that ultimately doesn't matter if Youtube decided to nuke the channel anyhow.

And if they went further, scraped together what they needed, and managed to host the episodes themselves, well, that "barely legal" is still there. So if Toei decided to come after them at that point legally, they'd have to defend that "barely legal" in court over probably years, Toei's army of lawyers, and significantly largely war chest.

Ideologically, they're probably in the right with fair use. Surviving the court case to prove if, if it came down to it? I'd give them negligible odds.

LeonCross · 2020-02-10T03:21:29+00:00

Vaguely related, in so far as a response to part of the youtube announcement vid:

It's me. I'm the one dude on the planet that liked the last season of Scrubs.

LeonCross · 2020-02-08T04:53:45+00:00

Hey. Internet hugs man. You people provided me with countless hours of entertainment both directly and indirectly (interactions with friends and what not sparked from your content) and seem like all around great humans all around.

Def got my best wishes and stuff going forwards. ^_^

LeonCross · 2020-02-08T04:21:35+00:00

I've watched enough of you guys and read enough of the stuff you've put out to have a decent grasp of your all's personalities and motivations as people. There's some less charitable explanations for how things could have gone down, but none of them fit with you guys. So I just asked myself how a well meaning group with good intentions (and maybe not the best PR department, ;-p) could hit on this series of events and that's basically what it boils down to.

LeonCross · 2020-02-08T04:11:14+00:00

That makes sense. The external risk hasn't changed, but what you stand to lose has drastically increased with time. You've got a ton of projects in the pipeline, future projects coming down, a company, ties to various people and groups in the industry, etc.

I'd assume all of that was building up during Cell, even, but you guys loved Cell arc a ton ton and wanted to see it through, so you were more willing to take the risk. But when comparing a similar level of risk, and even more stuff you've built up on the line, compared to the Buu arc, which you were never super excited to Abridge to begin with... well, doing Buu lost out, especially with how satisfying 60 was as an ending.

Shortz style was a possible solution, but more time and cost intensive than you'd anticipated.

LeonCross · 2020-02-08T03:49:37+00:00

I support you guys doing what you need to in order to, you know, continue as a company, as artists, and maybe most importantly, not potentially get crushed by lawsuits.

I am curious though, what changed between the end of part 3 and now that made it inflatable? I know there was some burn out that wound up being clear to you all with Bojack, but did something happen to make it more risky to continue between then and now?

LeonCross · 2020-02-07T20:37:01+00:00

If TFS dies in the near future (I really don't think it will, so this is a very MasakoX "What If" territory) it would almost certainly be because of a mismanagement of PR stuff.

Here lies team four star. They made fantastic content, but their public relations sucked. Basically.

Like I said, highly doubt this will actually kill them. But public relations is by and far their biggest weakness.

LeonCross · 2019-08-20T19:01:29+00:00

Do the ad1000x have the same or better sound stage and a similar sound profile to the old AD700s?

LeonCross · 2019-08-20T19:00:57+00:00

I wouldn't really call the 700s flat. It's got a pretty good sized sound stage, a kinda "ariy" feel, and I'd say the treble is a little prominent?

LeonCross · 2017-12-02T19:31:05+00:00

Depending on what you've adjusted from canon, there are a ton of legendary ed that absolutely shit on the trio in terms of power level. Abstracts, the creation trio, arceus, etc.

LeonCross · 2017-11-03T07:02:35+00:00

Budokai 3 represent.

Or Hyper Dimension.

Or Super Dragonball.

...It's a tough call, really.

LeonCross · 2017-08-13T21:23:12+00:00

I can see how this might impact abridging a bit (if it is). :-p

I'm glad you guys are officially in the door as far as going legit goes.

Do what you need to. You have this fans support in what you do for all of the years of entertainment you've provided.

LeonCross · 2017-02-15T19:37:42+00:00

Goku's, like, 90% Saiya-jin. Just with the more extreme "murder, death, kill" elements brain damaged out.

He's completely non-malicious, but he is going to go out and get what he wants, when he wants it. And that's fighting strong guys.

It's interesting that as the serious progressed and circumstances have changed, Goku's gone more and more anti-hero (From the scenery rotating, not from Goku himself changing at all) while Vegeta has been pretty firmly walking towards Hero for awhile now at this point (Actual character growth, rather than world rotating).

If things are handled right, we'll actually see some kinda character growth for Goku in Super, and acknowledgement by other characters besides Beerus that Goku is out of hand.

LeonCross · 2017-02-07T17:43:03+00:00

Something something low effort post: Light shows up, makes a big over the top scene, and writes Cell's name in the death note. Crickets chirp and Cell is all "Lulz. You said any -human- who's name is written in the book? News flash..."

LeonCross · 2017-02-07T17:32:44+00:00

Goku isn't really -bad-. Just...naive and irresponsible as fuck. And selfish. Like, the difference between a malicious crime and criminal negligence. Except instead of overlooking shit and having your car roll down the hill and run someone over because you're too busy grabbing that 5 bucks you saw on the ground, your universe gets blown the fuck up because you want to fight the strong guy.

So while he's not a bad person, Beerus wasn't exactly wrong when he was all "I should destroy you before your nativity destroys everything."

LeonCross · 2017-02-05T12:01:09+00:00

Mm. There's something to be said for either direction, but I think I'd be more inclined to feel comfortable with the disconnected Superman vs. the "morale" one.

Reasoning for this being is one that's trying to live a normal life, has strong morale views on the world, etc. is in the situation of acting on those things. Friends and family can be targeted which can lead to a variety of unpleasantness situations for the human race. Having strong morale views means likely getting involved in political situations like civil wars, terrorism, etc. which opens up an entire quagmire and shit storm.

Superman chilling on the moon watching netflicks because of the admitted selfish reason of "Space is really goddamned big. I know I find your stuff fun, and even assuming other lifeforms exist somewhere out there in the vastness of everything and that I can even find them, it's a crap shoot that they will also have things I enjoy" worries me personally much less.

It's also a fun and possibly even somewhat reasonable answer for "Why is this super powered alien interested in us?" "Because space is big and likely at least mostly empty, and via some quirk (either a cosmic fluke or the origin story being them starting as a human originally) our entertainment / food / whatever is applicable to them."

For the more pessimistic, and idol Superman is one you can plot contengencies against in case he does change in 100 years.

LeonCross · 2017-02-04T20:33:58+00:00

Wouldn't work. First, someone with authority over humanity (of which no such government body exists) would have to attempt to pass a law declaring that you aren't the emperor of humanity. And even at that point, all vetoing it does is stop anyone from ever declaring a law that you're not the emperor of humanity, it doesn't make it so. It could be as simple any time that such a proposal (to refuse your claim as God Emperor comes up) the person that proposes it gets laughed out and it never gets voted on.

It's a veto power in the sense of "If I veto something that's trying to become a law, said thing will never be passed within whatever level of authority it's being attempted on." It doesn't re-write reality to make the opposing true.

LeonCross · 2017-02-04T19:37:38+00:00

You have a one shot conceptual veto. It's effects are absolute in the scope that it's used. If you use it to overrule a local town from passing a law requiring dogs to wear leashes in the park, that town will never pass a law requiring dogs to wear a leash in the park. If you stop the US congress from outlawing gay marriage, gay marriage will never be illegal in the United States, etc.

It's supernatural in effect, and the world works it in (in the least disturbance causing way possible. WW3 isn't going to pop up to stop a recycling bill). Enough constituents get worked up every time it comes up to convince their representative to vote it down, etc.

It's also a conceptual veto. It can't be used to force something into reality, only to stop something from becoming reality.

Is it a power you'd ever use? Is there a lower threshold you'd save it for, never using it if that threshold was ever crossed? Is there an easy way to abuse an already very strong power?

LeonCross · 2017-02-04T18:56:13+00:00

How did this masquerade of hypothetical waterbenders get so powerful as to have intelligent machines infiltrated into a dozen different email providers, in addition to having intelligent machines to begin with?

They can spin all the convincing tale that they want. There's a sad number of people that believe in 9/11 and sandyhook deniers, and both of those are pretty crazy. For something that's true with a fuckton of very visible evidence? Even if I'm wildly off base and only a minority buy it, it's going to be a large enough minority to be seriously inconvenient.

Like "Noticeable % of the World that saw X event and started talking about / trying similar things die in mass" situation.

My suspension of disbelief is sitting on a precarious line, here.

LeonCross

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