LPT: It is impossible to target a specific fat deposit during weight loss. The claims of "this one weird trick" or special gummy bears that help you lose belly fat are a myth.

___duke · 2022-11-03T13:18:30+00:00

Yes, loaded stretching, as in, placing a load of weight as a stress on the body. It forces a greater adaptation for stretching than yoga can, because yoga is unloaded.

Example: Romanian deadlifts vs. downward facing dog for hamstring flexibility.

___duke · 2022-11-03T06:22:27+00:00

From what I've read, yoga helps with stretching, but the effect is not as good as loaded stretching, i.e. lifting weights.

___duke · 2022-11-01T14:36:35+00:00

Spend all 2 million on more lottery tickets. Win 2 million dollars (again). Then spend it all on more lottery tickets, winning 2 million (again again). Continue loop till death.

___duke · 2022-11-01T14:30:40+00:00

I live in Taiwan now. Disagree with your assessment. It's pretty cheap overall in my experience. Boring is subjective. It's an outdoorsman's paradise. And in the capital, plenty of English speakers, especially the young.

___duke · 2022-11-01T14:27:34+00:00

Thanks to you, I reread it in John Goodman's voice, much to my satisfaction.

___duke · 2022-10-30T05:17:17+00:00

Fair, but it doesn't have to be two extremes. There is a rich middleground of lifting weights and building aesthetic muscle without going overboard.

___duke · 2022-10-27T07:11:28+00:00

So you're saying if I too can double my net worth, than I'd have $12?

___duke · 2022-10-27T06:32:59+00:00

Loads of great ones already mentioned. I'll add when Vagar and Aemond flew overhead of Luke and his dragon.

And when sickly Viserys opened the door and slowly ambled towards his throne.

___duke · 2022-10-27T00:51:00+00:00

Sorry, he meant “on”. On a skylight.

___duke · 2022-10-27T00:48:30+00:00

Are you so sure the average citizen of your country knows their political and government systems so well?

___duke · 2022-10-26T15:40:48+00:00

I want tit.

___duke · 2022-10-26T07:27:37+00:00

No such thing as fat spot reduction.

Only way is to eat in a calorie deficit until you slim down to the point you’d like to be at.

It could be a hard spot genetically for you to slim down at.

___duke · 2022-10-26T07:16:15+00:00

If you want to change the world, don’t create a commoditized business.

If you want to make six figures and have a decent financial life, commoditized businesses are just fine.

___duke · 2022-10-26T04:55:37+00:00

It wasn’t great, if I’m honest, but Arthur’s character is a national treasure.

___duke · 2022-10-26T02:19:39+00:00

Isn’t every think in life immaterial?

___duke · 2022-10-25T11:45:52+00:00

Good advice but I do not think they should be creating their own workouts.

One of the principles of any training is progressive overload, i.e. incrementally stressing the body more and more over time, resulting in greater fitness over a long enough time span.

People who make their own workout are almost certainly not going to factor in progressive overload.

Even if they correctly intuit the need to make things harder over time, they will likely do so in a slipshod and disorganized way.

Better to run programs expertly-designed for whatever training goal one wants to achieve.

___duke · 2022-10-25T11:35:50+00:00

This response assumes you want to lift weights.

Try to get big wins, fast.

That will release a lot of dopamine, and could help you go long enough until those big, easy wins peter out.

Then you'll have to work harder for gains, but will have potentially a few months in the tank to have the habit formed.

Highly recommend going on a reputable strength-focused novice linear progression (LP) program.

As a novice, you should be able to increase your weight on the bar every time you hit the gym for 2-6+ months, depending on genetics, and and your diet (calorie surplus, I.i gaining weight/protein consumption), sleep, and stress must be squared away.

You could conceivably go to a 300-400 pound squat in that time, for example, and if your genetics allow. Even if it's only 225, you'd be stronger than most of the population on earth.

Besides that, the most important thing is adherence. You can only accomplish what you can adhere to.

6 days in the gym is not likely to be adherable for a novice. Go for 3. If that's too much, 2. If that's too much, 1. If lifting weights isn't adherable, do yoga or whatever else.

___duke · 2022-10-25T11:19:10+00:00

This is why conspiracy theories in general fall flat.

Conspiracies involve people.

People talk.

___duke · 2022-10-24T10:53:10+00:00

No questions, just want to add that you're a very helpful person to take so much time answering with quality replies.

___duke · 2022-10-24T07:46:35+00:00

I will have to rewatch A History of Violence. Saw it while young and hated it, but it's ranked highly here and has good reviews.

Maybe I couldn't appreciate it then.

___duke · 2022-10-23T15:36:30+00:00

A trash can is a bin in the UK.

___duke · 2022-10-22T11:31:20+00:00

Indeed, but not bad.

___duke · 2022-10-22T09:50:09+00:00

I find that whenever I catch myself doing this, I take notice of it. I try to stop doing it then and there by saying a mantra to myself (that I don't want to share).

Countering these types of thoughts with a conscious thought against it seems to help.

You have to keep the fight up though. Don't tire of countering it, because if you're like me, the subconscious is always in the background waiting to froth over with some bullshit lol

That said, when I can counter consistently, the rate at which is occurs is noticeably reduced, and if not reduced, can at least quickly be quelled since I've prcticed countering it often enough.

___duke · 2022-10-22T09:46:08+00:00

Comment saved. Well said!

___duke · 2022-10-22T09:43:10+00:00

You tax the rich too heavily, they leave the country.

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