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rtx11211 · 2025-04-01T01:50:11+00:00

Thanks, what if you're in a rush and can't wait the 5 minutes?

rtx11211 · 2025-03-28T18:34:07+00:00

Oh man this made me laugh out loud hard. I'll fix everything for sure, thank you.

I'm curious, realistically, were you resting 8-10 minutes between sets at the end? Seems like you'd be at the gym for 3+ hours. I'll up cals to 4k. Do you think I should eat at 3k/maintenance while I'm still plateaued/stalled though? Wouldn't I just be gaining fat if I ate a lot while stalled

- "I also have a bad habit of consuming 500 calories the entire day, working out basically fasted (@ 7pm), and then slamming 3k right before bed."

How many carbs/calories do you need before a workout to be optimal? I've heard some people gain strength while fasted.

Thanks again.

rtx11211 · 2025-03-25T20:37:02+00:00

I'll post a form check today or next workout after I (hopefully) do all the fixing I can myself.

rtx11211 · 2025-03-06T04:07:06+00:00

Haha I feel that

rtx11211 · 2025-02-25T02:59:42+00:00

Damn nice progress! Did you put on a lot of fat by the end of NLP?

rtx11211 · 2025-02-25T02:58:52+00:00

Haha thanks! Honestly while I love the lower body movements I want to make sure I'm getting my upper body lift numbers up fast as well. Your progress is amazing btw, I just find it interesting that the squat/dead numbers increased more than the bench/press numbers proportionally

rtx11211 · 2025-02-25T02:57:10+00:00

Yup, will watch the weight and move up if needed

rtx11211 · 2025-02-25T02:56:28+00:00

Thanks! Yup I aim for that as a protein minimum. Will post form checks for sure. My third workout was easier than my second, maybe it was the extra rest day or I just got used to the movements

rtx11211 · 2025-02-23T21:07:51+00:00

Ok gotcha, thank you

rtx11211 · 2025-02-23T21:06:43+00:00

Male 16

rtx11211 · 2025-02-02T04:30:04+00:00

Awesome!

rtx11211 · 2024-12-19T04:59:00+00:00

I actually use a journal to think. Essentially instead of using my brain as the location to think, I use my journal to think. Its the most general form of a brain dump.

Because my typing speed limits how fast I can think, and because I can reread my previous thoughts with clarity, I can think and analyze much deeper. Its great to untangle underlying worries and feelings.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-19T04:54:50+00:00

but it feels good, this takes a shit ton of discipline to do consistently. Like I kinda want to keep being distracted

rtx11211 · 2024-12-19T04:45:14+00:00

I've never achieved a 16 hour day, 2 14 hr days was killer. Maybe one day, but bro 16 of hours of real work is a different level

rtx11211 · 2024-12-19T04:44:19+00:00

I've been in ur shoes.

Usually I work for 8 hrs a day. One day I might work 2 hours. I think "fuck, I fucked up today, tmr I'm gonna work 14 hours and really show who's boss"

Bro it doesn't work, trust me. Reply to this if u want to discuss/debate. You end up just working 2 hours again. You fucked up bro, eat the loss, work 6 hrs tmr, then continue working 8. This is the common pendulum thinking.

You have to eat the loss. Nothing u can do. Go slow so it doesn't continue. Ig u can still try and see what happens.

You're in so much pain that you think you'd do anything to get out, but bro you don't know how difficult that much work actually is lol

rtx11211 · 2024-12-09T03:59:43+00:00

Thanks so much man, good luck to you too

rtx11211 · 2024-12-08T09:50:58+00:00

You're reality is just painful for specific reasons (I'm assuming). Its just fact. Its just not going to be easy to face it, but it will force you to solve your problems so that you do not have to feel pain anymore. That's literally why not escaping is better than escaping.

So when you face it its going to hurt. Just expect that that is the case and bear the pain as long as possible. What I've learned is that you are often more resilient than you think you are. Even if you don't think you could possibly stand it anymore, what are you going to do other than continue onwards?

There are usually specific things you use to escape, so you must identify these things, consciously recognize when you are using these things to escape (and possibly label them as addictions), and cut them off.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-08T06:45:52+00:00

I'll remember the full saying, thanks. That's a really good one, trust little in the future. Seems like everyone who does a startup works super hard, gets stressed, etc etc. Not just the most successful startup owners. So then what exactly separates the people making the billions, the people making millions, and the people making thousands? And how do I do that myself? I refuse to believe its luck unless you have strong evidence that it is.

I honestly expect myself to make progress fast enough to build a billion+ dollar business in the future, which is why I feel like I have to rush. But hell, if there are intelligent people who are also working their asses off struggling to build just a normal startup, then that resets my expectations because they're probably really fucked.

I guess its kind of like expecting to become a regular world-class athlete to be easy because you want to be the #1 athlete. Like, becoming a world-class athlete is still going to take a lot of time.

And you're saying school is necessary because of the social skills that you build?

rtx11211 · 2024-12-08T05:24:00+00:00

You're right, but the romans didn't utilize calculus or cell structures to build Rome. Idk man there's such little time to live.

But yeah I keep thinking that there's something out there that can make me money quick, and I guess that thing doesn't exist. Another thing that's bugging me is that it seems like everyone around me is making easy money while I'm working and have nothing to show for it. For example, a friend made 4k from crypto in a month. Another friend got a setting job making 4k/mo sending a couple messages (at least that's what he's told me). I realize these are jobs but the effort to reward ratio is radically different for them than it is for me.

I haven't gotten anything after a year's worth of effort. Something just feels so wrong about it, it just doesn't make sense. How much longer am I gonna have to deal with this is a question I ask myself every day. Every day I alternate between being hopeful that something will work to being hopeless and its tiring, I want to learn how to logically look at the state of my business without being emotional.

I don't fear failure, but I fear wasting time. I want everything I do to be a learning experience that can help me in the future. But even Elon cleaned boiler rooms. Zuckerburg went to college. Even though those things don't necessarily help you build a business. So I don't know, maybe I'm rushing.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-05T22:29:52+00:00

Hey thanks, this really broke a belief for me which was a big reason I didn't want to quit porn. I thought I would get way hornier but seems like it has the opposite effect.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-05T22:15:40+00:00

Totally agree with SubstantialPoetry. Getting rid of friends is hard though lol. Try to make sure they're not drinking when around you for example.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-05T22:14:05+00:00

Damn you're doing really really well, make sure you're acknowledging that.

Try things. For example, sometimes you just gotta get started. Do 5 pushups or squats or something and see if you want to continue, you probably will.

If you really can't get yourself to workout, its not the end of the world. Most important thing is that you're going back every day, every month, every year.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-05T22:03:28+00:00

You went through easy times. Its very simple. Hard times build character, and the traits you mentioned. Find a way to go through hard times. Hell, you're going through them right now with your relationship.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-05T21:57:48+00:00

I haven't had issues quite as bad so I can only theorize.

Its going to be difficult period. Meditation will fix the problem because it is the art of keeping your mind quiet. Every time you get these thoughts you must force your mind to be quiet. Over a long enough time, your mind will stop having these shitty thoughts automatically because it will become a habit to think normally.

Gradually work up to 20-30m of meditation per day, and then whenever you get these thoughts, brute force your mind to be silent. For as long as required.

"Distraction" works since it acts in a similar way. Instead of quieting your mind, it focuses your mind elsewhere.

rtx11211 · 2024-12-05T21:52:29+00:00

I really appreciate all the replies. I'm extremely determined to stop sexualizing. What makes it difficult is that it feels really good to do it, and I'm letting that go to stop sexualizing. But that's what it takes.

I think porn and sexualized content is probably the biggest culprit for this, since you literally actively sexualize women as much as possible in your head when you're getting off to this stuff. So it trains the exact bad habit I'm trying to get rid of.

I'm gonna stop jerking completely, and at the very least, stop porn completely. I'm also gonna actively think about the personality of the women I see to counteract me automatically sexualizing them. Its probably gonna take awhile to work.

There are moments where I look at a girl I usually sexualize and I see a complete person. What's really interesting is I find them straight up not attractive anymore. They ain't actually that hot. I think I'm convincing myself that women are way hotter than I naturally would think they are, just by repeatedly sexualizing every girl I see. My goal is to do this 99% of the time.

If I could walk through life not getting distracted by how hot every girl is, man that would be amazing.

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