BipolarGrowth

What you describe sounds way more related to attitude than IQ. Some of the smartest (in terms of IQ) people I know have shitty attitudes like you describe. I think higher IQ does give an advantage in that those people might have an easier time realizing how their attitude affects things and can potentially change it, but this is rare. Most people have a shitty and self-limiting attitude regardless of IQ.

That was fucking awesome man! Great work.

I attempted to run a mile as fast as I could tonight. I got 6:13 for the time. My threshold goal was 6:15, but I wanted faster. It was tough, but I also did experience runner’s high. It felt pretty great and grueling simultaneously. Can’t wait to callous my mind further. @Kksd74628 your turn

In a universe where people breathe orgasms, nerds on a forum are asking “what about a lifetime full of oxygen?”

@Rainy Sparkle great work. I mean that. Your reflecting on all of this will lead to fruit as time goes on. All that matters is consistency. People get this wrong though. They think consistency is doing everything right all the time. Or doing this habit every day. What really matters is how consistently you “get back up on the horse” or “stand up to fight again after being knocked down” that really matters. Our minds will get the best of us sometimes no matter what, but what really makes a difference is how good you get at starting over again even though you might have missed the mark in that specific way.

Cheat meals are for people who cheat themselves out of their own potential. There’s nothing wrong with a refeed day, but if you have to regularly cheat your diet, it’s time to develop a stronger mindset.

I’m posting this for what the select few who are taking real action to transform themselves and their lives in concrete ways. It’s currently 11:33 PM on a Saturday night. I woke up at 6:00 AM today to start work at 7:00 AM. I clocked out at work right before 10:00 PM. I got precisely 2 hours and 21 minutes of sleep last night according to my Fitbit app, and I still have a workout that I can’t wait to do. The gym parking lot is as much of a ghost town as you’d expect at this time on a weekend night. In addition to working in a leadership position that challenged me both physically and mentally for 14 hours on the clock, I ate healthy food all day within 5 grams of my macros assigned by my fitness coach (203g protein, 340g carbs, 78g fat), listened to about 4-5 hours of an incredibly useful audiobook, and did grocery shopping during my lunch break. Just six months ago, I would’ve had none of that. I was late to work even at 10 or 11 AM back then. I was too lazy to work out or eat healthy. I was one of the poorest performers at my job. I had no passion to succeed in my career, and I was simply coasting by in life while suckling the sweet and emasculating tit of spiritual satisfaction produced by an eight year hardcore and life-risking pursuit of total enlightenment. The truth is, even if you’re capable of being in states of consciousness more potent than that produced by 10 tabs of LSD while sober and living normal life well enough to the outside world like I was, if you’re anything like me, it’s not going to be enough. You’ll see that even that which would be inconceivable to even the majority of advanced “spiritual seekers” and definitely outside the scope of comprehension for the average person is nowhere near your potential. I say all of this to show you that the limits you and your society set for yourself are selling yourself short. A year ago, I was still in and out of psych wards struggling with what one psych nurse who had worked for roughly a decade in the field said was at least in the top 3 cases of severe mania she had ever seen. At that time, I was considering getting on disability and had already submitted multiple applications, but something told me that this route would leave me in a constant state of settling for less than I could achieve with my life. Today, I’m thankful that the government saw me as being too capable to be given disability even though I had had over a dozen hospitalizations stemming from my three clinically diagnosed mental illnesses and lost jobs, friends, and my reputation at large due to these factors. You’re worth more than what you’re getting in life, and I sincerely believe that anyone who applies themselves can make a complete 180° turn in a positive direction toward their own uncapped potential.

Nice man. A 7 mile run is something. I’d go out to beat your time, but I’m only allotted 200 calories of cardio this week from my trainer. I’m going to run one mile as fast as I can tomorrow. It’d be nice to have you run a mile as fast as you can so we can compare and push each other. I’ve set the goal of a 5 minute mile for myself which I’m going to be working toward.

I’ve been listening to the audiobook Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. I can’t recommend it enough for those of you in this thread. It’s next-level self improvement content when it comes to mindset transformation.

I did about 30 days straight of no fap recently, and the feeling is a night and day difference.

@Craigxt22 you can see an example of my diet posted above. Protein oatmeal (quite delicious), eggs, Greek yogurt, tuna, tilapia, chicken breast, lean steak cuts, and cottage cheese are my main protein sources.

First pic is July 11th. Second pic is today/August 1st. A lot of you are selling yourselves short of your potential with suboptimal diet and training. You can likely get results a lot better than you think. Credit goes to Frank Yang for being my personal trainer. https://frankyang.wtf/fitnesscoaching/aesthetics

@Craigxt22 210g protein, 365g carbs, 80g fat Eating more protein will make it much easier to lean out because it will satisfy your hunger more effectively in general for less calories while also supporting muscle gain of course. Higher protein is more necessary when trying to cut body fat because it will help ensure minimal muscle loss. I’d shoot for 35-40% of your calories from protein if you’re going to cut.

@Adodd it’s a split that is basically push, pull, legs but my weeks alternate so that one week I’ll do 3 push workouts and the next week it would be 3 pull, etc. 5 workouts per week with the other days alternating the other muscle groups. So picture week 1 is Monday- Push, Tuesday- Legs, Wednesday- Push, Thursday- Pull, Friday- Push, Sat & Sunday off. The next week would be pull focused. It runs on a 4 week rotation with the last week being focused more on accessory muscles.

@Asayake I do one session of moderate intensity cardio per week for 200 calories burned currently. So about 15 minutes of running or 30 minutes of cycling. Beyond that, I do get a lot of steps in. According to my Fitbit, it’s an average of about 17,000 steps per day which mostly comes from having an active job. If you’re tracking just using your phone, it’s about 9,000 or 10,000 steps per day since there is a large gap in how different devices track this.

@Jannes there definitely is a better angle in the second pic, but this wasn’t necessarily intentional. My approach when taking my weekly check in photos I take for Frank is to just take the best looking out of three pics for each pose. I just happened to do a better job that time than the first photo. Regardless, the delt striations and added vascularity are not going to just be taking a better photo. The lighting was the same whereas I think I was closer to the camera as you mentioned. Also, both pics in the first post of the thread were taken without a pump. The only pics in this thread taken with a pump are going to be the ones you see in gym room mirrors. I am not a beginner in some ways. I trained pretty seriously when I was 17 for about a year. But I did no consistent training for 9 years until now.

@Carl-Richard many or most

@Rainy Sparkle no problem ? Looks like another great start to a day!

Here’s the dinner I made tonight. I added the chocolate chip cookies and milk chocolate to increase my fat intake for the day to reach my macronutrient goals since I ate very low fat for my other meals today. 11.25 oz. round steak 2 tsp regular olive oil 130g organic black beans 1 full can of no salt added spinach 66g of chocolate chip cookies 4 squares of milk chocolate

@Max_V not at all honestly. It’s probably due to my genetics. I know a lot of people would have a much harder time being this lean. My energy levels and everything is actually far better than when I was at a higher body fat % and not training and having a better diet. @MarkKol Here’s an example of what I ate today. The quick add you see on dinner is about 12 ounces of round steak. It wouldn’t let me scan the barcode, so I had to enter it manually. Frank currently has me on 210g protein, 365g carbs, and 80g fat on training days.

So I’m going to just show three week differences from when I started until now. You’re right in the sense that someone doing 100% optimal training and diet for years will not see huge differences in three week increments, but this is pretty beside the point. I highly doubt those parameters apply to almost anyone here if anyone at all. Also, when it comes to losing fat, this can easily happen to a noticeable degree in three weeks even if someone has been training for years.

Rather than thinking about solipsism, the insight of “only this” or “just this” referring to what is present in that nanosecond only basically covers any beneficial things you’d get out of a solipsistic perspective without adding unnecessary elements.

@Rainy Sparkle great job. It sounds like you’re doing a good job to develop better habits. This will make a huge difference as time goes on.

I woke up today and started cooking my favorite breakfast. 1/2 cup steel cut oats, 1 tablespoon of raw honey, dash of cinnamon powder, 2 tablespoons of powdered peanut butter (1/4 the calories, very similar taste as normal peanut butter), and 1.5 scoops of chocolate whey protein (actually makes this taste twice as good). I also ate a large banana, Greek yogurt, and low calorie keto bread with some toppings (16g of dietary fiber in the bread alone). I did some dishes for about 10-15 minutes while making the food. I finished the Art of War audiobook then started Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. Listened to that for about 20 minutes while getting ready for work. I worked about 8.5 hours. I recently got promoted to a management position at my job. I was less lenient on the employees who were screwing around and wasting time which felt good. They were surprisingly compliant with my requests/orders when I stated things in a very direct manner compared to how I had been making my requests more as suggestions in the past. I’m seeing that being a leader has a lot of intricacy to it. If you allow some people to get off easy, it ends up indirectly punishing the quality workers who just end up having to do even more work. I’m going to continue to try to develop a more dominant energy when dealing with people who are slacking off to the detriment of the entire team. Now it’s about midnight, and I’m at the gym about to start my workout which will last roughly 2 hours.