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Its possible. Depends on the case. I dont think its possible in your case though, you seem so invested. You need to be emotionally over her for it to work.

There are sources, websites etc. where you can find a reliability partner. Someone who asks you if you got your goals done? Has anyone experience with it? Feels like a commitment to start something like this. I have extremely high success with body doubling, its basically the only way for me to focus with adhd, so I am thinking that maybe there are some parallels.

Interesting how non professional actor act differently All of those people make it very clear that they are looking at something, while Kai Greene just looks at something.

I just finished the LP course a few days ago. I have been thinking about this moment for quite a while as I started this course more then 2 years ago. Not that I get all the missing answers here but maybe some advice from more experienced folks who are already living their LP. I am 25 now and I live in germany. I have got inattentive adhd which made many things very difficult for me like concentration, dealing with emotions and social problems which indirectly also made other things difficult like finding study partners or getting help with emotional distress difficult. So basically I was always an emotional mess/ overtaxed/ semi depressed while getting nothing done and not understanding what was wrong with me. As a result I had difficulties answering many questions in the life purpose course because I experienced relatively little concrete success so far because I couldnt really take part in life as much. I feel like I have got as close to it as what would be possible with my blockades but I feel like the very thing that is my LP is something I cant see right now. I take meds now and it seems like many things are clearing up rapidly but and I do make quite the transformation. I feel more capable but not necessarily upgraded. The stars become less interesting and I see more immediate tasks ahead. I become a lot more concrete instead of abstract. Thats the best way I can describe it. I seem to manifest myself in reality. I was always very reflected and stuff but was like a wave without its own will it can force onto the world. I develop a sense of self now. It sounds pretty unconscious I know and I made the point myself that adhd (at least the inattentive type that I experience) makes you more conscious. But in taking my meds I can deal with reality at least. If I got emotional support/ grounding maybe I could do it without meds but currently I can only do it this way. So this situation is quite confusing atm. In terms of my career so far: teaching: I am in 10th semester of studying math and philosophy for middle school but only have enough points to complete like 4 semesters (you need 10 semesters in total) because of the emotional distress I was always in. I could probably do better with the meds now so it really isnt hopeless. I decided to study teaching though because I did some internship to see what I like and teaching was okay for a moment and I couldnt deal with the pain of being in a situation of uncertainty so I did the best thing I found at the moment which wasn't the most conscious choice. Also there is a bit of buffer as with this graduation I can do other things as well. Teaching isnt directly my Life Purpose I am pretty sure about that. But I would earn a lot of money per hour, can do it part time, have a lot of holidays and a class in school gives you many direct information to observe which can inspire you. A school class is basically a mirror of society, all the kids are just mini versions of what's to come. So that can help me understand society and psychology more which would deepen whatever I create with my LP. I already thought a little and am also teaching 5 hours per week atm and it's an okay job. So it wouldnt be my LP but it would have a good base to comfortable pursue my real LP. acting: Over the last two years I have been doing a lot of acting as a hobby which is a lot of fun but it took a lot of time and I am also thinking about doing this as a career path. It would give me a relatively unstable base though and it would probably just miss my LP. Learning to act itself is incredible fun but it can also be emotionally challenging which I might not be capable to do. My Life Purpose is generally a bit unclear to me. Being a critical thinker is very much part of my authentic self and I have also got a very creative mind because of my adhd. On their own or even combined they dont really give me a life purpose that I find meaningful. For example I always think critically but I dont see where this practically leads to. And I often come up with new start up ideas because as I love the creative process but when it isnt connected to something meaningful I loose interest in it. The closest I could with these two is working on series like Rick&Morty which comes close to feeling like a LP. But I think there is a last component, a last value that is blocked from my mind. Besides these top two values I also care about empathy, goodness, authenticity, but not enough about any of them to make a LP in combination with the two about them I think. I sometimes look in my past to where the last puzzle piece might be. I developed a very profound even mystical happiness as a kid as I think that I had mystical experiences in kindergarden. I really vibed with Jesus in that time as well. I felt like it would virtually be impossible to break my spirit because I was connected to something unbreakable. I even felt like I needed to go through some real shit, to be lost, to come out of it and from that place be authentically able to help other people. I had a feeling of calling back then. Well I am not quite back to my inner garden of roses yet. I did about 20 trips of psychedelics and never realized a mystical experience because I was in too much shit mentally I think. (interestingly never had a really bad trip either though) I formulated my LP rather vague. I couldnt find any formulation that deeply inspired because as I said I think there is some authentic part of me missing. Taking my reflection about my past and moments of reflection I feel like it has to do with healing, bliss, profound love, existential (healing), spirituality. But I cant completely make out if these things interest me because I feel like I have a lack of them (negative motivation) or if it is authentic. To make my LP more concrete I could reformulate it like this for example (but I am not sure about it): - giving people blissful spiritual experiences to make them more loving and conscious. - finding existential beauty and meaning in fucked up situations to make people more hopeful So with all of this I have no clear direction of where to go and I found out new things about myself/ unblock blockades and this is probably going on for months and years to come. All ways would help me move forwards. If I study to become a teacher that would be an acceptable path which would allow me to do lots of other stuff (LP) I am interested in as well but then I could never study to become a serious actor because I would be too old at this point. I would need to become more clear about myself and my values to see what I value most. A side thought is also to experiment with start ups (for money) as I have lots of ideas for them. Right now I am thinking of continue studying while giving myself time to process and I can on the side apply to acting schools. Chances of getting accepted are pretty low anyways and if I get accepted that would be a sign that I am quite talented. Design ohne Titel.pdf

The most cis men humor I heard in a long time.

They would have a harder time to keep the muscle while loosing the fat if it turns out that higher rep training is more hypertrophic then strength training, but thats the basis of our discussion I believe. Well a mix of strength training and hypertrophy and constant "bear mode" will get you far ofc. Btw. Eddie Hall and Brian Shaw are strongmen though. In strongmen events you do mostly exercises where you need strength endurance. 1 rep maxes dont train that optimally. They likely train mostly in the hypertrophy range anyway. I dont think Olympian BB are always the pinnacle of maximum muscle development when I think about it, some symmetrie and proportion is important. Greg Kovac, despite being arguably the biggest BB ever never placed highly because of it. A big gut often carries with it more muscle, but its unaesthetic. Well that makes a basis for argumentation pretty small. Btw. do you think that all intuitive training will lead to strength based training? What do you think about the Golden Age bodybuilder who did lots of sets. They didnt have the science so they trained in a way that intuitively felt good. And then Mike Mentzer the science guy came along with his one set high intensity style lol. There is a calisthenics icon which I cant find anymore unfortunately. He collabed with Jeff Nippard and I believe Frank Yang at some point. He does his own intuitive training style and does unholy amounts of volume every day. 2020 pull ups to new year and stuff like that. What do you make of that?

They are great for travelling especially. But sometimes they are a bit too great, didnt hear the ringing at my door when my chimney sweeper came.

Queen is worth about 9 Rook 5 Bishop 3 Knight 3 Pawn 1 Obviously in regular chess the King has maximum value. But its also obvious that this is quite a reductionistic estimation as the Kings movement options can be compared to the other pieces. The Kings movement is above that of a Pawn and below that of a Queen. So I always wondered how much value the King has based on its movement options. But because the King cant be used in a regular combative sense as he needs to play in a way to always be preserved and also cant stay in checks its playstyle is quite limited. And you also cant really turn chess into a pure combat game as a thought experiment where the goal is to defeat all your enemies pieces to estimate how strong the King is because in chess you win by defeating the King which can be done in a more elegant and effective way then smashing all your enemies pieces before they smash yours. Obviously smash value will collerate strongly with regular value but I think some pieces are better for checkmating then for smashing. For example I think a Bishop is better for checkmates then a Knight who is better for smashing pieces. Depending on the context of course. If you ask the question how much value a piece has for checkmating the opposing King then I think you can get to the value of the King. This would be my formula: The value of the King for checkmating the opposing King - The material and opportunity cost to defend the King = The value of the King In the early game this will likely be negative value and in the late game the value can become positive. What do you think is the smash value of the King btw. as I think this is still an important pointer?

Ah okay, I couldnt picture much beyond groping in my head. This makes more sense.

Holy shit thats a lot. Well with this much practice you can just seem like a natural. Ofc you could also be one.

I love this stupid acting. Timestamped

I get the feeling you are a natural.

I guess in loud night clubs? Everywhere else that would be inappropriate. How does it look like? How do you improve at it?

They never lean down for a bodybuilding show though. They would loose a lot of muscle. And generally Powerlifter and Strongmen will have phases or asseccory work of hypertrophy training. You usually need more time to for rest to refocus in between sets if you use very heavy loads and lighter loads also seem to be about twice as hypertrophic per set if you can trust the study that Jeff Nippard mentioned in that video you posted. So lighter loads should be much quicker for a good hypertrophy stimulus. I really noticed the cognitive benefit of lifting when I was gaming. Even when I was tired of the workout my mind and reflexes were refreshed after working out, it felt so healthy and magical. I dont want to miss that but I just dont like lifting anymore. Maybe there are other fun sports out there with similar benefits.

WTF!? I assume weight was adjusted for. Can you find the whole video for checking the study? this one is cruical I find it hard to tell how big Eddie Hall and Brain Shaw really are. Of course they are very big but there is so much fat on them its hard to tell. Of course getting strong gets you big but probably not in the most efficient way possible if hypertrophy is what your after. I think this is consensus on many studies that you can maintain muscle with incredible low volumes. I actually had the same feeling about it that the body would eventually learn and drop muscle when the maintenance volume would stay that low. Well for me homeostasis did kick in in my behaviour eventually and I went to the gym less then once a week. I have my maintenance approach for so long now, I could at least make an anecdotal claim about it if I strictly kept my routine damnit.

WWE is impressive in its own way. Your cusscessful MMA fighter wont have the charisma and acting ability of a WWE superstar.

I would give the King about a 3 just for smash value.

Lol, call it what you want. I can call your approach the meathead approach. I like my approach because it doesnt kill me. There are many sports I would rather do then going to the gym but for hypertrophy nothing can beat the gym so I want to be in and out as soon as possible with the most amout of results for my efforts. There are many things which train your grip. You can do dead hangs which are also incredibly healthy for your back. I am surprised you never heard about. Its one of the earliest concepts I learned about. Not in detail becaue I dont study this field but enough to get the general gist of it. I am not sure if CNS fatigue can be measured. But its plausible that both exercises which involve many big muscles and heavy sets are especially demanding for the CNS. Because the CNS manages how many muscles are recruited and their coordination. The CNS literally limits your muscle activity so you dont hurt yourself, Powerlifter train their CNS so that it stops nerfing their muscle activity so they can get all of their muscle activated during a lift. If you look at a 1 RM deadlift I think it makes intuitive sense that the body needs to do a lot of calculation and that this will be fatiguing.

@Carl-Richard I edited my original comment so much could you please reply to that one? Sorry. I can answer parts of your answer though. Well you quoted Dr Mike directly. If you want to critique him in such a major way then it should be accurate. Well I dont train nowhere near whats optimal for hypertrophy, I train in a way thats optimal for hypertrophy but do a few sets. Well I heard somewhere that grip strength is incredibly important for longevity. Oftentimes you cant find perfect 1 to 1 comparisons. But alright I agree, Eddie is significantly stronger. You know when you hit a some heavy sets of deadlifts and you have zero interest in continuing the workout as you just feel washed. Your muscles could continue but your system just doenst want to go anymore? Thats what I mean. There are also more scientific explanations out there which I cant provide tbh

That study says that 3x10 is about as hypertophic as 7x3 Well that just proves my point that higher reps are better for hypertrophy. Each set for 3 reps will likely be even more fatiguing then the set for 10 reps while not even being half as hypertrophic. If the science is indeed unclear about it then no it isnt pre-rational. The science seems to be pretty clear about it though so I dont see good arguments how one could justify to disregard it. Its personally what I care about most. I want to look good and I want to built a functional body with lots of longevity. I dont care how much I deadlift if it doesnt help me with these things. The 80/20 rule could be true in that context, that you need the last 80 percent of muscle to get the last 20 percent of strength. But that would imply that strength and muscle arent strongly connected with each other as you can have lots of strength and very little muscle. The argumentation get strong to get big doenst really hit the nail then. By that standard Larry Wheels would be almost as muscular as "Eddie Hall / Brian Shaw / Greg Kovac" because he is almost as strong if strength is what makes you muscular. If you like strength and like to train with low reps and dont care about managing your ressources perfectly to optimize hypertrophy then there is nothing wrong with doing heavy sets. It will also be somewhat hypertrophic. I am simply arguing about what optimizes hypertrophy. Maintenence volume is very low. Studies show you can train with 1/9th of your muscle building volume and maintain all of your gains.

Wondering about that as well. His account isnt deleted. You know more? I know about his temperament.. and he was often in conflict with Leo. He had zero respect for Leo as an authority figure, sometimes his tone was disrespectful and sometimes he pointed out flaws in Leo. I feel like he wasnt an unhealthy presence but I would imagine that it would be hard for Leo to tolerate.

For hypertrophy the range is 5 - 30 reps. Dr. Mike would never say 3 - 5 reps in this context. No I assume there are no studies who look at exactly that. Studies just give general pointers into what you train with your rep ranges etc. Ofc a rep isnt perfectly defined but the pointer 5- 30 reps for hyperthrophy suggests that 1 rep or 100 reps if they arent performed in a very unusal way are likely not that effective for hypertrophy. Well I argue about whats best for hyperthrophy. Obviously if thats not the goal the optimal training must look very different. He isnt as strong as the strongest but the strength gap isnt huge while the muscle size grap is pretty massive. But even Eddie Hall will also have some hyperthorphy built into his training regiment as he needs the muscle size to use for strength later. I think we already argued about that and Eddie Hall in this context specifically.

Is it purely a hyperthrophy program or also about strength?

That like the most basic pointer of science. I see the point of going inwards and listening to your bodies signals and intelligence but if you keep science completly out of it, it becomes a mythical pre-rational not so sophisticated approach I feel like. Size and strengh arent antithetical to one another, you can certainly be very strong and also very muscular. Strength implies a certain degree of size and muscle a certain degree of strength. But look at Larry Wheels for example, he has a muscular built of cause but is nowhere near in size compared to Olympians out there who dont have the strength of him. Like Kai Greene:

In RV I sometimes have an impression which I cant really put into words so I safe the safe details, like I have some impression which is about something and a detail is that it is purple, so I write down purple. That seems to be a mistake, I should capture the gist of it and if it isnt about that detail I shouldnt write it down. I had the impression freedom/ capturing today and the target was a baby turtle coming out of its egg and this was the gist of the impression which was hard to capture and I almost missed it.