Bodybuilding Classic Physique Division Offseason log
You know you who it is already. Can't recall my old password or even what email I used so here we are. I promised I'd st
my side chest is a unique snowflake. Most people look better hiding their midsection and thoracic extension/chest up. I look better showing midsection and scrunching down a bit because my serratus and abs are just that good.
Sure I guess in aggregate, but could market conditions have such a profound impact on individual interactions as to be responsible for going from amorousness to outward hostility? Could somebody having more options cause them to go from treating a person really well to treating the exact same person really poorly in romantic interactions? I hope not. Were women happy being marr
That is where religion comes in. You convince people that following not-very-fun evolutionary advantageous strategies in this life will bring happiness in the afterlife. Win/Win.
Dunyain (perhaps with some female advisors) would probably be good at creating a new religion.
I barely watch TV but one show that resonated with me a ton was dystopian sci-fi Raised By Wolves (canceled after 2nd season). They had a badass made up religion.
Marry your looksmatch (or often even well below) and tolerate your lack of involuntary arousal with him and obey him so you don't face eternal damnation and torture. JFC we came up with a crazy system.
I'm sounding an awfully lot like a feminist rn.
i loved raised by wolves 1st season, fell off so badly that it didn't bother me that it got canceled
I enjoyed Raised by Wolves. The actor who played the crazy religious guy (the one who was the main guy in Vikings) pretty much played the same role in the new Dune prequel, which I also enjoyed. So I guess that is his type cast now, the crazy religious guy.
man I didn't even know there was a dune prequel and i haven't even finished watching dune part 2 movie; I have like 40 minutes left and just never came back to it.
youtube, music, books, video games. Not a movies and tv guy.
The prequel is pretty interesting. There are a few subplots that tie into the Dune universe, but the main plot is it is a Bene Gesserit origin story. Which if nothing else gives them an excuse to have a bunch of strong female characters.
Maybe I will watch both the last 3rd of dune part 2 and the prequel. I can still appreciate good sci-fi.
Upper
NG chins: bwx24, 16
cable flies: 16, 11 forgot weight
machine rows: 75kgx17, 11
db flat press: 35kgx15, 12
high row machine: 45kgx12, 9
bayesian curls: 11.75kgx12, 9
pushdowns: 36.25x18, 11
side delt lateral raise machine: 22, 11
only about half an hour of posing with long breaks, was just too gassed out.
Felt good doing only 2 worksets. Monstrous pump which was probably only because I've been coming back from a deload. Around this time and this bodyweight last year I was doing supinated chins for like 17-18 reps, so 24 is pretty huge. NG and supinated are pretty similar, but normal pullups are gonna be lower.
I keep getting better when I do less. Maybe I take out the high row machine, or just do 1 set, or replace it with an easier exercise like a cable row or pullover. I'll keep as is for now and think about optimizing my offseason volume when I actually get to offseason which is going to be 17 weeks away, counting the 7 weeks after the 2nd show as a slow and painful reverse diet. That phase I want to minimize weight gain, taper off clen/caffeine, and get basal metabolic rate up. Not trying to set a bunch of PRs or anything. Just get to a good level of maintenance calories while staying as lean as humanly possible before I start offseason where I'll shoot for only a 300 cal surplus and keep 30 minutes morning fasted cardio in year round with 60mg caffeine.
This is about the turning point fellas.... this is where I max out on how seriously i take my bodybuilding and fitness without it being my full time job. And maybe that's exactly what creates the conditions for it to become a full time job.
battlestar galactica reboot & early seasons of the expanse are stuff you'd probably like if you liked raised by wolves
eh... maybe
I really want to get ahold of a hard copy of this. Screen time minimization and all that. Maybe I'll just download a pdf and use one of the CHinese apps to have it sent to me as a bound book because it doesn't seem accessible anywhere
Some more shots
nothing really. Just "your white gene is strong" and "well that explains the d size"
Nizz. BBC jopkes.
interesting, i would have thought it'd be a third rail issue for a fewdefinitely never met some girls parents because even just being a foreigner was too much for them to handle and given how openly racist so many are towards foreigners, especially blacks, i would have figured there'd been a "just don't mention you have a black dad to my parents" type conversation where the gir
Pretty sure most people are Bayesian racists. If you bring an educated guy in a suit over who speaks your language fluently, no one is going to care except the real Klan member type racists. Oh. And white middle class+ woman (Beta- or higher).
Well, there is probably some self selection going on before it gets to that point. Guy probably interacts and dates in social circles where everyone is more open minded, including their parents.
To expand on the above, I realize that black people are more likely to have STDs, rob me, be dumber, etc etc. But that doesn't stop be from realizing that individuals are just that and I can make better granular decisions when I actually interact with them. Needless to say I'm not a perfect judge of character and much is influenced by their social class and cultural background. But most people have similar views and while they may have a preference for a potential spouse in terms of racial background, that matters far less than things like "Will he beat her?" "Is he a ****ing massive loser?" etc.
Also Guy isn't oil spill black. "Race" is just a quick and dirty social construct for groupings of various people. Most people just don't want brother darkness breeding their little girl more than they care about whether they pass any of the various racial tests. I mean he's probably not considered black by actual black people using the brown paper bag test in the early 20th century.
The prequel is pretty interesting. There are a few subplots that tie into the Dune universe, but the main plot is it is a Bene Gesserit origin story. Which if nothing else gives them an excuse to have a bunch of strong female characters.
I found the series enjoyable, but I've read the books when young and really enjoy the whole series. Wanna see if we get some dope Leto 2 worm/man hybrids tho. This is when **** gets genuinely weird.
To expand on the above, I realize that black people are more likely to have STDs, rob me, be dumber, etc etc. But that doesn't stop be from realizing that individuals are just that and I can make better granular decisions when I actually interact with them.
This seems incredibly obvious to me, you, and probably most 2p2ers. But what % of the population is even capable of thinking with this level of depth? Even if they can't explicitly say "variation within groups and variation among groups both exist, thus we should judge individuals based on exhibited cues and behaviours beyond simply ethnic group", what % can intuitively or subconsciously behave this way?
I'd guess "depressingly low".
Funnily it is other black people and especially other mixed people who most easily identify me as black. More familiarity so it's easier to discern. I'm probably identified as black by less than 10% of Chinese people and as I've said many times I get middle eastern or southern european most of the time.
Best leg workout I've had in a lower time. Like I picked the perfect exercises, ordering, rest times, intensities, etc all together. 65 minutes.
Lying ham curl: 60kgx16 tie pr, 46kgx16
paused RDL: 110kgx20
glute kickbacks 2 sets of 12
leg extensions: 55kgx24, 16 I think a pr but I would need to check back on that
rfess: 15kgx12x2
Did one warmup set of cable curls and immediately quit because biceps were still sore AF and I remembered that very smart thing I wrote out just hours before about how I keep getting better from doing less.
Maybe I literally only need 4 sets of bis and tris per week split across two weekly sessions with my current calories and recovery demands.
My appetite is crushed and it isn't from the retatrutide, just psychological stress of the job being unreasonably busy and filled with meaningless tasks I need to complete to stay eligible for my year completion bonus and upping my clen from 40 to 60 and the anxiety surrounding another big life upheavel. Because my residence permit expires on the 14th I have no time to just sit and reflect and process everything; like the day after I finish work I gotta prepare all my things and leave. There's no chance to take it all in...
I'd really like to write out a "year in review" post because for teachers years start in september and end in July and August is just ??? So many changes happened this year, so many shifting perspectives. I lost hope in a lot of things and gave up on a lot of things, but I also gained perspective about what kind of person I am, started to appreciate just how unique I am relative to other people after being in denial about this for many years and trying to brainwash myself into thinking i'm just a normal person, and how what's going to make me happy in life is going to be radically different from the norm.
But I can't because my day is filled with meaningless nonsense that I still have to do lol.
jesus it's amazing I keep setting PRs on hamstring curls and leg extensions this deep into the cut. Things are going so much smoother than last year's rushed 15 week cut. I attribute some of this to the retatrutide... I just don't get flattened out on this stuff because of whatever it's doing with glucose and insulin.
This seems incredibly obvious to me, you, and probably most 2p2ers. But what % of the population is even capable of thinking with this level of depth? Even if they can't explicitly say "variation within groups and variation among groups both exist, thus we should judge individuals based on exhibited cues and behaviours beyond simply ethnic group",
Probably behavior that was strongly selected for. Probably evolutionary advantageous for most of human history to err on the side of caution wrt people outside the tribe.
I found the series enjoyable, but I've read the books when young and really enjoy the whole series. Wanna see if we get some dope Leto 2 worm/man hybrids tho. This is when **** gets genuinely weird.
I too read the books a long time ago. Unless they just make up a new storyline, I don't really know how they would make future movies entertaining for a mass audience. As you said, things get esoteric and weird pretty fast.
You seem reasonably "normal" to me, although interesting enough to I guess not actually be normal? You don't seem like some really weird, eccentric dude afaict.
need some expert opinion - there's a big debate over whether or not these are real
sfw - just abs
Spoiler
happens around the 2 min mark
there's big debate in the dnegs thread over whether amanda got a butt implant (better seen via the video not the screenshot) and whether or not the abs are surgically done (she's been very open about getting work done before so surgical enhancement is not new to her, she's had not one but two boob jobs)
mind you, she sleeps in until noon about every day - sometimes in the vlog she literally sleeps in until 5pm etc so the notion that she'd have the kind of work ethic to attain this, even with ped help is pretty far fetched
what is the expert opinion?
You seem reasonably "normal" to me, although interesting enough to I guess not actually be normal? You don't seem like some really weird, eccentric dude afaict.
If this is directed to me, I assure you there is nothing interesting about my actual life. Even if I had Emoken level storytelling abilities (I dont) I couldn't make a compelling tale out of it. For example, the most notable thing I can recall of my day is the chicken corndog samples at Costco were surprisingly good, but I still didn't buy any.
No this is surgical and it's very easy to tell by lack of vascularity in hands and forearms. You don't get abs like that without low enough bodyfat for it to show in other parts. The shape is also just off and looks nothing like it should for a female with a high enough level of muscularity and leanness to have sharp abs. Women also have a harder time maintaining this level of facial fullness when getting low enough bodyfat for this level of ab definition, even with fillers and stuff in the face.
I wouldn't condemn anyone for any cosmetic operations. Ideally they're smart enough to get ones that actually enhance their appearance in the eyes of the people they who's opinions they care about, but many people lack the meta-cognition, calibration, and awareness to do so. Otherwise they truly are "doing it for themselves", which is still totally fine.
Maybe it sounds dystopian or surprising coming from me (or maybe it's completely unsurprising) but I think more people should be getting filler, botox, face lifts, chin implants, breast implants, double eyelid surgery, laser skin resurfacing etc. Butt stuff is risky, hazardous, and much more within somebody's control to influence non-surgically, but if somebody goes in knowing there possibilities of complications or uncanny and odd looking aesthetic results, then more power to them on that front as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Unrelated to any of the above and 15 years old but it got linked on Rob Henderson substack. This was just a chilling read... In school, we get 155 hours of Hitler, 10 minutes of Stalin, 5 minutes of Mao, and 0 minutes of Cambodia and Pol Pot. But on a per-capita basis he was the most genocidal man of all time. Imagine exterminating 1/4th of your country's population in the span of just under 4 years in the pursuit of some idealistic utopian socialist paradise ideal. People like Pol Pot had incredibly high IQs and were incredibly ****ing stupid. Sometimes great capacity for abstraction makes it impossible to view mundane simple realities of the world and human beings. Jouranlism was so much more literary back just 15 years ago, this was incredibly emotive and provocative writing. Communicate an idea and a position through a story rather than bludgeoning the reader with the position so directly.
Rickroll,
I am by no means an expert in such things, but I would guess some kind of lower body cosmetic surgery, on top of a lot of other cosmetic surgery. I dont follow poker celebrity stuff at all, but Google tells me this is an old picture of the same woman; and there is no way to naturally go from this to current shape IMO.
As an aside, as a much younger lad I was known to grab an ass or two (with varying levels of consenuality, although norms around things were much more lax at the time), and I vividly remember once grabbing what looked like a shapely feminine ass, and it was unusually hard (I dont know if this was as a result of genetics, exercise or surgery, although it was so hard I suspect the latter); and it was actually a traumatizing experience.
My limited experience was fake breasts evoked the same negative response. I guess you would say I prefer natural for tactile reasons (although maybe top end surgeries you can get both?). Different strokes for different folks.
Unrelated to any of the above and 15 years old but it got linked on Rob Henderson substack. This was just a chilling read... In school, we get 155 hours of Hitler, 10 minutes of Stalin, 5 minutes of Mao, and 0 minutes of Cambodia and Pol Pot. But on a per-capita basis he was the most genocidal man of all time. Imagine exterminating 1/4th of your country's population in the spa
One of the few things I actually agree with the far-right edge lords is that we should probably dial it down with the mythology of Hitler and Nazi Germany*. Pretending Naziism and Hitler was some aberrant, singular evil is not historically accurate nor does it provide a very good understanding of human psychology IMO. And this probably does more harm than good to our conceptualization of "evil" and understanding of human psychology.
*Of course a big difference between me and them is they believe Hitler was the good guy of early 20th century history, and I think he was the bad guy, but over-obsessing on one bad guy probably counterproductive at some point.
My limited experience was fake breasts evoked the same negative response. I guess you would say I prefer natural for tactile reasons (although maybe top end surgeries you can get both?). Different strokes for different folks.
was in a relationship with a woman who had over the muscle implants
her figure was spectacular to behold with clothes 10/10
once the clothes came off it was still an amazing view as they represented perfectly symmetrical, large and buoyant/perky breast but a bit of a turnoff because all illusions that they could be real were shattered but still 9/10 aesthetically
but in terms of per capita fondling etc they were some of the most neglected breasts i've ever shared a bed with simply because they lacked the jiggle and responsiveness that make them so great - once in the hand or mouth they decidedly stopped being a sexual organ and simply something ornamental to look upon but not touch much 7/10
although i never witnessed the before version and i have no doubts that she looked better with the implants, i couldn't help but feel like i would have preferred had she went without once we get past initial reaction of seeing her figure from afar
woman i'm dating now has amazing naturals but they've been visibly altered by having had kids and you can see how much perkier and fuller they were previously - she says she wants to restore them to their old state pre-kids once she's done having kids and i'm very torn on the matter as i think i'd much more prefer mom boobs over something that would be hard to the touch - i think under the muscle can get there in terms of natural bounce and response because i've heard that is the case and it's getting better over time - but i am very concerned about ruining what are otherwise an incredible rack
As an aside, as a much younger lad I was known to grab an ass or two (with varying levels of consenuality, although norms around things were much more lax at the time), and I vividly remember once grabbing what looked like a shapely feminine ass, and it was unusually hard (I dont know if this was as a result of genetics, exercise or surgery, although it was so hard I suspect th
Some of the 'i prefer natural' chorus is authentic; a lot of it is essentially male virtue signaling. If men didn't like it in the aggregate, it wouldn't be so prevalent in "films", "professional internet para-social relationship cultivators" and among "physically present professionals" relative to the general population. Women would not self-report higher sexual satisfaction, higher self esteem, or better treatment post-op either. And if you are flat/small, can you imagine a universe where doing it does NOT directly improve your odds of finding a more attractive, taller, or wealthier partner overall, even if it turns off a few individual high quality men? OFC when you standardize for size and proportion overall natural is going to be preferred in the aggregate in case I'm being misinterpreted.
and yes, the tech has advanced considerably since Dunyain was a young lad.
One of the few things I actually agree with the far-right edge lords is that we should probably dial it down with the mythology of Hitler and Nazi Germany*. Pretending Naziism and Hitler was some aberrant, singular evil is not historically accurate nor does it provide a very good understanding of human psychology IMO. And this probably does more harm than good to our conceptu
There's a reason you never see subtitled or translated speeches from Hitler in US history classes....And let's not pretend a certain group with a whole lot of influence on government, foreign policy, news, and entertainment media is not also influencing high school curriculums. But its none-the-less surprising they don't treat communism with similar ire; I don't think this is helping their cause.
I feel like even 3 years ago pointing this out got you labeled a nazi or anti-semite, but things have RAPIDLY changed on this front among the mainstream anglo-spheric internet and that's a good thing. I'm shocked at how based instagram is on this topic.
rickroll good boob talk, please go on. Pics if desired.
