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    5 hours ago, Emotionalmosquito said:

    That makes sense. It’s just if the PUAs are saying being totally filterless makes you seem more attractive you have to expect some weird things to get said, no? And isn’t wit mostly attached to your intelligence? Cuz that’s not something you can easily upgrade if so.

     

    Speaking with no filter in a socially calibrated manner basically just means: expressing yourself + not being fake + not being rude.

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    15 hours ago, MAHAVATAR_-_BABAJI said:

    Then what is the point if a same night lay of it's all dependent on her mood the following day? It's like you literally have to restart. Most likely she still won't text you. 

    The point of getting laid is that it’s what you want (whatever the reason; maybe you’re just filling a void, maybe you just love women). If it’s not what you want, then you’re in the wrong game.

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    3 hours ago, something_else said:

    What you say and how you say it both matter.

    You can think of it like the ‘how’ you say it determining ‘what’ you can say and get away with it.

    For example being passionate about women’s menstruation is an unusual thing for a dude to be passionate about so you’d need a lot of humour, charm and wit (‘the how’) to act as a counterbalance to that topic (‘the what’) to get away with it

    For real. Almost sounded like a troll post (no offense; just goes to show social calibration is a thing).

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    45 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

    I several peoples on thinksteroid who had his digestive system ruined because of the Mercury deposition induced by ALA. 

    See that’s the thing. That was already discussed in this thread. We know it does that and even warned against as much. No harm done though — better to be safe than sorry but considering the amount of warnings against ALA + mercury toxicity in this forum, anyone who does adequate research should be fine.

    Hopefully no one is going to use ALA as a nootropic unless they’re already using it for chelation. Otherwise, they clearly were heedless and didn’t do much research.

  5. Posted · Edited by The0Self

    Well most of the teachers out there are blatant frauds. Well they aren’t frauds in that they aren’t selling what some people apparently want (hope and camaraderie), they just usually aren’t telling you how to actually get laid virtually guaranteed (which is possible and in fact just having an honest conversation with a woman who respects you can clear it up for you in one afternoon). Just look at the girlfriends and wives of these teachers — now I’m not one to be shallow but hear me out… when your whole sales pitch is getting hot women, believe me if they could do it themselves they would show it, and they don’t. And there are a lot of cult followers of those people — and on this forum btw.

    You’re taking yourself too seriously if you’re worried about this nonsense. If you’re interested in something, being yourself (plus being strong and kind, obviously, if you lack that, in which case that’s your problem go fix that) will indeed be attractive to some women, but obviously not every woman. Rejection happens all the time and it shouldn’t matter one single bit — if it does matter to you it will be a self fulfilling prophecy. If a woman doesn’t like what you say just calibrate after the fact and don’t let her get you to con yourself into thinking anything social or sexual is a big deal at all — that’s the real issue guys have. It’s where the idea of “state” and “warming up” comes from — anyone talking about either of those two things unironically is unaware of the actual game cheat code (defining your own value as unbreakably good enough for any girl right now just the way you fucking are).

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    5 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

    Is there such a thing as a golden "rep range" for cardio? (like the 6-12 rep range for hypertrophy).

    Basically yeah (hypertrophy rep range is 5-30 btw with a sweet spot of 6-15), and it’d be in bpm — not sure precisely what it is though, but from what I’ve researched it’s clearly >130 and almost certainly 140+ bpm, yet of course the higher you go the higher the fatigue and the briefer you can do it for. If you keep it between 140 and 145 (or maybe up to 150-155 max but that may be pushing it), there is very, very low fatigue cost (including for the joints and CT if it’s a low impact exercise; if it doesn’t involve a significant % of 1rm for the fibers involved like something ill-advised for this like a stair climbing machine would) and therefore you can spend that fatigue elsewhere e.g. on exercises that effectively increase muscle mass (and therefore improve health since the muscle mass isn’t added on via exogenous hormones).

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    1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

    Have you tried it? The type of contractions your chest makes after a proper sprint is unmatched. The 4 minute rest is not really rest. It's 3 minutes struggling to regain your breath, and 1 minute to get ready to explode. The idea that the most optimal form of cardiovascular exercise must necessarily involve keeping your heart rate at a constant medium pace for a long period of time seems like an unquestioned dogma to me. Why do we understand that this is not the case with resistance training but not cardio?

    Of course. I’m very athletic. I just answered your question though, given the volumes you listed. Nothing to do with what’s optimal overall or challenging or whatnot — just the answer to you specific question. For instance, I do very little incline treadmill walking myself because I superset and giant set all my weight training exercises anyway. In fact sometimes I do implement the tread simply to ensure that my heart is never becoming the limiting factor, so that I can continue to use supersets for the simple purpose of squeezing more volume in a session. Incline db press + one arm db row + HLR is very taxing on the heart. But if we’re talking cardio and brain health for very little fatigue cost, incline treadmill walking at a target heart rate is a very direct intervention that works quite well, if not basically the best — particularly if you have a medium weight vest or pack on.

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    19 minutes ago, at_anchor said:

    I'm also a man. I'd probably only be a man if circumstances allowed it. I want a passive/bottom  boyfriend. What is not clear?  Some men are so ugly, but they have the money, the car, the right location and everything that they scam guys who would be happier with me to be with them.

    Yeah I guess it is mostly guys here but still if you’re seriously inquiring then you might as well include in your question that your gender is male in some way.

    Dude if this is a serious inquiry I can help but damn was that beating around the bush. Is English your second language? if you’re looking for a passive/submissive bf that’s probably very similar to man-to-woman game, in which case just be confident and escalate… damn. Can’t imagine how much easier men are than women.

    Though I guess you’d maybe want to search in places full of gay or bi people. Idk how common they are in your area or places of being. Really I’m not sure how it works but every gay (or bi or even bicurious) friend I have ever had has had no problem getting laid no matter what their situation. Guess getting a partner is different though, but if man-to-woman game is to be any sort of template, just believing in your own self worth 100% (i.e. “keepin’ it 100”) is literally the atomic bomb that deletes all problems you could ever have on the level of “scoring love.”

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    1 hour ago, at_anchor said:

    I'm never gonna have a boyfriend  because I don't have money, a car or motorcycle, a place of my own maybe as well.

    Self-limiting beliefs. If you’re worth it then you’re worth it. But attractiveness is of course important for this, so if this is what you want, then yeah improving your attractiveness and putting yourself out there would be fruitful. Don’t you already know this? Can’t see your gender. You are a woman, right? If not then never mind I totally missed the mark.

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    3 hours ago, Kid A said:

    Makes a lot of sense! This must be the reason why all the dating advises I try to apply usually backfire, even though I try to balance them with authenticity. I also have a hard time relating to some of the struggles many guys seem to deal with, like for example being perceived as too nice by women. 

    If you’re not getting laid, you’re almost certainly being perceived as too nice. Nice doesn’t mean kind. Nice means you’re worried about offending her, as if she’s some delicate flower that can’t take offense. Nice = disrespect, in the eyes of women, for better or for worse. But kindness is still the pinnacle of values, as well as value, which women respond to very strongly and positively.

    It’s not serious anyway, so who cares if she’s offended? You’re just being yourself. — is actually not only how you should act if you want to get laid, but how she wants you to act if she’s going to like you a lot.

    If you do offend her, calibrate after the fact, but do so unapologetically, as it wasn’t serious anyway. Anything serious is pussy repellant.

  15. Posted · Edited by The0Self

    Watched the video. Not bad. You kept it fun and light, made sure to make your intentions known, and didn’t seem too nervous (though if you’re not a psychopath I’m sure you were at least slightly nervous, as we all are when we approach). And it’s great that you weren’t using much if any permission speak (rising intonation) — never underestimate how unattractive permission speak is. A bit more downward/commanding tone would help you though. You used a small amount of rising intonation a few times at the beginning but it wasn’t outrageous or anything.

    There were a few moments of getting a bit logical and serious (serious = pussy repellant), but otherwise? Not bad, brother! Tentatively, it seems your speech could have used a bit less of a filter (and she would have laughed a lot more than she did, which is not important in itself it’s just that no-filter gets you laid) but you can’t get it 100% perfect every time. That’s all the feedback I can think of right now. Thanks for posting.

    And it’s great that you mentioned let’s grab a drink but you could have said something more specific like do you like margaritas… I know this place that has great ones, let’s go once we figure out what our schedules are like.

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    4 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

    no need to do a lot of fitness to have a decent physique

    Yeah you get out what you put in, in reverse exponential fashion. So 1-2 hours per week is going to be tremendously better than 0, and the second 1-2 hours will not be as powerful as the first 1-2 hours and so on. It’s scalable obviously.

    Put in 5-8 hard hours a week and you’ll probably get fantastic results, and 15 hours will probably be even better, albeit maybe only 1-2% better. But 3 hours is still way more bodybuilding than most are doing.

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    8 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

    I don't think bodybuilders are happy with 3 hours of "chill" bodyweight training in their room per week 👁

    Moot point and also actually false (perhaps true based on your definition of bodybuilding which isn’t the one being used here). You didn’t read my reply or didn’t understand it. Bodybuilding = any sort of activity done for the purpose of gaining or maintaining muscle mass. Bodybuilding is also a sport, but that form of the word is clearly not what we’re talking about.

    Perfect counterexample, just in case you need one still: I “bodybuild” and there have been several weeks wherein I’ve only dedicated 3 very chill hours to it that week. And yes, I didn’t leave the house.

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    4 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

    No, discipline is good for money, women, sports you love, hygiene and anything else you have a tangible interest in.

    If it's just placed in a stupid sport that you don't like, without it having concrete results, it's just useless and even potentially neurotic. Actually there are advantages to being a not very disciplined bear lol, you evolve faster because you capitulate easily when your efforts go into a questionable situation.

    Discipline is never not a strength. If you capitulate easily when things aren’t working out that’s called not being delusional; intelligently cutting your losses. If you don’t apply discipline to that, it will result in worse outcomes than if you applied discipline.

    Careful when you’re avoiding things just because they’re hard or scary.

    Of course you wouldn’t necessarily want to apply discipline to something you hate. Apply discipline to things you enjoy.

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    45 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

    Is that true; that 140 bpm for 30 min leads to less fatigue than sprinting 20 secs x 4 with 4 minutes rest in-between? And are the cardiovascular effects comparable?

    Yes almost certainly on both counts. As in the treadmill would be at least as good. The cardiovascular effects of tread would probably mog sprinting with that much rest.