The Renaissance Man

Love it. Thank you

@integral Thank you, right now I'm not looking to build anything, but the world of programming intrigues me. How would you go about learning this, big picture, if you were starting from scratch, completely zero? The most coding/automation I've ever done is excel templates and some automation on make.com (but no code)...

This is incredible! How much work did it go behind these? I never learned how to code so I have zero idea. This seems like alien stuff

I loved the traps of content creation article. I will come back to it time to time to remind myself. At the same time, I felt it a bit blackpilling. It could benefit from another post on why despite all those traps, it can still be very worth it. EDIT: also, a super valuable post would be "the traps of hosting a forum/community"!

Finally, that channel was absolute YouTube cancer.

The key is not in the reps and sets, but how hard you push those. If you don't go to failure or very close, your muscles are not challenged, hence they don't grow. Anything from 4-30 reps works pretty much equally, it's just personal preference.

Yes, a critique to Israetel was that he "extrapolated" too much from knowledge we are still unsure about. If you train hard, and you are consistent, you're 90% of the way there.

Why? Is it because of the Zuckerberg vibe or for some other reason?

The generalizing is totally unjustified. And this hatred and frustration can be smelled by women, even if not explicit. Look at the objective facts: this woman in particular behaved in this way. You didn't like it. You're not going to hang out with her anymore. That's it. No generalizations, no unnecessary misogyny. Probably you can think about a few signs of the kind of person she was from before you met. That would be a good lesson to better filter for mature women next time. Without adding extra layers of hatred.

@BlessedLion It's not like they were together or anything though. Having all those those red flags appear in 30 minutes... it seems like a good reason to dump her actually. And the 30 minute thing is clearly disrespectful and slimy, waiting for him to meet her to tell him.

@Carl-Richard Ok a couple points to clarify my perspective: Mike Israetel and Jeff Nippard explicitly teach in the context of maximizing hypertrophy, and not other training philosophies. It is NOT assumed that this is the number one goal of lifters. The two can easily coexist. By injury I mean injury prevention not rehab. I was not specific, my bad. A controlled eccentric enables you to prevent injuries more, by lowering the load you use, with seemingly the same level of gains. Not being reckless is enough injury prevention when you're beginner-intermediate. But when advanced, you're so strong that even perfect training, where you carefully warm up and everything, leads to injury. That's why top athletes still get injured despite all the attention they get from trainers. Because when you are very strong, and when you train a lot, you're stressing your body no matter what. So if there are ways to obtain the same gains without as much stress, that's a win. Again, this becomes more of a problem as you get advanced. It's not about fear of injury, but about long-term optimization. When you get hurt, first, it fucking sucks because you have to stop training, and second, since you can't train, you are clearly not growing optimally. I'm not talking about absolute injury rates. So it's no use comparing the injury rates of other sports. I'm talking about relative injury rates within bodybuilding or strength training. And I'm saying that training with lower weights for the same gains will lead to less injuries. That is not an opinion. By the way the injury rate in strongman is extremely high. And the injury rate at the pro/advanced level is also much, much higher than with beginners, so injury prevention needs to be taken a lot more seriously. But this is very apparent when you actually do become advanced, because you just keep getting hurt as soon as you push a bit if not extremely careful. Training like Mike Israetel is not at all easier by the way. It hurts like a motherfucker and requires more discipline, more "testosterone", not less. It's actually easier to push higher weights around with less control. More fun, less painful, more ego-stroking. That's why everybody does it that way. But it may be sub-optimal because you skip the time under tension of the eccentric, and there's a higher risk of getting hurt.

This is awesome

@The Caretaker 1 heavy set can give you about 50% of what 4 sets could give you. So while it's true that there are diminishing returns the more sets you do, the difference between 1 set and 4-10 sets is not just 20%. The problem here is that you're taking this principle in isolation. You're not going to put on muscle with one set per week unless you're basically untrained. Even if it's heavy. There is a reason why pro athletes train tens of hours per week. It's because at a certain point you either train more, or you stop improving. So it depends. If you're untrained, then great. Or if you want to maintain a beginner-intermediate level of fitness. But if you want to improve, or maintain an advanced level, you're going to soon find that's not enough. Also, once you have warmed up for one set it doesn't take much longer to do two or three. So even in terms of time, it's much more efficient to do 2 sets of one exercise than to do 1 set of two exercises. As always, if it seems too good to be true, it's probably because it is.

He's clearly not natural but I don't see the problem with it. Unrelated to this thread too.

@Lyubov It seems like you have already made up your mind about Hormozi without giving him a fair shot. That's ok. But it was apparent to me (especially from his books) that his work is really special. It's in another category compared to any kind of business advice I've heard up to this point. It doesn't really take faith by the way. You just see it yourself. When I read the Offers book, for the first time in my life I thought: "holy shit, I would absolutely buy an offer like this one!". No need to persuade me. The logic of his understanding and models persuaded me. I can see with my own eyes how what he says is genius. Obviously, money is his religion so you may want to moderate his advice, especially if selling B2C. But as Leo said, conscious marketing is a luxury you have to earn.