Carl-Richard

Endorphins and other neurochemicals make you less volatile and more present. Increased blood flow, decreased heart rate, lower blood pressure. Essentially working out is a source of vital energy, it's the basis of your physical existence. If you don't use your body, you deterioate as a physical being, and your physical being is linked to your mental being. If it's particularly high intensity training, you also pump a lot of lactate into your brain which is used as an energy source and has especially stimulating neurotransmitter properties, and noradrenaline which increases alertness. BDNF is released which is involved in neuronal growth and plasiticity. High intensity training is arguably the #1 brain health intervention after sleep.

Gaining muscles by cutting your program in half and WHILE ON A CUT (lower calories)? I bring to you, Mr. Jeff Nippa: That's a convincing N = 1 empirical argument for why Mr. Mike is delusional and why rather training to failure is optimal for hypertrophy. Now, here's a convincing theoretical argument: It's about providing a clear signal. When you push yourself to failure, your body literally cannot do any more. That is a clear signal for adaptation, which leads to muscle growth. Anything else than that, e.g. "three reps in reserve", means you have to firstly add brakes, and secondly interpret where the zone of adaptation is. And this interpretation gets even more muddy as you add more volume (which is the only way you can drive adapation if not pushing yourself to failure), because the zone of adaptation constantly changes. And those changes tend to be so so small. Three reps in reserve with respect to 15 reps the one day vs 16 reps the next day is not a straightforward mental operation, if it's even possible. With three reps in reserve, what is more likely is that you will choose a level of adaptation you're comfortable at, and you'll stay there largely irrespective of how much volume you add. Because even if you do manage to nail the miniscule increase between 15 vs 16 reps, you would have to nail that for every other set as well for the rest of the exercise, and you should expect that extra effort to be evened out by the next set (because you're seeking a zone of "medium" effort, you are seeking where to pull the brakes, in a body made for minimizing effort and taking the path of least resistance). You have to use the natural tendencies to your advantage: let any and all effort go to pushing the gas pedal, let that become the path of least resistance, let there be no other alternative. Let the body speak, let the mind be silent.

Answer based on the first thing that pops into your mind.

It's that it's simple and easy to identify (oil made of seeds) It's a food item that people don't have a strong preference for or against (it has a relatively neutral taste and is used as a means to an end, as a cooking accessory, more than a food you want to eat) It's not seen as strictly necessary (you can get fats from many other sources) It's tied to "you fear what you don't understand" with respect to the processing steps for making the oil (involving sometimes spooky-sounding chemicals and modern industrial processes) It's tied to "big money" capitalist conspiracies ("big food companies just want to earn money") and conspiracies of narrative control (big food companies lobbying in government, science) It's tied to the naturalistic frame or fallacy ("the processes for making the oil are not natural", "natural is better"), simple in- and out-group dynamic It's a food item that people don't know much about so they can easily adopt a new narrative and usually one that plays on weaknesses and that sticks Now, I haven't made an empirical case for or against its health effects. But notice how many things are not good for you but how some things are amplified more than others. Feel free to add more things or find a similar boogeyman.

Don't you see my profile picture is Turquoise? You can't fool me, Yellow 😌

@Leo Gura Get yo ass to moderator discussion, right now 🥰

Not just a part of you, but likely you in an earlier stage of your life.

These would fit perfectly: Because they're Blue.

That would fit right under the Reddit cave exploration posts.

Ironically, a bit like how virtually every post in this thread says or implies "conformity is bad". What you fear, you tend to dichotomize, absolutize, extremize, reject, deny. It creates a solid basis for conformity.

Zizek should have seen me from February to March last year where I slept 1-3 hours most nights, measured people's brains all day, still kept up my workout regimen and still most days made my own food, until my face turned yellow and I had a massive mysterious swelling in my elbow which I took antibiotics and anti-inflammatories for, still kept going without being able to extend my arm fully.

My idea of compatibilism (which I stole from Bernardo Kastrup) is that the feeling of free will is compatible with the insight of determinism. Saying that you have free will in one sense but not another is a psychologically healthy frame, rather than "you have no free will, it's an illusion, you're a leaf blowing in the wind". To be able to say that you have free will is healthy, as per the confusion of the OP, but denying your logical mind is also unhealthy. It's similar to how a frame of epistemic pragmatism is psychologically healthy (in my opinion) as opposed to say realism or skepticism, in that you can say "it's true relative to this criteria" instead of "it's true" or "it's not true". Here it's more about stating your assumptions and making them conscious. It creates a mood of being careful and being aware of bias, which I believe is more healthy than the alternative.

Nah, Bryan would only do grass-fed organic local-raised, with mixed Australian-American accent for extra longevity points 🥴

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Just read the statistics. Heritability is around 50%.

That, but also some people just want to be like the Hulk.

Try harder.

Your laziness means you suffer.

Never underestimate these Viking lips.

Bro you get high off a quarter b-vitamin complex.

@Bogdan I saw a video of GVS that made start questioning wtf I was doing training like Mr. Mike, feeding into my intuitions. I just saw his video on Goodhart's law and it's essentially one more straw in the hat for "listen to your body, holism is a supreme virtue, your mind and reductionist science usually screws things up more than it helps".

Even if the world is outside of your control and you're connected to the world, you still experience yourself taking actions and being in control. There is no contradiction between these things. You used to feel being responsible, then you learned a philosophy which makes you think you're not responsible, but it's a category error. You still feel being in control, you still feel being responsible. Even if philosophy says every action has a causal chain or if science says we can predict your next action 3 seconds before your make it by reading your brain, your feeling of responsibility matters, it has consequences. It is important.

Technologies of waking up can also make you go insane. With great power comes great responsibility.

Talk about it on a forum.

The ego interprets, makes frameworks, tries to understand Enlightenment. But Enlightenment is not that. Did you try to communicate something else?