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So yeah working out can literally make you look uglier, less proportionate. Theres a basic science to attractive body (narrow waist, wide shoulders, avoid traps, avoid hypertrophic compound movements

This sentence is not linguistically precise and slightly misleading. 

You should work traps, 

You should do compound movements 

Not sure why i used such a generalized word like "compound" as if thats inherently anti aesthetics.. that was dumb. You need both compound and isolation, and compound is the foundation, even simple incline pushups are "compound". 

Use of the word hypertrophic as a negative there was misplaced 

Its just about not overdoing them or targeting traps like you're mike tyson. 

Traps naturally get built by doing the other stuff to an extent anyway and thats a good thing. 

Squats bench press ect.. none of these are bad 

But theres some complexity

Bench press is good but should go 60:40 or 70:30(?) towards upper chest exercises, so lean more working upper chest

Squats i mostly dont bother with because i hate them and i prefer just simple leg press but if i really wanted the full rounded leg aesthetic i should probably incorporate something else - Bulgarian Split squats maybe?

Deadlifts can be good for T boost or just adding systemic muscle gain momentum ect.. but i have heard that they can cause posture issues and they look scary to me so i dont bother

If all you do is heavy deadlifts and squats all day for years you will eventually look like a powerlifting monster 

But then if you're a true tall lanky ectomorph? That might be the exact thing you need since you're problem is different. 

But yeah, I avoid working the obliques since it seems to have little aesthetic value

Again, my knowledge and how I use language especially to describe my "knowledge" is constantly being remodled. 

This is the issue with language and human knowledge full stop, almost everyone is constantly fulll of shit. 

... but also foundations for aesthetic physqiue are pretty cemented in stone now : 

1. V taper, Wider shoulders narrow waist 
2. Prioritize Triceps, lateral delts, chest, lats 
3. Triceps > Biceps 
4. Upper chest > mid/lower chest (but do everything)
5. 1G of protien per pound of body weight >> 150-200G Protien per day
6. MPS - 3-4 Protien meals per day, at 40-50 Gram of protien each meal > 3-4 meals per day instead of giant meal keeps growth signalling high throughout the day and gives a more stable energy, also enhances fullness in key muscles and your overall look over time. 
7. Use repeatable meal & macro-nutrient structure & caloric intake > minimize mental fatigue and automate
8. Low body fat amplifies physique > 10 - 12.5% ideal, 12-14% is decent 
9. Dont neglect legs
10. Post pump look is how you're body will look normally in 2-3 months?
11. Carbs are important for gaining size(No well obv everytrhing matters within a quantified range mathetmatical balance) & this is likely unavoidable, carnivore diet wont suffice, but maybe for maintenance it could work.
12. Dont neglect posture work & walking 
13. Dont neglect forearms
14. Low bodyfat + Tan makes body pop especially

Skull Crushers, incline dumbell BP, leg press, lat pull machine, incline pushups, diamond pushups = my favourite so far

Edited November 17 by Optimized Life

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What Affirmations are .. Affirmations and Marketing

1. If u cant even convince yourself, why would you try with others? 

2. Affirmations is actually a technical & linguistically advanced technique. Its emoting to language & crafting emotive language in order to convince yourself of something, with a punchy and impactful tone and a concise structure. 

Edited November 16 by Optimized Life

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Structure makes chaos sexy 

I dont cut my hair anymore, im growing it as long as possible for 1-2 years, no fades no haircuts

But i now Sculpt every 6-10 weeks 

This provides structure and prevents frizz 

Without it, it will grow into uneven chaos 

A guitarist can play around and improvise, but only because he learnt the rules enough to effectively break them (most frequent chords, scales, major vs minor, arpeggios ect.), we all know the sound of a silly kid bashing around a guitar and it sounds awful and cringe, because there is no structure 

When Gym is structured, your mind is more free, you feel more confident & decisive of what, when where you workout - This frees your mind to act spontaneously and decisively, or to be more social 

Edited November 17 by Optimized Life

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On 14/11/2025 at 8:27 PM, Optimized Life said:

(When done from the right frame/intention*) Vivid sexual visualisation strengthens dominance - (Not Neediness). 

This was sloppy writing. 

I shouldnt have included the word "sexual". 

What i meant was approaching, flirting, leading her, her smiliing, giving her contact, meeting again, maybe following into your (or he) place. Maybe synced dancing and some escalation touch too.

But actual vivid sexual imagery isn't good, it focues on the outcome and creates a porn loop. 

U cant control the outcome or sex only the inputs, like approaching and being present, so its dumb to visualize actual sex. 

Similar with affirmations. 

Better to say "I act decisively every day, and go after what I want without with extreme confidence"

Then "I am a millionaire" - It's stupid and your brain doesnt even believe that. 

"Abundance of money flows to me because I am a results machine" much better because it's proactive and emergent

Understanding affirmations isn't that complicated but it still is a niche skill, and most people dont take a few days or a week to learn it properly. 

Theres the base structure of how to say it. But then theres also the intuition of what words specifically hit your nervous system, which is individualized. There's even how u say it to yourself which is hypnosis/tonality training ect.. public speakers are intuitvely good at this.

And to properly understand it imo it does take days/weeks. 

Because there's a difference slightly between just writing 5 correctly structured affirmations to repeat vs genuinely understanding it. 

I'm not sure why but I remember 4 years ago hopelessly saying shit like "I'm a fucking millionaire, im rich" and saying shit like that with a needy, entitled and impatient tone, it just doesnt work, because I wasn't focusing on inputs, and I didn't fundamentally understand the linguistic psychology of affirmations. 

Learning affrimations lke i said, its not rocket science or hard to grasp, merely that its one of those things that almost no bothers to grasp proprely, but when u grasp it imo, it unlocks a portal of understanding that branches into marketing, psychology, linguistics. 

Affirmations, lingusitics, marketing, hypnosis, persuasion, "Power words", self talk, subconscious mind, programming, music all connected 

I am not an expert at all, i still want a deeper understanidng. 

I give myself another week of study and practice. 

I dunno who remembers Leo shilling his subconious mind course lol. 

Well I already believe I half figured out how to reprogram yourself deeply for anything anyway. 

I had insights about it in the last few months. 

Obviously i still have to take action on it, cement it in my mind, memory and mental prioritees fade without focus, but I did have some pragmatic insights about it months ago, but need to apply it and structure it now

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The American Sloth 

There's a few ways to learn to read and build mental modal of differnt archetypes and characters you'll meet, but id say the obvious one is just travel, meet thousands of people for months or years. 

The American Sloth

Travelling gave me an inution of this type because not all americans are sloths and not all rich/well educated people with good childhoods are sloths either and sometimes they become hyper efficient killers who take nothing for granted. 

But I do believe the American Sloth is like a specific archetype that I will keep meeting, and just this 1 specific guy i met made me think of this. 

It's just like 

Everything about him, his voice, the way he spoke, his energy, his accent, his body, his subtly fat face, him "not approaching or risking it with women abroad because he has GF back home" (Sloth Cope)

Hard to articulate but i just felt the slothyness inmediatley. 

He didn't feel like a man to me, he was like a Factory farmed New York Sloth, mickey mouse sloth inc. 

No substance to him, no trauma, no pain, no struggle, no dawg, no personality no risk. No dreams. Just an easy, "fun" american slothy life. 

He was unbearable, but next time i'll be able to spot them quicker and avoid them 

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I reckon Chat GPt will not upgrade the brains of 99% of men because they're simply just not interested in growing and learning new things. 

It's really hard to explain because im not doing anything particurly smart or complex other than I have an insatiable curiosity to understand anything and everything practical and relevant to myself and society. 

I am becoming so god dam intelligent and the only limit really now is aging and my inevitable cognitive decline since yeah obviously every man decays eventually, physically cognitively hormonally. But I'm getting towards a hollistic peak and hopefully will be able to ride it out for at least 20 years if im lucky and look after myself.

Only regret is this thing dind't blossom 5-10 years earlier. 

Curious ambitious guys like me who are 18-22 Now need to acknolwedge how lucky they are ... before u had to read fucking books, and still it was 1000X less effective and often didn't really work. Books rarely worked for me, AI is simply 1000 Faster and more direct and practical than 99% of all books combined. I'm not anti books but they have very specific and niche usecases which often arent needed, sometimes I do read books but its normally an intellectual curisoity and not pragmatic, and the real world is pragmatic. 

Chat GPT is great for the "Stage Yellow" thing too (I dont use SD labels or condone it) but I know the general theme. 

Chat GPT often might technically jsut repeat back to u what u already know or suspect (e.g about society) > But the way it does it is its kind of like, its kind of like how lifting over time builds denser muscle maturity (not just bulk), accept it deepens and carves your understanding of the depth of societies problems and how fucked society is, before you just "kinda knew", know you really fucking know it. And this is practial because you're in a society and you're an impressoinable social being and so this "knowing" helps you personally, and of course it makes u a better leader.

Ohhh and forgot to mention just simply the hard nosed, functional pragmatic side of it too. 

Like "I have X budget, I want to get a tan, find me a place I can get a tan in X days where there's High UVB between 5-9" & good weather for X budget ect.. and it just does it 

Edited November 17 by Optimized Life

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I'm not used to Spirituality as a topic or talking about it so not sure if this idea will make sense or im just blabbering, i havent slept much due to travel/logsitics the 2-3 days & have a lot of internal stress right now : 

"Self biased, Individualised "shallow" spirituality still significantly makes the world a better place collectively 

Meditating & body awareness - so that u dont fold under pressure / Or to be more present approaching women 

Giving positive energy and being in better moods as a baseline (for your selfish agenda so people and women like you, and women are more likely to fuck you) 

The intention might be "selfish", but the result is a hell of a lot better than being some bitter, stressed out anxious angry guy - Its not only that you get laid less, but you spread that fucking energy around to other people. 

Now, another key thing is - I might sound hypocritical "bro i bet you get stressed angry in real life, u even sound that way when writing some times"

1. I'm a human not a robot 

2. It's a difficult process that requires persistance 

3. It's never about being 100% perfect monk, merely spreading awareness and journalling this awareness now will probably subconsicously shift my baseline energy by 2-5%, or signidfincalty more over tie if this awareness & accountavility sets of a momentum that leads to me becoming a completely different guy, and THE ENTIRE TIME, THE ONLY REASON IM DOING  IT .. IS TO GET LAID MORE LOL. 

And i think thats a GOOD thing. 

Use selfish taboo agendas to become less of the bad guy.

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52 minutes ago, Optimized Life said:

I'm not used to Spirituality as a topic or talking about it so not sure if this idea will make sense or im just blabbering, i havent slept much due to travel/logsitics the 2-3 days & have a lot of internal stress right now : 

"Self biased, Individualised "shallow" spirituality still significantly makes the world a better place collectively 

Meditating & body awareness - so that u dont fold under pressure / Or to be more present approaching women 

Giving positive energy and being in better moods as a baseline (for your selfish agenda so people and women like you, and women are more likely to fuck you) 

The intention might be "selfish", but the result is a hell of a lot better than being some bitter, stressed out anxious angry guy - Its not only that you get laid less, but you spread that fucking energy around to other people. 

Now, another key thing is - I might sound hypocritical "bro i bet you get stressed angry in real life, u even sound that way when writing some times"

1. I'm a human not a robot 

2. It's a difficult process that requires persistance 

3. It's never about being 100% perfect monk, merely spreading awareness and journalling this awareness now will probably subconsicously shift my baseline energy by 2-5%, or signidfincalty more over tie if this awareness & accountavility sets of a momentum that leads to me becoming a completely different guy, and THE ENTIRE TIME, THE ONLY REASON IM DOING  IT .. IS TO GET LAID MORE LOL. 

And i think thats a GOOD thing. 

Use selfish taboo agendas to become less of the bad guy.

God Forgive Me. 

• God forgive all the times I quit : God forgive all the times I self - sabotaged an inch away from success
• God forgvie all the times I flinched, forgive all the times I hesitated 
• God forgive all my weakness
• God forgive my ignorance
• God forgive my stereotyping 
• God forgive my misdirected anger
• God forgive all the times I pussied out 
• God forgive all the times I folded 
• God forgive all the money I lost working so hard to save just to piss it all away 
• God forgive all my pain & all my misery 
• God forgive my upbringing, god forgive my fathers discouragement and mockery
• God forgive my family for giving me no education & no nutrients 
• God forgive those I just can't seem to forgive 
• God forgive all my vengeance and bitterness 
• God forgive my trauma god forgive all the times I was stuck all the times I isolated myself 
• God forgive all my failures 
• God forgive all the times I ran away and hid from my potential 
• God forgive all the times I doubted myself.

God I will not let you down,

God I'll Turn it all around,

God I'll make every day fucking count like its my last.

Edited Wednesday at 04:23 PM by Optimized Life

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"holy shit I get to walk for 4 hours, I might meet a beautiful girl, and if I dont, i'm lowering body fat

1. Walking a lot (on its own) BARELY lowers body fat (other aesthetic, posture & health benefits still extremely valid though)
2. Lowering body fat (Once you're already at 15-16%) is a STUBBORN BEAST. 

i am STILL hovering at 14.5-16% body fat after 6 months of training, moving more, walking more, infrequent alcohol, walking a lot. 

Any random bum can get big and lift heavy, can bulk up, it's not really that hard and doesn't require any discipline or structure, just lift a ton and eat a ton and in a year you'll be massive, not complicated, also not very impressive and does not require much. 

Losing body fat, without emaciating yourself, actually gaining/maintaing muscle, in a world like this, very difficult. 

You can walk for hours, and the calories of just 

[Optimized Life]

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"holy shit I get to walk for 4 hours, I might meet a beautiful girl, and if I dont, i'm lowering body fat

1. Walking a lot (on its own) BARELY lowers body fat (other aesthetic, posture & health benefits still extremely valid though)
2. Lowering body fat (Once you're already at 15-16%) is a STUBBORN BEAST. 

i am STILL hovering at 14.5-16% body fat after 6 months of training, moving more, walking more, infrequent alcohol, walking a lot. 

Any random bum can get big and lift heavy, can bulk up, it's not really that hard and doesn't require any discipline or structure, just lift a ton and eat a ton and in a year you'll be massive, not complicated, also not very impressive and does not require much. 

Losing body fat, without emaciating yourself, actually gaining/maintaing muscle, in a world like this, very difficult. 

You can walk for hours, and the calories of just 1 snack wipes all of it away. 

The more u exercise, lift, move, or in a hot sunny climate, the more your body wants to compensate by eating more, often overcompensating.

After approx 15-16% body fat, losing more body fat is extremely difficult, and it cannot happen by accident. It cannot happen without Te unless you're a genuine ectomorph or emaciating yourself, to lose it in a healthy way while maintaining/gaining muscle, extremely difficult, and thats why 99% of men dont have it! its extremely rare nad thats why people respect it. 

Now I can't overcomplicate this, there is only 2 things that matter and the former is the ultimate key : 

1. Te/Tracking/Scheduling > Calories in/calories out - Every day > Without tracking, nothing can change, its literally physics, u cant exercise your way through it, you cant assume you're in a deficit, you cant, there has to be a structure/a schedule & automation & simplified tracking. And obviously just going to use chat gpt > I am X body fat, I want to get to Y Body fat in Z weeks whilst still maintaining/gaining muscle, Give me an exact caloric deficit plan > Tailor this to a simplified daily meal plan > Decide exact meals i eat daily > Follow plan > No more mental energy momentum just starts. This is the core of what I need to do, thats it. 

2. Discipline/Resillience (Much easier & less needed with 1.) - Obviously a bad mood day can wipe out all Te because if your mentally unwell then you'll just go binge drinking - then negative momentum starts. 

Getting to 11% will give me a 10-20% visual boost for sure but thats just a side benefit, I'm doing this because I want to, I want persistence. I want to send a signal to myself that I can do very difficult and unusual things, and in life we often try overcomplicate this too much, we try and become a multi millionaire by 24, save the planet, fly to mars or whatever the fuck but its like, u dont need that to build character and status. JJust doing ANYTHING difficult garners respect, if u dont respect a lean muscular body then you;re looking at it from the wrong lens, or assuming people take steroids. People respect WORK and Persistence, this is a universal human thing. Because u fucking deserve it. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Optimized Life

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2 hours ago, Optimized Life said:

1. Walking a lot (on its own) BARELY lowers body fat (other aesthetic, posture & health benefits still extremely valid though)
2. Lowering body fat (Once you're already at 15-16%) is a STUBBORN BEAST. 

i am STILL hovering at 14.5-16% body fat after 6 months of training, moving more, walking more, infrequent alcohol, walking a lot. 

Any random bum can get big and lift heavy, can bulk up, it's not really that hard and doesn't require any discipline or structure, just lift a ton and eat a ton and in a year you'll be massive, not complicated, also not very impressive and does not require much. 

Losing body fat, without emaciating yourself, actually gaining/maintaing muscle, in a world like this, very difficult. 

You can walk for hours, and the calories of just 1 snack wipes all of it away. 

The more u exercise, lift, move, or in a hot sunny climate, the more your body wants to compensate by eating more, often overcompensating.

After approx 15-16% body fat, losing more body fat is extremely difficult, and it cannot happen by accident. It cannot happen without Te unless you're a genuine ectomorph or emaciating yourself, to lose it in a healthy way while maintaining/gaining muscle, extremely difficult, and thats why 99% of men dont have it! its extremely rare nad thats why people respect it. 

Now I can't overcomplicate this, there is only 2 things that matter and the former is the ultimate key : 

1. Te/Tracking/Scheduling > Calories in/calories out - Every day > Without tracking, nothing can change, its literally physics, u cant exercise your way through it, you cant assume you're in a deficit, you cant, there has to be a structure/a schedule & automation & simplified tracking. And obviously just going to use chat gpt > I am X body fat, I want to get to Y Body fat in Z weeks whilst still maintaining/gaining muscle, Give me an exact caloric deficit plan > Tailor this to a simplified daily meal plan > Decide exact meals i eat daily > Follow plan > No more mental energy momentum just starts. This is the core of what I need to do, thats it. 

2. Discipline/Resillience (Much easier & less needed with 1.) - Obviously a bad mood day can wipe out all Te because if your mentally unwell then you'll just go binge drinking - then negative momentum starts. 

Getting to 11% will give me a 10-20% visual boost for sure but thats just a side benefit, I'm doing this because I want to, I want persistence. I want to send a signal to myself that I can do very difficult and unusual things, and in life we often try overcomplicate this too much, we try and become a multi millionaire by 24, save the planet, fly to mars or whatever the fuck but its like, u dont need that to build character and status. JJust doing ANYTHING difficult garners respect, if u dont respect a lean muscular body then you;re looking at it from the wrong lens, or assuming people take steroids. People respect WORK and Persistence, this is a universal human thing. Because u fucking deserve it. 

1. 95% of all people, including grown adults in their 30-40s, completely underestimate how much calories a single chocolate bar has, and how rediculously easy it is to eat the equivalent of 3-7 chocolate bars in 30 minutes, then feel bored and tired again 2 hours later and want it again. 

When you actually do the math, it's fucking insane, it's literally nuts, its a complete losing battle. 

Even though i've never been obese, I'm passionate about this topic because I feel experientially how fucking difficult and sneaky this is. 

It's very difficult to burn off just 2 little chocolate bars : e.g a snickers + a mars bar, you'd need to do cardio for HOURS just to burn it off. 

This is the trap : "Sugar isn't that bad, everything in moderation, go on enjoy life"

THIS DOES NOT WORK!!!! 

IT CANNOT WORK. 

ITS IMPOSSIBLE LITERALLY. 

SUGAR IS FUCKING ADDICTIVE, ITS  A LOSING BATTLE. 

EVEN THE CEOS DONT CONSUME THEIR PRODUCTS. 

THE CEOS WILL SIP A COKE, OR A MUNCH CADBURY FOR A MARKETING SHOOT, THEN GO HOME & TELL THIER KIDS NEVER TO EAT THAT. 

ITS A SCAM. ITS ALL A FUCKING SCAM

You cannot eat a chocolate bar a day and get ripped, without steroids. 99.9% of people cannot do it. 

It wont work 

It will always become 2, 3, 4 chocolate bars. 

and even 1 chocolate bar has so much calories that can mean u at least stay the same weight. 

But also its just scientifically addictive in every way, it slike the laws of phyiscs. 

And "moderation" with extremely addictive products creates decision fatigue - which erodes disicpline, therefore you lose, game fucking over. 

I'm literally never eating chocolate again, because I'm a humble guy, I don't pretend I can "moderate myself" like some phoney fucking "live a little" marketer

"live a little" = looking sexy and ripped and fucking spanish chicks. Not being a fat fuck with yellow teeth, GTFO here.

It may be somewhat a personality thing, BUT I ONLY CAN WORK IN EXTREMES. 

EVERYTHING ELSE IS GAY AND LAME 

ITS LIKE LEO ONCE SAID "IF I SET MYSELF A GOAL, IT HAS TO BE AN AWESOME GOAL, OTHERWISE I DONT CARE". 

WHO CARES ABOUT BEING 16% BODY FAT AND KINDA "IN SHAPE" BORING 

HAVE TO BE TOP 0.0001% THE WHOLE PACKAGE, AND THE AURA, THE DISCIPLINE, THE CHARISMA STYLE POSTURE ENERGY LIBIDO EVEYRTHING. EVEYRTHING. I DONT VALUE 2 SECOND MOUTH TASTE, I DONT VALUE CHEAP PLEASURES, THATS PEASANT SHIT MAN. FUCK PEASANTS. 

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Eating a chocolate bar vs not eating it doesn't inmediately impact your life, in any meaningful way. 

But it takes your personal power away, for me its a huge psychological thing. It literally is life and death for me. 

I just cannot separate it from anytihng else. 

I cannot eat the chocolate bar and approach women correctly, text them correctly

I cannot eat it and make money correctly, spend money correctly, learn things correctly, do no fap correcctly

It might sound pedantic, but to me, it is like the laws of physics. 

Eating the chocolate = Power taken away, it = getting raped by life. 

Women can eat a few chocolate bars and be fine, women even look good with a bit of body fat. 

But I'm a fucking man, I dont do that anymore

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Optimized Life