Do You Feel Restored After Sleep?

[SimpleGuy]

1 hour ago, Yimpa said:

 

Is it just doing stretching in sauna?

[Carl-Richard]

On 3.12.2025 at 6:28 PM, SimpleGuy said:

Does 3 sets of pull-ups really wear body so much?

Yes. You gain the most training effect from the first few sets. The more volume you add, the more your intensity drops and you see diminishing returns.

Your muscles take time to recover, especially your upper body (your legs recover faster, because that's what we're evolutionarily adapted for; running). So when you train the same muscle group every day, especially if you focus all your energy on just a few muscle groups and one movement (pullups), you will be perpetually sore (unless you don't actually push yourself, which is unlikely when you only do 3 sets and you do pullups which is an intense exercise. And you're 18, so pushing yourself is basically easier than not).

When I was 16 or so, I got rhabdomyolysis from working out 7 days a week, but that was around 15-18 sets per workout (but not for the same muscle group or the same movement of course).

Edited Friday at 05:46 AM by Carl-Richard

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, SimpleGuy said:

Remember that you are saying that from a perspective of a quite successful person.

Your point would make sense if I was denying that America sucks for poors. But I admitted it.

[Daniel Balan]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

America is awesome if you're rich and sucks if you're poor.

As is every other country lol

[PenguinPablo]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

America is awesome if you're rich and sucks if you're poor.

Then it sucks for most people since basically nobody is rich. 

Like even $70-90k is basically poor unless you are extremely minimalistic and a loner. 

Basically $200k is escape velocity in America.

[Rigel]

6 hours ago, Daniel Balan said:

As is every other country lol

Some of them are worse than others

[SimpleGuy]

18 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Yes. You gain the most training effect from the first few sets. The more volume you add, the more your intensity drops and you see diminishing returns.

Your muscles take time to recover, especially your upper body (your legs recover faster, because that's what we're evolutionarily adapted for; running). So when you train the same muscle group every day, especially if you focus all your energy on just a few muscle groups and one movement (pullups), you will be perpetually sore (unless you don't actually push yourself, which is unlikely when you only do 3 sets and you do pullups which is an intense exercise. And you're 18, so pushing yourself is easier than not).

When I was 16 or so, I got rhabdomyolysis from working out 7 days a week, but that was around 15-18 sets per workout (but not for the same muscle group or the same movement of course).

Fine. i`ll do it. Thanks for advice everyone

[Alexop]

@Leo Gura do you think a very rich guy has it better in the US compared to for example: Germany? There are filthy rich germans who pay embarrassingly low taxes. Work is taxed ridiculously high but wealth/assets/capital gains/inheritance /dividends not so much.

[LoneWonderer]

This video is related to the topics being discussed here and very interesting.  I strarted the video on timestamp 6:15. Also ties in well with one of the first books on Leo's updated booklist on how innovation or lack of it, and democracies vs autocracies can make or break a country.

note* I don't fully agree with his view that Norwegians got complacent. They have one of the best and most educated populus in the world (top 5 for sure) and some really amazing projects are taking off here especially in AI, Datacenters, robotics and enviromental sciences. Huge amount of world class innovation comes from Scandinavians. It could be the case however that the most ambitious of their citizens move elsewhere outside the country to places like the US where their innovation and attitude of "move fast and break things" is more the norm  and are therefore not part of Norway's statistics base.

For context on the education part of this video he claims Norway is below the OECD average. I know this to be false because I used to go to several American International schools costing 15-30,000$ per year in attendance fees and moving to Denmark got the same high quality International Baccalaureate & better facilities for my final year of studies in a public school there for free! I know, I know, it's Denmark not Norway, but these countries rotate year to year for best education system in the world. I have a few friends who are currently doing their Erasmus at the University of Oslo from Spain and they let me know the bar is set MUCH higher than back home in Spain.

Edited Friday at 05:55 AM by LoneWonderer

[Carl-Richard]

10 minutes ago, LoneWonderer said:

note* I don't fully agree with his view that Norwegians got complacent. They have one of the best and most educated populus in the world (top 5 for sure)

👋

[LoneWonderer]

2 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

👋

@Carl-Richard Cheers big ears! You're Norwegian if I recall correctly?

Edited Friday at 05:53 AM by LoneWonderer

[Carl-Richard]

2 minutes ago, LoneWonderer said:

@Carl-Richard Cheers big ears! You're Norwegian if I recall correctly?

Yas. Jas.

Edited Friday at 05:55 AM by Carl-Richard

[LoneWonderer]

1 minute ago, Carl-Richard said:

Yas. Jas.

Awesome! Love your country and people.