Tee j

Late bloomer so playing catch up

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Worrying too much is also playing God. Thinking you know everything. Recently there was a situation where a dad jumped in to rescue drowning kids at the beach. Healthy fit dad. Landed wrong and is paralyzed. You never know. May as well live with optimism. It’s a choice, you know.

[shakur @AFCShakur]

His punches are weak af, he should come fight me. My name is Victor Gyokeres, come fight me

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

There's some truth to this but let me take this garden/butterfly theory literally. A garden with numerous plants and flowers will attract butterflies. I'm sitting in the sun next to a Buddleia - the Buddleia is well-known to attract butterflies. In fact, its common name is Butterfly Bush. Red Admirals, tortoiseshells,whites and other species of butterflies visit it everyday, it's delightful. Two days ago it attracted a Hummingbird Hawk Moth.

However, butterflies inhabit niches of meadows, chalk downs, woods, etc - and some you'll only find in certain parts of the country. And obviously, there are many species not found in the UK. If I want to see a Purple Emperor I'd have to go out and look for it - they tend to stay high up in oak trees, or I could lay rotting meat, which they're attracted to.

IOW,my garden will only be 'successful' in attracted certain species, the others I have to go out and look for, which is exactly what a lepidopterist does.

Some goals you need to prioritise - purposely chase. If you don't it's unlikely you'll reach them. They are first-order goals.

[Tee j @Aj80463578]

@Cernovich This time a million

Also like people who are rude ti waiters and shop staff yet scared of there own wife's or any confrontation

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

THE BEST EXERCISES FROM ANCIENT CULTURES (thread):

In 2020, I researched Ancient Greek athletics, and from there I started exploring training techniques in other cultures

These are my favorite "ancient" exercises with timeless health and performance benefits

1. Hindu Squats

[Alan Couzens @Alan_Couzens]

More detail on how to implement practically in your own strength training routine in this one...

https://t.co/HtB1dGrsk9

[BROTHER LOBO 🐺⚔️ @ellobosalvaje]

Cardio is mostly mental. I’ve believed this for years but I’m finally able to articulate why.

Watch some of the best wrestlers in the world right now. Bo Bassett. Mitchell Messenbrink. Jax Forrest. These guys look like they have unlimited gas. People assume it’s some elite VO2 max, some superior aerobic engine. That’s not what’s happening.

Pay attention to how they move. They’re playing.

Every shot isn’t life or death. Every scramble is an opportunity rather than a life or death crisis. They attack from bad positions. They back out and reset without hesitation if the feeling isn’t there. There’s a looseness to everything they do that looks almost casual, but on the other side of that casual posture is devastating effectiveness.

That looseness isn’t a technique quirk. It’s a performance state. It’s the reason their cardio looks supernatural.

Here’s what I think is actually going on:

Tightness is metabolically expensive. When you’re stressed aka afraid, afraid of giving up position, afraid of losing, afraid of looking bad, your body begins to brace for impact. Muscles that shouldn’t be working are working overtime. Your breathing changes. Your movement loses fluidity. Every action costs more than it should. You’re not gassing because your lungs are small. You’re gassing because fear has a fuel cost.

The playful athlete doesn’t have that overhead. Their nervous system isn’t running a threat response in the background. This makes movement much cheaper. It makes decisions come faster. They can sustain a pace that looks impossible because for them, it actually is easier.

This is why you can’t just coach someone to “attack more.” Coaches can tell their guys to go out and attack. That’s good solid advice. But if the athlete isn’t in a playful state, if they’re tight, if every offensive sequence feels like a high stakes gamble, the instruction won’t translate. The body can’t cooperate. The mind will second guess everything they do. They’ll gas early with no idea as to why.

The fighters that seem to have infinite endurance have trained themselves, or were born with a different relationship to competition. They reduce competition from a high stakes battle to a simple game.

I’ve watched this in myself for years doing jiu jitsu and boxing. The only time I get tired is when I leave that state. When I’m loose, playing, experimenting, being creative, my energy expenditure is different. I do things I didn’t know I could do. Time moves differently. The round ends and I’m surprised it’s over. The moment I get tight, whether it’s ego, whether it’s fear, bad position, someone catching me off guard, my gas disappears almost immediately.

That’s not a coincidence. That’s the mechanism.

And here’s where it gets deeper: some athletes have to almost die to find that state. You’ve seen it in fights. A guy gets badly hurt, nearly finished, he survives and then something releases. The fear burns off. The body stops bracing. And suddenly the guy who looked dead comes back to life and starts performing at a level he couldn’t access before getting dropped.

That state was available the whole time. He didn’t need to get hurt to find it. He just needed to let go of what was costing him.

The best athletes don’t need the near death experience. They walk out already there.

Ali boxed like Ali talked, light, taunting, dancing, impossible to hold. Tyson boxed like Tyson looked, coiled, explosive, total predator. The ring doesn’t create a new person. It reveals the one that’s already there.

Which means the real question isn’t “how do I build more cardio.” It’s “who am I when I compete, and is that person loose enough to play?”

The future of grappling and combat sports belongs to the athletes who figured out play is the highest performance state. Not getting hyped up. Not being ultra aggression. Not discipline grinding through pain.

Play. Loose. Passionate. Present.

Train your nervous system to live there and your “cardio” will take care of itself.

[Tee j @Aj80463578]

@AJA_Cortes What exercises would you recommend to try and prevent injuries?

[— @graveair]

It’s still so absurd, and funny that he ended this performance by throwing away his guitar and crying alone backstage, yet the rest of the band were like “umm actually we are not sure what’s wrong with him, he’s leaving us because he ‘might’ be depressed”

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This is excellent and worth reading.

[TheLiftingShrink @psypharmacopeia]

Yeah, this whole “depressed people just need to exercise” thing just needs to die.

Like right now I’m literally a psychiatrist on a Marine Corps base. You don’t think I treat depression? Do you think my Marine patients don’t exercise?

[BIGBEN @fwBen_]

My son’s wife got physical with me, and I ended up injured. A few hours later, my son texted: “Stay away from us.”

I replied, “Okay.” And I meant it.

The next morning, I quietly withdrew the financial support I’d been giving for their new house. Days later, their loan was denied….

["Doc" Hypnosis 🧠 | BowTied Brain-Hacking @BowTiedTrance]

The Scott Adams hypnosis track to solve your biggest problem -- lovingly edited and with added audio enhancements for maximum effectiveness.

(Use headphones to get the full impact of the Theta wave frequencies.)

You can spare 13 minutes to fix your biggest problem, can't you?

(Don't watch this if you're driving, ok?)

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

When it comes to lifelong fitness and health, systems are more effective than willpower. However, self-concept is more effective than systems.

This is why I will ALWAYS have a six-pack. I perceive myself as someone who has a six-pack - it is inconceivable not to have one, the dissonance would be too great. Total self disgust.

Thus, having a six-pack is not living in food denial or anything I try to achieve. It's a manifestation of my inner-world. My six-pack is impervious to the external world.

When you have a "I am a fit and healthy human being" self-concept, you are fit for life. No effort required.

[Max @minordissent]

This was definitely one of my biggest red pills in life. I always thought i was rational and logical and was objectively assessing reality. Once i realized everyone is compressing out 99.999% of the data and thus are operating almost entirely on bullshit core premises that make micro level rationality irrelevant, and thus that just believing what is most effective regardless of its truth value is not any less objective, i started doing that and my life has only improved every day since.

[Prime Tate @primetateHQ]

🚨Andrew Tate reveals the secret to manifestation:

“Every single thought you have inside your head is basically the only thing that is real.

You can completely change the facts of the universe.”

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore.

On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system:

1) Replay conversations in your head

[Gary Dinsdale @garydinsdale]

Overall, I loved the Hulk Hogan docuseries on Netflix. For me, the two most poignant comments came from Jesse Ventura and Kevin Nash.

Despite the heat they had, Jesse Ventura's comments made a reality for fans of my age range - it was the end of THE era... and if Hulk can die, we're all mortal.

Kevin Nash then manages to sum up Hulk Hogan's legacy in one simple sentence and in doing so, seems to somehow justifiably speak on behalf of every other wrestler from this era.

[lifemaxxers @lifemaxxjourney]

Insane reminder that you can literally do anything you want with life, most of the rules are made up in your own mind.

This article will set the fire alight inside, it’s your job to keep it burning.

Be the glitch