Steve LL

[Alan Couzens @Alan_Couzens]

"So, how do we improve our ability to burn fat?"👇

Short answer: With lots of targeted low‑intensity endurance work plus supportive nutrition and testing.

The physiology of fat burning improves with years of endurance training (more mitochondria and fat‑handling proteins such as FAT/CD36 and ATGL), and the most effective training stimulus is time spent below your current aerobic threshold (AeT), where maximal fat oxidation typically occurs.

Longer answer:

1. Prioritize long, low‑intensity sessions below AeT
- Maximal fat oxidation generally occurs a little below (or very close to) the aerobic threshold, so spend a large portion of your training time there to raise the intensity at which you can still rely heavily on fat.

2. Spend substantial time *below* your current fat‑oxidation limit to push it rightward
- You need to accumulate time below your current limit to progressively extend the intensity range where fat contributes most of the fuel (i.e., move the “fat‑oxidation umbrella” to the right)

3. Use appropriate intensities (practical markers)
- Metabolic fitness / “easy” exercise is approximately ~50–70% MHR for many athletes; this zone is where fat‑burning adaptations are promoted.
- Lactate and metabolic testing typically show fat oxidation peaks near AeT and then they decline toward the second threshold; when in doubt (i.e. in the absence of testing), keeping sessions below the first threshold preserves fat use.

4. Include regular long, easy workouts
- Long, easy, multi-hour rides with high cadence on flat terrain are a cornerstone workout in general prep because they allow long duration and good fat‑oxidation stimulus with low recovery cost.

5. Support training with nutrition
- Improving fat oxidation is “a delicate dance” of good nutrition plus training at the right intensity; maintain quality nutrition outside sessions and consider cautious shifts toward more moderate carbohydrate intake rather than extreme low‑carb approaches. I.e. replace what you burn - no more, no less.

6. Test and individualize
- Lab metabolic testing (metabolic cart, fat‑oxidation profiling) or lactate testing gives useful individualized data for placing training zones and identifying where your fat oxidation actually peaks - this makes training more efficient and avoids training too hard (or too easy) for the desired adaptation.

7. Be patient and consistent
- Fat‑oxidation capacity improves over months and years with consistent endurance training; elite athletes show much higher rates and maintain fat oxidation to much higher intensities than less trained individuals. Maximizing this, especially the intensity at which you burn a high amount of fat is one of the longer-term adaptations.

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

Wow, I actually found it!

Of all the Scott Adams clips ... this is the one that means the most to me, personally.

This was the moment, during the initial COVID lockdown days, that I decided to cancel my low-grade depression and feeling like "I'm trapped," and replace it with "come out of this stronger, not weaker."

(I started writing affirmations shortly after this, and by the time a year had passed, I'd changed career paths, gotten three promotions, and was living in a new house. It worked, Scott. It worked.)

[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 2 hour Stanford lecture shows exactly how Stanford trains it's engineers to build AI systems. It's more practical than every Claude tutorial & prompting threads you've seen.

Bookmark & give it 2 hours, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this weekend.

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

Classic

[Alan Couzens @Alan_Couzens]

"But I can't work and walk" 🚶

You can do some types of work and walk.

Here's how your 6 hours of movement each day breaks down...

1/ Get to work each day (or at least some of the way to work each day) under your own power - bike commute, walk etc. (~2 hours) 🚴

2/ Every ~2hrs - after 90 min of focused work, get up and move for 30 min - this could be a recovery break outside (ideal), it could be a walking lunch break, it could be a walking meeting, it could be less focused work on your walking pad (return emails with talk-to-text etc.) 💻🚶

3/ Get a dog and walk it. 🐶

Badabing! A hunter-gatherer level of movement each day without losing your job!

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@jaydeeTOL @zerohedge @EDranir Novelis Bay minette AL. Almost complete too

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@iykyk917 @jsolomonReports @grok Do you know what the criteria for a OSHA recordable injury is? It may surprise you.

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@AJA_Cortes What I'd really like is a creatine gummy with actual creatine in it.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[farbood @farbood]

Zone-2 Cardio will open your heart chakra and improve vagal tone.

The net effect is
- threat signals down regulate
- stable readiness increases
- alertness without obsession
- increased threshold for fear response

The reasons aren't mysterious.

When you do Zone-2 cardio, baroreceptors (concentrated primarily near the heart) send signals to your brain about changes in your blood pressure.

The primary signal receiver is the NTS.

The NTS in the brainstem helps regulate threat response and is a sort of pre-filter on emotions. If NTS input is rhythmic and non-threatening (Zone 2):

- vagal tone improves (safety signal)
- Locus Coeruleus firing improves (stable readiness)
- Amygdala inhibition (threat de-amplification)
- Insular cortex (interoception aligns)

The net effect is a feeling of calm alertness, confidence over threats, less obsession and reduced fear response.

So what to do?

Zone-2 is about 60-70% of your max heart rate.

If you don't know your max heart rate an estimate is take your age and subtract it from 220.

So if you're 40, your max HR would be 180.

60-70% of that is roughly 110-125 BPM

A stair master or treadmill is great for this because you can find the speed that keeps you in that range. I don't even use a HR monitor, I just use the ones on the machines.

15-20 min is a good place to start.

Zone-2 you should be able to

- hold a conversation
- not be winded
- feel like you could go on for a while

Zone-2 is one of the best ways to improve your

- blood pressure
- HRV
- VO2max
- cardiovascular health

It's also a great way to become emotionally strong.

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

You’re looking at it wrong.
In my mind I convert everything to a share price and evaluate the competing returns and yield like a lawyer and accountant might measure units of time in billable rates.

Example:
a. I’ll be seeing my grandson this weekend.
b. He wants toys
c. Right now I have bloom energy on my mind
d. 2 transformer toys = 1 share of $BE

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@ScottAdamsSays @joelpollak Scott, I've been watching since early periscope. I learned so much from you. Systems > Goals, how we really make decisions, what hypnosis can do and can't. Most importantly, to be useful. I hope I made a small contribution to your CWSA locals crowd. We love you.

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@zaidkdahhaj I've purchased about 6 pairs of Roka sunglasses and 1 pair of blue light. @rokasports im surprised they didnt respond.

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@rokasports any comments on this one?

[Zaid K. Dahhaj @zaidkdahhaj]

Do your blue light blockers work?

If they do, you should see:

🔵 NO blue in the diagram below
🟢 LITTLE TO NO green below
🔴 All the red left untouched

Put yours to the test

This is why the dark orange and red lensed blue light blockers are the best option

They completely remove blue and green from the equation in your environment

Test your yellow and clear lenses below

Report back in the comment with a picture of your findings by placing the lens to the diagram like I did below

By the way, the second picture displays RA optics darkest lens

Third picture displays Midwest Red Light Therapy’s darkest lens

RA optics are $160 minimum
Midwest are $40

I’m not throwing shade at a company like RA optics. They serve a higher end market, but don’t believe that they’re higher quality from a blue blocking perspective

You’re paying for a well-made brand, which is why I call them the Apple of the blue light blocker market

Honestly, you can find even cheaper alternatives than Midwest as well if you don’t care about aesthetics here

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@RyronGracie @angelai_com Aluminum Foil box.

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

🔥 I grew up in a lower class family that had no experience in investing in stocks or bonds or real estate 🤷‍♂️
I went to work on Wall Street in the late 80s, about two months before the crash, and I watched many of the senior people quit the industry.

I never gave up
- because here I was, a schmucky poor kid with ambition and optimism
- the people who gave up felt they had only one direction the fates would carry them, they were rich (by my standards) so they could only ‘lose’.
- I was poor so I could only gain

This is when I adopted the philosophy of Never, Ever Short America 🇺🇸
(And as the world has gotten smaller in a sense, perhaps this can now be extended into emerging countries as well)

Now to answer your query:
We are all in the market to “make money”
BUT the question is “why do you want to make money”

a. You are young, you can invest and lose every penny, so what if you lose it all tomorrow??!!
Believe in yourself and that your youth is time equity, which you hold in abundance

b. you want to invest to “make money” because wealth solves a problem.
If your problem is “I’m poor and I want to not be poor” then investing is the road on which your problem may be solved.
Will it, I dunno, but like I said, you’re young so keep getting on roads.

c. You say that you “keep reading markets need to be corrected”…
I’ve been reading that for the last 40 years.

d. As to what you should buy, that’s all on you. But don’t overthink it, buy the category leaders and their immediate secondary competition
- as an example: SpaceX is private, Rocket Lab is public
- I remind you, in case you have forgotten, that you are young and should be willing to hold risk.
- owning a small amount of an asset is better than not owning a small amount of an asset
- it will, as the wonderful @ScottAdamsSays has written in his book of the same name, Reframe Your Brain.

Good luck,
The World

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@tigerjvideo I do.

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

Grok Imagine gets incredibly better every single day..

you can turn text or an image into video in seconds right inside the Grok app

10 examples:

1. prompt: Leonardo da Vinci teaching digital art with sketches layered over holographic design tool

[AKIRA THE DON @akirathedon]

@Cernovich T H E
P A Y O F F

[Steve LL @SteveLL1]

@Rainmaker1973 @grok explain the Chinese method in this video