Chuck

[Big Dad Energy | BDEX @BigDadEnergyX]

What’s with this new generation wearing open toed shoes in the gym?

Birkenstocks, really?

Fuck you.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

I will again say that someone is going to make a fortune writing a book on the parallels between “15 Days to slow the spread” and Trump’s decision to go drop bombs on Iran.

Just catastrophic unforced errors when things were going fairly well. Boggles the mind.

[Trophy Dad @HypertrophyHub]

This chick at the gym just gave me the stank eye for stealing her machine.

She was doing single arm tricep push downs then grabbed her towel and went over to machine row.

Then she came BACK to do the other arm but alas, your boy was there doing Y raises.

Sorry not gonna chase you down to see if you’re done doing your dumbass superset unilateral exercises

[TheGodfather @InNomeniDei]

All right, X, this has taken some convincing from a friend of mine @redneckleeusmc to post but here it is:

I’ve been fighting a multi-front custody war across three jurisdictions in two states with two different mothers for the better part of 3 years. In 2024 I filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy and have not financially recovered since.

I haven’t seen or spoken to my children in nine months (two daughters ages 6 and almost 2 years old). Not because I abandoned them. Not because I was convicted of anything. Not because I’m a danger. Simply because the system, the mothers, and the process have decided a father’s presence is optional.

I’m a veteran. I grew up without parents and was on my own at 18. Everything I’ve built, beit the businesses, the training, the discipline, it all came from having no safety net. When I had kids, I provided. Both mothers were stay-at-home. One I married. One I didn’t. I took responsibility either way. The marriage lasted seven months. You can’t turn a woman into something she doesn’t want to be, and you can’t keep someone who doesn’t want to be kept. Fair enough. But the children don’t get a vote in that decision.

I’ve paid attorneys. I’ve consulted more. I’ve represented myself in hearings because the money ran out. Early on I held my own. As the cases stacked, the attacks on my character stacked, and being a veteran has been used against me. This has stopped being something a determined Pro Se father can properly fight. These cases require real legal firepower now. I’ve lost hearings I shouldn’t have lost. I’ve watched the process treat paternal rights as secondary. Guardian ad litems, courts, and the mothers themselves have shown almost no interest in the actual role of a father.

This is late-stage family court. This is what happens when the default assumption is that the mother is the real parent and the father is a visitor who needs to prove he’s safe. I’m not special. Thousands of men are living this exact reality and I'm done pretending it’s normal.

I’m launching my training brand and building on X, grinding the same way I always have. But every day without my kids feels like my actual life was taken and I’m just existing in the leftover space. I’m not asking for sympathy. I’m asking for the ability to hire proper representation so I can stop fighting with one hand tied behind my back.

If you’ve ever watched a father get erased by the process, or if you simply believe children deserve both parents when those parents haven’t been proven unfit, consider helping me level the field.

https://t.co/0FVY1ezIws

Any amount helps. Sharing the post helps more than you know.
I’m not going away and I'm not folding.

DMs are open for more information. Thank you all for your support.

[SilverFoxLeo @BowTiedHRT]

If you have not been through it, you have no idea how badly stacked the deck is against fathers in family Court.

I did general practice for the better part of a decade before I moved into criminal work exclusively at the end of my legal practice, and family law is always a part of being a GP.

What ran me off traditional civil litigation/corporate litigation, was that it never ends. I still have cases sitting on dockets in GA, MD, and DC pushing a decade old. I am still bound to represent those clients even though the cases are dead in the water, and for something like seven years running we have filed the same notice telling the court we are ready for trial, knowing full well nothing is going to happen.

Family law is what actually ran me out of civil practice. It was dreadful. The outcomes were never something either party walked away satisfied with, and well more often than not they accrued against the men.

The juvenile side of that docket was the exception, and it was genuinely rewarding. You spend the whole day at the courthouse surrounded by a small army of counselors and hangers on, most of whom are not doing much, but once you are in front of the judge with a kid who made a bad decision, you can usually get traction. Tell the right story, get the counseling or the punitive action the court will accept, and the balance between punishment and correction actually worked more often than not.

Custody, when the fight is a father trying to keep his kids, is a different animal.

I had a client whose ex-wife cut him off from his infant daughter completely. He was gutted. I put an investigator on it, made sure his employment was solid, and had him submit to drug and alcohol testing for months, coming back clean every time, not because I thought he had a problem but because I did not trust what the other side might try to manufacture.

At the hearing it came out, and she did not deny it, that she was turning tricks in a one room apartment with the baby in a bassinet at the foot of the bed. On cross I tried to give her an out and asked if she was at least breastfeeding. She was not. The child had been on formula since coming home from the hospital.

So I stood in front of the judge and asked how a working, sober father who had already arranged for his daughter to come home with him lost to a mother turning tricks with an infant in the room. The judge, who had just returned from her annual judicial conference, told me the tender years doctrine was still very much alive and well. That is the theory that small children are simply better off with their mothers than their fathers: fabricated nonsense dressed up by advisors to the court who call themselves child development experts.

This was not a careless judge. She was the chief judge of a well respected circuit, someone who poured considerable time into the mental health, drug, and veterans courts and understood as well as anyone on the bench what people actually go through. It did not matter. The doctrine was reason enough to rule against my client.

We lost. We started down the road toward an interlocutory appeal, another pile of money spent on a coin flip the court might not even agree to hear.

What actually turned it was one of her clients beating her nearly to death during a bachelor party she was working. That was enough for my client to get his daughter three of the four days a week, while every bailiff, officer, and judge in that town kept right on knowing exactly what she did for a living.

If you have never been through a custody fight for a minor child, you can’t know how badly the system treats fathers as a rule. A man can build the job, the home, prove his sobriety, and the plan, and still lose to a woman who could not be bothered to do the ONE thing she was actually positioned to offer that he never could, feed her own child from her own body.

Read below and if you feel drawn to contribute, it would mean a lot to this father seeking to see his children.

[tp53 🍊🥕🦪🥩🥛☕ @tp53guardian]

I think having good data is one subject. and I wish we had it. no one can argue against that.

there is a discussion about how infrequently we get great well designed trials for things pharma can't patent. but trials needed regardless.

and I recognize alot of overly confident people will use peptides for situations that don't warrant the risk.

But there are 2 groups of people that concern me.

The first is people with idiopathic issues that the medical system has failed for years to diagnose and treat where peptides may play a role in their suffering and may warrant risk.

the second is doctors who say one thing on the surface but there's an underlying psychology beyond advocating for data and safety. it's that these people spent a lot of money and effort to be an "authority". they enjoy their status as the gatekeepers. and at some level this isn't about data. it's about status and control. it's about protecting a class of people and the system they're a part of and pushing back against any circumvention or any argument that the system they see themselves a part of, may at times, come to incorrect conclusions - thus tarnishing the reputation and trust in that system.

they need people to need them.

to grovel to them.

to look up to them

the idea that us plebs may do anything for ourselves - especially outside the boundaries of their guidance, is heresy.

[Doc Abir - Muslim Testosterone Whisperer @DocAbirHealth]

To be honest, I have issues with phone calls as well.

When somebody is calling you the premise is that you ought to stop whatever you are doing and talk to this person.

There is very few points in my day where I am willing to drop everything just to talk to you.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with not being contactable 24 hours a day by anyone and everyone. In fact, that is the way you are supposed to be.

You should learn to just not reply to people, especially if they’re not very important to you.

Unless you’re my mother it’s very unlikely that I’m going to answer your call.

And just like with voice notes, most people really do ramble on a phone call.

If you want something or need something you can say a very easily and concisely in a message. And I will get to you when I can.

Unless of course you’re someone I care about deeply in which case please call me and I will (almost) always answer.

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

Voice notes are popular in countries where time has no value and productivity is low

[H2KMFer @H2KMFer]

Of course a man who looks like this would be ok sending women to war

[H2KMFer @H2KMFer]

Disorderly conduct has become an all encompassing charge that police can use to arrest your for anything they want in public view

It’s absurd

[BowTiedMeatHead 🥩💪 @bowtiedmeathead]

Great post, Bailey.

TRT is not a magic wand or a substitute for a shitty lifestyle.

After working in a a men’s health clinic for several years…it’s clear as day who does well on TRT and who falls off in only few short months.

Those who are focused on nailing down their diet, training, sleep and properly manage their stress levels are the ones who extremely well on TRT and sing from the rooftops how great it is.

Most others who claim they “don’t have the time” to prioritize their health and have a million excuses why they don’t workout regularly or why their diet is crap.

Then they decide to stop TRT because they don’t notice a big difference and still have symptoms.

I’ll be honest. If you don’t have the right work ethic and dedication to the lifestyle TRT is probably not the right therapy for you.

[Francis Melia @CoachFHM]

Thor didn’t build his physique doing any of this shite.

He’s been training for years getting stronger with traditional methods.

Probably hops on and off the sauce here and there for certain movie roles.

But this routine builds fuck all mate.

Don’t be fooled.

[SilverFoxLeo @BowTiedHRT]

In a rare turn of events, the FDA advisory panel votes to allow compounding pharmacies to produce BPC-157, an endogenous peptide

This is a great and needed win for the decriminalization of substances made by the human body.

Testosterone has been a Schedule III controlled substance since 1990, and it is a molecule your body started manufacturing well before you learned to shave.

Estrogen and progesterone are not much better off: buried under enough prior authorizations and pharmacist hesitation to make a woman feel like a criminal suspect for daring to inquire what her bloodwork looks like and questioning whether it could be better.

The FDA needed a two day meeting and a formal vote to decide whether a peptide your own gut has been producing all along gets to exist and be available legally.

Turns out the human body (and you) have been running an unlicensed pharmaceutical operation this whole time.

[Nate Yamasaki | Physique & Nutrition Coach @nateyamasaki]

Imagine waiting for the government to approve a pathway for you to heal

Then if approved, you pay 10x the cost

For the same product that been used by N=1ers successfully for years at a fraction

[Nate Yamasaki | Physique & Nutrition Coach @nateyamasaki]

Choose your doctors / clinicians wisely folks

credentials ≠ competence

[BowTiedYukon @BowTiedYukon]

Every time I see a professional athlete lifting weights it’s always the dumbest shit & never the basics

[Ana | Hair Today, Balanced Tomorrow @mscarnivore]

Runners love doing gross stuff like shitting themselves, having bloody nipples or free bleeding in the middle of a race.

What a cursed high cortisol sport.

[BowTiedMeatHead 🥩💪 @bowtiedmeathead]

When I see (she/her/hers) in someone’s email sig I can’t help but think this person is mentally unstable and could turn on me real quick.

Warning to engage with extreme caution.

[𝓩𝓪𝓬𝓱 𝓑𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓷𝓮 @ZachBrowne]

My Transformation...

Every day, Mon-Fri, I lift weights at 5am and do cardio for an hour at 12pm and Sat/Sun. I eat a very healthy, pre-planned diet and meditate for an hour each evening. I've been doing this for several years.

I lost 70ish pounds of fat and have completely reshaped my body. I am healthier than I've ever been.

I started slow, just started walking in the evenings. Added some pushups/situps/squats, then pullups. Finally joined a gym for weights. Now I'm a machine.

There is NOTHING better than eating healthy, exercising and meditating each day. I did this after quitting alcohol and pills after a spiritual awakening.

You can do this too. I was lazy, fat, tired and depressed. I started slowly and built over time. If I can do this, ANYONE can.

If this motivates anyone on here, it did it's job. Get off your ass and make it happen!

[BowTiedYukon @BowTiedYukon]

I do not understand how anyone would take this self proclaimed “personal trainer” of 7 when he’s built like a sloppy bag of flubber