Amazingly enough, I have gotten orders of magnitude more positive surprisingly fast after my firm decision to lay 100+ new women, and maybe move to an even more ambitious target beyond that after I gradually work my way there. Laying 100+ new women is not a life mission, but it's a goal that's primally motivating enough I immediately started doing a better job cutting out negativity and sub-par alternative uses of time. Getting 100+ new women's legs waving in the air takes some concentrated focus, even though gsjackson correctly pointed out it's quite a modest goal compared with the Errol Flynns and Jack Nicholsons and Wilt Chamberlains and so on.
But I missed getting deeper into this great post from
@gsjackson made a while ago:
gsjackson wrote: ↑July 2nd, 2022, 5:08 pm
A few thoughts:
I started waking up after just four or five hours of sleep 20 years ago when I started spending nights on the computer. It also coincided with winding down my handball (Irish-American version) playing days, so regardless of whatever working out I was still doing I didn't exhaust myself nearly so much as when I was playing.
The important of getting a great sleep is something I've neglected too much, but I was reading Minervini's "Mindset Secrets for Winning" and he talked about recent research showing how the brain actually cleans and washes itself of toxins, but you need to get the classic 8 hours and not less to optimize it. Apparently only cutting off 2 hours off the 8 caused a measurable different in performance being tested in various ways, and the ones with 8 hours/night significantly outperformed the ones who got 6 hours.
gsjackson wrote: ↑July 2nd, 2022, 5:08 pm
Sports, by the way, are the opposite of faggy. Sports are real and true meritocracies, unlike "real life." You can't bullshit your way to success in sports. Even Jews become relatively good citizens when they subject themselves to the disciplines of sports. But the saddest part of the last few years has been seeing American sports completely coopted by the narratives of wokeness. Was emasculation of the athletes one of the agenda items in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
I was never a team sports fan (also had some problems with jock-mouthbreathers, don't like those assholes) but I definitely agree overall. I am obsessed with "Lone Wolf' type stuff (in the Conan the Barbarian-esque, "rugged individualism," Han Solo, Army of One sense, not the vigilante type of "lone wolf") so I personally like the combat sports like
@Lucas88 and I were talking about, though you definitely need to strike a balance between sustaining blows to the head and taking care of your physical health for the long-term.
gsjackson wrote: ↑July 2nd, 2022, 5:08 pm
Listen to your body as you get older and don't be reluctant to change up workouts. Experiment around. I'm having great results lately with the three-pound dumbbell routines used by the old-time strong men like Sandow (you squeeze them hard as you do the movement and focus intensely on the muscle being targeted). You'd be very surprised at the results, which have actually made me stronger on the bench machine. And doing the weight machines where you kick backwards (aiming mainly at the glutes) has caused my legs to blow up like nothing I did before (though I'm not a hard-core lifter by any means).
That is awesome, and I've also been getting surprisingly solid results with lower weights and much higher reps with my old dumbbells, curlbar, and barbell. I also got some kettlebells inspired by Cornfed and that Russian guy Pavel something-or-other, but I like the results I'm getting and was pleasantly surprised to read some studies showing similar results with high reps but lighter weight.
But I can concur here on listening to the body as you get older, having just hit the dread 40 threshold, where there's still plenty of fire in you but you are getting plenty of "messages" from your old injuries, spinal column (having to lift gigantic railcar bridge beams with only one other guy in an emergency a few years ago wasn't optimal for that), and overall energy level, all warning you in advance that you're going to have to pace yourself a little differently than in my 20s. I used to just start deadlifting barely even warming up in my early 20s, for example, which probably wasn't a good idea even then even though I got away with it and came away with some muscle, but in my early 40s, forget it, now I'd rather do higher reps with less weight until I'm very nicely warmed up.
gsjackson wrote: ↑July 2nd, 2022, 5:08 pm
Mel salvaged his body, but not his face and hair, which I guess were sacrificed mainly to alcohol. So let me make the following point fully aware that that old troll Frank (aka Shemp) may be lying in wait under the bridge to strike again, as he did the last time I made the point (and I've never mentioned face cream on this forum or anywhere else). I quoted the actress Candace Bergen saying that she could save her ass or her face, but not both. Meaning if you work out too hard, depending on the type of workout, you're going to start looking wan and drawn in the face. Fat people often save their faces, but enclose them in a frame of lard. Find the happy medium, and while I don't put anything at all on my face except water and sometimes coconut or olive oil as a moisturizer, I do believe in facial exercises. The theory is that the face is made up of muscles just like the rest of the body and when they weaken with age they pull your face down with them. You can find exercises to strengthen and enlarge them so that the face stays up all over the internet.
One of those veteran ladies' men told me a bunch of stuff about skin moisturizing cream and stuff like that for men, which I never thought about using. I still churlishly think of that kind of stuff as preening and peacock stuff by instinct, but that's not always true... That guy wasn't full of shit like the "SMV" types either, he 100% agreed that cosmetic stuff for men is vastly less important than primal masculinity and a good set of principles + knowhow for getting into women's "sex" category (as opposed to "provider/cashcow") and closing the deal as fast as possible to get the women into the sack, but at the same time was saying the better you look as you push into your 50's and 60's, the easier it is to keep up your success rate, so it's worth at least some effort...
It's true when I get chiseled then my face gets really gaunt. I already have coconut oil and olive oil for cooking, that's a good idea so you know you're now using some toxic pharmaceutical company product...
On the women's side: Candace Bergen said she could save either her face or her ass, but that's no doubt the POV of the poor feminine creatures who are trying to stay attractive to men who want women with tiny asses but smooth faces, a bit of a cop-out. That's why guys such as myself,
@Lucas88, and
@E Irizarry R&B Singer (and I believe
@Pixel--dude too) are the gods' gifts to women who want to fatten themselves up to keep their face and skin smooth, but have a nice big fat womanly ass be seen as "a feature rather than a bug."
If I have an Asian girlfriend I always try to fatten them up, LOL, which might annoy them or might not, but I'd be doing them a favor if I fattened them up in their mid-20s or early 30's since then they wouldn't have to become cosmetic magic-workers to his as many wrinkles on their pretty faces later in their 40+ age range. If they'd been following the super-thin trends and starving themselves it's kinda hard for them not to get some more wrinkles...
gsjackson wrote: ↑July 2nd, 2022, 5:08 pm
And remember, everything the Zio-media tell you is the precise opposite of the truth, emphatically including health matters. Get plenty of sun. Don't block it with sunglasses, hats or toxic sunscreen. I once got a second-hand report from an old-timey doctor who said that for maximal health get two hours of direct cranial sun exposure every day you can. This is a blast from the past when some doctors actually thought they were in the health business.
Often very true, but I have to put in a word here as a true son of Northern Darkness who was even born with golden curls as well as blue eyes and the long nose and everything: If you're naturally genetically pale as me, the kind of sun even in the Mountain states and certainly on the open ocean sailing even on the sunnier Left Coast (and no doubt the Caribbean and South East Asia) is going to scorch the !@#$ out of me and leave me looking like a lobster if I'm not careful. (It's happened numerous times and drains the life right out of me when I naively spend too long in direct sun because my energy and testosterone are up so I feel strong, but forget the sun's going to wallop me. But I know it's true some healthy sun exposure and outdoor time is great.)
I'll look into non-toxic sunscreens though, I wondered about whether mainstream products were safe...
gsjackson wrote: ↑July 2nd, 2022, 5:08 pm
If you want to see what I looked like last year at 70, try to find an old thread that I believed I titled My Video. I can't pull up any threads that haven't been posted to within about the last two weeks, for some reason. Cornfed said Kenny Rogers without the beard, and I'm assuming he's talking about the middle-aged Kenny, not the old cadaver with botched plastic surgery that roamed around under that name the last few years, I'll take that. Kenny was a major babe magnet in his day.
That's awesome.
I don't know much about Kenny other than that he's popularly quoted by stock traders about risk management (quoting his lyrics from "The Gambler", the obvious lessons being: "You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table. / There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done," and ""You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.")
I looked up Kenny's notch count and at first thought I was looking at a respectable 800, but looking more carefully, what it was saying was actually that he'd apparently set up an 800 # to have phone sex with women in the 1980s with the idea that'd get him into less trouble with his lays rather than more trouble, but some of the women got mad at him about it and squawked enough that it apparently caused a scandal.
How can a man possibly know Dolly Parton for 30 years and not be nailing her regularly though!?! Actually, they were probably both married, I'm always forgetting so many people do that! *smacks forehead*
(Or maybe he was being a gentleman and lying about how he never bagged her, but actually did. I'd do that, if I knew she wanted to keep getting pounded in bed by me secretly on a regular basis, but wanted to discretely keep it a secret so other people wouldn't pick on her about it.
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