How moronic am I if I read books between sets? I want to brainmaxx at the gym but I don't want to be seen as the gym creep. I'm talking ebooks not physical ones.
Any recs for books too from other anons?
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can't you just raise your head and stare at a wall for 2 minutes?
You won't have the right level of focus in the gym to actually read a book
So I would see you no different than a thot posing to take pics with a book
But don't be concerned about my opinion
Not weird. But if you get into books ACTUALLY, then be aware of your surroundings. being in a book is probably worse than zoomers absorbed on tiktok.
Idc if you like fiction or not - the Kingkiller Chronicles are spectacularly written. Also read 12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson.
Nta but my big brother recommended me book1 just before I finished high school and I'm pretty sure that trilogy still isn't complete so I haven't read it 15 years later. I'll probably be dead before stormlight archives finishes too
no its not done, probably never will be. but trust me when i say its the most well put together lump of words i have ever set eyes upon. you get 2 whole books man!
>MALAZAN
>GORMENGHAST
YOU WELCOME BRO
Kingkiller is pretty good but it's so pretentious and the MC is a reddit Basedboy.
The way he interacts with women and btfos his enemies with his charm and wit are so cringe.
Second book is even worse. I can just imagine pattyboy jerkin it while he's writing his self insert. "Oh yeah and then he goes to a village of warrior women and they ALL wanna bang him and then he meets a forest nymph who kills all the men she bangs but he's so good at sex that she meets him live and then he learns how to be the best at sex and all the girls think he's so cool."
It's ridiculous
For all that it isn't that bad and probably worth one read.
that is the biggest complaint i see, and i think i agree for the most part. I do think that the "winningness" of the MC is a lot more drawn out than simply 'he wins'. There are clear trials and tribulations. The one thing that bothers me is that he is seemingly equipped for any scenario. but he did live as a sewer rat for a few years so i believe in him anon.
I always viewed the "le epic winning" as an old man recounting the tales of his youth (we had to walk uphill both ways to school). Theres also the aspect that Kote is a storyteller with first hand knowledge of the life of someone who's almost a mythological figure.
That being said kvothe is a disgusting simp for a woman that prostitutes herself out to rich patrons
it's a great way to intensify your self-engineered ADD, yes
peak mongoloidmaxxing
>recs
slop fiction and light non-fiction like pic related
There's no way you're retaining whatever information between sets, of it's a fiction book there's no way you're remembering whatever plot points.
It's like when kids would get high between classes in college or high school. You're not learning anything if even if feels good and you think it looks cool.
It's funny I own a bunch of books like that and it's always the dullest boring shit ever like
>And then Lord Obunaga sent his retainer Kazukeno to the house of Shukeki where he learned that Lord Mizukawa had passed away and left 6 Gyoh as inheritance for his son Katakeshu. Kazukeno performed Sudoku upon his return as tribute to Lord Mizukawa as Lord Obunaga was moved to tears while having gay sex.
good, great, can't wait to turn that into a useful life skill in the modern world.
The dry, matter-of-fact style is exactly what OP needs. It's easy to chunkify and retain on the fly. You might be able to read something more complex (but equally shallow) like Hobsbawm's Short Twentieth Century. Anything in-depth will get you too engrossed and drift your mind away from the pump. If you're ACTUALLY trying to lift instead of chasing a pump or warming up then lol. Lmao even.
Another option would be pic related or coffee table stuff like The Book of Symbols.
>can't wait to turn that into a useful life skill in the modern world
NGMI mindset.
You will get 2 things from the book:
>Having a cursory understanding of the Japanese feudal system.
>Cool little facts to drop in casual conversation (not factoids, those are a different thing) like DID YOU KNOW JAPAN HAD CHRISTIAN SAMURAI BUT THEY WERE DRIVEN UNDERGROUND FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS UNTIL THEY WERE REDISCOVERED IN THE 19TH CENTURY.
What else do you want? If you want to learn a 'useful' skill like how to cook molly go read PIHKAL or something.
You have ADHD. Also, you're not training hard enough if you think you can start "reading between sets"
Stop trying to do everything at once, that's a womanly mindset. Nobody who is genuinely intelligent or strong/jacked splits his focus between books and lifting
homie everyone at my gym rushes to their phones for 5 minutes between sets (men and women alike). Why not reading instead of doom scrolling?
I know you're trying to look like the "smart guy" but in reality nobody cares about your shitty teen drama novel
So you are doing two activities that booth require high focus and booth are highly dopamine rewarding. You think you are some /fitlit/ chad, but in reality you can't do one thing properly. But do what you want.
how does exercise require any focus and how does reading a book give you a dopamine rush are you really human
>how does exercise require any focus
holy frick, here we are, you are never going to make it
>how does reading a book give you a dopamine rush
wouldn't call it dopamine rush, but reading book is dopamine rewarding activity that you are stacking on top of another dopamine rewarding activity - lifting
>are you really human
yes
No worthwhile literature can be read while fatigued and while constantly having your attention forcefully taken away every few minutes. Phone between sets works exactly because it's a mindless activity. Feel free to bring your book. Everyone else will recognize you for the pseud and poser that you are though.
And 40% of the US is obese. Just because the majority of people are that way, doesn’t make it any less pathetic. Fricking hate buttholes that sit on a machine for 20 minutes just to do 4 sets. I can be in and out of a gym in 35 minutes when I don’t talk to people or stare at my phone.
Brutal truth bomb
Stretch between sets, drink some water, walk around. Stop being addicted to stimulation
bro you need REST to grow your brain stop overreading
If you can actually read during your rests, you're not working out hard enough.
Audiobooks?
Your lifts and reading will be both suboptimal. My zoomer bro was "studying" math to get in uni and he couldn't solve some baby problems fresh off highschool where that's all you learn. Or maybe I'm just being biased from being an engineer or education turned to shit in he last 5 years.
Nobody gives a shit. There's a young guy at gym that reads a local paper between sets and benches 3 plates
Cool, thanks anon. Will bring Kindle.
See
Yeah but I don't care
moronic as frick for reading. But if you're a bikegay is great. I read 20 minutes, bike around the park for 10 and go back. Keeps legs loose and my brain happy.
With lifting it's bad cause it's 5 minute reading AND it's intense focus. Just stare at a wall and focus your breath
Ever heard of an audiobook?
I don't like people talking to me, I enjoy the act of reading.
hmm
No thanks
I think I'll just keep aggressively pacing like a caged lion between sets
fren
I'd kinda think you're a poser for doing that. Reading poetry might work but I couldn't imagine retaining much of what I'm reading between heavy sets of squats for example.
My blood is in my legs not my brain
I read while resting between sets. Both on my kindle and physical books. It's great.
Sweet, any recs?
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
you are only moronic for asking this stupid fricking question on here
how does reading books make you a creep???
in most cases (like when the result doesn't matter), dont worry about appearing as a creep if you arent a creep
I don't think you can really read between sets, it's too annoying to try to read 3/4 of a page and then do your next set. Unless you're a powersharter who has 5 minute rests.
But I did read for an hour while I was doing low intensity cardio on a stationary bike and that was pretty nice, it makes that type of cardio bearable when otherwise it's deadly boring
you're better off just sitting on thu stationary bike before or after
Confederacy of Dunces. It's funny, you can read for about 2 minutes before the next break in the book, perfect for sets. Let the parts sit with you while working out.
I'm practicing reading Japanese by reading 'Sun and Steel' by Mishima. Overall he is overrated, but this is by in far his best work. I enjoy thinking about his meanings while doing my lifts.