What's the single, most important thing that improved your life?
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breathing
Heavy deadlift triples.
How many times a week? Any DL accessories?
How many sets per workout?
>t. Stuck at 155kg deadlift for 5 reps.
Use a heavy (but manageable) weight like 185 kg or something and just do 3x3 with fast eccentric and concentric. I typically do them 3 times a week.
As for accessories. Not a lot. Sprinting and lunges are good, you can try deficits, squatting is good, jumps are good, try isometrics.
running everyday is probably why I didn't kms
"everyday" is an adjective; you mean "every day".
ah frick, now I feel like kms again, sorry grammar-sama
Word forms and meanings change. He means "everyday."
>"everyday" is an adjective; you mean "every day".
"everyday" is an adjective; you mean "every day.,"
fix it for u
shut the frick up
everybody was kneeling out of respect
basado
>I didn’t kms
You did miles instead?
God damnit Carlos, back in the manlet pit you go
Good one
Autistic unbreakable routine.
How? I need this.
>make (realistic) bulletproof routine
>stick to it
Simple as.
Pls elaborate
I need this so bad but even with ADHD medication and habit-building books I just can't seem to get a routine to stick for more than two days
You have to get rid of the negative things that distract you. Live Spartan. Cancel your internet. Get an old school phone, not a smart phone. The only media in your home should be books. You have to turn your home into a command centre for your life.
The secret to my success? Learn to recognize the inconsequential, then ignore it. - Michael Jordan
You've got an identity problem. You believe yourself to be an undisciplined loser and thus continue with your undisciplined loser habits. Choose to have the personal identity of a disciplined person, and then prove to yourself that it is true every day. You'll be knowingly faking it at first but after continuously proving it to be true it becomes easier.
Kek I have this. I just treat going to the gym like my second job and imagine I'll get fired if I don't show up
Getting a gf
Genuinely put me on a new trajectory
>Devil post
This but the opposite, personal-wise everything went down hill with a gf, gained 40 lbs and became an ambitionless tub of lard who had unconditional affection for me and my body. After her passing I got my life back on track and am fit as fuark.
I am proud of her tho and I'll always love her bros, but I look towards the future.
>After her passing I got my life back on track
Black person, did you kill your girlfriend so that you could get fit again?
quitting drugs (and caffeine)
This. Quitting caffeine gave me better sleep, and better sleep equals more gains and more fat loss.
Completely quitting refined sugar is also super important. Your body basically treats it the same as alcohol.
Money. Nothing beats it.
bump
Not sweating the small stuff.
lifting weights
Actually taking the first step. It sounds cliche but the first step is the most difficult. I sat around for years being depressed. One day I decided to take a five minute jog and never looked back.
Buying a shoe brush and brushing my thin hair with it (I learned it from a black man, it's how they get waves). I was boutta kys myself thinking I was going bald because regular combs and brushes exposed my paper white scalp.
Do you use the polish on your face as well?
No I don't want to turn black. He told me that's how black people are made
Post your hair
you're still going bald man
I can deal with the Norwood reaper. The thin on top look is unacceptable, and avoidable.
sorry buddy but you don't get one without the other, it's just a matter of time
Taking vitamin D. I went from being tired and sick all the time to feeling like a super human. I sleep less than I did before, and never get sick.
What is your dosage?
Same as
Started taking 8000iu a day of d3 and never looked back. Went from couldn't get out of bed depression to self employed gym 4 days a week chad.
Pls elaborate anons I need some motivation to take Vit D. Must it be taken with food?
It can be taken whenever. It's recomended to take it with vitamin k2 and magnesium aswell, but you can get combined pills with all three of these. Try and look for a pill with atleast 4000 iu of vitamin d. The reccomended doses are set extremely low due to outdated studies where they didn't add in k2, so don't worry about so called 'side effects'.
Meditation
Same
getting lean no matter what
women treat you like dogshit if you're a fatso, and HR bawds gatekeep 99% of jobs
Going to Asian massage parlors
based
storytime
I've got tons of stories
>go to parlor after gym
>only one girl working, looks in her 20s but knowing Asians she's mid 30s
>get naked and lay down
>solid massage back feeling good
>oh you strong boy
>moves to my glutes and hamstrings
>hands slowly moving closer and closer to dick and balls till she's just got her hand wrapped around my balls and rubbing my dick
>continues for 5 minutes till she tells me to turn over
>wow so strong as she feels my arms chest and shoulders
>gives me a handjob while feeling my body and I bust within a minute because of all the buildup
>she cleans me up
>lays on me holding me with her head laying on my chest occasionally kissing my chest or neck telling me how good I am
>still hard
>she feels it and says young boy so strong and gives me another handjob
>time is up
>asks me if I want another hour
I should have gotten another hour
>
Finally accepting that I am incapable of feeling happiness without prior effort/struggle
hard pill
Hormone therapy (not a troony)
Hormone therapy (troony)
Having a daughter. My trajectory is so much clearer now that she's in my life.
congrants
>a daughter
nice
d-does she need an uncle?
My life has never improved
Here's a bump of dopamine with a (You)
Now your life is marginally improved.
I didn’t even get the (you). My life remains unimproved. Thanks for trying.
Cutting out Xanax from my life, and keeping my drinking/marijuana use under control. So Basically not doing alcohol/drugs daily/weekly
I quit drinking, benzos, and weed.
Week #3 atm. I don't remember ever being so bored. No withdrawals though, just coping with a dreadful void.
You're supposed to fill that void with socializing with other people doing stuff you enjoy. If you just quit weed to sit around and do nothing of course you are gonna be bored. Weed is for sitting around and doing nothing all day without wanting to kys from boredom.
It gets better anon. Keep yourself busy, and just stay away from Xanax booze and pot all together. Took about 3 months for me to have that dread and boredom to away. Like
said go preoccupy yourself with shit. I started cooking a lot more, hiking, and reading books at cafes
Day 10 not drinking. Know what you mean. Health is so much better its night and day, however the feeling of boredom/antsyness is pretty overwhelming
wearing breathing strips to bed
Seconded. Good one.
Giving up the booze.
Giving up alcohol is one of the best moves you can make. Western media makes it seem weird to NOT be poisoning yourself with alcohol. I wasn't an alcoholic, but I drank 2-3 often, and overdrank a lot. Giving it up was easy except for social situations with lots of pressure to drink. Felt much better after a few months, lost a lot of weight and my face got less puffy. It can cause you to crave sweets or shitty food at night if you used to drink at night.
You know, my whole spiritual path is fine and all, and I spend like 3 hours a day on it or more usually, but actually abstaining from alcohol is probably an even bigger influence on my life than that. Every day I walk past some people drinking and I just can't imagine what it's like for them to be just a liiiiiittle bit addicted to it literally 24/7. Don't get me wrong, I've been addicted to Cannabis and nicotine in the 8 years since I last got decently drunk, and it is pretty horrible to be dependent on anything, but I am off all that stuff now and being free of any kind of addiction is simply heavenly
I even eat super low-sugar and take a little bit of iodine every day so that I don't crave salt. Pretty much the worst things I'm addicted to now are music and IST. I am pretty content to live this way now, because it feels like every step is a step up from now on. Like, since I don't have anything dragging me back, my life is just going to keep getting better and better until I die. Maybe getting old will bring its challenges, but I hope to become wise with age, and also continue lifting so that I can be one of those jacked old dudes.
Tl;dr disregard alcohol, acquire aesthetics
Quit drinking alcohol. Way too late unfortunately but still.
Making an agreement with my wife to be absolutely open and honest with each other. About literally everything.
how to get wife?
Unironically getting married. I'm lucky and I know it.
Giving up completely on being normal helped me stop being suicidal. It was a slow-building rejection of normality and society itself on a rational philosophical basis that did it. I realize I will never make it in life because I'm not even motivated to make it unlike most people who simply want to be rich and enjoy the excesses of modern industrialized society.
Realized that there is no mysterious X-factor that "normal" people have that I or anyone else somehow lacks, and that everyone feels like the weird one or the odd one out on the inside.
Once you're in on the joke you can give yourself permission to do pretty much anything - like succeed. And then you learn how to make other people feel like they're getting that permission too, and it's off to the races.
Stopped giving a frick about every little thing and every persons opinion about me.
My boomer dad dying and leaving me 15 million.
Hey man can I get 250k to pay off my mortgage and be free of the israelite?
Just give me 50k and I can get you 100k in 5 years.
realizing God was real the whole time and going to an Orthodox church
Shitting.
OMAD
had never been able to dip under like 16-18%bf until I tried it.
now I can go winter gut to summer abs in 2-3 months like its nothing
Do you maintain strength reasonably?
Yeah i'd maybe loose 5-7% on heavy compounds around 5-8 rep max initially, but once you taper off the deficit it comes right back.
How many calories you eat. Macro percentages? I’m 6’2 and have a very high tdee, wondering if it’s practical to be doing OMAD for 3k+ cals. But if there’s a lot of fat cals in the meal I bet it wouldn’t be too bad
Going to church and giving my life to Christ
Abandoning the church
Sticking to things
>1) getting my hypothyroidism medicated
Used to be fat, miserable, and tired all the time and had bouts of sperg rage because of it.
>2) becoming lean
Hypothyroid meds and jim helped with this a lot. Women used to treat me 10x worse (rightly so) and I had no confidence because I looked like shit.
>3) taking accutane
Made my face go from a Garden of Nurgle to just normal skin. Had to live like a cave goblin for like 7 months and barely ever went outside while on it though.
>4) taking supplements
Made my hair thicker and healthier and my skin better, gave me even more energy.
>5) going jim
Helped me lose the weight, plus muscle makes me look and feel better. Also helps psychologically just to have a masculine hobby.
>taking supplements
Which ones?
crystal meth.
>nutritional
Multivitamin
D3
K2
Iron (am slightly anemic)
>skin/hairmaxx
Collagen
Biotin
Stop using shampoo NOW, conditioner only
>cancerminn and heartmaxx but questionably helpful
Niacin
Omega 3
Glutathione
>poopmaxx
Psyllium husk
Kombucha
Fermented foods
Use a poop stool
This, which ones? Collagen?
meditation by far. Didn't even really take it seriously until I was 29 years old.
learning the truth about National Socialism and WW2
fat loss/weight loss
CBT both kinds
Taking zinc. I am not kidding, it was the first step that snowballed into me completely turning my life around.
A tiny hot blonde that genuinely loved me
Damn. Other than being flat, she's hot.
what is it about tiny hot blondes man
same was my first step to turning my life around
A consistent sleep schedule improved me a lot
Anime. It is cringe to say this, I know, but anime really got me into the 'martial arts mindset' of wanting to train and grow stronger, for the sake of protecting all that is good and beautiful in this world. This is an instinct which is beaten out of Western men from infancy these days, so it needs to come from somewhere else or else you lose it completely. That instinct carried me through many years of martial arts, as well as all of last year and this year (doing heavy weightlifting 5x/week now.) I've also got a tomboy girlfriend who is a complete otaku, and we watch anime all the fricking time together because it's fun and cheap. Yes, there's a lot of shit anime; yes, I've wasted a lot of time in my lifespan watching it; yes, I admit that most anime is not nearly as mentally stimulating as reading a book, etc... But you know, it's not nearly as bad for you as the poor reputation which precedes the ""anime fandom"" would otherwise suggest. Especially the older stuff. Among the classics, there really just isn't any of the pedoshit fanservice and mindless, unoriginal trash that has been slowly poisoning the supply since the early 00's. I'm not saying that all old anime are god-tier, or anything of the sort, but simply defending anime in general and its ability to influence people positively. I think this is important to do, because it seems like a lot of newer IST users have this idea that enough anime is trannime that it's not worth getting into, or else that it's worthwhile to consider divorcing image board culture from anime. That's simply not the case, and I'd like to remind everybody here that homosexuals hijacked the rainbow, not the other way around.
TL;DR -- Death to all homosexuals, israelites, troons, and especially Black folk (unless they like DBZ, then they can live in Africa with Mr. Popo.)
Real shit right here. There are tons of shitty books, movies, video games, anime, manga, stories, and people in this world. It is best to remove yourself from the shit and seek the good. Look for inspiration, value, and quality lessons to take and apply to yourself.
Him
Amen
Deciding to be selfish and fearless. Quit my shitty job, found better work, made great money for the first time in my life. Made better friends and improved the relationships I already had, used the money to improve my life and enjoy being alive. Then I got into a shitty relationship and fricked up a lot of progress but survived and learned some life lessons. Did a couple long distance thru hikes and finally committed to something I cared about. Healthy and relatively happy now, in a relationship with a good girl who treats me well. Just stop taking shit from people and maintain the thought “I’m going to die one day and no one’s going to be accountable for the life I live except me”
having kids
Taking responsibility for my life, my actions, and what I do.
As well as facing my fears and doing what I find scary despite my fears.
I started to take small steps out of my comfort zone. Wearing brighter clothes. Walking around without headphones. Not using my phone in public or at all really. Walking with my head up. Just little things on their own that have led to good confidence gains.
Losing weight. Living life while fat is basically voluntarily increasing the difficulty of life. Everything in my life has improved after I stopped eating processed bullshit and lost weight.
Realising woman dont matter.
stopping caffeine
Unironically shooting up estrogen
LSD
Realising that improvement is a meme.The show never ends
So always keep improving silly boy
that means the improvement never ends 😉
that means the never improves ends :^
stopped caring
Forcing my self to think positively about life instead of being so negative all the time. Now I think positively naturally (improved neural pathways) and I don't really have to force it. Also disciplining myself and just doing the damn thing no matter what. I'm not where I want to be but I'm a lot closer than when I started.
>Forcing my self to think positively about life instead of being so negative all the time. Now I think positively naturally (improved neural pathways) and I don't really have to force it
can you expand on this?
I used to think incredibly negatively about my self and life. Bad anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem (ofc) and just had a bad out look on life in my teenage years. This is going to sound corny, but I had to learn to love my self and be proud of who I was. Anyways, I read somewhere about "reforming neural pathways" in your brain and decided to give it a try. Every single time you have a negative thought you catch it and stop and think a positive thought instead. After a couple days i started feeling better about my life after doing this and my mood increased. Eventually, your brain will associate positive thinking with "good feels" and it will just come more natural. That's the basic gyst of it, ideally you improve your life as well and change your environment If that is what's causing your negativity. Obviously negative thoughts will never go away but they won't be as severe and limit your potential.
Life is brutal, but most of my mental suffering was me beating my self up and focusing on moments in my past where i fricked up or embarrassed myself. There's people serving life in prison that are more content with their life than me so why shouldn't I be positive.
Sorry 4 blog
okay I'm gonna try that now thanks for the help anon
>Anyways, I read somewhere about "reforming neural pathways" in your brain and decided to give it a try. Every single time you have a negative thought you catch it and stop and think a positive thought instead.
Browsing IST and IST is kind of like doing "darkening of neural pathways" and teaching people trough repetition to think negatively about things. Any thread or post almost always gets replies focusing on the (often obvious) negative, but when its like that all the time, its like every response you get is one in which trains the pathways to take the negative direction.
10,000 IU of Vitamin D every day and Eating Avocados
giving up porn
In course of a few years I morphed my wife into analingus loving anal freak. She loves when I tongue rape her shitciatella distributor, when I finger her snickers bar extractor while I eat her Ghana, when I push my mushroom head up her fart whistle.
>In course of a few years I morphed my wife into analingus loving anal freak. She loves when I tongue rape her shitciatella distributor, when I finger her snickers bar extractor while I eat her Ghana, when I push my mushroom head up her fart whistle.
Fitness wise?
Imprivong my sleep.
My overall life improvement?
Improving my sleep.
This. My life improved dramatically when I realized that the "brooo I'm fine with 6 hours of sleep gotta grind dude" meme is a fricking lie.
Family business was going unto the shitter
Started working without getting paid for a year, business started to go Better
Started getting paid, not much but i dind't mind
Business going a little better but my mom goes Crazy sues my father, he goes to jail
I gotta sort It out and i keep the business going, my father comes out of jail he reconciles with my mother
COVID hits business goes into the shitter for two years, we resist
COVID ends job goes brrr we start making money, i finally get a Better pay and feels Amazing
So the most important thing was not giving up, thats what i learned
Wow you have a good work ethic and family values
making a really good friend
i lost 70lbs on OMAD.
i still stick with it even though it's more of a mixed bag for maintaining or making gains, if not outright disadvantageous. After I started it I was able to start cooking, eating right, doing cardio and now lifting. Feels like the lynchpin holding my discipline together so I never let it slip.
Foreskin restoration.
got a dog.
runners up: take fish oil, green powder, vit d & creatine religiously.
waking up at 5 am and getting 80% of my work done before noon.
setting a sleep time for the evening to help with planning.
getting quality sleep every night. diet is also up there but sleep is definitely most important.
Using moisturizer to jerk off. I used to think it was just a thing for circumcision victims. Now my faps feel better and my dick looks better.
upgrade to babyoil
you wont regret
Exercise
Money and it isn't even close.
stopped seeking social validation
Stop caring about what others thinking of me. Was driving myself mad disecting every single interaction thinking I was bring judged for things I perceived as mistakes. Still working on killing my self induced perfectionism though.
Spending less time on this website, particularly this board
meditation.
Vitamin C.
Eating healthily. I use to eat only fast food and snacks throughout the day but since Jan I do OMAD with a bunch of little dishes. I'll have oatmeal, greek yoghurt with some fruit, a sandwich, and a plate full of vegetables, cheese, meat and eggs. What I eat keeps evolving too (now I'm grilling the sandwich and adding peanut butter to the oatmeal). I went back to eating mostly snacks and fast food for some weeks and the difference was day and night.
This thread convinced me to try multivitamins as well
a single LSD trip which convinced me "God" (oh here we go trying to define it) exists, every single bit of energy which exists and all consciousness is part of "God", and the only reason anything as we know it exists at all is due to willing of an infinite bliss. Suffering is an illusion created by our body and mind, to a large extent humans can control the amount of suffering they experience simply through perspective. Then I was given a message (or a sort of reminder?) of who I was, my purpose, etc.
Took a few years of implementation but I pretty drastically turned my life around. Almost all of my problems were mental puzzles just waiting to be solved.
3 Tabs of Acid
Moving out and having control of my own finances.
I had parents with ridiculously bad financially sense.
Suddenly I could afford things and eat properly.
You'd think they'd learn but they've still got awful money issues, and they've never tried to improve.
Yeah, same. It's crazy to think and admit as someone who grew up poor, but some people genuinely deserve to be poor.
There are lots of genuine life situations that can lead to temporary poverty, but damn, some people are just flat out dumb.
Somebody photographed and filmed me years ago when I was at my peak fitness wise. I know I can get back to that and I'm lifting again.
I'm grateful to look at those images and know what I'm capable of when I don't slack off or let other people compromise my health and lifestyle.
wiener from a man larger than me
Nothing glorious, really, but for me it was working a customer service type job. If you’ve met me before I was the bad type of introvert, the stereotypical basement dweller. No sunlight, no socialization, no communication skills—100% awkward little shit. Bam, life happens and I was forced to find a job. I’ve done shitty door-to-door sales, shitty retail work, which led to less shitty retail management, which led to my first real job. It was brutal at first, I really struggled in direct sales, let alone in a retail setting, but I was forced to improve. I learned how to small talk, how to bullshit, and how to shoot the shit with the fellas. It also forced me to socialize, because I was clumped in with other young struggling people. At that point I made a few friends, and then I was no longer spending 100% of my time in the basement of my parents’ house. I spend some time with these people, who know other people, who I also get along with (granted that I developed my social skills in the workplace) and now they’re introducing new social life and work opportunities. Working in retail basically launched a cascade effect of positive change for me.
This is not a magical cure all for being a loser, this isn’t a life saver, and retail work (management or otherwise) is NOT a career goal worth pursuing. I am not a success story, but rather I am sharing a transformation story of how I turned from NEET to a functional person.
Life:
Getting rid of a bad woman. We were deeply in love with each other, but love alone is not enough to foster a relationship. It hurts but you have to rip the bandaid off and move on.
Fitness:
I stopped worrying about bro splits "hurr nurr much chest and biceps day" frick off homosexual, I do a full upper body day and a squat or deadlift day with leg accessories. It's so easy to sustain and it feels more balanced to work opposing motions (OHP and pulldowns) in the same workout. For over 10 years I've been in a cycle of lifting 4-5 days per week for like 6 weeks then quitting for 3 months then lifting for a few weeks then quitting for 3 months, didn't have shit to show for it until I said frick it I'm just going to do what I can when I feel like it without any regiment. FEELS GOOD and I'm finally getting large
>I said frick it I'm just going to do what I can when I feel like it without any regiment
How often do you go to the gym now, approximately?
Realizing how much I'd already wasted
Getting on OMAD. Saves me lots of time and money. CICO keto OMAD helped me get to 12-13%, low carb OMAD helps me stay lean.
My gf. If it weren't for her, I would probably be an incel gamer nerd scared to approach women instead of the man I am today
itt all cope
So what's the most important thing that improved you life?
Hookers.
Racism
Being privy to the designs of the establishment on my people so I can avoid being fricked over and psyopped
Stopped working out for strength and started working out to look good
Getting an education. I make over double what all my friends make, so I was able to attract a mate and have a house whereas most of them are single and renting.
getting a girlfriend and having sex
Following the Lord Jesus Christ, unironically. Also going to a uncompromising but exceedingly friendly community-focused Church.
getting gifted a cat to take care of when I was still in university and used to party a lot
didn't take it very serious the first couple months but then he became ill and I cried due to me not being able to afford his treatments
took out a loan, got a job, paid it back and decided to get ahead of the curve
also decided that this little fricker is too cute to get abandoned by a shitty butthole that only cares about himself
> 2023
> not taking responsibility for the life of another being
valproate
Trt
Getting off IST.
>quitting recreactional stimulants
>stopped hanging around losers