Amen!
Not everyone here has a personal trainer and chef?
I’m a 6’4” 200lb 15% body fat 38 year old.
So physically you have to get your diet tightened up. You don’t need to be measuring everything out but downloading an app like “Lose It!” and inputting your macros and goals in the app will be massive. It takes the guesswork out.
If you can’t eat 210g of protein every day like I can’t from food alone, supplement with a clean higher quality protein powder. I do about 60-120g daily from protein shakes alone.
Definitely lift heavy weights. You don’t need hours in the gym by any means but you do need to be lifting 4x per week. 5-6 if you’re body can handle it but rest is vital. Your body and muscles need time to recover and rebuild. An app like “Tabata” helps with timing your engagement and resting phases of a workout so you’re not wasting time. I am dead after 35-45 minutes. Make sure you warm up before the workout and stretch after.
Soul-wise: I start each day with my Christian daily devotional books, meditate and pray on them for 5 minutes or so or as much as is needed, and set my intentions for the day. Then I check in throughout the day to make sure I’m present with in touch with God.
Mind: turn off the tv, get the fuck off social media (I deleted everything but Gab and Poal), and start reading. Even if it’s just a fun fiction book that helps get the brain juices flowing.
Get plenty of sleep!!!! This one is huge. Lack of sleep literally kills you. Give your organs and mind time to do their thing.
Find a good men’s group. Masculine Godly men. Typically your church should offer a host of options, just find the right one. If your churches have been feminized, find a club outside of church.
Outstanding!
Hopefully that’s helpful
We share a similar physique, attitude and orientation. I am a decade and half ahead in years. Mid 50s, 6'3", 210, low teens body fat. Life long athlete and a once upon a ground pounder grunt medic. Jits and Muay Thai until the cumulative injuries and surgeries exacted a toll that is now more easily paid with yoga and functional fitness pursuits. Have tinkered and tailored a dialed in dietary and meaningful movement regimen that propels me along my last half of life path goal: Active longevity. Lifespan without healthspan is not worth shit.
Body: Monday: Tabatha KB swings. Tuesday: 2 rounds of 10 exercise/10 rep resistance band circuit warm up. Dumbbell Delt Side Flys, Delt Front Flys, Arnold Presses, KB Dead Lifts, Bulgarian Splits, Cossack Squats. Wednesday: Tabata Medicine Ball Jump Slams. Thursday: MetCon Circuit - KB, Steel Mace, Steel Club, Dumb Bell, Plyo Box, Sand Bag, Pull Up Bar. Friday: Steel Mace Power Yoga Finish each session with saber drills. That's my melee martial pursuit these days..
Diet is quality meats and chesses and fruits, self rolled fermented veggies, bone broth, kombucha, yogurt and kefir. Also roll my own powder and potion blends.
Mind: Superintendent of the kiddos homeschooling. Read daily Fiction and Nonfiction.
Spirit: Everyday Prayer, The Bible, Father-n-Husbandhood, Wim Hoff Breathing, Guitar.
StabEm's vision and intent for TheGym sub is to have fun and get more Poalers up and off their asses to embrace the Discipline of Iron. Your post serves as an exemplar of how to accomplish that.
Eat right. Get your meat and veggies right. Get outside, be in the sun as often as you can. Move. Move around. Have a purpose. Make things happen. Fix on things. Machinery, relationships, doesn't matter. Stay on top of things. Stay in contact with your family and neighbors. (Even if they suck.) Stock up on commodities. Good luck out there, bro fam.
3 cycles of set 1, 1 set pull ups to failure 4days/week Set 1 20x25# alternating kettle bell lunges 20 flutter kicks, 20 seconds lower ab leg hold, 25 raised leg crunches. 30 push-ups
Stellar!
First step of the regimen:
- stop writing like a nigger and shaming our White heritage
Writing, particularly of the online variety, is akin to musical improv; Knowing the rules allows one to vernacularly riff and quip as needed with the assumption that the end user can glean the tongue in cheek intent. In this particular example, the particular verbiage was conspicuously chosen to establish a wink-wink, nudge-nudge, self effacing tenor and tone of the given salvo. The title set the tenor while the salutation ensconced the tone. But enough repartee and parsing of exculpatory explanations. Let's get back to the brass tacked question of record, this time couched in The Queen's Own; What quotidian actions did you employ this week to elevate yourself on the cerebral, corporeal and spiritual fronts?
Jogging, gun range and a paintball session in the wilderness nearby. Plenty of steaks, potatoes and green beans afterwards.
Paintball with a steak chaser. The breakfast of champions!
Beer
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