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Embrace the gratification of picking increasingly heavy things up and throwing them down, form be damned. Get a bench press in your basement, do it in your jeans, get a sweat minimal midday win.
Nov 13, 2023
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Heavy metal pressing down, your neck in its path to the ground.
Contracting muscles, screaming joints squeeze out the chemicals your brain knows as "fear".
It's the folly of humanity, the preference for harm over boredom.
It's the schizoid relationship with the self; the awe at the infinite potential shown on the magazines, and the despair over the work required, work that can only end ever end underground unless you love (or hate) your body enough to try and make it perfect.
It's cool. It's a craft. It should be catered to your tastes.
It's endless lies, peddled and inherited, the biggest two being that the numbers matter and that the numbers don't matter.
It's the love for the moment; the sweaty mechanics of forever existing in a present ready to abandon you. That's where the power of the exercise comes in. When you lift, you defy space but also time. Taking the bar means taking the present and refusing to let go, stretching the instants as far as your condition can because on some deep, reptilian level you know you don't have an infinite supply of them.
Apr 24, 2024
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Get some adjustable dumbbells for your house. Bent rows, shoulder raises, curls squats, overhead presses. Do it for the dopamine. Go.
Jul 14, 2022
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I got into weight lifting for the same reason I get into most things, which is pure unbridled vanity. I read or heard somewhere in my many biohacker information channels that weight lifting is the most anti-aging form of exercise, especially for women, and so I was like on my way! I wasn’t about to pay some community college bro $100 an hour at my LA Fitness to train me though so I just googled “weight lifting classes near me” and because I live a charmed and bless life I found the fucking coolest independent gym like a mile from my house and have been going there for almost a year. Vanity aside, it just makes you feel so good all the time. I love watching myself get stronger and I love the feeling after you lift something really heavy you thought you could never have lifted and I love all the neighborhood friends I’ve made there, including former PI subject and possibly coolest girl alive Petra Cortright. (Honestly a large part of my social life takes place there?) Anyway everyone over 30 should lift weights, preserve your waning muscle mass and build up your self-esteem babe.
Oct 20, 2023
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I am historically not a huge sandwich girl but my job doesn’t have a microwave so it was only a matter of time. I do not love to cook but i love to assemble expensive products, especially feels meditative to do in the night time and fantasize about the fleeting joy this sandwich will bring me tomorro.
Today is black forest maple ham, arugula, sautéed mushrooms with Truff truffle spicy mayo on toasted brioche with Wilde chicken chips on the side and smushed into the sandwich
Jan 8, 2024
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I love to get nutrients in powder form like a british child receiving war rations, tastes like a warm hug
Nov 12, 2023
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I made an account 3 weeks ago it is so awesome it helps me spend time planning and looking forward to outfits and events and if you anticipate it for long enough then wearing makeup or buying something or painting your nails feels like an accomplishment
Feb 23, 2024