Illustrated doodles from a coach/couch-sona within the furry/oc fandom. Along with WIP sketches and updates.
Neurodivergent memoirs included.
Story sketches, drafts, and captioned cartooning are covered.
Being nothing but an intimidating lug for Castella's play palace. I see an anorexic version of myself.
Do I even want to find this erotization as it finds me? Intoxication and the lack of edge cannot be undone, as this paradox is something of benefits. Theo and Castella.
Pure body of bodyguard and a body merchant. From the lifting of the Bricksters, brought muscle to a gun fight. My literary ambition too cartoonish. An opportunity of sythnmeat to their design. The only thing I have through this is a clarity of mind through this ceaseless interruption in my quarter.
The first thing about being meticulous about tracking the work hours is that is it helping with the dreams, or is it adding unnecessary friction?
Cognitive friction, ineffective friction for doing difficult work that matters. That saying what does not get tracked does not get managed. That's the saying of scientific management. Yet at this time, is what could lead into a deadening effect.
Diversion, don't matter in the shot term. Tracking every calorie in is a meticulous solution to diet regulation, a landing pad towards a more intuitive approach. The same analogy can be brought to tracking those work/leisure time.
That Fomo could be turned into Jomo the moment tracking happens less.
Going to share some favourite fitness videos from Geoffrey Verity Schofield.
Content farms are one thing, (look at this one, farming for discovery.) It's mcdonaldofication of those and the bleeding effect that has on the industry.
Any act of generosity that follows some pattern online here could be a content farm. How does one get their business discovered? Not by the social media landowners. I really don't know how to get out of the content farm industry complex.
16 min another cussy one with selling out, from dishonest products to too many remote controlled zappable moments.
You're free to burn Couch Gregor if he sells a dubious brand deal, for I'd be the one calling it out with you, the former one.
These rehabilitative measures are what I follow, not a complete prescription. Primarily to maximize usage of the wrist flexors and their longevity.
First, an authority on this subject:
9 and a half min
Movement breaks, and 'snacks'? Yummy. Movement is lotion, as within the physiotherapy world.
With my own setup over my own Wacom, it's been comfortable, yet not necessary. Its comfort.
Now for my own bulletproofing measures. The best way bodybuilders within the fitness are to jack-out their ways out of their problems.
Captain of the crunches (recommended you start with the trainer grips, if you get them.)
Can be done on a preacher seat to feel the mind to muscle connection, yet i so these within walking and spare time. Lighter loads can be squeezed, such as the trainer grip.
This is accessible, even with the lighter weights provided in most exercise shops.
30-35 reps for 2-3 sets.
Other difficulty modifiers to get more out of less weight is 3 second slowed eccentrics, with a 1 second flexion pause.
Reverse preacher cable curls - Thumbless grip to maximize tension.
Accessibility not so much, requiring a special precher cable machine
Hold the swivel handle bar, with the preacher bar high enough to lock the elbows. Pull bar to face like you were doing that sassy slay pose. Then return to complete rep.
6-15 reps for 2-3 set
Bodybuilder wrist curls
(Can be underhanded with the grip, whatever provides flexion)
Simply lift the handle bar within the rest, and curl from the wrist towards.
30-35 reps for 2-3 sets
For more variations and alternatives, check out this Jeff Nippard video.
The more you'd do it. Towards the specialization of something, the more reference and sign posts, the better one has with his ideas and to guide him. Curating from the good and bad.
All in the pursuit to be specific, in specialization. With more intentional action over limbic impulse.
Been really trying to feel the pin-up artist's position. The role, the 'method', the imagination. Yep, this is going to be an 18+ blog, ain't it?
With the specialization of something that's been heavily commodified, of the pursuit of more. There's been a cost to that.
25 min mini documentary
Kind of a thematic challenge for a pin up hobbyist to understand what is being commercialized. Without seeming like one trying to have his cake and eat it too.
How can one offer dignity to the mind rather than to the body? Dignity to all things? Including the insecurities.
It's similar to body positivity. Yet there we go? Rewarding an impulse of physical usage? Rather, the exploring of meaningful body neutrality.
There's more to learn more from a physical coach such as Eric Helms for physical programming, Ben Carpenter for Diet advice, and Adam Meakins for pain physiotherapy for how to keep a professional schedule of productivity.
There are more others, Like Alan Thrall, Olan, Nippard, Sean, you name it.
Those connected to the physical realm with their bodies take care of themselves better, who knew?
Anybody who says that you can't work more hours.
They teach it better, more than any social media influencer, teacher, or anybody who desires to overwork has, thank you.
With my mutual respect for others, along with others who are into weight positivity. I speak this as somebody with bigorexia himself. They define it for themselves in regards. With their regards to bodily autonomy which needs to be defended.
The origins of this movement, though, that's what gets me.
Full youtube documentary about the origins. It came from a place of feederists who simply did not want their fetishes critiqued. People who are angry that they can't gatekeep any more.
In regard to my own bodily autonomy, I hope to keep stable. Around 20% body fat (ideally a little below) 170-190 pounds. I doubt I'll reach true body neutrality.
I understand if others can't control it, regarding their own autonomy. It's this information I simply reject the label.
Here, this will cure your exhaustion, you have to believe positive vibes!
I agree with what Seth said back in 2010, generally. A good self-help book is not what's within the category. Becoming a great book, that all other books share with.
Yet there's some bad advice that truly share the cynicism that the critics give it. That really give justification of the genre and make it a worse place. These should be called self-harm books.
These are the books that can kill, which is tasteful curation, curation that is needed.
Some red flags.
Burning the candle at both ends as the secret of success, of making a hit that will provide a good living. There is no evidence for this, if they'd do it they'd suffer from Kuroshi. Many artists have created hits without burning the candle at both ends, there are many examples.
Hackneyed clickbait production, searching for scant memoirs to provide life lessons over the most mundane things. Making everything a moralizing syllabus and secret unveiling. Oversharing family stuff like kids. Navel-gazing education.
Being unrelatable, one is using their lifestyle as a way of influencing others. Showing its useless by being unrelatable is career suicide.
Is what an influencer selling Sui generis? Or not?
Questionable: fake authority. Even if they do have authority, the first three should invalidate it.
Lifestyle schedule incompatibility.
These tropes may be repackaged and reused.
There is no secret, read a lot, write a lot and draw a lot. That has worked. Half keeping the door shut and the door open for revision.
Doubt that these grifters will fully go away, due to this being an industry now. They will still have their 1000 true fans as it were. It's best to simply clear away.
Out of touch self help gurus, video game management and entrepreneurs will continue to advocate for it. I doubt that this rant or any other rant on social media will make the industry complex hear it. They'd probably hire hacks to fill the gaps and continue it.
So this dinosaur advice will continue to be churned out.
I've got to look it in the face, then say a generous no.
Sorry, No, I've already got too many discord channels and I don't know what to publish to which one. The publicity ain't enough to sustain me.
Sorry, No, My personal plate is too stacked with meetings as it is. I'm doing my best to find ample opportunity for my personal projects and bodybuilding as it is. To have myself ripped away is too much of a cost now. Especially as I get older.
Sorry, No, I'm barely getting six hours a day of sleep as with all these meetings, in a vain chance that I'll get picked. No, All my bodybuilding is put on jeopardy as I need 7-9 hours of sleep a day in order to maximize body composition. if you require me, catch me in my stream or private messages.
Sorry, No, This meeting is cancelled because I don't have anything to network with. No Badge, no Business Card, nothing that I can spread the word of my brand that I so require in order to make a living off.
If they can relate, and see the generous no. They have dealt with the infinity of the Internet.
In light of one of my recent posts I guess I did a discreet calling out of a certain influencer, and in light of this post-mortem of this controversy she did on her TikTok. It's worth discussing. This is just one of the facets of what may be considered problematic.Toxic positivity, that's certainly a thing. Time to open a can of worms and what it means to use influencers as we move ahead.
In light of the Rachel Hollis Controversy, these two cussy podcast episodes is a quick summary of it. I may alienate some of here true fans by talking about this, oh well. Something struck with me, with my own episode of burnout that I'd like to reflect.
No, I did not choose myself out of burnout, I had to sort it out with some direction. Natural physical organization was the mindset that helped the most.
"just choose happiness" No, that's not going to cure mental illness. This is the pinnacle of such a sentiment within the self-help industrial complex. I'm a part of it with it giving advice, I guess I have to show what's wrong with this industry to be a responsible influencer.
Positivity is ultimately the placebo effect, and it's twin cousin. Negativity is what nocebo does. Catastrophization is the science of pain with its relation to the mind. Here Seth's written article and podcast on all of it, including on how it won't stop going away once it's discovered. There's another podcast episode on cheap placebos and their effectiveness.
So what to do about it?
Customer service and Mise en Place (preparing everything beforehand so it ain't at the last minute) are both placebo effects that can be used to help with making belief more persuasive.
First, stretch enough to commit the necessary range of motion at a given task, once again, general physical preparedness is necessary, along with some sensible cardio.
Not once have I got wrist pain, all because of flexion with the captain of the crush. Wrist movement made to enable movement.
Now, form and cheat reps, That's another subject unrelated to this for another day.
To have a constant problem, then to find a solution with something so simply. With the gift of hypertrophy.
There was a solution that was staring right into my face, it was a cure to my constant problem of twisting my ankles that plagued me for some while.
Whenever young, I had to issue of my foot destabilizing and falling down. It was unpredictable, it was due to weakness. An extreme inward inversion of the foot that'd twisted inward, leading to collapsing at the worst moments.
According to my parents, I had flat feet.
There'd be a pain with big bruise under the lateral ankle bone, the peroneal muscles under feet will bleed. Forming big bruises. One particular incident was myself rushing downstairs with steel-toed cap boots, so forceful it was it made me hobble for two weeks. The added weight of the shoe did not help, along with running down.
Too weak.
There was another attempt by a chiropractor to fix it with posture fixes, but again. It was due to my lack of adaption of progressive load. One that I don't want to stop.
Now more than ever, exercise of the calf raises, with the knee's flexed and extended. Have helped me tremendously.
Not once have I twisted my anke now after going to the gym, I can owe it to that. So I continue.
The entire interest within the field of general physical preparedness bodybuilding all started with having back pain two years ago. Seeking a solution on the internet. There were apparently a magic cure to align to a perfect posture. Apparently that's not the case. This video disproves that.
What cured that? Romanian deadlifts and bodybuilding, yep. That fixed that. Movement was lotion along with pursuing a sensible step-count of 7000-10000 steps a day, give or take. The more I moved, the better I got. Along with standing and typing here right now.
Catastrophizing and nocebo can all contribute to the effects, sensible physical activity is the first recommendation I can give.
The brain, not the mind, cannot speak English, along with understanding how to use the mental effects to maximize results. One cannot choose recovery, but an ethical placebo over the back pain just enhanced the recovery when I got sore one time, putting myself on the right track.
So It's one interest to pursue the most minimal viable stimulation to help solve there back troubles, in the gym or through movement. Then build from there.
My Water jug is my trusty sidekick, but I use it when I need it, not the other way around
It's time to start acting like a responsible influencer, be it in fitness or in the arts. The moment somebody starts to make a living within the internet. They're an influencer within the internet. They must grapple with the industry complex and use it to race to the top or bottom.
Giving sensible health/advice here is okey-doke. Health Triage has a video on the recommendations. I remember this video from a long time ago, and this myth is still perpetuated.
First of a video of refuting the myth of the daily recommendations of eight cups of water a day. Hydration can also be accomplished from wet food sources, and coffee does not dehydrate.
The eight glasses ain't a thing to worry, it's not like reaching it and the body will be like "Ding, your body has received the water for maximum compositional health results!"
Charlotte, a dietician, has the best quick summary of what colour of urine you'd need to ensure the best hydration. Along with some basic water recommendations you can follow.
Ultimatley, hydrate enough so one don't get stomach cramps. Then move on.
Doctor google gets piledrivered by Mr Depends. Rag dolled splendifoursly with the showmanship of having to be peer-reviewed with tier's of evidence.
I must hold myself accountable as I grow within the influencer area. I'm obviously taking the himbo industrial complex route; Of handsome men doing stuff generously for attention, permission and reputation.
Yet I also need to be a hunk that thinks, Omar called Helms that. I must transcend what Markiplier and the other streamers have become, and become smart with corrections to previous posts. Posts that I've once been proud must be revised, rather than simply showing a pub-med article.
This is all encouraged by a podcast episode I listened to regarding the panic-wellness influencer in regard to the "sleep loss epidemic", it's simply not true.
"The panel agreed that, for healthy individuals with normal sleep, the appropriate sleep duration for newborns is between 14 and 17 hours, infants between 12 and 15 hours, toddlers between 11 and 14 hours, preschoolers between 10 and 13 hours, and school-aged children between 9 and 11 hours. For teenagers, 8 to 10 hours was considered appropriate, 7 to 9 hours for young adults and adults, and 7 to 8 hours of sleep for older adults."
It's a range! Well, If you look at that. Not the boilerplate recommendation of eight hours.
Setting the Overton window of acceptable discussion here. If there can debates over peanut butter macros by bodybuilders, then I guess I'm in good company.
This is inspired by the self-help industrial complex advocating bad advice, bad advice of getting free time by not sleeping 8 hours a day. More work hours is always better for them, treating time as a shortcut, not a tool.
I know, for an example, this is not told authentically.
When you hire a professional, you're meant to get the job done like a plumber. We don't want to then go off on this and that, to be of service with practical empathy, emotional labor for their client. Seth is right to say that authenticity is overrated. A double-edged sword according to Adam Grant.
This self-help guru advice, with the amateur/hack well of possibility, given within the internet. Offering control, selling control.
Yet making you lose control with an irresponsible sleep schedule that is physically impossible to follow, otherwise they'd face Kuroshi.
Safely ignore them.
Low/no sleep as Syllabus for success is one of the annoying things of the Internet. I heard it in illustration, and in other walks of life. It's just not true. Rise'n grinders out there don't deserve a medal, creativity can happen in the evening and other places, I speak of this as an early riser myself.
Firstly, this is for all you "Hard gainers" Don't follow the myth that you're stuck on a predetermined body type. I thought, as a kid that I was a mesomorph, then I changed and got muscle gains. This is a self-limiting race-to-the-bottom gimmick.
You always have to get the big rocks in, the biggest rock is calorie balance that will dictate your body weight, using the law's of thermodynamics to your advantage to put yourself in an anabolic state.
An anabolic state of exercise fuelled by food.
Auguste Comte's Hiarachy of the sciences apply here, get in your big rocks in first, which is calorie balance.
Jujimufu recommends cardio to aid digestion, I can't recommend this enough. Steps in a day are useful so that you don't end up constipated all the time, aiming for around 7k to 10k steps a day to get it done. It can be done after the meal or wherever you can allocate the time according to your schedule.
Be prepared to progressively overload your bulk, consistently weighing yourself 3-7 times a day, (ideally somewhere consistent, after you've been to the lavatory. I do mine in the morning.) tracking yourself on an excel spreadsheet or app if you have to. I've had to start from 2800 calories a day, then towards 3500 calories now to get that weight up. Aim for an incremental lean bulk, 0.5 + 1 pound a week is a recommendation I hear for newbies.
Ballpark-measument your calorie intake to 300-400 calories above maintenance. if the weight averages keep remaining the same and the scale ain't going up, then plan to progressively overload the intake. Make sure you have some kind of ab cycle routine to keep that leanness, but eventually you're just going to have to accept some fat gain, especially over 20 percent body fat, pull the brakes.
Basic Body fat percentage chart for analysis, the importance of one aspect you may have to track.
You don't have to track calories, weight, or even do a monthly photo of yourself in the mirror. Consider it measurement a means to help you towards your goals if you're not making it any progress. I'm still using it, but there are intuitive eaters out there who manage without. Like Geoffrey Verity Schofield.
Nutrition-wise, once you've set up your own meal plan and strategy during the day. A common bodybuilder guidelines is 80 percent of what will please a wellness dietician, 20 percent of something that will give them a shock.
