Self improvement thread! Let's start by recommending work out routines, diets, books, ways to break bad habits, etc

Good thread. Stop watching porn. Do push and pull ups, run, eat quality meat and a mix of raw and cooked veg (look into which to cook/eat raw). Get into religion (paganism/christianity). Read more non-political books that teach you about life through realistic fiction. Minimize alcohol and masturbation.

>I'm 35 so I'm at a huge disadvantage

All about your genes, old bro. There's always TRT if your genes failed you and you dropped off quickly.

TRT is fucking based. I plan on getting on it when I hit 45-50 depending on how I am.

>Read more non-political books that teach you about life through realistic fiction

Any suggestions?

Long term I'm not sure BJJ is the best option. I'm a BB that's been training about 13 years and my knees are shot, along with the standard neck and back issues. One of my knees has no cartilage left in it, and I am almost positive it is from playing DLR for 7+ of those years. I still train and love the sport, but at 35 I wish I had picked up swimming or something low impact sooner.

I like John Steinbeck (not jewish), East of Eden is masterfully written. But you always have to be vigilant of hidden degenerate political messages. Of course 1984 is brilliant (not really unpolitical but at least story driven).

Joseph Conrad. All of his stories are great but the Nigger of Narcisus is my favorite.

I'm 32 and this is the first physical sport I've ever done. I'll still take care of my joints, knees, etc.

I got my Atlas adjusted and my arthritis in my knees and lower back actually started to improve. No pain.

Sparring is great, but so is the speed bag and heavy bag. Alot of boxing is training.

Of course. I'm just saying that I think just hitting the bag will do more harm than good. It also depends on the person, I guess. Personally I don't feel like I can do something if I haven't already done it a lot.

Well if preparing for war is what you want, going through a personalized military training routine would seem good. Going on long walks with a fully loaded backpack, pushups, obstacle courses, you know, the uuge

People who are actually strong lift weights. Push ups are for poors and prisoners with no access to weights.

Yo can Airsoft be considered a sport I'm shit a football

Push ups are a meme. Bench press big weight and cut out the pushups.

Bag work is great for being able to get out your aggression as well, even guys who have no intention of competing should utilize it imo. I have no interest in brain damage but without training or letting that aggression go I feel like I'm dying inside in many ways. There are aspects of our physiology that are proven to fade without usage, and it works on an epigenetic level. This is how bugmen are created, and now we know that there may not be a war to cleanse them away as in previous eras.

youtube.com/watch?v=R7flhfV31-0

I have already gotten military training, it's compulsory for all men in Greece. This thread is about self improvement in general.

If it can't our gold medal in 2016 Olympics means nothing. So, I'm gonna say that it's a very real sport haha

Has amazing points!
We are all going to make it, brothers. Never loose faith in Christ for we are all siblings in Christ! Forever brothers in arms. We always have each other.
God bless you all!

I will bet 100 shekels on you having an even shittier physique right now than Jason Blaha and the other morons who unironically believe these kinds of memes. Every single man who has a decent physique incorporated bodyweight training.

Boxers get their shit kicked in by skinny thai guys who know how to kick.

I wrestled growing up, but never had knee problems until recently. And the specific place my knee is worn down sure looks like it was from playing DLR. That being said, you could just not play that guard and avoid that injury. But it seems like anyone with 10+ years on the mat has a similar injury. What sucks is not having cartilidge means i can't run, do squats, etc. In hindsight, knowing what I know now, I would have been more careful for sure.

Ask a strongman if they do pushups.

True, but I have heard that boxing is easier to learn and I have seen a lot of videos of boxers handing out sleeping pills with little to no effort.

Yes.

Of course I've trained legitimately and sparred, and I've done wrestling too. But I just don't want to train like that for years, constantly risking it. There was a study that proved even amateur boxers get concussed from casual sparring. It's just not worth it long-term. Same as wrestling, it will destroy your body, especially if you aren't getting collagen-rich foods and very few Westerners do anymore.

9/10 iron exercises are purely for cosmetic gains.

Wrestling for me seems to be the best fighting style. No matter what style a wrestler fought, my money would be on him 9 times out of 10.

Real answer is lift weights, kickboxing (thai or western) and wrestling. Also if you can afford it take a combat oriented firearms training course once you have the basics of shooting down.

I garuntee you that Thor and all of those guys, before they turned into /fraud/ hulks that throw dishwashers for a living, when they could still climb a long flight of stairs without gasping for air, did fucking pushups. And pull ups.

What you're saying is especially shit advice for young guys who're still developing as well.

the bag helps with technique and you can practice combos. even the professional boxers spend more time on the bag then in the ring.

If you spar a lot, you'll just get brain damage. Real fighters don't spar much, or at all, even at the highest levels of boxing, MMA, wrestling, Muay Thai, etc.

The sparring meme has to die. It's not like you learn a lot from it anyway. Drills are much more important, t. every world champ ever.

Even at purple and brown belt I won most my matches with wrestling. BJJ is worth training though purely to learn and practice strangles. All other submissions are memes in a fight.

Strangles take too long. They are almost not existent in old fighting styles. I researched the shit out of it. Old wrestling is basically about arm breaks, leg breaks, neck breaks and strikes to vulnerable points.

youtube.com/watch?v=jgrmlb5SKDo

An interesting view on fighting.

How do you guys lift without injuring yourself? I had to quit for two weeks now because my fucking elbow was absolutely killing me. Like I could barely use a stapler without pain. My shoulder too, but less so. I pretty much just do bench, flys, and standing curls. Nothing crazy weight-wise. But every time I get on a roll, I’m hurt again. What do

It's only shit advice if you lift the wrong way. If you don't know how to lift correctly you're better off doing bodyweight exercises.

Do less max strength and more speed strength. I read some Nazi books about exercise. The most important thing is becoming fast, supple and enduring.

>I read some Nazi books about exercise

I haven't found any of those. Can you share a few?

Get a personal trainer or if you can't afford it watch someone on youtube who knows what they're doing. Jujimufu on yt has great instructions on proper form.

Eh not true, boxers are the highest level of combat sports. Without a doubt

Thank you fren

The pdfs are too big and they're all in German, and I'm still waiting for a guy scanning Rahn's "Die unsichtbare Waffe", maybe i'll make a thread with a tl;dr afterwards.

I researched it by doing it for 13 years. Strangles neutralize your opponent, regardless of compliance. With 90% of joint locks there is no threat of catastrophic damage. Even with catastrophic damage, people fight through broken shit all the time. The only way to win a fight for sure is to either kill your opponent or render them unconscious somehow. Strangling can accomplish both.

By the way, I dont know how long you think it takes to put some out, but a proper blood (vice windpipe) chokehold takes between 8-10 seconds to put someone out. If it's not clean, or you are fighting a skilled opponent, it can take longer sure, but that's why you practice.

>british
>white

Nice! I hope I catch it.

The way boxers dip their heads to avoid punches would get them kicked in the head against a kickboxer. Wrestling is the most important martial art and pretty much all single discipline strikers get beaten when they face a good wrestler.

>Work out routine
I try to work out between 3-5 times a week, with an emphasis on cardio currently because I hurt my wrist and cannot do many upper body things until it heals. I am a very fast runner and prefer endurance to strength. I usually do bench+triceps one day, back+biceps another, and the rest are core+cardio.

>Sports?
I snowboard, longboard, play soccer, and just distance run. But my favorite is distance running. I also wrestle and Judo sometimes.

>Diet
Pretty shitty. I just had Subway lol. I prefer not to eat at places like Wendy's or McDonald's and also I have cut out soda in favor of juice, seltzer, or coconut water. Gatorade is great too except its sugar leaves me wanting real water. Favorite sports drink? COLD orange body armor. To eat, I mostly eat Ramen noodles, vegetables, and sometimes meat here and there. As a runner I don't need much muscle (I have more than enough and all it does is weigh me the fuck down)

>Goals?

To make any mortal who dares oppose me tremble

Diet is where all cosmetic gains are made tho desu

watch out on your arm-to-torso angle on the bench press, keep your chest up and shoulderblades tucked in as if you were trying to hold a pen between them

Yeah.. I had a friend who wrestled in high school. He was short, but built like a tree log. I saw him in a fight once, he just lifted a guy (much bigger than him) up and threw him down. He got on top of him and punched him a few times, but it looked like the guy was done from the fall alone.

You seem based, so I will forget the "soccer" thing. But only this once!

alright lads

i was just under 220 pounds in april and now i'm down to 182 and that's just from eating less(one meal a day, a banana and blueberry smoothie with almonds milk) and walking more (20,000 steps a day)
im lifting weights too but I figure i wont start making serious gains until i get some more protein in my diet, which i don't want to do until i get down to 160 pounds. ive lost a lot of fat in my chest which was good because fuck moobs. unfortunately i've got slightly wide hips so im never gonna be 10/10 aesthetic but i'm hoping to go full bane mode once i lose these last bits of fat and start lifting more

Try whole food and organic diets, supplements, herbs and over-the-counter drugs for different areas of the body. More sunlight, less time inside the house. Crush bad habits and vices. Eat a diversity of foods instead of being purely vegan or eating only meat for the intent of getting nutrients and vitamins. Smart drugs, probiotics, prebiotics, multivitamins, and filtered water should enhance the effects.

This...

Workout: Conjugate system
Diet: Whatever keeps you healthy
Books: Westside book of methods, Facts and Fallacies of Fitness, Supertraining, , A Physics book, western and eastern history book, and Bible.
Websites: elitefts.com (tons of articles for fitness, sports, self improvement, etc)
Ways to break bad habits: Build discipline from the previous sources and develop a sense of determination and create a structured and orderly lifestyle.

Just go to a park, there are bars everywhere. Try to find a park with rings tho. Best thing ever.

>Wrestling is the most important martial art
>*he drops to wrap his arms around my legs for a takedown*
>*i knee him in the face*
>*i elbow him in the back of the neck*

wow epic wrestling moves bruh

>20,000 steps a day

Thats 8 miles. You walked 8 miles per day?

You don't have to lose all the weight if you don't care about aesthetics. Just be fat strong.

yeah, sometimes more. I make sure to walk up some hills too. do you think thats good? im not employed at the moment so i've got the time.

Learn to structure a program and if all you do is bench, flys, and standing curls that will exactly lead to elbow and shoulder pain. Get your posterior chain strong, get a strong trunk, and learn from the greats who've come before.

we made 2 pull up bars at my house. I never use them more than once a day but my brothers do and one of them can do like 20 now

Working out needs to be a habit for actual results, I agree

Being weak is nothing to be ashamed of. 35 is a bit late to start but still early enough where you can make yourself look absolutely jacked if you actually work hard enough. Watch out not to injure yourself: as you age it's only more likely.

This! Being fat and strong/athletic is a thing.

I'm stuck choosing between a kickboxing or a judo gym right now. Any suggestions?

It's shit advice because you're telling people to negate the one exercise that we've done since before we were walking upright, for a weighted exercise that's only really been done since the 50's. And even back in those days OHP was the upper body lift of choice, because it creates functionally and aesthetically superior bodies compared to the fucking bench press. Men who don't do pushups, dips, even handstand pushups or elevated pushups, or OHP or weighted dips always have an incomplete development process, and as they age the errors in their training create a whole new form of fuck up.

tl;dr you need to do pushups. You never really need to bench press. Not that it's bad to train chest but don't fucking kid yourself.

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I know but for me the discipline of losing weight is something I need.

Except you wouldn't do that and I would wind up on top raining down punches.

>knee him in the face
>elbow him in the back of the neck

Is this how it plays out in your head? You keep thinking that bud.

You'll lose muscle mass aswell which you'll have to gain back.

Many great fighters from Europe and the UK/Ireland in particular have had their asses handed to them because they don't train in the one (1) essential martial art desu.

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ZQAVoGhaw

That's because the pros already know how to fight. They have literally hundreds of rounds under their belt. They don't need to learn, all they need is to spar a little before the match to get their instincts, reflexes, sense of timing and distance checked.

Overhead press, weighted dips and pullups are great. I only said you don't need pushups.

Football, my apologies. I hate calling it that too, but my fellow Ameriburgermutts may think I'm referring to their version of football

Several wrestlers have a chest like that. It most likely comes about by repeated injuries without healing properly. Theyre also on a lot of performance enhancing drugs. Nothing to do with bench pressing.

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Why are fags comparing kickboxing, boxing and wrestling? Boxing and kickboxing are 2 different sports. They're not even close to the most effective melee combat methods because they are essentially games designed for competition. In a life or death situation you would strangle, bite, push eyes in etc.

In that sense, (((krav ma ga))) would probably be most effective.

100 pushup in one go ? wtf do you weigh 30kg?

Get out of here with that Jewish crap. Real men learn European sports, like boxing and wrestling.

Muhammed Ali was a phenomenal athlete and arguably the greatest professional boxer ever against some nobody mediocre fighter. Not a fair comparison. Look at the boxers who tried to cross over into ufc without learning grappling, they all lost.

Not in one go necessarily, you can do 4 sets of 25. I weight 82kg, I want to hit 75, but lose mostly fat.

McGregor does train wrestling but nothing could prepare him for someone who has been wrestling since he was a child.

And that's why you're wrong. It's not about having the best aesthetics but for guys who're trying to break away from a sedentary existence, pushups are incredibly useful. When I was training in high school I started unironically having a chest like that, and my bench was plateauing at around 225 or somewhere around that. I asked the guys older than me, guys who had better physiques and that's when I took the heavyweight pill. For natty lifters especially, you want to train everything at least periodically, each energy system even. Bodyweight makes better development, especially pushups and all pushup variations.

I know pinning contributes to it but so do the years of neurotic styles of training. Most men don't want to train like strong men, most just want to be strong and lean and telling them to all drop bodyweight training is fucking stupid desu. I can promise you that not getting the full ROM and incorporating some variation to his chest training created those tears.

Anyone can gouge eyes or kick someone in the balls.

See:
James Toney vs Randy Couture
youtu.be/adOpTYjjedE

It wasn't just that, he didn't start until his late 20's and even then it was barely priority. A good bjj game could have countered it well. I wonder if he regrets the hours of capoera or however you spell that slave martial art of dancing and fighting poorly simultaneously.

>Any suggestions?
WARHAMMER 40000

>heavyweight
bodyweight pill, my bad.

Also, trying gouging someone's eyes, kicking them in the balls, or spitting in their face when other people are watching and watch how quickly they jump in and join in beating your ass.

Those threads are so fucking cringe because they're full of 30 years old dudes who basically decide to lift and read books.

You're like a decade late