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I am bulbous enough to see my jiggle butt.
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sigher posted:How did you figure out how to stop aging? I dunno, genetics and luck? For what it’s worth, when I was a teenager I had a stupidly high metabolism and could pack away several buffets without gaining a single pound. Like you, I would eat garbage in my 20s and never exercise because I thought my metabolism was still what it was in my teens. Whoops, now I’m a goony fatass. I was also very depressed in my twenties and food was my vice. It took an epiphany in my late twenties to challenge myself to be a better person both physically and mentally and I got to work on it. My thirties I lost enough weight to look like a linebacker (I’m built like Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) in that I’m still a big guy, but not a fat guy anymore, and I can live with that even though I feel I could lose more weight. I felt so good throughout my thirties, it was an incredible time to be alive  Also, I’ve never smoked. Smoking ages you terribly. I’ve come across people who started smoking in their teens and they already look and act like they’re ten years older than what they should be. Maybe get more sleep, too? I used to stay up until 3 am, sleep two hours, then get up for work and feel fine. Now I get a good night’s rest every night by going to bed at 10 pm, usually 6 to 8 hours. Yeah, I’m sounding like I should join AARP, but sleep is good for you, and it could be the secret to spryness.
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I'm in my late 30s now, and I think I've been doing well. Definitely much better than at any time during my 20s. If not for the pandemic, I think my 30s would have been a non-stop good time that would have kept getting better. The pandemic changed everything for me, but it also had the benefit of pushing me to stop relying on stuff like gyms and to take up self-regulated exercise and better eating overall. I don't know what every dude's prime years are, but if he's capable of physical exertion and getting stronger and isn't doing it then he's letting his brain rot. Ladies, you too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zcF6Ut7lo Skip to the last chapter for the summary. If a 70-year-old that lifts weights or does calisthenics, etc., has the strength of a 30-year-old that doesn't do a drat thing, then if you're in you're 30s right now some old dude more than double your age is probably healthier and stronger than you. lol. There was a study recently about how by 40 the brain starts cementing neural connections and changing the way we learn and handle new information, but we can push that back by decades with regular physical and mental exercise. Don't let your physical and cognitive abilities start stagnating half a century before they should. It's never too late to start. You don't even need a gym; a door-way pull-up bar and a set of dip bars or some dumbbells and resistance bands are enough to get started on what should be a lifelong habit. Maybe it's me, but I'm legit scared of having my brain and body function go down earlier if it's all due to easily controllable stuff like resistance training and keeping my brain stimulated in positive ways. Tarkus posted:This is true. Also, if you're not a peak physical specimen and you try to dress cool you'll just look like a loving moron fedora man.  There's a reason why male clothing models are either bags of bones with a specific frame or have a tapered athletic look. A guy with no muscles, skinny fat, man tits, beer belly, office rear end, whatever, may think he looks great in his fancy clothes, but the body itself is what makes the clothing look best. IMO, if your body is trash, it's like decorating a turd: it's still poo poo under all that glitter. sigher posted:Now that I'm eating healthier and working out a 5-6 days a week (I hope to get fit, build a bit of muscle but nothing too crazy) my energy levels are way below what they used to be. Before midnight I'm already tired. I don't know what you're doing 5-6 days per week, but you might be working out more or harder than your body can handle to repair itself AND/OR you might not be eating enough (calories, carbs, and especially protein) for your body to repair itself or get energy from AND/OR you might not be resting enough (going 5-6 days a week might really be way too much at your age or fitness level). You might also consider taking a full week off every 5-8 weeks just to let everything cool down and fully repair. On my last bulk, eating so much gave me almost limitless energy. When I started my cut phase, I had to drop everything by half and it still sucked and felt like rear end. It took about six weeks to find the correct baseline of work to match my caloric intake. If you aren't matching those two things, everything will feel weird or like you're hitting a wall at a certain point. Plus, it's just part of getting older. Everything takes longer, from repairing the body to growing muscle, etc. In my twenties, I would get 4 hours of sleep, start work at 6am unloading trucks for 8 hours, eat 5-6 burritos at Taco Bell during lunch almost daily, then afterwards go live a normal life outside and shop and jog, and then get up the next morning to do it all over again without any issue or soreness. I also think that drinking water was an afterthought for me at that age, and I can't comprehend how dehydrated I was on top of the 6+ grams of sodium. Even though I'm currently in the best shape of my life and stronger than ever, I could not survive that kind of lifestyle at all at my age (late thirties).
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Nov 26, 2022 00:28
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Your plumbing system needs the land to grow and feast.
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Pretty sure I'm past mine because I hurt both my legs in bed. Mickey was right.
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Nov 26, 2022 00:42
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Every year. Every waking moment. Be it pain or pleasure you are experiencing, life is happening. Every second, no matter how mundane or displeasurable, you feel. You are the envy of the dead. Nah it's probably, like, when you were 7, and your imagination was at it's peak, and you played with the neighborhood kids and made epic stories in your head with your toys. Or mid 20's when you were doing drugs and having life altering trips, and having mediocre on average sex with hot people.
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You Are A Elf posted:Also, I’ve never smoked. Smoking ages you terribly. I’ve come across people who started smoking in their teens and they already look and act like they’re ten years older than what they should be. Maybe get more sleep, too? I used to stay up until 3 am, sleep two hours, then get up for work and feel fine. Now I get a good night’s rest every night by going to bed at 10 pm, usually 6 to 8 hours. Yeah, I’m sounding like I should join AARP, but sleep is good for you, and it could be the secret to spryness. I don't "smoke," per se, I vape weed from the flower (not the oil stuff) and I stay the hell away from cigarettes but I think the jury is out on how much weed fucks you up smoked or vaped. I'm definitely a more "late night" goon, and sometimes I'll be hanging out with my friend until 1AM smoking weed but if I'm home I'm usually in bed around midnight. I do tend to wake at 7 or 8 AM though, so I know a lot of the time I don't get enough sleep. PITY BONER posted:I don't know what you're doing 5-6 days per week, but you might be working out more or harder than your body can handle to repair itself AND/OR you might not be eating enough (calories, carbs, and especially protein) for your body to repair itself or get energy from AND/OR you might not be resting enough (going 5-6 days a week might really be way too much at your age or fitness level). You might also consider taking a full week off every 5-8 weeks just to let everything cool down and fully repair. I have a Tonal, so I'm getting a pretty hefty workout for the hour or so I put into it daily. I'm not a gym rat by any means and I've jumped into working out on a whim, so I'm pretty sure you're hitting the major issue I have: eating. I'm a narrow dude with a really small stomach and not much of an appetite a lot of the time, I can eat a single meal and call it a day. More than that I start feeling too full and gross and it stops being enjoyable. Which sucks because I'm trying to get in that protein intake to bulk up a bit. A friend of mine used to do Crossfit and was bulking up a shitload for a while but he said he was pounding chicken every drat day several times a day and that just seems like something I literally couldn't stomach. I'd be vomiting all over the place. Sadly, I feel like if I don't improve the eating part I'm SOL and wasting time. I've seen a lot of growth recently but I'm slowly getting to the point where I'm hitting a plateau and wishing I could eat more.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:32
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love bg prime tibbies
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Lord Decimus Barnacle posted:If you are still healthy and spry 30+ you didn’t take advantage of your 20s I did and I'm very spry in mid 30s but I've never been healthy in the first place so that was a problem that fixed itself. If I can live my life without cancer #3 I'll consider myself fortunate enough.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:46
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7E2MXSXlY
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Nov 26, 2022 02:08
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Ages: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97.
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Nov 26, 2022 03:17
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Ronwayne posted:By that definition, boomers and X-ers are going to still be into their prime years when the last one is 120. maybe the 95 year old millenial will have enough resources to move out/roll into a retirement home/the mass climate change retirement pit. Feels good man
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Nov 26, 2022 03:17
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And the golden years are 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 and 89
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Nov 26, 2022 03:23
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I peaked at four. It takes a long time to die when you peak so early.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:47
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I have so much poo poo wrong with me I don't keep track anymore, but God hosed up and apparently refuses to let me die. So I guess 20-30 is the good spot. Getting smarter, but not falling apart yet. Unless God hates you or gets bored or does a woopsie and gives you early cancer or dementia or alhizemers or makes your teeth fall apart. I dunno what's up with that guy.
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Nov 26, 2022 06:15
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The weird part is I still have a book on my table.
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The Butcher posted:I have so much poo poo wrong with me I don't keep track anymore, but God hosed up and apparently refuses to let me die. God took away my big cums and broke my small dick
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sigher posted:
If you can practice getting used to the feeling of discomfort/being overly full at times, and find small things to eat when you're not physically hungry (between meals or before bed) I've found the amount you can eat steadily improves. There's a manageable middle ground between not eating enough and eating so much you're about to throw up. For me the more I managed that the less my body felt weird about being full of food. That combined with consistent exercise can really get my hunger going. Same with eating something or making a smoothie not long after waking up. If I do that then I'm always still hungry a couple of hours later and feel better in general. But if I put off eating in the morning it's way easier to just procrastinate for hours and it's hard to catch up again. Toast King fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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Nov 28, 2022 01:01
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I wonder if the prime time of life is different for men and women. I know sexually they say that men peak at like their late teens to early 20s and women supposedly peak later in life once they're more mature, like 30s to 40s. Sex is a pretty big part of someone's life so maybe that's really the peak time for each gender. I know I have more interest in sex at 33 than I did at 23. I feel like it's kind of opposite for guys. I'm sure it all has to do with hormones and  or whatever.
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Nov 28, 2022 02:41
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sigher posted:A friend of mine used to do Crossfit and was bulking up a shitload for a while but he said he was pounding chicken every drat day several times a day and that just seems like something I literally couldn't stomach. I'd be vomiting all over the place. Able to eat a loaded deep dish pizza by yourself or possibly 24-55 chicken wings in a single bound. When I was younger I worked at taco bell and for my free meal I made a shrimp, chicken, steak taco bowl salad that was so loaded my manager asked to weigh it. It was about the only meal I could afford at the time for the whole day and it was around 2 pounds. I can't do much over 2 pounds though and I am not morbidly obese, just got a dad bod with broad shoulders and semi toned forearms. I just turned 36 and working out hard or doing construction related stuff occasionally hurts me and I have less energy than my 20's but I can also lift more weight than my 20's Stuff takes forever to heal and I probably need to quit partying because it's not helping. (I've been cutting back steadily) If you have back pain I say do deadlifts! It's more or less cured my decade of chronic back pain from construction related toil. A lot of non college educated men do backbreaking labor most of their lives and it will catch up with you. I've met a few old timers that laid carpet or tile for their whole lives and that will destroy you almost as fast as playing pro NFL.
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Nov 28, 2022 20:04
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The only thing that can take on my back pain is yoga. I can still engage in XTREME SPORTS at the ripe old age of 34 only because I literally do yoga at least twice a day. It's the exercise that allows me to exercise.
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Nov 28, 2022 21:38
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Dixville posted:I wonder if the prime time of life is different for men and women. I know sexually they say that men peak at like their late teens to early 20s and women supposedly peak later in life once they're more mature, like 30s to 40s. Sex is a pretty big part of someone's life so maybe that's really the peak time for each gender. I know I have more interest in sex at 33 than I did at 23. I feel like it's kind of opposite for guys. I'm sure it all has to do with hormones and I think it's for sure a thing. In my teens and early 20's I could see a curvaceous tree and blood started moving around. (For the record, I did not gently caress any trees, which yes, is what a treefucker would say.) I've mellowed out a lot on the horny front later on, where as a lot of women I know in their 30's-40's are hungry as heck for some D or V. Hormones and just gaining a lot more confidence and giving less of a gently caress I guess. If you're halfway in shape at 40 you can have your pick of the litter of dumb young guys to have some fun with. It's not serious long term material of course, but it's not hard to find if you know what you're looking for and go out hunting.
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The Butcher posted:I think it's for sure a thing. In my teens and early 20's I could see a curvaceous tree and blood started moving around. (For the record, I did not gently caress any trees, which yes, is what a treefucker would say.) i had to double check the name to make sure this wasn't a horny spinz post lol
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i had to double check the name to make sure this wasn't a horny spinz post lol You can tell because it wasn’t immediately nuked from orbit for a week
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:You can tell because it wasn’t immediately nuked from orbit for a week yep. mods consulted their excel sheet on gbs posters and confirmed that despite being a calssic spinz type horny post, the poster is indeed a male and thus, immune. and hands are absolutely tied on this matter (precedent, juris prudence etc.)
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Nov 29, 2022 15:15
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Free Spinz imo
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Dixville posted:Free Spinz imo She's free but the damage is done
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I hollowed out a man in his prime and counted the rings. Bless the Goatman.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Your athletic peak is about 22-25, after that your body will start failing you in increasingly embarrassing ways. Speak for yourself I'm in better shape at 36 than I was in my 20s.
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roomtone posted:i think it's a made up concept that you can choose to torture yourself about or ignore like most things all concepts are made up
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basically the time in your life you were a complete shithead and didnt see anything wrong with it
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i don't equate "basically functional" with "prime/best", personally. in fact if you're thinking to yourself "well at least i can chew and digeast nomral food without aid!" then you're almost certainly not at your prime lol. but it's nice that you did that work for old people or w/e You lack perspective. Good news, you'll either get a quick accidental death, or that very perspective.
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:basically the time in your life you were a complete shithead and didnt see anything wrong with it Yeah, I think that's close to it. Certainly not your mental or emotional prime but hey, you're hot poo poo, and you don't give a poo poo, and you don't know poo poo. Main character. I do look back with so much regret, but what can I do? Young men are dumb as gently caress. Most men are dumb as gently caress. You just hopefully learn to be able to ask yourself "is this a dumbfuck or dick move?" And not just YOLO it. Helps to learn that other people are people too, even if they have boobs.
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whenever a woman says that a guy did something dumb im like "uhhh yeah haha have you met men before lol?" like its true we are constantly doing dumb poo poo and there is no end in sight and we constantly one upping the last stupid thing we did and we really shouldnt be left in charge or have final say about anything but dem da breaks
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numberoneposter posted:whenever a woman says that a guy did something dumb im like "uhhh yeah haha have you met men before lol?" like its true we are constantly doing dumb poo poo and there is no end in sight and we constantly one upping the last stupid thing we did and we really shouldnt be left in charge or have final say about anything but dem da breaks It's a long term project, but I'm thinking of a genetic modification project to make the women politicians bigger so when the males are like "what if laser tag, but with real lasers? We can use our guns until someone makes the lasers." Then the larger women can just haul them out, sit them down at the xbox, crack them a beer, and say where the microwave food is. Then they can get back to figuring out the economy. No gun tag tonight.
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numberoneposter posted:whenever a woman says that a guy did something dumb im like "uhhh yeah haha have you met men before lol?" like its true we are constantly doing dumb poo poo and there is no end in sight and we constantly one upping the last stupid thing we did and we really shouldnt be left in charge or have final say about anything but dem da breaks Dudes rock
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The Butcher posted:Yeah, I think that's close to it. Certainly not your mental or emotional prime but hey, you're hot poo poo, and you don't give a poo poo, and you don't know poo poo. The best thing I ever did for myself is to shut off that rationality-obsessed part of me, yolo it, and realize other people's opinions really don't matter unless I want them to matter. Rationally considering the best of everyone never was the path to self-growth or success, and for evidence I present everything around you.
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endlessmonotony posted:The best thing I ever did for myself is to shut off that rationality-obsessed part of me, yolo it, and realize other people's opinions really don't matter unless I want them to matter. You are making The Buddha disappointed. Like you are halfway there, but still halfway stuck.
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