(0553) Morning all, though still dark out there. (0701)
10. Moo corner
9. Coming back to that strength training question
I it recommended for the ageing? In principle, yes … but ONLY in a certain context:
- Have you regularly gym trained for years or are you just thinking about it now? If the former, plus you had a good trainer … then your body has muscle memory … it will shift priorities to cope with this assault on musculature.
- This is assuming no heart attacks, bruised ribs, hip, joint issues, let alone falls, today’s poisoned sky, earth, water, food, plus you have a regular western GP … many boxes to tick before contemplating it.
- And even if you have been training for decades, you start atrophying after 50. The real killer, apart from overall fitness, is diet, water, happiness through factors in another post, plus a strong mindset. The second killer is bone brittleness through lack of adequate hydration, diet, just age. The bod has it’s own clock, no matter what you plan.
- Strength training militates against today’s necessary caution. You see, you’ll not build muscle by doing “enough”, only by forcing the muscles slightly too far, they then compensate by adding bulk. You need people around you in case. You need consistency, you know how much to do, maybe every second day, not every day.
- And as I found out a couple of months ago … I might be incrementally up to higher weights, doing well, heart happy, but I have a two week layoff. Decades ago, it was fine, one recovers within weeks. But at this age, also lying, unnaturally, on a bench, a padded slab, then the atrophying which sets in during the histus is staggering, esp. if “snacking” on junk. I saw the danger, felt it, stopped, in shock, had a month of heart trouble.
- Eventually, the heart says “enough”, I’ve been asked too much. GP advice now? What GP? Mr. Ramaputra from Delhi?
- Bodies atrophy at different rates, also different sex. Also, sexual activity. Also the stress you’re under. All count.
Am I saying don’t train? Train but ditch ego and fear, yet start lightly, incrementally increase, be ready to stop. Do less overall in a session than you were planning. Increase gradually next time. Try to be regular, yet ready to drop the riutine instantly. Mix in aerobic (walks for example).
8. Steve at 1482
- After Blocking Trump’s Election-Integrity Agenda and Demoralizing the GOP Base, RINO John Thune Warns Republicans Could Lose the Senate
- Joe Rogan Torches the Women Who Are Showing Up to Support Lindsay Clancy
- President Warns Britain It Abandoned America During Iran War — Hints He Won’t Help Defend Britain if Argentina Moves on Falkland Islands
- Germany: Antifa Threatens Anarchy as Attacks on AfD Mount before Sunday Election
- Massive Strike on IRGC & Russia Rushes In New Weapons
- Two CDC studies on vaccines and autism using the same data find opposite conclusions. Both cannot be correct
- Mark Carney wants to import the UK’s “social cohesion” model into Canada
- Much more.
7. Again from downunder
6. DAD at 1482
a) Spanish police fire tear gas at Ceuta protesters outside Congress. Riot units cleared the streets around parliament on Ceuta Day, five weeks after no such equipment was used as tens of thousands of illegals walked into the enclave.
b) Hundreds of thousands rallied across Spain on Ceuta Day demanding stronger border controls, expulsion of illegal migrants and Pedro Sánchez’s resignation, while solidarity protests also reached the European Parliament in Brussels.
c) Germany. Nine people were injured after a man poured an unknown liquid onto an AfD information stand in Bad Kreuznach on Wednesday, with two taken to hospital. The attack comes amid escalating efforts by mainstream politicians to ban parts of the party….
d) Winter Is coming– but Europe’s Energy Crisis may hit in the Autumn. For the EU to overcome the energy challenges ahead, it cannot afford to abandon pragmatic solutions for the sake of dogmatic and rigid expectations.
e) Funding audit … I have now expanded the audit across Muslim, Islam, Islamic, mosque, masjid, Pakistan, Pakistani, Urdu, Kashmir, Eid, Ramadan, Quran and madrasa related terminology. Here are the Lottery Grants…….
5. Social relations
Nothing new in this … it’s from Quora, which I see as a bit like the old Readers Digest … mainly populated by “normies” in a non-sardonic way, more like Everyman, Everywoman, Americocentric … how the “average” westerner is seeing things … often sleb-o-centric too, as in who was the rudest sleb. Middling.
Guy is Richard, a grandfather:
“I can only speak about what and how I see this. The reason is women. I have 4 grandsons 19–26 years old. They are all good young men. I asked why aren’t any of you dating. The oldest spoke up right away. He said women our age don’t want a man to share their lives. They only want a place holder until something else comes along. Sorry Grandpa but I just don’t see there ever being any of us getting into a long term relationship. That isn’t what girls our age want. These aren’t lazy bums one is a video game designer one a chef one a rancher and the youngest is a junior in college.”
Further caveat … who’s to say this is not AI, that it’s not one of those essay writers inventing a fictional grandfather to serve an end? The end being that this is what normies look for in a site like Quora. I’ve no snswer, it might be … yet it might be for real.
Jedediah Bila on youtube does similar … girls seeing the world as their oyster from birth now, parents being late Gen Z, early Millennial, Lord save them. Seeing no danger in them doing what they want, screwing whom they want, playing the same game they see boys as playing, no pushback whatever.
Hence the broken social contract, with the invaders, housed, fed and poised for the slaughter, whilst the real young men (unfeminised) are over dying in the Ukraine or in Iran.