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Re: lasagna, you can make it in 50 minutes. About half of that time is waiting for it to finish. See this. I like the Cook's Illustrated Cast Iron Sausage Lasagne even more. I've made it several times this year.
/r/TheRedPill28/08/19 07:51 PM
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Welcome to Saturday Night Live! Yes, it did air on TV.
/r/TheRedPill10/07/19 01:57 PM
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Training stabilizer muscles is mistaken. You can't do anything without "training" stabilizers. Needing stabilizer training assumes that you can, for example, lift a dumbbell with one hand and not use all the muscles in your shoulder and trunk to stabilize the elbow over which the bicep curl is performed. You can't. I'm not saying "don't use barbells". I'm saying that barbells are one of several approaches that work. Anything that intensely contracts muscle tissue will do. Muscle growth happens a…
/r/MarriedRedPill10/09/18 01:26 PM
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As a CSCS I have to point out that weight on a barbell is a false ideal. It feels very manly, but your muscles don't care. Muscular growth and maintenance is dependent on intensity of contraction and the period of muscular recovery. Dumbells and machines (even isometric exercise) can deliver anything that barbells deliver. I actually support the use of machines because workout injuries are fewer and clients suffer fewer set-backs. Take a look at the advice of Drew Baye to see more about how you …
/r/MarriedRedPill09/09/18 06:02 PM
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It does a great job of teaching about positive reinforcement. It also explained why my dog won't eat when I'm in the room. I yelled (negative reinforcement) at my dog when she was doing something I didn't like, but she identified her eating as the behavior being rejected. The negative reinforcement worked, but on the wrong behavior.
/r/TheRedPill21/08/18 03:04 PM
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I second Don't Shoot The Dog. It is an book on training and behavioral modification that has stuck with me over the years.
/r/TheRedPill20/08/18 07:22 PM
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The book is Body By Science written by John R. Little and Dr. Doug McGuff. It is my guide to physical development.
/r/TheRedPill12/04/18 11:27 AM
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I tell my sons, "There's a whole lot of stupid out there.
/r/TheRedPill20/12/17 08:25 PM
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I'm a CSCS, but I've learned enough to know that lots of stuff works some for most people until they get hurt. So if someone swears by something else, I can believe it's true. 1st, some folks can not get big. They are genetically disadvantaged. 2nd. spend some time reading at http://www.baye.com He does a great job explaining how to get strong, but not hurt. You may need to work out less often, but more intensely. You don't build any muscle lifting iron. You build it while recovering from liftin…
/r/MarriedRedPill25/02/17 06:22 PM
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Cross Fit gets abuse because the percentage of people who hurt themselves and never come back is too high. You are left with a "box" full of genetically advantaged people who can handle their "techniques".
/r/MarriedRedPill19/01/17 09:00 PM
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You are mistaken. Stretching makes you weaker. See article.
/r/TheRedPill19/01/17 03:57 PM
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As a similar business owner, I suggest that one get an investor who buys a small portion of the business (say 0.5%) for an amount that you won't mind having multiplied by 200 and then used in the divorce valuation. You may need for this investor to buy more shares regularly so that you can argue that this external valuation is current. You may also wish to have the company buy back some of the investor's shares at a useful valuation for divorce valuation. You are seeking a "real life" valuation …
/r/MarriedRedPill08/09/16 08:24 PM
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The workout actually takes less that fifteen minutes. You work out slowly with very high intensity. Optimally, you take 10 seconds lifting and 10 seconds lowering. Yeah, that means about five lifts. If you need to go faster because you can't go slow without "jerking", then a faster lift is ok. You lift to momentary failure and then continue trying to lift for at least a few more seconds. If you can lift for more than 90 seconds (time under load), you stop and increase your weight on the next wor…
/r/MarriedRedPill09/11/15 02:07 PM
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You are right about the physics of energy. You need to include the chemistry of insulin and carbohydrates. High insulin pushes calories straight to fat storage leaving you hungry. If you can ignore the hunger, then you'll lose the weight, but can you resist? Take a look at the low carb diets in the keto sub-reddit. Most folks significantly lower their hunger (increase satiety) and then can lose weight. Another twist in weigh loss is that you can only burn about 0.3% of your body fat weight (not …
/r/MarriedRedPill02/11/15 10:31 PM
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The issue may not be low carbing, but a side effect. With low carbs you reduce your hunger from the carb-insulin loop and make it easier to eat less. But if you create a calorie deficit that is greater than the amount of body fat you can lose in a day, your body must burn other resources (muscle, organ, other tissues; think anorexia). You can only lose about 0.3% of body fat weight per day (equivalent to 30 calories per pound of body fat). So if you've got 50 pounds of body fat, you don't want a…
/r/MarriedRedPill22/10/15 06:55 PM
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The advantage of keto is that reducing carbohydrate intake reduces insulin levels. Lower insulin levels permit your body to burn fat from body stores. Powering your body from fat stores eliminates the eat and then you're hungry loop that carbs puts many people in. The Lays potato chip guys unknowingly described the loop when they said "Bet you can't eat just one!". Still even a keto diet doesn't eliminate the need to control portions, it just makes it easier.
/r/MarriedRedPill16/09/15 05:39 PM
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As a CSCS I assure you that working out is important, but it isn't how you lose fat. Fat weight loss is 95% diet. Sure, if you are working out instead of eating, then working out reduces fat. The problem is that many folks eat more when they work out, not less. It is also important to know that even if you manage your diet perfectly, you can only lose fat at a certain speed. If you have less fat weight, you take longer to lose a pound of fat. You can only lose about 3 tenths of a percent of your…
/r/MarriedRedPill16/09/15 03:39 PM
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One of the suggested readings is 48 Laws Of Power. It frequently counsels guile, but the posting I quoted suggested the opposite. I've got 60+ years of life experience that says the core of it below is true. The fact is, if you can't be honest about what you want, it's much more difficult to get it. Perhaps the difference is that in RP we often don't say what we want, we do it instead.
/r/MarriedRedPill09/09/15 12:29 AM
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The problem with anecdotal evidence is that everybody has one. We talked here about 3x, 5x and 7x a week. I'm working out once every two weeks. I lift to failure and when my progress on increasing strength stalls, I increase the time between workouts. I'm not looking for you to agree with me. I do want you to consider that less lifting rather than more can bring you more strength development. Try it for yourself.
/r/MarriedRedPill22/07/15 02:11 PM
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What he said!
/r/MarriedRedPill21/07/15 07:28 PM
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My idea of rest isn't related to when you are working out. I'd have you go from one set to the next within 30 seconds. The rest I urge on you is between workouts. The main problem with my advice for this group is that workouts are being used as a method of increasing dread through absence and as way to increase personal self confidence. These are both worthwhile, but I'd urge you to use your hobbies rather than workout time.
/r/MarriedRedPill21/07/15 07:18 PM
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First, I separate weight loss from the development of strength development. Weight loss is at least 95% diet driven. The only practical way that working out reduces weight is by keeping you away from the refrigerator/cupboard. The adaptations that each person receives from strength training are different, but that also relates to the differences in our genetic capability to develop muscle. The results you get from working out are on a S-curve. you get more benefit during the first year or two of…
/r/MarriedRedPill21/07/15 07:12 PM
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At 188 lbs and 14.8% body fat, his lean weight is 160 lbs and his fat weight is 28 lbs. To get to 10% body fat and same lean weight, he needs to reach 177 lbs. So he'd need to lose 11 lbs. Once you get to lower pounds of body fat weight like the OP, you find that you lose weight increasingly slower. It is driven by a limit on how much of the energy in a fat cell can be removed and consumed each day. Researchers found that you can burn ~30 calories worth of body fat for each pound of fat body wei…
/r/MarriedRedPill08/07/15 11:11 PM
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You are never going to feel like it. I tell myself over and over again that I'll have to devote enough energy to get started. Then I get up and do "it" or a least a small step toward "it". Then I do another small step. You can, too.
/r/MarriedRedPill02/07/15 02:40 PM
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Some body fat images to pick your goals from: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Personally, 15% looks good to me. These are links from the Keto Calculator courtesy of /r/keto
/r/MarriedRedPill03/06/15 05:52 PM
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As a CSCS let reassure you that you can gain muscle while losing fat. There is a lot of exercise guidance that is just plain wrong. Fortunately for most, any exercise is better than none and produces some results. This allows bad guidance to propagate and remain in the popular mind. To lose fat, you must have a caloric deficiency. If you reduce your carb intake, you can lose as much as 6 pounds in the first week of water weight. If you don't return to carbs, the water weight never returns. The s…
/r/MarriedRedPill01/06/15 07:57 PM
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There is one way to get the results of lifting without taking the time. Check out the info on High Intensity Interval Training at Dr McGuff's Body By Science and similar data from Drew Baye. Both of them provide information on how to reach your maximum potential muscle development with as little as 15 minutes of workout per week. They use workouts as a "pill" that induces muscle development. They aren't fun, but they are safe. You do lifts SLOWLY and until you can't lift any more. You only do an…
/r/MarriedRedPill29/05/15 07:10 PM
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Look VERY CAREFULLY at the interactions in her parent's life. We all learn much of what we expect in a marriage from our parents. You can expect your lady to expect the same things her Mom and Dad did.
/r/MarriedRedPill10/05/15 01:04 PM
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One other option you can try is to supplement with the protein L-arginine. You can get it at the drug store. It is the precursor to nitric oxide in the blood stream. L-arginine has a role in the treatment of some conditions where vasodilation is required (think erections). See Wikipedia. Perhaps you don't need it, but you might get a placebo effect that pleases you and your wife.
/r/MarriedRedPill01/05/15 12:53 PM
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The Lincoln quote might be adapted from Proverbs 17:28. It goes: Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and when he shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding".
/r/MarriedRedPill22/04/15 04:40 PM
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Yep. Sometimes a woman just likes you.
/r/seduction07/04/15 08:38 PM
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I've read that when seducing introverts you should highlight the ways in which you similar, but with extroverts you should focus on what new and different you can bring to the experience.
/r/seduction11/02/15 08:12 PM
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You might get somewhere by telling how you admire her hour glass figure. I'd admire it with my hands about the same time.
/r/seduction05/11/14 07:15 PM
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Ask her about her diet. Ask for help with your workout. Ask your friend to introduce you. It's easy.
/r/seduction03/11/14 09:17 PM
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Hmmm. Be the man. What do you want to do? Then do it.
/r/seduction07/10/14 02:45 PM
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Objectify, shmectify. How else are you supposed to react to and interact with women? You make snap decisions about men and about women all the time? If you don't do this with men, some asshole will smack you down for not respecting his turf, etc. If you want to get cerebral on interactions with people, study behavior analysis and reinforcement. If you want to involve philosophy, see the Stoics (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, etc.)
/r/seduction13/09/14 01:42 PM
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See the book "Just Fuck Me" on amazon. It's a feminist writing to couples on how to intensify the dominance relationship in the bedroom.
/r/seduction23/06/14 09:48 PM
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The question is far more important than you might think. Most of "game", etc. is about giving value that your female companion wants. So what do they want? For those actions/attributes that we believe are turn-offs what do these fail to deliver to your companion?
/r/seduction17/06/14 06:47 PM
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I second the recommendation for "The Six Pillars of Self Esteem". I thought it might be fluff, but he makes logical arguments about a very soft feature (sell esteem) and then give you specific exercises to develop more self esteem. No, you can't just read it and have more self esteem. You gotta do the work, but it will explain why you'll benefit from the work.
/r/seduction10/06/14 08:14 PM
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Projecting the ability to keep a woman safe is situation dependent. It can be using your coat to keep her warm, pressing your way through a crowd so she can follow in your van, ... Think of how you would have protected her if she was two foot shorter and younger.
/r/seduction28/05/14 01:59 PM
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Project the ability to protect her. The desire by women for a taller man is largely an easy way to select for men who can protect them.
/r/seduction23/05/14 08:13 PM
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Sociologists have demonstrated experimentally that people (women) are more motivated to prevent loss than to gain any benefit. This is why several of the approaches of pua work. When you have other priorities than just one woman, she risks losing her investment with you. It is the same for you when you fear losing her attentions. You become heavily motivated to prevent the loss of your investment in her.
/r/seduction16/05/14 01:29 PM
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There are men that won't be into you. Men suffer the same reality. But if you open yourself to the men that appeal to you, you'll find many are receptive. You've also got to do the same things to make yourself attractive as men do (have a life, make an effort to be attractive and have value to offer your guy). Good hunting!
/r/seduction28/04/14 02:17 PM
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Hmm. So are we assuming that women are NOT checking you out. The beach is probably a place ripe with opportunity , but requiring TRUE CONFIDENCE. Do we imagine that women wear bikinis when they could wear a one piece suit?
/r/seduction22/04/14 06:43 PM
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What? You have a friend that can introduce you and you want to meet her via Twitter. Why mess around with contact at a distance when you can be in the same room?
/r/seduction22/04/14 12:00 PM
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We screw up when we talk with women. Women do that same with us. Dig deeper.
/r/seduction18/04/14 03:15 PM
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You are worrying about phantoms. There aren't enough Navy Seals to matter in the sexual marketplace. Further, people have been referring to "this day and age" for hundreds of years where each generation thinks that there time is different. Scarcity and abundance are visceral concepts. Time doesn't remove them from life. Of course, pretended scarcity isn't authentic and people will figure it out.
/r/seduction02/04/14 12:35 PM
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Spread out your workouts more.... your muscles need time to grow between the workouts you give them. If this weren't true, you'd still be getting stronger.
/r/seduction23/03/14 03:24 PM
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Stoicism is more about being in the moment and bringing tranquility to yourself. It agrees that external events are out of your control and letting them disturb your tranquility is avoidable.
/r/seduction12/03/14 05:20 PM
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Groucho Marx.
/r/seduction12/03/14 05:04 PM
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If you're in IT and hate your job, get off your ass. Use your inner game to find a company you want to work with and charm them into hiring you. The approach and the charming works the same in job hunting. You just don't do the kino. I'm in IT and I've hired and fired. You need to move on. How can you have the energy for night game when you let your job suck the life out of you?
/r/seduction20/02/14 08:23 PM
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Hmmm. You may be getting a sympathy reaction with the crutches. I wouldn't let the crutches stop your efforts to learn day game. They might just be a "leg up" to more success with these first practice runs.
/r/seduction19/02/14 02:22 PM
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Sounds like you've been hanging out in r/stoicism
/r/seduction12/02/14 07:20 PM
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