Help with Setting Goals

[deleted] · 2018-04-12T21:01:07+00:00

it worries me that I am not worried

Been there, man. The thing that helped me the most was knowing that discipline is greater than motivation. Go cold turkey on Fortnite, sit down at your desk and just start. If you need to, take the first day to plan out your revision strategy. It'll ease you into the routine.

iknowthewhey · 2018-04-12T20:56:35+00:00

As long as your at 15% body fat or lower you can keep bulking. You should check out the body fat scales on amazon they are only ~25$.

No one here can tell you what weight to be and how much to study. It's dependent on your situation so you need to make those decisions.

monsieurhire2 · 2018-04-12T22:57:14+00:00

Don't worry about your weight, exactly. Worry about becoming stronger, more agile, etc. You can have a body "built for show," but how will you be confident if you can't really do anything with it? A good-looking body is a BY-PRODUCT of a body trained for a certain amount of functionality. So, Bruce Lee was very strong and had a very defined musculature because he trained himself as fighter, whereas Arnold Schwarzeneggar has a massive body that looks good, but doesn't necessarily provide the same level of actual functionality, even if it creates the illusion of such when you watch him kick ass in his films. Bruce Lee had to slow his movements down so the camera could them up instead of showing a blur; the reality was more than the illusion could withstand. Arnold had to work with teams of fight choreographers to create the illusion that his musculature meant that he Lee's combat skills.

Who would you rather be? The illusion or the reality?

Instead of worrying about what you weigh, worry more about how strong you are, how much endurance you have, how much dexterity, how much agility, flexibility, whether you are doing all the movements properly, and that these abilities can actually be harnessed into something useful, like swimming, climbing, dancing, physical labor, fighting, etc.

Videogames are technocrack. You are literally just giving yourself cheap rewards.

Ask yourself what psychological urge the game is fulfilling for you so cheaply: usually it's exploration, domination, conquest, aggression, etc. Since most people are conditioned to be risk averse, or lack the ability to do those things, it is EASY for them to escape into addictive game worlds.

The good news is, if you take a week off distracting yourself with other things, you won't miss the game world at all because it isn't metabolically addictive like heroin or morphine, at least not yet. But don't underestimate the power of psychological addictions.

Supposedly, 4 hours a day is the most the average person can withstand with regard for doing abstract or deep work productively. Some people will do cardio first thing in the morning, then do abstract work for 4 hours, then run errands and do administrative tasks that require little deep thought, then engage in a little planning, then go recreate.

TehJimmyy · 2018-04-13T15:19:14+00:00

Track your body fat.When close to 18-20 % cut.Repeat

Title	Help with Setting Goals
Author	Thrawy124
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Date	April 12, 2018 8:47 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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