If you can’t smoke a pack of cigarettes while getting drunk with friends until 2 am, wake up the next day run a few miles to reset, then your “biological age” isn’t 19, as any college aged man who isn’t totally obese can do that easily.

Growing up in the car business, and being a big car dealer in New England, I bumped into these circles of wealth. A small handful of dealers had yachts like these, not the majority. When Clair sold and my dreams, visions, and ambitions to run it imploded with it, and when my family imploded under lawsuits right after my dad died, an immature and reflexive chip on my shoulder festered. I left the car business, telling myself that it was golden handcuffs. But I had blinded myself, and turned down good opportunities and rejected a lot of my purpose and ambition. I had told myself that Clair sold because my dad and uncles didn't believe in me. Foolish in hindsight, but I held onto that view for years. Spiritually lost and still burning with ambition I stumbled into Internet Marketing and copywriting. I had this notion I could out earn Clair Motors from copy. And if you told me otherwise I would have called you a hater, told you Agora makes a ton, not at all seeing the reality. I thought speedboats (I have a thing for speedboats, they're my achilles heel, I had two when I was younger) and owning a Gulfstream 500 like my dad's best friend (a dealer) was soon in reach. Surrounding the circles of Internet Marketing are experts and a peanut gallery telling you this is all in reach, easily. You can even see a few replies to post thinking this. Yes, big money can be made in Internet Marketing. But what is dangerous, and what I deluded myself with, is buying into the grand delusion that selling info products was going to do what 26 car dealerships with 17 brands, new and used cars, 4 bodyshops, a rental car company, and a towing company was going to do. That precarious part, the big dream, and not the realities can distract in various ways. Yes big money can be had, but if you go in thinking you're going sell info products and be the one who can pay 8 figures cash for a yacht, pay cash for a 9 figure house in Port Royal, Naples, you're scrambling. It's good to have ambition to chase coin, it can drive a lot. But chasing it via shortcuts, thinking going on Skool or taking an ethical vacation on claims with a Clickbank will get you there, it won't. After I left Internet Marketing, much of the wakeup call dealt with me running from the car business, and wrangling with the fact I rejected my ambitions, dreams, and purpose in that business. I didn't listen to wiser calmer voices who told me my future was bright in it. I know I'm blessed now in various ways. I can call my day my own, I can be around my daughter (car business hours are brutal, less so nowadays, but I will be at all her events), and provide a great life for my wife and family. I don't know if I have point in this post, other than, while Internet Marketing has good money, and some great people in it. Yet the delusions of grandeur exist in it. And a lot of it is wanting an outcome faster and quicker, which is what I wanted, to beat Clair to prove to my own created and arbitrary goal posts that I could do it without the car business.

Gallon of Milk a day a gallon of Crumbl Dirty Soda a day = NLP GAINZ fuel for Starting Strength lifters and for anyone who squats or deadlifts, frankly.

8th set of Dynamic Squats (slow on the way down). 2 reps per set. 90-120 seconds rest between sets. 495lbs. Eye of the Tiger is the 🐐 ed song for last sets. 🐅 @GrantSSC those plates look good.

22 year old fitness influencers tell you that you need 8 hours of sleep, stretching followed by a good warm up, train scientifically, the sauna, a cold plunge and no microplastics Most fathers are running on 5 hours of sleep, 400mg of caffeine, a quick warm up, crush a lift, meat & potatoes & disciple to get through the day The world was built by men who showed up tired, not by men waiting for perfect conditions

An unexpected joy of training from home: garage doors open and training during a storm.

Arrived the other day. This is from my friend @AJA_Cortes He recommended AlphaGPC a while back. I was unfamiliar with it until he mentioned it. AlphaGPC, in short, is for better cognitive function. I had tried nootropics like ten years ago and didn't notice much. With AlphaGPC I did notice it. I noticed it most being able to focus a bit sharper while being a new dad and having shorter windows of time and less sleep. And now, after a decent writing block, I'm able to get into reading, or a good focused reading pace a lot better. Whereas before it took me a little bit, having felt a bit creatively tired after writing. Alexander put some other ingredients in this which are said to give a boost. I'm excited to give it a shot.

“Nice lift bro, I know a 14 year old 98 lb girl black belt who could still choke you out” @sam_gzstrength @CoffeeBlackMD @FindJimClair

The average liberal would rather live in hell and amongst ruins than face the cognitive dissonance of voting Republican It's akin to asking a devout Christian to desecrate a cross and renounce the Lord

Elite level parody. He nails the type of doofus claiming "risk reward" with deadlifts and squats.

I see the recurrent ragebait of "dont do squats or deadlifts! they are DANGEROUS" has surfaced again I say this out of love: these are arguments are retarded There is NO magical form of exercise that is perfectly safe and has a 0% probability of injury ever happening You can pick ANY recreational activity, and there will be injuries. -There are people who tear ACLs MCLs achilles playing tennis -who take up cycling and crash and shatter a knee (or get hemorrhoids) -Who jog 3x a week and get tendinitis. -Theres old guys who golfed too much and are now in chronic pain in their elbows I also cannot take people seriously who argue about safety or "stimulus to fatigue" ratio. That whole concept is made up BS, peudo quantification by trainers who want to sound smart. Resistance training, done in a gym, a controlled environment, and you have total agency over the weight and intensity, that is as safe as it gets. There is also no way to prevent people from using bad form, lifting too heavy, and making stupid training decisions. There is no exercise you MUST do. There is also no merit in sternly warning people against exercises that, broadly, work for the majority of the population. You dont like the barbell? fine, use a different implement. None of the people making these arguments have any original ideas, I expect to see the ragebait continue. This my few cents to hopefully spare some of you from the mind virus of fucktardation.

Saturday morning's training partner.

In 20 years of coaching the deadlift to ~everyone I work with, I have had a handful of clients tweak their backs deadlifting but 1) less frequently than I have seen people in general tweak their backs outside the gym in random ways. 2) it usually resolves within a week, occasionally a few weeks, and never once has it been a life-altering injury. Meanwhile I have coached myself or spoken with hundreds of people coached by friends or doing the program on their own, who have told me that deadlifts changed their life, that deadlifts totally resolved or significantly mitigated their pre-existing back pain that was previously severely limiting them, in some cases contemplating surgery before they started deadlifting. And this is before we even get to the strength, muscle, bone density, and general performance benefits. What's also odd is that the internet discourse turned so rapidly against deadlifts, so quickly. In the 2010s, they were considered an S-Tier exercise from what I saw online. Now the discourse is severely negative with NPC-like repetition of "risk to reward ratio" even though no one's done an actual serious analysis of either the risk or the reward, and "terrible for hypertrophy" even though no one has done a serious analysis of that either. Both involve absolute confidence based on superficial obserations (doesn't target any one specific muscle group to failure, etc). A few unverified stories from bros about hurting their back deadlifting and a few videos of anthropometric outliers doing heavy deadlifts without being bodybuilder-jacked, and the Bro Science jury has returned a guilty verdict. End of story, no argument. Risk to reward ratio, bro. I'm not 100% sure how to explain the vast gulf in my own and my colleagues' collective experience coaching tens of thousands of people with massive benefit and extremely low risk, with the online discourse today. I have some guesses but they are only that. But I owe it to you to give the other side of the story.

"Irrational Dating" Great article on the insanity of modern dating by my friend @FindJimClair jimclair.com/p/irrational-da…