Butt-Kicking Leg Day at the Gym — 62 Years Old

— Unlocking the Power of Command: A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Transformation, Fitness Optimization, and Emotional Control

PC:GDF #X [Next In Series]

The Introduction — Unleash Your Command: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Improvement, Fitness, and Relationships that Transforms Men into Respected Leaders.

The Practice — Your Inner Warrior: A Journey through the Realities of Fitness, Diet, and Testosterone Replacement Therapy.

The X-variable in the title is because I don’t know the number yet, since I’m curating 400+ posts down into the most relevant (300-ish most likely) and numbering them in sequence as I go, plus adding the linked titles to the previous and next in the series for each post. Big job.

I changed the series featured-image up top. Why? Because the “unlikely” image you see up top is my daily reality at Muscle Factory, Pattaya, just 800 meters down the street from me.

So the other reason I changed it is that I love to trigger excuse-making, fat, ugly, entitled, and abusive women nobody has the slightest desire to fuck, ever…they know it…and they make your life miserable in every possible way because of it—rather than simply deprogramming themselves, taking mouth responsibility (what goes in/out), and getting themselves hot and desirable again, which is prerequisite for ceasing the cunty attitude towards men and perfecting the classic and age-old seductive and alluring techniques that imply respect towards men, their gatekeeper status, and the natural give-&-take exchange.

Men: not only never waste a second with such cunts: kick them to the curb immediately, with prejudice. There is no fucking reason in the world to ever tolerate abusive, nagging, cunty chick behavior.

I’m sayin’…because it’s the truth.

That said, men, you have to do your part. If you’re a low-T, virtue-signalling, white knighting beta-simp with a soy, soda, and weed habit, knock that pussy-ass shit off. Now. Today.

And above all? Stop going online in social media and showing what a little schoolmarm weak-ass bitch you are… Today. Not another fucking post, comment, reply, or react in that regard.

To command the respect of women, you must be respectable and since we’re males, and that’s inherently competitive, the bar of respectability is very high—and you should demand nothing less…or you’re a worthless pussy, and maybe she should treat you like a little bitch.

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… Male and female-like organisms alike revel in characterizing that featured image up top as all about money. That’s because they’re all too lazy and stupid to grasp how lazy and stupid they are…so they remain ignorant of the female hypergamy in play and how it really works.

There are an endless number of old, pot-belied rich dudes—[s]expats and tourists—for any hot bar wench, freelancer, or office worker here to keep herself occupied and showered with attention and gifts if it’s only about the money; and for a great number of them, that’s what it’s about, and they’re masters at turning men into ATMs—to the tune of millions of baht (1 million baht = $35K).

Every guy has a story (or two, or three).

… A Brit expat at my former gym says to me, “my first one cost me 3 million, the second, only 2 million…so I’m improving…”

The point is, you can “be in charge,” or you can Be Commanding. That download, above, while in the template of me, an expat in Thailand chasing around the same 20-sumthin’s I did here and in the Philippines when in my 20s, but who’re now they’re in their late 50s and 60s—I’ve “moved on”—is really about how this unlikely laboratory—in a very different sort of culture that allows it—reveals to you what women are really all about in a frank, honest, and rather enchanting way. To a large extent, it demystifies them.

… But you’re welcome to keep self-deprecating and virtue-signalling—”bragging”—about how you can’t figure women out. Maybe you prefer the child-like fantasy ideal to the hard reality that, once understood through relentless ass-busting effort, can be commanded?

Would you go around “bragging” about how you can’t for the life of you figure out the company you work for, your co-workers…or, if you have a company yourself…your employees and customers?

Huh???

So stop that shit, get on the ball, bust ass, and just get it done. But you have to deprogram yourself.

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To deprogram yourself requires one single thing first and foremost: coming to grips with the very hard, fast, certain, and objective reality that 1) you are programmed, and 2) that it is entirely rooted in fear of everything you don’t know because you haven’t seen it with your own eyes.

Think about #2 a bit.

Think about the stuff you have seen with your own eyes that you have fear, trepidation, or serious caution about. Are those feelings and judgments rational? I’ll bet that you say “yea, pretty rational.”

Why? Because those feelings and judgments are based on your own exclusive authority…your own senses, integration, and rational thinking. You have naturally applied risk/reward to your own values. Some things scare you that don’t scare others, and vice versa, because you each hold different values.

Now, think about the hosts upon endless piles of abject bullshit you have not ever seen or experienced 1st hand before—only heard-tell about…maybe fed see-and-sound bites—that you have drummed up fear and trepidation about…and because you do, you become a useless and pathetic junkie-addict, always seeking your next fix of “information,” of which there is none, or not much, because it’s either a complete scam or hyped-up bullshit to the max, for max profits for whomever is running the con.

I’ll repeat Mencken, again: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

… So to round out this meandering introduction, a lot is connected and integrated that you’re not seeing.

But it’s all related, and COMMAND is the key that unlocks both understanding, and the prosperity in all things that comes from it. Command requires deprogramming, critical thinking in that new, deprogrammed, wide-open-ended paradigm, and the physical, ass-busting effort, so that your [new] body is integrated with your [new] mind.

There is no better scorecard for all of that than how you command the most fundamental relationship you will ever have: that most intimate relationship with the opposite sex.

(… And by opposite, I mean that: homosexuals need not apply. Go have your fun, whatever, but this is wholly inapplicable to you, and you cannot fake it by “identifying” as a different chromosome-pair than you are. Fucking period.)

… And by command, I’m talking gender-neutral here. Men have their spheres of command, so do women. For either or both to command in their respective spheres requires the utmost level of respect on the part of the opposite sex; certainly within the confines of an intimate relationship, but also and very importantly, in the courting stages leading up to entering into such a relationship.

The world is awash near globally with mutual disrespect, of everyone disrespecting everyone else…and even within their own ranks and cliques, increasingly.

Want to guess where mutual respect is uncharacteristically (or, actually, classically and normally) very high and persists?

The exact place where I have chosen to call my home with not only no regrets, but with embrace. Here’s a 93-year-old British mini-film (from 1930) I stumbled upon last night. It is remarkable and wholly charming how very conservative this country is, little really changing much fundamentally and essentially in all these decades…and you know what? You would never see a bargirl or a ladyboy showing disrespect for any of this. You will find them showing respect for their unchanging culture at the nearest temple, though.

This whole thing is worth the watch if only for the scenes at the end of the military and its hundreds of trained elephants. It’s awesome. Thailand for the Thai people. God and Buddha, keep it that way.

So increasingly, I’ve found myself in a situation where, dumping the booze and working my ass off, both in this business and now, in the gym, and on diet, and on fasting, just has stuff falling “magically” into place right and left for me.

… And guess where it shows most.

In the 30-year-old and her two daughters, 13 and 12…very key and critical ages. There may be more news about that on the personal front pretty soon.

For now, let’s just say that I am COMMANDING much newfound respect all over that familial relationship. And that display of respect has, in turn, resulted in enhanced understandings and such on my part.

So go get yourself deprogrammed, then hit the gym, diet, and fast. While you’re at it, learn and engage The Formula. It works with all women, all age disparities or parities, all cultures, all religions, and worldwide.

But, men: it doesn’t work on cunts; and anyway, this is about molding yourself into a commanding man of the highest level of earned respect…not about trying to change a chick you have the hots for; look elsewhere. Be a sober, serious, ass-busting man in all things. You won’t believe how it will pay off.

Women: if he’s a little virtue-signalling bitch, trying to get into your pants by acting like a chick, look for a man. You’ve got girlfriends and gay friends already.

OK, wow, much longer intro than anticipated. It was to introduce my newest video, where you actually see me in action for leg-day at the gym where I do a total of 47,500 pounds of total volume (weight lifted in all sets and reps, added up) in about an hour.

Now onto:

  1. An overview of the whole method-to-the-madness of big-gym-big-food for 4 days, followed by a 2-3-day zero-calorie fast.
  2. A preview of the current video in production over 3 days of fasting following this week’s gym work and high-protein (moderate fat and carb) eating and how I’m going to be boosting the fat blasting while in a rested state for gaining lean mass. Also, how the video will be aired for members (not YouTube).
  3. A preview of next week’s three additional videos covering the other workouts (push, pull, press). Same airing.
  4. A preview of the final video (so 4 more in total) that will cover all food over the course of the 4 ass-busing gym days.
  5. I’m planning on starting testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) next week, pending lab tests, and what that’s all about, and even a video demonstration.

Note: I would not advocate TRT for men under about 50 unless there is an abnormal medical condition that calls for it (consult an applicable doc specialist). Diminishing T as you age is part nature’s programming, part diet, part body comp, part environment, part experiences including sexual, and part mental (I believe). But the important thing is that T is WAY more about the total man than just about packing on lean mass, shifting the lean/fat balance to prefer an overall and baseline lean you. Or, about hardwood.

I’ve dabbled in three gold-standard supplements the last month (I’ll show them, below) for raising T naturally, and the experience is convincing for me, and took about 3 weeks to be sure, then it got way sure. Way convincing. Bluntly: I believe low-T is what is turning the males in all the modern Western countries on earth into a bunch of cunty, chick-enacting, emotional little bitches. I’ll address that application to me, below.

By this time new week you’ll know exactly what I am doing, will see it in action, will see how it works and will work, and you will go ah-ha… I can do this, I can do it myself, and I can have better things to do than spend hours per week keeping tabs on the latest in bro science (and maybe, even a lot of other stupid, go-nowhere shit, too, like Mencken talks about).

Overview

That’s the simple part.

That it’s so simple is its own clue into why it’s not in the interest of many in the exercise and diet business to emphasize it. Adverse incentives are everywhere at all times, and it’s impossible to avoid them because otherwise, it feels like you’re working to put yourself out of business.

But you should always be doing that in all or most businesses. Repeat business is because you’re always offering something new of value, further developing what you already offer (making it more valuable), or sending graduate-clients on their way, always asking for referrals, and always marketing and advertising for new undergraduates.

Four things:

  1. You have to have regular strenuous exercise
  2. You have to have rest and recuperation from strenuous exercise
  3. You have to eat ~big to maintain and/or grow (lean mass)
  4. You have to stop eating to curtail/lose fat mass, repair cells, and give your liver a rest

The reason for the gym, of course, is that fewer of us than ever have sufficient strenuous exercise in our jobs. Think of the construction trades, farming, physical-activity professionals, and pro sports. Of course, bodyweight exercise can be completely sufficient. A gym offers a structure within an encouraging social environment, so chances of consistency and success are increased. Plus, you’re paying for a membership, so you have a bit of added skin in the game.

So that’s why I harp on the gym. It’s the easiest way to commit yourself to a very hard thing…because it’s hard as fuck, and a miniscule percentage ever stick with it and make it their own as an essential must.

A miniscule percentage: Ever.

Rest is covered by sleep and days off. Some, not too many. A 4-day gym routine may be ideal. I am really liking the consecutive day thing: 4 days gym work, 3 days rest (along with some fasting). I don’t need to harp on this, I’m sure, since laziness is everyone’s default. So do some lazy, with a purpose.

Just do high protein from animals. Ultimately, you have to style your diet for you, but one thing is an essential must: protein first and foremost. Just shoot for a gram per pound of body weight. This is good because if you’re fat, then you’re getting more than your lean mass needs, so it goes to satiation, which aids in setting you up for being mensch and conquering your tender little hungy-feeweengs.

It’s on the topic of so-called fasting, where I part ways with most [bullshit] stuff I see and read.

18 hours isn’t much of a fast, really. Nor is overnight, in spite of calling our first meal “breakfast.” If you’re not fighting off gnawing hunger pangs, you’re fooling yourself. The things you want happening really aren’t happening. Perhaps the biggest joke in all of this is people who eat huge amounts of dietary fat or drink ketone drinks. In neither case are the ketone readings from metabolized body fat.

This is all noting but laziness looking for magic lies. And, cui bono?

The other problem is that while sleep isn’t chronic because it’s our natural required daily rest for health, synthetically altering normal eating rhythms is chronic, because it ain’t fucken normal. In no case would you find caveman saying, “uh, can’t eat that food yet, it’s not time.” Yet caveman went hungry often enough, and did so naturally. There was no food, and getting food took mental and physical effort.

We can’t do it naturally because we have boxes, plastic wrap, pantries, freeze-dried, curing, refrigerators, 7-Eleven, Costco, fast food on every corner, and vending machines in-between.

We’re awash in a sea of excess food and junk, and it requires less than an hour per day at the average sit-on-your-ass job to make enough to consume 1,000 excess calories.

That’s why people are fucking fat and getting fatter.

It has fuck-all to do with thyroid glands…

So it requires a dietary hack, and that hack is total food abstinence. Ancient cultures who found themselves in relative abundance with the advent of animal husbandry and agriculture seemed to understand this quite early on and fasting rituals became a thing, and pretty much every old culture and religious tradition includes them.

I suspect that eating-window, chronic fasting is ok and healthful, and there’s research showing that. I just think no-shit fasting is going to be better, and I think especially better for autophagy; i.e., self-eating (recycling) cellular cleansing, repair, and take out the trash.

And what else? The liver. Give it a nice long relative rest (relative, because it works 24/7/365 + weekends and holidays). A pet hypothesis of mine is that part of the metabolic dysfunction that sets in over years and decades is the practice of grazing behavior all the time. This is my favorite hypothesis for the added girth of Thais and, in particular, the women—since my visits nearly 4 decades ago, where you could not find a fat person in the whole country (I honestly do not remember ever taking note of one from those days). Their food is largely the same and is not energy dense at all, and Thais prefer, hands-down, their own traditional foods to anything else. But they get hungry every 2 hours and now, they have the money (and food is relatively less expensive) to eat whenever they want.

… How much fasting? Individually determined, but 1-2 full 24-hour days per week for maintenance, 2-3 for fat loss. But you must NOT under eat on the other 4–5 days, and this is the really beautiful part of it. You eat like you’re not going to have any food in a day to a few (and synthetically, that’s exactly what’s going on).

Feast and famine is how we evolved and adapted. Now it’s all fucked up.

I’m doing the latter, 2–3 days. So far, it has gone as follows, numbers being the # of the week since I began the program:

  1. 48-hour fast (2 day)
  2. 72-hour fast (3 day)
  3. 72-hour fast (3 day)
  4. 48-hour fast (2 day)
  5. No fast; periodic light eating over two rest days…because my 4-day workout routine got shifted by 1 day to Tuesday – Friday.
  6. 72-hour fast (current; on day #1)

Fasting Video

As soon as this post is done being drafted, I’m grabbing the Go-Pro, walking to the gym (I’ll chat a bit along the way), then I’ll do the Air Bike 3-interval all-out like yesterday, and some sort of treadmill session I have yet to look up and research. I’m thinking probably a 4 mph at 4% grade for 30–40 minutes is in the ballpark for a cardio session.

Then I’ll do this all three days of the fast. So, it’s a low-effort activity designed to, not so much ramp things up as to keep them from ramping down so much that I want to just curl up for a nap or sit and watch Netflix.

The video is going to document it all, piece by piece, edited down to the essentials.

Now, here’s the catch, members. I’m releasing that video when it’s done, exclusively on the new Member’s-Only Discord Channel. It will not be available any other way. That will come out around Monday evening, your time (USA).

Three Gym Videos

Enough positive feedback from leg-day video that I’m doing one for each of the other three days, making it a set. That way, anyone who wants will have a complete gym template.

Here’s what the whole 4-day program looks like:

No, I’m not clear on how the pushes, pulls, and presses correspond to actual days. What seems clear is leg day and that day 1 has both Incline Bench Press (a new fav on the Smith machine) and DB Chest Press. Otherwise, seems like a mix of pushes and pulls. No matter, it works, and the only things I’ve changed is I do the Incline Bench Press 1st on day 1, and instead of DB Reverse Lunges on leg day, I do DB Bulgarian Split Squats…because while I’ve seen exactly zero experienced bros doing the former in the gym, and tons and doing the latter, girls too, I figure there must be something to them. Plus, doing lunges in reverse just seems uncoordinated to me. Whatever. I’m sure both are about equally beneficial.

Anyway, I’ll do the vids somewhat as I did the other one, shooting for 10-ish minutes each.

Distribution will be the same: exclusively on the Discord server.

One Food Video

I’m going to somehow cobble together a food video for ALL the food I eat for the whole 4 days, including the shopping trip to Makro, where I buy everything at once, and you’ll swear I’m in a Costco. Fun fact: Makro is actually a Dutch company that precedes Costco by about 15 years (opened 1968) and came up with that wholesale-to-consumer/small-business model (or at least popularized it first). Thailand has about 100 such stores and they’re great. They even do the food-tasting stands, just like Costco.

So, watch me get my entire 4 days of food for around 800-1000 baht, protein heavy ($22.50 – $28.00). I love the place. There’s no better value for quality, convenience, and great, friendly atmosphere for crazy-stupid low prices anywhere in the world that I’m aware of.

I’ll just briefly cover each thing I eat and show you also how truly fast I can put together some of my preparations.

Quiz: How will I distribute this video to members?

Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)

So, I thought about it way back, talked with Sisson who’s public about his, got tested as I’ve blogged about, but I had increased, likely due simply to environment, mental attitude, higher sexual excitement given the obvious…so I just back-burner-ed it.

… Men are simply wired like that, and to blubber and blather on about it with your virtue-signalling is simply a damn lie—to both yourselves, and to everyone else. Lies never serve anyone. Lies ultimately harm everyone, and from any direction…even if serving intended purposes from one direction. “Unintended consequences” means: I didn’t see that coming (because, from another direction).

And the most funny thing is? Everyone knows everyone else is lying about it, but it’s one of those socially-acceptable….NO…socially-REQUIRED lies.

Fuck off; I will not.

Reality. Deal with it.

That said, I am not talking about the enduring and eternal intimacy and love for a spouse or long-term partner, which I endorse. Nonetheless, for the man, at least, the burning lust that once thrived, never completely dies out and that’s nobody’s fault, anything to feel guilty about, and certainly nothing to be resentful over. I don’t know, since I’m not a chick, but I imagine that some measure of the opposite is in play for them, too. Who’s generally best at handling it, I don’t know either. Women cheat plenty, and they also initiate most divorces. So there’s that.

… I suppose you could say that human monogamy, generally stated, is a social overlay, not anything genetic or hard-wired. Socially, monogamy is clearly the better strategy for personal wealth and prosperity, as well as best for raising offspring (who will be better situated to ensure your needs once the tables have been turned, in your old & feeble days).

Anyway, I met a few guys in the gym, the youngest being 58, and they’re all amazing physique (but they all bust ass in the gym), all on T. They readily admit it. It’s perfectly legal… I could pop over to any one of a million pharmacies and get a vial of testosterone enanthate that’s good for 5 weeks (800 baht…$22.50). Needles and syringes, too.

Typical dose is 200 mg (1mL) split in 2 injections per week. Thus, that’s a 5-week supply. There’s a guy at the gym who provides the service to others. He’s back in town on Wednesday, so that’s when I start.

To put everything in terms that apply to me…the 1st step was going a year without a drop of booze. That’s probably 80% of restoring manliness and masculinity, and I certainly felt a lot better, but the booze-drop is a confounding variable both ways…in every direction, and you can be fooled from any of them.

It kept nagging at me that I should feel better, have higher libido, more energy, yada.

I did some checking and there are three supplements in combo that are pretty much established to raise T reliably. Instead of getting the hyper-overpriced things where someone buys them in bulk, combines, repackages, spends a million bucks on marketing and sells you a supply for 3 bucks a day, I just went and got them directly myself on Lazada (Thai Amazon) for pennies per day.

Took about a week or so to notice anything. Now about 4 weeks in, definitely, everything running on all cylinders, again.

The best thing, though, and what made me solidly decide to do the T directly and not mess with powders in my coffee?

Emotional temperance. I’ll explain with 1000 words.

We all have emotions, they’re all automatic, all in response/reaction to the values we hold and act regularly to gain and/or keep. Want to detect a liar? Watch their emotions carefully. If they don’t correspond, are opposite, or nonexistent when they should be present, they’re lying about what their values are. Like beta-simp males do all the time when out virtue-signalling on social media.

Don’t like your emotions? Want to change them? Deprogram yourself. You have conflicts and cognitive biases. When deprogrammed, things you valued stop being values, or become disvalues. The void is backfilled with other values likely to be more in line with logic, rationality, judgment, and experience in life. You might find yourself scoffing at things you used to adore, weeping over things you never gave a shit about before, or used to laugh at.

This was my experience, profoundly so, in 1991 when my “No-Pill” path first began. You know where I first noticed it, unmistakably? Movie theaters. Yep, getting emotional over things I never got emotional about, before.

So you are going to have the emotions, whatever they are, no matter what. And, controlling them (from doing damage) may be effective, too. But, how powerful and how long do they last?

What I found, and it’s still improving daily, is that the same emotions are very mild and where strong, it’s gone really quick. Cool down begins immediately.

This is very powerful, it’s well established to be linked to T status, and 1+1=2. And, big advantage to not risk, or ever turn into, a pile of weepy-ass, whiny bitch…it’s worth every drop of that vile. But that’s not even the half of it. Low emotional amplitude and duration is just unbeatable in all endeavors.

Some may call it “Stoic,” but in my experience, a “Stoic” male is a male projecting his out-of-control, emotional volatility. Calling himself a Stoic is a coping mechanism for being anything but.

That’s about it.


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1 Comment

  1. David Edwards on September 18, 2023 at 03:46

    Great post and video. Huge difference in how you’re looking these days.