I had a really bad case of hyperthyroidism, a condition that affects virtually every cell in your body.
It speeds of heart beat, hair loss, finger nail loss, increases body temperature, causes insomnia, rapid weight loss. oh and hunger. like eat 6-8 times a day and still be hungry. some new level of hunger i've honestly never felt previously.
I've been around 155 pounds for about the past 15 years of my life, and in 2 weeks i dropped to 125. also my muscles (specifically the thighs) atrophied to the point where i could no longer walk up a flight of stairs.
I went to the doctor, long story short, ate a radiation laced pill, which essentially knocked out my thyroid.
I have to wait a few more weeks before doing blood wrok to see if i'm hypo, hyper or luckily normal (20%).
I'm back to 145, and started working out. It's so agitating because I used to be in relatively good shape. But currently every night when i go to bed, my legs are effing sore from just walking during the day.
I only have dumbbells in my gym, so i've been doing light dumbbell press, goblet squat, lat pull down, one arm rows, some crunches.
it's so fucking infuriating because less is more when it comes to working out. yea u can segment all the diff muscle groups into 5-6 days, but for me (and prob 95% of people) it's prob more efficient to work out 3 times a week to let your body fully rest.
Gains are looking decent, the hyperthyroidism had one silver lining: it burned all my fat. so any marginal muscle gains are more pronounced.
but i guess im getting restless and want to work out harder, but working out harder would be resting.
don't want to overhype the relationship between CTE and soccer but here are some key points
-CTE is a brain degenerative disease linked with violent hits to the head and now any repeated hits to the head
-boxers, US footballers, hockey players, rugby players and soccer players have all been found with CTE
-soccer players head through practice and in game 1000-1500 times a year
-this soccer player started heading since age 3, most start around 8-10
-Dr. Anthony Alessi UCONN neurology researcher, shuns any hits to the head no matter how soft/light until 18
-heading a soccer ball is around 20g's the equivalent of hitting a wall with a car at ~20 miles an hour
it was a bunch of thought experiments that go like ....
"If one could live forever and had infinite time would you study and attempt to learn about the world with urgency or enjoy each day. On one hand you have an eternity so why not take it easy and enjoy each day. "
Randomly took a break because I was away from my desktop due to holidays and moving (for job).
And this is prob the most passively effective I've ever been in my life (not even exaggerating).
1. I picked up french on android app "Duolingo" and have been putting 30 minute sessions a day usually while taking a shit or waiting on random stuff like restaurants or coffee.
2. Ran a half marathon after training 4 weeks. Took me 2 hours 18 minutes. Running's been kind of addicting for me, after at age 25 being diagnosed with worriesome blood pressure ~140 mg/90. The way the doctor explained it to me was, yea it's prob ok for now, but when your 50, you really will want to reach 75 so go ahead and start now. Everyone has around 1.8 billion beats in their hearts, and the harder it is for ur heart to pump, the more resistance (aka high blood pressure) the more beats it takes per day. multiply this over 20 years, and its easy to see why you wont make it to 70 when u should be living to 100. Also running has been addicting. I've never enjoyed running even after training for a triathlon. But lately I've been doing a set time vs a set amount of miles. This way it's lost time anyway, and I should look to leisurely run and build my endurance.
3. Started playing guitar, and picked up a lot of songs. Cry me a river, hallelujah, say something, hey jude were all surprisingly easy to play!
4. Reached 4.3k on bovada! Really soft tables, and as a matter of fact fish get bigger as u reach .5/1, this allowed me to buy a surface pro2 and macbook pro and a mac thunderbolt display (all through my brother's bestbuy discount!).
5. Pretty good video. I think it's honestly prob worth a few thousand dollars for the students who are currently interviewing/looking for jobs
6. Pretty good economics article on government owned vs privately owned.
I remember there was a thread where TT got flamed over some opinions and ppl kind of dog piled on him after he said something questionable about economics or something. i just wanted to say that I learned economics through school. And part of the beauty of it was a) how logical everything was and b) how wrong I was about a lot of common phenomenon. Economics can definitely be tricky and it's a different way of thinking then what we've learned growing up. Everyone's acting like they were fucking born knowing economics or were self taught. Well honestly congrats if u somehow did self teach urself economics and ur prob a freaking genius, honestly. but for those few who are interested here's what i consider a very reasonable article detailing one of the beauties of capitalism (how demand is met with socially efficient amount of supply, without anyone having to say a word)
7. finally finished infinite jest. when i first picked it up 1-2 years ago, it was so damn hard to read at first. but it's a book like no other. even if ur just looking at the way the book has been organized. i've read in interviews that dfw had a poster of some pyramid fractal, and thought "i wonder if i can write a book like that". well he basically did. the book jumps from here and there. and because of that you can actually read the book from any page. i prob read 75% of it, but because of the structure never really felt the need to finish it. but after being home with so much time i ended up reading the whole thing. think there's a time in most people's lives when reading this book would be meaningful.
8. ARCHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
gl and keep productive lp!
i'll prob still check this site out once a week but not too sure about posting. most of my posts are pretty worthless and meaningless haha.
and i also want to randomly say/point out, for those of us where poker didn't work out i almost want to say we're the lucky ones. i think were forced to go back to reality and forced to grow and interact with it. i don't want this to come across as an anti-poker comment, but honestly, if you're a successful poker player, there is so much to be proud of. you're doing something successfully that less than 1% of the population can do. but at the same time, there is no doubt in my mind, that with those skills you could have accomplished something even greater. naturally this is pretty subjective and perhaps for some of you, given the countries your living in, poker was the best method possible. but when i see the posters on lp, there is some fucking talent and it's really easy for me to see the majority of you guys living full, kind, productive lives.
