What are some /fit/ wrirters and essential books in your opinion?
>>36910012
Jerry Brainum is top notch. One of the few fitness/nutrition writers worth reading.
Writers that were physically fit? Mishima and Plato
Writers that write about fitness? Rippetoe and Kilgore
Books that people who browse /fit/ may enjoy specifically? The Greek Epic Poems, The Norse Sagas
Jack Donovan. If you're into the whole redpill manosphere thing, he's literally the only writer worth reading.
Swole as fuck too.
>>36910051
>he's literally the only writer worth reading
>>36910050
meant to put "Types of books"*
>>36910051
>Jack Donovan. If you're into the whole fucking other men in the asshole manosphere thing.
>>36910012
General books?
Biomechanics of Skeletal Muscles by Zatsiorsky and Prilutsky
Practical Programming for Strength Training by Rippetoe and Baker
Science and Practice of Strength Training by Zatsiorsky and Kraemer
Starting Strength by Rippetoe
Supertraining by Verkhoshansky and Siff
Mean Ol' Mr Gravity by Rippetoe
Defying Gravity by Bill Starr
Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches by Everett
FIT by Lascek, Kilgore and Hartman
Weightlifting Programming by Takano
Wish we had english translation of Sheiko's books, he's written tons of stuff.
Then there's of course the specialised books, stuff like Lascek's Texas Method books or 5/3/1 books, among many others.
>>36910012
This
>>36910093
Joking r-right?
>>36910050
Fuck i just bought the whole tetralogy even through i just read Confessions of a mask and The Temple of the golden Pavilion, did i fuck up?
Dalinar is based as fuck
>>36910301
It's just a guide lol
You're not going to get cancer because you haven't read The Sound of the Waves.
That being said, I'd personally at least read The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea fist.
>>36910310
is Kaladin natty?
Gaunt's Ghosts
>>36910325
Why exactly? Do you believe i would be able to delve deeper in the tetralogy after reading The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea?
>>36910479
Yes. But you could delve deeper if you read a biography of Mishima, and spent a few months reading essays and writing analysis of his works.
You can always read a book more than once.
Don't worry about reading it if you just want to hop straight to the tetralogy.
>>36910115
>reading books that tell you to go T Rex mode
>>36910534
Good meme, nice job!
>>36910502
Thanks, i feel some small regret by purchasing those first, if i knew about this at the time i would have began by it, but well, i can re read it later.
>>36910093
best book on the god damn market, right babe?
Reading Ragnar Redbeard is guaranteed to raise your T by at least 50%.
>>36910310
book 3 when?
All these neckbeard fedora books. I thought /fit/ books would be about routines, lifting forms, and diet.
>>36911788
>neckbeard fedora books
Spot the insecure bitch
>>36911788
No one here lifts anon, you should know this
>>36911818
Spotted the autist that gets life advice from a Chilean Zumba forum.
>>36911788
That sounds boring and autistic as fuck. How much can be said about lifting and diet without going full autist?
>>36911854
Where did you spot him?
The only advice I get here is about Squat form.
>>36911970
Asking this board for life advice and book recommendations will just lead to a narrow minded world view. Ignorant 16-30 year old males with insecurities about their bodies, relationships, and future will know very little about life.
>>36910012
Kurt Vonnegut has pretty good material. Slaughterhouse 5 and sirens of titan are good reads
Worldview definitely affects your gains, just like posture. Being a beta leftist cuck will make you look like an effeminate hipster faggot. Far right politics will increase your testosterone.
>>36912580
>Far right
Mishima was a fag , draft dodger , I can see how right wingers find him appealing
>>36912580
>lefitst
>far right
Instead of adhering to party politics, why don't you think for yourself?
For example, I can be considered a liberal because I am pro abortion and pro gun control, but I'm also pro-immigration control and anti-Islam.
>>36912580
Latsbrah, please go.
Time for a trip to the archives
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>>36910116
Is this some rare alternate cover/title to Starting Strength?
>>36913111
>>36913120
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>>36913111
Jej
>>36913147
I recommend every man read A Separate Peace and The Old Man and the Sea. The Great Gatsby is also fairly easy reading and reasonably helpful to a man's life (i.e. a sensible telling of how a life of excess may not still get you everything you want, and it's difficult to struggle against your past, etc.).
For men who find they like to read I'd also recommend Moby Dick and even Don Quixonte, though I wouldn't force myself to muddle my way through either of them if I wasn't really a voracious reader.
Aside from those recommendations, I think you're all better off trying to remember some books you liked as students and check out linked recommendations on GoodReads, because while classics are classics for a reason, it's not worth pushing through them when there's a world of fun, interesting and leisurely reading out there for you.
>>36913163
End of archive
Read some satre and go from there nigga
>>36910587
Trappy you are a fucking meme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUGvhySRnlc
Frank Yang books recommendations are actually really good.
>>36912580
The left/right divide is irrelevant to gains. Especially considering self-determination is a libertarian value and libertarianism falls between the traditional left right divide
>>36910733
kek
Fedora tier fascism
>>36910012
Marcus Aurelius- Meditations and any of the Roman stoics like Epictetus
Plato- The Republic
Sun Tzu- The Art of War
Thucydides- On justice power and human nature
I recommend all the Robert E Howard original Conan the Barbarian stories. They're formulaic and the characters are one-dimensional, but they're entertaining as fuck, and Conan is basically /fit/'s definition of Alpha
Ernest Hemingway
John Updike
Robert Heinlein
Denis Johnson
>>36914768
what's not fedora tier fascism
>>36914788
Nice, anon, very nice.
>>36913111
Hilarious. Congrats on the trips, also.
>>36913167
Don Quixote is easy and fun as fuck to read. Long sure, but it's a comedy.
>>36910051
>Jack Donovan
Just started The Way of Men. So far its been really good. Hopefully I'll have more time for it after Finals.
the anatomy books (A.of exercise, muscle building, core stability) are bretty gud for visual learners
>>36910115
Just kill yourself you retarded faggot
>>36913120
>Berenstain
I thought it was Berenstein
>>36910051
>>36919055
>taking advice on how to act manly from a literal faggot
wew
>>36910044
>that pic
>>36910115
"Squat Every Day" any good?
>>36910051
>>36919055
Pic related is you.
>>36910051
>>36910064
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>>36919763
just a book that's trying to CASH IN on the red pill and manosphere concepts.
the problem is it doesn't do it very well. your getting a fucking book that talks about subjects in a bro/manosphere writing that is going to end up having a bunch of faggots thinking their alpha.
there already has been better books that talk about males relating to modern society.
>>36912730
You sound stupid as fuck. Why do you think labels exist in the first place? You're not right wing because you like the word right wing, you're right wing because you think for yourself and hold right wing beliefs.
>>36916976
It's literally the first novel in western literary tradition. Its style, pacing, narrative and diction are archaic, haphazard and complicated.
Pretending that it was an easy read makes you sound dumb, not smart.
>>36910093
Kek
>>36910044
I always thought that this guy had some sort of headphones+microphone set, now I stand corrected
>>36918037
Nice manicure, faggot.
>>36910733
I've read most on that list and can barely even remember any. Just stick to Evola. The rest are just his concepts dumbed down.
>>36910012
Sun Tzu's the art of war.
>>36910642
Not the other anon, but the first two tomes of the tetralogy are the best works of Mishima. You don't need to read anything before delving into it, but you might need more time for the third (you'll understand why). Do not hesitate anymore, it isn't a difficult read.
The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea is a short tale, very easy to read and appreciate; it is certainly a good start if you're afraid of thick books.
>>36910044
I don't understand this pic.
There's a guy just standing there.
What's funny about it
>>36919470
heeeeere weeee goooo.
lifes a sim
blah blah blah
>cantwakeup.jpg
This
>>36910310
Shallan is cute. CUUUTE
RIP this thread, but the Caiaphas Cain books are pretty good
>>36910587
Fuck of fag.
>>36914788
Seconding the Stoic reading. Meditations (Gregory Hays translation) is a must-read.
Also Seneca's writings.
Read Norse mythology
>>36920582
My nigga
My Seneca just arrived today, looking forward to it
>>36920241
That's actually fucking bullshit.
The world was and will continue to be a shitty place at it is, if there is no change to the mindset you just represented.
Generalizing is the worst and dumbest thing people can do - but they still do it - and they will still do it because it's the easiest way to get past conflicts without thinking it through and getting invested into the great scheme of things.
Political partys and this whole left/right bullshit is outdated as fuck and needs to be eradicated out of the mind of people, so they start in building their own philosophie to life - without generalizing and stereotypical thinking.
The new ÜBERMENSCH is gonna be build on the best and most rational concepts - of both wings - that guides the way to the future - without losing roots to morals and humanity itself.
>>36912580
That führerscience lmao
Hagakure
>muh Marcus Aurelius
>muh Sun Tzu
>muh WN lit
>muh manosphere spamlit
why are you faggots so fucking predictable?
>>36920984
The only true /fit/ answer
Seriously though, if you want something uncompromising try QFT by Weinberg or the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
>>36919956
you can't even spell properly, stfu
This whole thread is pure fucking neckbeardry.
"Look at me, I'm so smart and enlightened for reading this stuff!"
>>36927188
Or, crazy thought, people read books and give recommendations.
Go back to playing vidya and eat yourself to death you fat faggot.
>>36927234
I'm not even fat you disabled cucking coon
You're all fucking neckbeards, reading obscure works just because they're obscure, no actual reason
>>36910888
Trips confirm. Might is Right is based as fuck
>>36910310
Mistborn is bretty good too
>tfw qt assassin gf
>muh Marcus Aurelius
Fuck off.
All the other shit you mention is pretty intellectual shit-tier but Meditations is regarded as one of the best books on living a good life in history.
It's literally just excellent life advice and a LOT of extremely successful people credit it for helping them navigate life.
>>36920641
I thought the same until now
If you want to learn a lot about self improvement, read more Nietzsche
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>>36928009
Yeah, because you can really learn wisdom and success, reading proverbs and lessons makes you smart and educated, not life experience and self awareness :)
>>36910310
This. Kaladin being the first protagonist I've seen with depression makes it even better.
>>36930969
>Reading great sources of wisdom doesn't make you more intelligent and educated
>Reading philosophy of moral action isn't self awareness
>One must choose action OR theory
Wew lad
>>36910044
bitch needs to pluck her eyebrows
>>36930969
You must be really street smart, nignog :)
>>36933652
Probably whiter than you
>>36931784
>reading neckbeard books just to seem "smart" not because you actually learn anything
Once again, reading clever proverbs doesn't make you smart if you don't actually understand them, just like reading a foreign language doesn't make you understand it
>>36933714
Nietzsche wasnt known for writing proverbs you damn pleb. He was quite specific about how to become a Übermensch through self improvement.
>>36933991
Yeah and the only people that took it seriously got wiped out in 1945
A bunch of fucking basement dwelling autistic /fit/ posters aren't going to be "Ubermensch" you fucking retard, stop deluding yourself
>>36934072
You really are street educated, i see :)
>>36934146
Someone who isn't a deluded retard and thinks he's somehow a superior being is uneducated for not believing in your fantasy
Triggered?
>>36933991
>ubermensch through self-improvement
spot the pleb
>>36933991
>become a Übermensch
>become
>>36931283
This Kaladin looks like a fruit
>>36927293
Could you mention some books that you would recommend? I'm honestly curious.
>>36934223
Pick up a book (except tom clancy)
Pro tip: read it as well
>>36934454
what's wrong with tom Clancy....
>>36910352
He's on dat dere stormlight
>>36910733
Generation Identity is utter shit
The Way of Men is meh. Some interesting ideas but needs to be backed by quotes/research. Goes full retard at the end.
>>36910310
Yep, Dalinar's a God-fearing beast
>>36912464
This amazing version of Harrison Bergeron: https://youtu.be/Tvqsv1pPSbg
>>36933991
Retard confirmed to have never read Nietzsche
>>36920684
>only staying with Evola and not going further down the rabbit hole
Benoist, Spengler, Yockey, Bowden, Faye, and Codreanu are only a few to mention.
>not researching the references to other books made within the books you read
git gud
>/fit/ the book
>mfw no Max Stirner itt
>>36910116
OH GOD MY SIDES
