Why is Yukio Mishima the only well-respected author who seems to have written about strength training?
Is there nothing from Ancient Athens about it?
idk
Who /fitlit/ here?
>>7703502
I'm not actually browsing fit but I do lift 3-4 times a week.
>>7703488
I'm pretty sure there's a plato or another ancient writer who describes fitness and going to the gym during that time.
I'm also interested in reading it, so if someone knows the name, pls
Mishima is meme writer, his prose is mediocre at best, he is only popular cause his meme death and meme activities
>>7703505
Well done senpai
/fit/ is a meme place
>>7703544
Same exact thing family. My squat 5 rep max is 95kg and my deadlift is 97.5kg
Pic related
>>7703547
Main problem is I know my Squat (did 95kg P easy today) can easily progress further, I'm hoping I'm just messing up my form somehow and I can start progressing again.
>>7703566
It's like we're identical. Did you also reach 2plate DL pretty early and then just plateau on it forever?
>>7703567
Nah lad.
I'm on my second week of SS now after about a year of no lifting, and my deadlift has been the most trouble (even my OHP is progressing faster)
Annoying thing is though, I did ICF a year ago and my Deadlift progressed the fastest (I was on about 120kg 1x5) whereas my Squat plateued at 92.5kg. Seems my Deadlift gains have swapped for Squat gains.
Is Sam Hyde the western reincarnation of Mishima?
>>7703583
Fuck no.
He's ugly, obese, retarded, and smells like shit.
>>7703583
only in the sens they're both huge faggots
>>7703583
who are these people supposed to be?
i can smell the foot fungus from here
>>7703595
Karl Popper and Levi-stauss
because strength training is boring and for plebs.
>>7703502
At the gym right now mane. I deadlift 140kg.
Also, I heard Tolstoy was into fitness, he even wanted to write a book about it.
>>7703488
>>7703621
Nice traps lad
>>7703488
How did they train back then to become like this anyways? D-Did barbells and stuff exist?
>>7703621
............Why you rack the dumbbells like that, mang?
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, from his works on greek sculpture, created the neoclassical awe for ancient greek physical aesthetics I believe. In fact even mishima quoted Winckelmann, saying he has an innate ability to perceive the “beauty” in a bodily figure because he was a homosexual just like him.
>>7703583
I don't think he reads desu. Unfortunate be needs to step his intelligence a little. He had too much resentment morality in him.
>>7703583
he's the reincarnation of Diogenes
>>7703691
he reads and Charls used to do audiobooks
>>7703691
He quoted Evola in his Rutger's "lecture" but I think he has other's help him write his stuff. I agree he's doesn't read enough to channel his talent effectively
>>7703695
Charls is dreamy, I want him to beat the shit out of me and scream homophobic expletives :3
>>7703488
Kathy Acker wrote about bodybuilding.
>>7703488
Wasnt Leo Tolstoy into body building too?
>>7703735
the OP specified "well respected author" :)
>>7703544
I deadlifted 2pl8 the first time I deadlifted
You need to eat more
>>7703896
I'm only a week in lad. I started at 95kg x5, I think the problem is my form though, think I need to use my ass more. Back last year I started at about 115 for my deadlift x5, but I've lost the technique and strength a wee bit.
>>7703502
/fitlit/ masterrace
OHP: 180x3
Bench: 290
DL: 400x4
Book goal this year, 52 +20-30
>>7703956
lbs?
Real men use kg
>tfw I'm still lifting less.
>no squat.
are you really /fitlit/?
>>7703994
>lbs
Im a dirty american who never competed.
>no squat.
im also 33 with a 15 year old wrestling injury, and the "squats help bad knees" meme does not apply in my case. When I squat light, like 290-315, my right knee sounds like a wet pussy getting fucked. I have two 3 inch screws and I can feel them, which scares me. Lifting for fun in my basement anyways, so I have nothing to prove.
>>7703502
Oh yeah. 6' 215lbs. Don't browse /fit/ anymore because there's only so much you can say about fitness unless you have specific questions to ask.
Now I read all day and work out in the evenings, pumping myself up between sets with my favorite passages from primary source ancient histories.
>2016
>not cultivating mind and body
>>7703515
Socrates
Someone please post the Mishima/Ayn Rand body swamp pics here.
>>7703529
Did you read him in Japanese or are you memeing?
>>7704877
He's memeing.
>>7704877
are you not allowed to criticize translated prose or are you meming?
writers tend to write about their own life experiences and not many of them are weight lifters which only started to appear in the last 90 years
Probably because generally people who engage one side of their brain aren't very good at engaging the other side equally as well
>>7706490
0/10
>>7706490
I mean it hardly requires 'engaging your brain' to do a minimal amount of strength training.
>>7703502
>Former national rep in athletics
>Currently reading some Thomas Paine and Oscar Wilde
>tfwnogf
>>7706555
>tfw well-read
>tfw jacked
>tfw always see scrawny smart guys or muscular dumb guys with girls
>tfw what you thought would be the perfect combo for getting chicks just leaves you alienated while everyone else thinks you have no trouble getting laid
>tfw this makes any of your protests appear like moves to trick girls, further ruining your chances
And here I was thinking books and weights would cure my autism.
>>7706578
pics faggot
Elijah are you in this thread? I love you no homo.
>>7706578
Yeah alright buddy just go ahead and perfectly describe my life.
Why does everyone treat eating right and working out like its the magical pill to solve all your problems?
I've only been at it a year but I'm the same as I was before.
I read a lot of philosophy that I thought would help me cope and cure my autism, but once again, I'm still the same.
Will I be like this for life?
I don't want to die alone.
>>7706588
No thx bb
6' 215 lbs
>>7706617
Hope it gets better, friend. I've all but given up.
>mfw I can't even get laid by drunk chicks because they accuse me of already having other girls on tap
>>7706626
Probably because we expect that improving ourselves will give us better odds at whatever game we're playing, e.g., getting girls, but you don't just get to cruise once you can bench a certain weight. Diet/lifting and philosophy won't solve your social problems, sorry to say. As much as I hate to say it the only way to help your autism is to approach it directly. Instead of working out to look better and (hopefully) make it easier to approach girls, you just have to approach girls. I bet that's why the scrawny or dumb guys have cute girlfriends; they may be scrawny and/or dumb, but they know how to talk to girls.
>>7706662
>they accuse me of already having other girls on tap
you're bad at closing - this is actually a good sign. don't be put off when girls say that shit, dismiss it and move on.
you can't be put off by that, girls always do that shit. You have to learn how to dismiss what they say, and move on, because it deserves to be dismissed, females can't even be trusted to steer a conversation, idk why we let them drive
>>7706679
Honestly that's what I thought and have been trying to do in practice. Everything from giving them ridiculous answers, the truth that I'm not hooking up with anyone, or totally evading the question. I never just give up, but always end the night with the girl walking away because she doesn't want to be "just another notch on your belt" or whatever.
Hell, one girl said it was going too fast at a party and I suggested that I get her number and that we go out another day, and the night still ended with her walking away because I "obviously want to use her for sex." And this was after she had buddied up to me at the party, talked for an hour, and started asking about my favorite sex positions.
But yeah you're absolutely right that I'm shit at closing. I can consistently, within minutes each time, reach a stage of a girl being flirty and trying to find out "how many other girls I'm seeing" or whatever, but everything falls flat after that. And I have no idea what to do.
pls help
>>7706626
i don't think it makes you better by itself
sadhu's practice yoga because they believe you need a healthy body in order to achieve a healthy mind and soul
it doesn't MAKE you better, it ALLOWS you to be better than you could be
>>7703488
Is Sun and Steel any good /lit/?
>>7706925
Maybe you're creepy and come across as a womaniser and you should stop that. Maybe they can smell that behind physique and knowledge there's a great tide of spooge filled spaghetti lurking
>>7706998
>girls talk to me for hours and walk away at the last minute because I can't close
I don't think creepy is it. But the lurking spaghetti almost certainly plays a part, and it very well may be that I've overcorrected and seem like a womanizer.
How ironic.
>>7706925
you're not dismissing it.
you're letting it stay an issue
when they say "you just want me for sex" say something really quick like "that's not all I want you for," or "I was just thinking the same" or, "fuck you," and then really quickly again take the conversation somewhere else/continue wherever it was going before the attention whore flattered herself by way of highlighting how much you want her.
that's another thing, you might just be making them feel too desired. don't let them get big heads, they ain't shit. If they overstep, check them.
>>7707067
Damn you're right, I never thought about it like that.
Thanks for the tips. I'll do my best next time.
