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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss

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22 Mar

The Man That Changed My Life (And A Reflection on Luck)

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READ and RETWEET

"I think you can fucking write, so prove it…"
~Bob~

Luck was REAL (and is real), and good and bad circumstances could occur to someone that they had NO CONTROL over, could never account for, and any attempt at explanation would be post hoc fallacious reasoning.

How many times in your life have you gotten lucky?

Seven Years Ago, I met a man, his name was Bob Ihlenfeldt

At the time I had been writing for one year, and I wrote a lot on facebook. That may sound ridiculous but at the time facebook had a better reputation and writing long form FB posts could actually get you a following

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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss

@AJA_Cortes

14 Mar

Skinny fat men have little muscle AND too much fat

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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss

@AJA_Cortes

13 Mar

I'll post one tip about writing for every like this tweet gets

(will cap at 100)

1. Write every day is generic advice and only directionally true

The struggle for many is WHAT to write about, as much it is the resistance to writing

2. Prolific writers are born, but great writers are made

Some people possess the instinct to write A LOT, they dont need to be made or trained to do this

-In contrast, writing as a SKILL is highly trainable

Quantity and quality are not the same

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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss

@AJA_Cortes

13 Mar

NFTs are not a "bubble"

Digital ownership is a maturing concept, and the question of who "owns" what; be it a phrase, image, meme, concept, its circulated for years already

Collectible items/art have existed as a market for decades

WHAT is considered collectible can change with time,

But at no time does the market ever not exist.

Its one of the psychological idiosyncrasies of human beings that we like to own things because of perceived worth

That because something is easily replicable means it is not valuable is not an argument

Many many many collectible items could EASILY be reproduced today,

But their value comes from their respective time stamp.

It is not what they are, but WHEN they were, that makes prized

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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss

@AJA_Cortes

12 Mar

People don’t understand how muscle and strength development work

3×5 and 5×5 train the nervous system and motor coordination far more than they do the muscles

Training with low reps is simply NOT exhausting on the muscle fibers, what gets drained is the nervous system.

The volume is also LOW, and combined with the fact that these programs typically only do ONE lift per movement pattern (squat, bench, deadlift), the neurological adaptations eventually halt because the person does simply not have enough Muscle mass to get any stronger

And so long as they keep training with nothing but 5 reps, they never will build any more muscle.

It’s never going to be sufficient stimulus to get you to grow past a certain point. Most adherents to these programs have very unimpressive physiques, and mediocre strength...

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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss

@AJA_Cortes

9 Mar

WHY THE INCLINE BENCH PRESS?

Incline benching has greater athletic strength transfer & develops a more aesthetic upper body

Unless you compete in powerlifting, theres no compelling reason to flat bench press

Incline is more joint friendly, less likely to lead to pecs tears

The man that popularized the flat bench press, Bill Starr, he thought the INCLINE BENCH was the superior exercise

he said on record many times in interviews that he considered the incline to be the superior the lift

But most HS gyms in the 1970s didnt have good incline benches

So Starr made a compromise. He made flat bench the main pressing exercise in the beginner program that would go on to become so famous.

While other programs would include the OH press & incline bench, the Bench press became cemented as THE premiere upper body lift

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