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3 Sep, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Im legitimately trying to help you all not be fat and poor
Seriously people, do some goddamn reading and educate yourselves, jeesus

AJACS Crypto Guide for Bros
alexanderjacortes.gumroad.com/l/CryptoBros
Yes, I dont know anything about anything, I onlyz lifts weightz and eat proteens dur dur

-I swear to god some of you are fucking brotarded,

I have Been buying crypto since 2018, believe me when I say Ive studied it more than any of you realize
Genuinely, I spent months writing this because crypto twitter is still weirdly unfriendly to noobs and nobody explains anything without making you feel stupid

It reminds me of gym culture stereotypes, except people genuinely are unhelpful and the recommend material is...
is stupidly dense and if you dont have a technical or economic background none of it makes sense, its too contextual

After all the time I spent having to teach myself on my own, I put this together this year

Probably one of the better things Ive written, if Im being real

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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss Profile picture
10 Sep
One of moral failures of western society this past century has been the loss of understanding of Evil.

Not only does society no longer believe in Evil, it by extension no longer believes in Good...
One of the most foundational contributions of theology, both in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (the people of the Book) is the philosophical and epistemological study of evil

Evil is REAL, and it begins in the soul and carries outward into external action...
There are degrees of evil, there are dimensions to it.

It is more than a label

Western world no longer understands this.

“Evil” is anything that violates the current woke rhetoric. Morality has been politicized in the same way.
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8 Sep
POSTURE TRAINING 101:

Posture is the overall alignment of your skeleton, with the spine playing the central role

You can readily change your spinal alignment by training. Its not complicated at all

If you do the RIGHT execises, you posture improves

1. Facepulls...
I mentioned this exercise almost every week

It works the rhomboids, upper and middle traps, rear deltoids

It reverses the shitty spinal position that 80% of people have

It builds obvious muscle

You all need to be doing this

And there are so many ways to do it

Cable example
2. Horizontal rows

I tell people to "row" constantly. I am not referring to a Concept2 rower

I am talking about the exercises

It builds back muscle. A LOT OF IT

Another exercise you all NEED to be doing

Can be done with bodyweight, inverted row
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7 Sep
BICEP AND SHOULDER HEALTH

5 Key Things You need to know

1. Your biceps muscles all attach inside of the shoulder joint

When you train your biceps, the scapula must stabilize.

If your biceps are tight, shoulder function is affected from the shoulder being pulled forward...
2. Your Biceps help to raise your arm forward

Anytime you do a front delt raise, you are also working your biceps a little bit

If your upper back is weak (extremely common), doing this exercise contributes to that Front-of-Shoulder-Tightness
3. Preacher curls make this worse

This exercise as its conventionally done is quite lousy

The line of force is straight down and not in line the biceps,

And it puts the biceps tendon under massive stress

Additionally, it forces the shoulders into a protracted position
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28 Aug
A few ogres have altered the concept of human strength and development to be something useless and unrecognizable to nature. How can we look at these contrived "feats of strength" and think they have anything to do with real-world strength development?
How accurate can our perception of strength be when who we deem the "strongest" in the world are intimidated by a flight of stairs? There is a relevant unrealism in prescribing powerlifting to the general population, and with it comes risk
How many will load an arbitrary amount of weight onto an unconditioned body and an immature mind and squat or deadlift their structure into oblivion?
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28 Aug
Always interesting the difference between functional alcoholics versus people who can simply drink a lot

Same behavior, but vastly different motivations and consequences from it
Person A uses alcohol as a coping mechanism

Person B simply enjoys being buzzed

Person A needs it to relax and handle stress,

Person B it makes zero difference
Person A drinks, and it leads to a tailspin of bad behaviors, mental malaise, loss of discipline

Person B drinks, they wake up the next day, go right back to their routine (maybe have an extra coffee to overcome the sluggishness)
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25 Aug
The original EZ curl bar was invented by Lewis Dymeck in 1950

Even then, it was recognized that curling with the straight bar was stressful on the biceps tendon and wrists for many lifters

Dymeck filed the patent, and the Jackson Barbell company started making the bars
Ive recommended the EZ curl bar over the straight bar for some years

You want maximal muscle stress, minimal joint stress of any kind

If you want to curl heavy, use the EZ bar
Dymeck thought the same, the following is from the patent he filed in 1950 describing his invention:
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