Both roles are quite enjoyable.
Raising kids is just another life adventure.
And one of the most rewarding.
Kids, like Dogs, give us a reason to stick around, and to be better than we otherwise might be.
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That’s fair, but not something I’m interested in.
Actually had a decent BJJ session tonight. Held my own pretty well with the young bucks tonight. Feel like I got run over by a car now though.
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I’m looking at returning to martial arts properly soon, but unfortunately it’s been held back as Im having issues with my implants from the surgery I had back last year. Getting them looked at next week and it may mean modification, extended recovery and thus I wont be back to Judo for a while. When Im healed, I’ll be focusing on the gym and maybe some fencing after a few months, but it’s all going to be ziranmen drills like zuolu and piquan until Im convinced I can take being slammed on the ground again.
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I know this sounds strange but as I’ve gotten older I have less energy to do anything. After I get back from martial arts class I’m totally drained. I could do 15 million things when I was in my 20’s and have plenty of energy at the end of the day. I used to get home from MA class eat dinner, stay up late reading manga or watching anime and get up in the morning with little sleep and repeat the same thing the next day. I still enjoy martial arts even though it leaves me more drained though.
Could be a lot of factors: responsibilities, commitments, overall health and strength, endocrinology etc.
I know when I was on Hormone blockers because my bloods weren’t read correctly I was depleted of all estrogen and testosterone and felt like shit and was weak, on top of social stresses and a job I did 7 days a week. Now that my hormones are correct and I dont work more than 5 days, Im a lot better.
You should try having kids… in your 40s. I had my first son at 39 and he just turned 3 on Wednesday, and 4 months ago I had a daughter.
Then add into that a full time job, a couple of side hustles, and a main side hustle that is running a gym and teaching and training 6 sessions a week.
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I always wanted more kids, Mrs. Rabbit was done at 2. It broke her body.
And honestly I’m ready to move on from the last 20 years of checking who is breathing during the night. My boys now have girlfriends with cars.
But based on that math you have gone from hardcore metalhead to awesome father in less than 4 years. Well done. Balance.
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I think it’s a combination of having more responsibilities and getting older. I’m almost 40. So I don’t think it’s a hormone issue like yours. Glad you’re doing a lot better.
W. Rabbit is fucking hardcore. I wonder what challenge he completed after this.
Quantum AI challenges, and scenario planning involving everything from mass tactical containment to strategic geopolitical crises, network binding undersea cables, etc.
That, and teaching people to put their phones down. Much harder. The Matrix has them.
I was at wing stop awhile ago and I saw these 3 teenage boys sitting at a table waiting for their food. They were all on their phones instead of talking to each other. Why would you hang out with your friends someplace if you didn’t want to talk to them?
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leaving your 30’s does tend to come with the process of leaving your prime, depending how your keep on top of exercise and health now, you’ll maintain it longer.
There is a whole range of psychological conditions going on with smartphones, from panic attacks when you can’t find it (when it’s in your back pocket), to whole families not speaking at dinner, to further OCD-type behaviors. Adults are better at putting our phones away because we (gen X/Y) can still remember a time without them, and that silence is something we still crave now and then.
The younger people are fucked. They will never be able to disconnect without intervention.
Ever seen someone read their phone, put it down, and pick it right back up, as if they missed something important in that last 2 seconds? Over and over? Rat brain behavior, but a lot of people do it. I’m guilty of that. I created a game where I lose my phone on purpose and see how long I can go before I need it or someone else like Mrs. Rabbit gets pissed I didn’t return a text. Averages about 4 hours.
Imagine a few years from now when the interface is even more intimate, and you can’t escape it.
Cyberneuroprosthetics is probably scarier than AI. There’s a whole ethical debate there. If you saw the guy the other day with the brain implant that let’s him play Pong with his mind, the opposite case is frightening: what happens when Pong can play you?
This is actually at the root of almost all the digital cults, what they provide is a form of game stimulation,.something humans eat up.
Yep it’s a fact, the more muscle mass you start with the more you have later on.
As a middle aged guy I have a lot, about 120lbs of skeletal muscle mass, because I’m a physical laborer type. Anything with resistance, and I’m on it. But over the last 2 years I’ve lost about 10 even though I train hard. So it’s an attrition war.
That said, I raised my youngest son on Kicking It, The Last Dragon, Star Wars, and TRON, and then we watched Commando and Pumping Iron back to back.
Now he’s a 180 lb beefcake with a bench PR of 200, with 7% BFP who physically attacks me all the time, Tackleberry family style, for fun. Kid has TKD, BJJ, and of course Lethwei and Hung Family Fist, from his dad.
It’ll keep me young, at least physically. Mentally I’m already at 10,000 years.
I do less at training.
Simple as that. I have seen the hard chargers come and be amazing and then get broken or quit.
So I train so i can train as an old person. Not as an elite athlete.
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My question is what are people doing on their phones that is so important. When I was at community college there was this 19 year old mexican girl who was always on her phone while the professor was lecturing. This isn’t high school you’re actually paying real money to attend classes. I looked at her phone one day and she was looking at instagram. Instagram? Are you fucking kidding me?
I was at the grocery store tonight and I met this guy from one of my old schools. He told me he sees me doing road work around the neighborhood. Anyway he’s close to 60 and he told me he’s doing boxing now at a boxing gym nearby. Boxing’s a hard sport he actually made me feel less when it comes to my age and training.
You can still train pretty hard in your 30’s, I could keep up with the amateurs, and out train many of the guys in their 20’s. I find training smart goes a long way (how you supplement your training with exercises to improve sport specific movement, train cardio, etc.) and understanding things like breath control and body alignment goes a long way. I would feel it when i get home, which is where recovery comes in, stretching, nutrition, sleep, supplements.
I’m still looking for a new boxing club, mine closed down after my coach emigrated (i was 41 when they closed 42 now). I’ve been doing a pretty intense daily yoga practice/program. Yoga is a lot harder than i gave it credit for, surprised with how many different ways you can approach it (static poses, dynamic flows, multiple levels of difficulty and intensity). Going to keep it as part of my routine moving forward.
I find training and how your body moves quite interesting, so i enjoy a wide variety of activities. I enjoy training in a wide range of motion and skills with various levels of intensity with a goal of maintaining a high level of strength and agility into my later life. I just never got the hang of running, been one of those things that have never come to me naturally, i don’t enjoy it. I’d rather use cycling or swimming to train steady state cardio. If i do run no more than 5km, usually like 1 or 2 and it’s really just for the range of motion and stabilizers, or as a warmup.