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  1. [Autumn] I needed more than just forcing and in my moments of clarity I knew that. SheShe and Joy's answer was lock-merge, but Bear never thought that was a 100% solution as the process doesn't change base personality. Just like if you played an RPG, you wouldn't necessarily pick up traits of that character in real life. So as we discussed he spent concentrated time with me but I was already 5 years old and set in my ways. So thus he determined that a more unorthodox approach was needed. Bear has a lot if passion for us, even 6 years into it, and I am reaping the benefits of that. My other headmates don't have nearly that level passion for each other. Bear is our hub in that way, to a lesser extent SheShe cares for us like a den mom but not like Bear does.
  2. She's evil, she needs to really try or we're all doomed. So lazy, smh.
  3. It just didn't click, I don't think it was anyone's fault. I would say it had structural issues, too many allowances, it was a bad start. Etc. It was just me because having two would have been awkward. We'll try again later.
  4. Our DnD session was an utter disaster. It could have gone better. Probably not doing it again for a while.
  5. Bear is very dissapointed in you, but you know that.
  6. That's the point, you can barely do 8. You don't just arbitrarily stop at 8, the idea is you use heavy enough weight that you can't do more than 8. Then you're over exerting your tendons more often. You can build them up to do this, people do, but not someone who's not serious about weightlifting. That's more for endurance. Also Google is probably also "fast twitch muscle bad!" Those are the beefy ones you see. You can physically be just as strong without them but you won't look it.
  7. You need core training This is fun for Bear It's very common for Bear to psych himself out and what feels like a lot of weight isn't. Also you need enough exercises with enough overlap to keep working those same groups throughout the session long enough to rip them up. Otherwise you're just incapable of lifting enough to cause the natrual repairable damage that soreness represents, so keep at it, reinvent the work out every few weeks to discard the exercises that don't work and add new ones targeting the same groups from a different angle or with different secondaries. Bear's diet now is also very healthy because there's no room for empty calories. It's ok, especially since you refuse to go bigger, you're likely building swimmer's muscles which are no less strong but don't look impressive. Bear doesn't always experience soreness, usually when he mixes it up then he does so you gotta just keep mixing it up. No, especially not for you. Go longer, if there's no time to do more then just continue and something is always better than nothing. Lower reps, less than 8, is a sure fire way to get tendinitis. That's notoriously hard to shake and usually requires special exercises for a good month to heal correctly.
  8. Bear never targeted medial deltoids, ever. So his front and rears are great but the medial were next to non-existent and it was obviously made clear when he started doing posterior rotation lateral rise which is supposed to target medial delts. It did and the weight he could lift was pitifully low. He's since trippled that weight and noticed a few things he did got easier that had medial deltoids as the secondary group. Shoulder day wouldn't be enough on its own, there's only delts and secondary muscles around them. Chest is covered on push day. So roughly an hour of very overlapping shoulder exercises and an hour or so leg with a good cardio to wash it down.
  9. Completely unnecessary if you have a good diet including meat. You don't want "extra creatine" you want a metabolically natural level and this was verified by a blood test. The creatine level integrates over time and takes weeks to deplete. If you were going to take it though, Bear says, might as well take monohydrate and at least get a slightly better look because of the water weight, specifically in the muscles. It's supposed to help endurance but if you're nowhere near your endurance limit you're wasting your money and potentially damaging your liver and kidneys. It never made any difference to Bear when he tried it. There was another popular one, Chromium Picolonate which is supposed to boost performance but allit did was raise Bear's blood pressure. You didn't push hard or long enough then. You also probably have a good diet, and naturally good reserves. Bear reached this limit a couple times and it wasn't fun. Keep in mind what he was doing was Herculean manual labor for 15 hours straight. He still had to finish what he was doing but it took forever because he could only work 10 minutes and needed to rest 20. It had a scientific name but we forgot. It never happened at the gym but he has felt the early feelings that start to turn into cramps.
  10. A couple things: 1. You don't do 100 anything and expect gains, that's endurance or weight loss. 2. If you're doing it right, you're wrecked and sore so you couldn't go every day. An hour is respectable if you did that 3 days a week you could progress depending on what you did. Of course he didn't use supersets, unless you consider it supersetting with a day in between because, push day, pull day leg day usually take 2-3 hours each. Then if you're doing it right you're sore for a few days. If you do all at once in a session you can't go back the next day sore? So either you're not going hard enough or you'll injure yourself. The tendons and muscles need to heal. The three day workout a week is good because you can push hard and be sore the next day for pull because it's entirely different muscle groups but frankly it doesn't matter what you do what day as long as that particular exercise muscle group isn't sore already. Leg day should be hard enough that you can barely walk the next day. Like forget walking up a flight if stairs without struggling. Are you sore for days? If not then you're probably not gaining quickly. Bear also does pyramid 10 10 6-8 so the weight increases each set, the goal is you can't get that last set. That's proven to maximize gains. What Bear really wants to do is Pyramid up and down to exhaustion but that's really time consuming. So you ramp up three sets, then ramp back down alternating 10 and 6-8 until you're completely out of energy. The other issue is if you're on a really restricted diet you will run out of muscle juice (right @Ido?) And start cramping. You might not make it back to the car. So the current routine will be push/pull on day one and shoulders/legs on day 2. If you go hard enough that will have decent gains. The 1/week per muscle group has been working just fine. It could be faster gains if you doubled that or as soon as the soreness goes away you jump back to that muscle group. Frankly it's hard to push hard enough to be sore for 6 days, but it was how it went back in July.
  11. It doesn't take a ton. In the beginning he did 3 hours a day 3 days on 2 days (3/5) off so roughly 4 days a week. That was his peek about... 2012 ish? Then 3 days a week (3/7) for years but only maybe 1-2 hours a session and that was like maintenance. 2020-2023 he only worked out with stuff he had at home and that's skipping a lot so he was definitely looking doughy. In July he went back to 3 days a week 2 hours a session and has gotten a lot more cut. This isn't going to get you to that picture from scratch any time soon, but muscle memory brought Bear back. Soon he will start going (2/7) but closer to 3 hours a session (including cardio). It is working for strength training, the biceps went from 16 to 16.5 even though he lost 15 lbs. So he was likely pushing 25% bodyfat and that's approaching teddy bear body. Now he's about 18% you can see the muscle definition without flexing. That's perfect because to get less takes a lot more work and risks losing muscle mass which we clearly didn't. So in six months, in terms of capacity, some things became a lot easier, some things like shoulders trippled the weight, legs doubled the weight they could press, Pull ups are way easier, lateral lifting is way easier, ect. The reason he started this in July was for shoulder, back and quad tendon pain. Exercise and especially weight training/core training fixes that for him.
  12. Youtube is so confused. Now 90% of our feed is music. We haven't listened to music on YouTube for years. Not since we tried and it kept throwing 2+minute ads or longer like literally 20 minute infomercials that would force us to stop what we're doing and skip. It's done. Everything we listen to hands free is pre-download. At least most of the Mr. Beast content is gone.
  13. We're not too into warnings, we don't think they're necessary as a mature tulpa can't be harmed by ignoring them and one that isn't to the point of self-awareness or self-forcing isn't much beyond an autonomous character and therefore doesn't necessitate moral obligation. So in other words, it's never morally wrong to stop forcing at any time for any reason. The only warning that makes sense to us is, if you do this, treat us well because good luck getting rid of us in any case. Per day right? Not total lol This sounds like it should be in a different section, it's good for creation and not specific to switching/posession unless you're talking about triggered switching. You could also add: give them a purpose, something useful to the host's life (body, life, whatever) that only they do. Something that's important to maintain every day, something good, not a boring chore, you don't want them associated to boring etc. Lastly, needs a conclusion of some kind. Some sort of pep talk, excitement, atta boy kind of thing or summary. Otherwise good, reasonable, well written, tulpamancy 101 kind of thing, not unlike many others. Thanks for sharing your perspective as a decade veteran.
  14. Not quite. He's something like the build and face of Chris Pratt with the musle mass of Ryan Gosselin but at 18% bodyfat not 12% like ole Ryan here. His goal is just keeping the 6pack but not showing veins or ribs. 6'3 203 is thin when you're athletic. Someone like Coleman is like 280-300 lbs
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