Lobotomize-me athletic logs
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@NoeticJuice I have reread your message now:
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The effect you mentioned , I realized it may be connected to GABA and dopamine.
I felt exactly as you described when taking phenibut.
Sadly, it does seem to affect my memory negatively,
but it makes me feel like the man of my dreams for around two days (dose: 900mg orally with orange juice)(Of course, I space my doses out to the safe range). -
Ginger doesn’t seem to affect me much.
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You have piqued my interest with the Kanna I will look more into it
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dude you drop every supplement under the sun but you dont include any calcium NGMI. you are not ray peat you are bryan johnson
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@lobotomize-me said in Lobotomize-me athletic logs:
Isotonic drinks must be combined with protein.
Sugar increases muscle uptake of most amino acids, except tryptophan, which can then freely enter the brain.
(Without added protein, you risk unbalancing amino acid uptake.)Did you notice any difference when adding protein? If so, what kind of difference and how noticeable was it?
@lobotomize-me said in Lobotomize-me athletic logs:
The effect you mentioned
By "the effect" do you mean "intuitive perception and movement"?
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@samson I recently started supplementing with calcium carbonate after realizing my phosphorus problem. However, as I mentioned in my other comment, I stopped taking most supplements that I don't consider 100% essential, like B1 or calcium. Now I am reintroducing them with more careful testing
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@NoeticJuice 1.
I often noticed during games or training that sometimes I would suddenly get blurry vision, my voice would weaken, i will feeel overwehlmed(seratongenic feeling overall) etc. (That’s why I started looking into what I was taking mid game in the first place ) Then I realized it was this mistake that was causing the drop in performanceExactly overall, less stuck inside my head and more actually doing things. Made me the man i dream to be for around 2 days(sadly i have to space it out 1 a week for safety. Dosage=900mg phenibut HCL )
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@lobotomize-me smart, godspeed!
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Feeling as if anytime I start playing well, I regain consciousness and start being amazed by my skill, and then when I am mentally amazed, I play worse
Tldr i am inside my head and i cannot get out. Any ideas how i can fix this
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@lobotomize-me a couple of ideas:
- Being consciously aware of your peripheral vision.
- Acting as if being amazing is your natural state.
I've been practicing being aware of my entire visual field, of every object within it, for, I think, a bit more than a week now. I started by practicing it every time I walked in the nearby forest. I usually do this 2 or 3 times a day, 15-30 minutes at a time. As I became better at it, I started to practice it occasionally at other times as well, even when reading books. I'm doing this with the intention of achieving the ability to maintain this kind of awareness throughout each day.
When I am aware of everything within my entire visual field for more than just a few seconds, I notice that my mind becomes more quiet. My sense of depth and of inhabiting 3-dimensional space also increases. Peripheral vision is processed mainly, if not only, by the right hemisphere of the brain. The right hemisphere is overall larger than the left, and it's also more associated with the subconscious than the left. I can sense expanding visual awareness, and increasing right hemisphere activity, as being beneficial for sports and for other aspects of life as well.
As you've noted, you're capable of great skill. But it appears that when you notice you're performing much better than what you're used to, that awareness holds you back. So, perhaps if you acted as if it's normal for you to be great, it's just part of who you are, it could help.
There are some things I think can make this easier. If you become aware of the difference, perhaps you could try to move your awareness elsewhere. Pushing the feeling or thought away probably won't work, paying attention to something else might. Another thing you could try is visualization. You could visualize yourself playing with great skill, and perhaps that will help make it feel natural over time. Lucid dreaming could possibly help in a similar way.
These are just some ideas I thought of. The only thing here I have experience with is expanding my visual awareness, and I don't play sports. The two ideas can be combined.
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@lobotomize-me try to keep challenges in place. If you're always challenging yourself you don't feel complacent or satisfied.
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@Corngold feeling satisfied is based thoughbeitever
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@evan-hinkle said in Lobotomize-me athletic logs:
This is not what you want to hear, but if you’re not having fun playing soccer you should quit. It sounds like your life is totally devoid of joy. I don’t say this lightly, I say it as someone who had a similar experience playing competitive sports. I now wish I never played sports, and believe strongly that my time spent playing them caused most of the health issues I have today, (but more so, my playing sports in the first place was a symptom itself of my lack of energetic living). I hope you find your happiness, whatever that is for you. I have, and it took me til I was about 40. I hope you don’t have to wait so long. Be well.
What's wrong with competive sports ?
It increases body temperature and T3 so at least one can have glimpse of what it is like having high energy level without using drugs.
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feeling satisfied is based thoughbeitever
Satisfaction comes and goes. I suppose there are ways to feel complete or to feel that your efforts are good and worthwhile. Complacency is more like "resting on your laurels."
My angle is that this is all very paradoxical and human. People with good jobs that respect them, families, marriage, etc. can feel "satisfied" just knowing that they already accomplished these things.
Some people really shelve their past interests when they get some success in a career / endeavor.
I think reasonable people know that their "laurels" are in the past. On the one hand, it's short-selling to ignore past accomplishments. It should be inspiring to remember overcoming struggles and performing well in various areas. And some of these things are the reason people make other accomplishments.
On the other hand, you can't live in that space. For the things we wish to pursue, we have to pursue them fully. That's the main issue with people who dabble and become inspired but don't commit. In some ways this is most real to me in the form of half-assed research / writing, or musicians that don't seem to grind away practicing and playing on their own.
Everyone wants to study and read and learn, but many tune out very quickly. I've tuned out periodically from various studies too. There has to be a carrot at some point, or else it just becomes self-flagellation over some guilt of ignorance / laziness. Every skill or talent or "goal" is like this, though, is the issue. Even behavior is incentivized towards pro or anti-social behavior (waitresses/hospitality vs police, business).
Further, if accomplishments are only supposed to lead to more accomplishments, then there's quickly a problem with carrot-and-stick mentality. You end up kicking yourself and denigrating yourself for not chasing harder, accomplishing more, "improooving" more, etc. Roddy had a post about type A personalities a while back. Hard-driving types usually get results but it also incurs a lot of cortisol damage. The west is like this, I've heard, and I believe. Everything is hinging on the individual monad because "only YOU can prevent forest fires," "I want YOU for US Army," and "what can YOU do for your country."
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@Corngold when one goal is achieved another comes
satisfaction is high vibration because it implies achievemenet and enjoyment
contentment is low vibration because it implies no lust for life and coping . this is basically complacency.we basically agree just im being specific about the word satisfaction
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@eduardo-crispino said in Lobotomize-me athletic logs:
contentment is low vibration because it implies no lust for life and coping . this is basically complacency.
True. I think we agree but the words really are complex. "cope" is also basically like saying "battle."
cope(v.)
late 14c., coupen, "to quarrel;" c. 1400, "come to blows, deliver blows, engage in combat," from Old French couper, earlier colper "hit, punch," from colp "a blow" (see coup).Interesting that the "coping" pain is warring with the after effects of actual pain / hardship. Because technically the hardship comes during battle or regular living which is a battle.
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@Gardner well, I think there’s a narrative or belief that competitive sports do these things, but really in all but a handful of cases the bulk of competitive sporting leads to metabolic dysfunction. It’s over-exercise, coupled with under-nourishment or incorrect nourishment, typically wrapped in a mythos of sacrifice, (for the team, for the sport, for the coach, etc).
Played for fun, maybe with friends, sure, I could see it being positive socially, but even then, running, depleting glycogen stores, illiciting cortisol response, upregulating lypolisis, hyperventilation. The negatives seem to vastly outweigh the positives, (of course this is just my experience/opinion). Done habitually, these conditions become chronic.
Me personally, I’d say I encountered thyroid dysfunction, excessive cortisol, malnourishment, an unhealthy exercise habit, body dysmorphia, estrogen dominance, hair loss, brain injury, depression, drug dependence,IBS, etc, (general symptoms of low metabolism). I think my experience is not unique. It seems like most professional athletes suffer in the same ways, (whether it’s the weight gain of retired athletes, drug addiction, alcoholism, symptoms of serotonin overload - antisocial behavior, poor sleep/recovery). All just signs of poor metabolic function.
