@pittybitty

I say you are closest to the correct answer here.

All psychological problems have their physiological roots. Address the physiology, the psychology follows.

People with discipline issues are lacking the metabolic energy needed to stay focused on a goal without distractions or losing motivation.

Focus on the metabolic energy input, and the psychological output follows.

Imagine someone with a folate deficiency because of a poor diet or metabolic defect trying to solve their lack of energy or focus through taking ice baths, talk therapy, following alarms, schedules, etc…

All of these things may have their limited utility, but what that person really needs to fix their problem is some fucking folate right into their veins.

@User69

Ive been at this bioenergétics game for a couple years now and I definitely am beginning to form conclusions that my problem has been an inability to efficiently extract energy from starch.

When digestion and metabolism is sluggish all the food I would eat was degenerating me as my body wasnt extracting the energy properly.

Getting out of this state is very difficult, but in my opinion it involves engaging the body properly (mechanotransduction) so that the body demands glucose and any starch that is consumed gets put right into the furnace and turns to energy.

@User69

lmao well done

@User69

Why do I eat starch?

Because my body needs carbohydrates, and I find that getting it all from fruit does not nourish me in the same capacity as eating starch in addition with fruit.

I may be erroring though in choosing bread and brown rice. Potatoes and other tubers may be the best way to go.

@TopicalsOnBalls

I eat a bunch of starch.

Brown rice and bread are my staples. Always paired with some animal fat and protein.

I find that no-starch ruins my hormones, and I lose the depth of power in my voice.

I notice that people who restrict starch tend to have weak voices. Peat, Shawn Baker, Paul Saladino are notable examples.

You can eat all the meat in the world and have nice big muscles to show for it, but when a man opens his mouth and speaks, I’ll know exactly how masculine he is.

I believe Peat was able to get away with no starch because he didn’t have to do any physical work in the world. He could just sit around and drink milk and coffee and let his brain fire at hyper speed diving into metabolic science.

Humans evolved though having to traverse the physical realm, hunting and digging for food. This level of energy output requires very functional muscles in tandem with in tack cognitive functioning. Caloric density on top of high quality nourishment drove our evolution.

@Samyo

Forums dead now anyways. Thankful Brad started up this one

@Kilgore

If you’re into black pill and heightmaxxinf you might enjoy seeing this looksmax from them

https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/functional-patterns-creating-chads.48015/

I haven’t seen them make anyone grow taller tho lmao

Here’s some articles from them in which they explain their methodology and why they take the stance they do on biking and yoga

https://functionalpatterns.com/blogs/articles/fp-first-four-the-foundations-of-human-movement

https://functionalpatterns.com/blogs/articles/technical-differences-between-biking-and-running-why-running-is-king

https://functionalpatterns.com/blogs/articles/weighing-the-merits-of-flow-yoga

@Samyo

I have to give credits to you for blasting them on the old RPF.

Naudi can be a bit of a real prick sometimes lmao but I gotta give him credit he’s on point with his work.

@Kilgore

Lmao nice. I’ll step down from my high horse and chill the fuck out.

How’s your posture? If you have any spinal distortions, either scoliosis or kyphosis or lordosis, correcting those should add height. This would be the lowest hanging fruit imo. Maybe an 1-2 inch gain depending on how bad it is.

If you want to dive into the whole system of Functional Patterns, you’d have to buy their 10 week online course, which lays the foundation for what it means to have good posture, and some basic correctional exercises for getting there. Outside of that, in general, elongating the spine, expanding the rib cage, correcting kyphosis/lordosis and achieving neutrality with good core function is pretty much what you’re going for.

I’ve got nothing to add on how to hack your biology and do the miraculous of growing bone laterally as opposed to radially. The mechanisms for radial bone growth once growth plate fusion occurs can be readily replicated, Im not sure about lateral bone growth past growth plate fusion. Outside of surgery, I’m highly skeptical it’s possible.

@Kilgore

Mate your only 22 yrs old so your body is more resilient to whatever you throw at it, but if you’re looking for something that you can take with you until the day you die and keeps you as fit as can be, then you need a style of training that will keep you healthy and pain free for life. It’s better to invest in building up a resilient body NOW and keep it running like a well-built, smooth, efficient machine than to build a clunky, inefficient painful/awkward one.

Functional Patterns is more a response to the fact that the styles of training seen in bodybuilding culture ended up hurting way more people than it helped. The people who promote it and get away with that style of training blast steroids and/or TRT to mask the fact that the style of training is not regenerative and sustainable. Functional Patterns promotes a style of training that is in line with our paleobiology and thus most appropriate, most healthy, most safe, and most functional for humans to do.

You worship the wrong god. The judeochristian god is a delusional man made invention from a primitive people who didn’t understand reality. The only God you need to worship is Life and this Universe, and by following first principles and it’s laws will you actually see positive change in your life. Anything that you do which is against the laws of nature and what evolution designed us for you’ll pay a price for.

I was raised Catholic and firmly believed in god and all that, would pray every day neurotically for him to make me a better soccer player and for the girls in my class to like me, none of that shit worked. I was a subpar athlete and unattractive to women. You know what actually makes me a better athlete? What makes me more attractive to women? Prioritizing high quality nutrition, training properly, keeping my cognitive faculties sharp, body/mind/emotional soul grounded and capable.

Elongating and decompressing the spine are great ideas, but you have to lock those gains in. If you just passively stretch it out, your body is just going to sink back to where you started, on top of the fact that stretching weakens your body over time as those muscles which are lengthened lose their elasticity and force contraction potential. You want to practice stretching your muscles in coordination with a functional movement pattern to adapt your body properly. Practicing things like standing transverse abdominal retractions and bird dogs will build core stability while elongating and decompressing the spine.

You can do what you want, and I’ll leave you alone, cuz it’s your life, but sacrificing health points for anything is really stupid, but I’m not surprised given your age and the kind of blind folly that youth tends to give.