Sunday Summary. Beard + Gains + Music Update. Total War Frankish Campaign.
Posted on May 31, 2015
First of all. Physique update, I have my first scheduled photoshoot in early July which leaves me with a good few weeks of cutting to attain a better form. As you can see right now the chest and beard are making up for the lack of shreds, I still need to disregard some fat to be at top physical perfection. As is my custom and as is in accord with my teachings I want to make changes as slowly as possible. This is why you never notice any big differences in my physique from month to month. But from now on, each week the differences will probably be more noticeable because most of the fat will be taken from the abs, up until this point it has mainly disappeared from shoulders, arms, legs etc. The male body usually keeps the fat longest at lower back, abs and glutes.
Regarding the Beard I am very reluctant to shaving, I really like it. It adds to my barbarianness and I fear that I will look like a little boy when I shave. I will make a video when I do shave it also.
If you haven’t watched the video where I elaborate on why I want to shave it is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7mWli8mWCw
And also, to conclude this elaboration regarding my gains and beard I did 180 kg in the benchpress, which I am sure you all will have seen by now. When I bulk again I will try to get 180 kg with a good pause and then also get 190 kg. And if I am healthy and can keep a good momentum up I might aim for 200 kg, which would be beyond awesome to have! But that will be for the Autumn!
I have been aware of a new very glorious folk metal band, a Mongolian band called Tengger Cavalry, Spotify link here: (spotify:artist:1jH1BbeNbZBvIgDwxGIJhe). I found them today via a true friend on Instagram. I regularly check the hashtags #legiogloria and #latsbrothers to see if anyone has posted something epic and Traditianal_Howie recommended the band on his account so I checked them out and am very thankful for doing so. I will update my own Spotify list with more of their songs in the coming days. My list is found here: https://open.spotify.com/user/maru1/playlist/02HMRsCsAUiXbZbLox8sD2
I also started a campaign in Total War: Attila with the Franks during my Twitch the last Friday. As I woke up on the Saturday my Internet had temporarily gone out (which made me unable to perform my morning ritual on the Interwebz, reading comments/mails etc) so I made a good old cup of Lindvall’s Coffe and immersed myself in the campaign instead. Really enjoyable campaign, I haven’t achieved minor victory yet but have dominion of most of Gaul and also some of the Germanic provinces. The picture above is from the historical battle of Soissons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jclq-TfZns). And the picture below is from a battle I fought today defending against the Romanic Gauls (Western Roman Separatists), I really got a Lord of the Rings Rohan feel of that battle, highly glorious to say the least!
The picture below that shows fertility in the regions, luckily I have a stable supply of food as I own many fertile areas (supply of food is a huge factor in Attila). I will utilise this picture in particular later on to explain migrations (using the climate change of the 400’s as an example).
Speaking of Total War I will also make a video on which game I prefer of Rome 2 or Attila, as I get the question quite often!
As for other coming videos I might try a videolog where I am eating less calories to show how I get around that with as little hunger or fatigue as possible!
I wish you all a productive and glorious coming week!
Bodybuilding Advice. Mental Images
Posted on May 21, 2015
As I have said repeatedly in the past, in order to make your muscles to grow you need to constantly progress. If you don’t get stronger or challenge the body more, your muscles will not grow, easy as that.
This leads us to the point with this post. You cannot always rely on a caloric surplus or a good nights sleep or a good amount of caffeine to get you to progress in the Temple. When the training gets hard and heavy (the last set of 10×3 on 150 kg in paused bench for the hench for example as was my session yesterday) it is a good idea to resort to mental images that can grant you strength. Some people will never understand this, because they are stuck in a social context where Sex and the City is the norm and Spartacus is seen as barbaric. These guys will never make significant gains.
As we saw from my testosterone results (that it is average) I cannot say that I have a high testosterone, however, I am constantly in a more glorious and testosteronous mindset. I do not conform to degenerate, feminine ideals of what the modern man should be like. I am accountable only to my owns ideals, gathered from centuries of masculine perfection. When it is time to perform I am the Viking.
The mental image I conjured yesterday was similar to the picture you are looking at. Sometimes I think of the scene in Gladiator where the Germanic warriors come out of the forest, howling. Sometimes when I deadlift I visualise that I am pulling my brother up from an imminent death. Sometimes when I over-head-press I am visualising that I am Atlas pushing the World over my shoulders.
This might seem extreme to some people. However, I do not need to justify myself to anyone. My result speak for themselves. And this kind of mindset allows me to always have a reserve of strength to call upon when the situation demands it.
This is also why the cultural part is so important. If you are in the mindset of testosterone and glory; Amon Amarth and visions of illustrious forefathers you will be better prepared to disregard notions of fatigue or weakness and thus always be ready to perform physically.
The Golden One 
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