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Guardian: Why are young men taking cold showers and going ‘monk mode’? To avoid talking about their feelings (archive.ph)
posted 2 years ago by Ahaus667 2 years ago by Ahaus667 +48 / -0
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– TerpenoidTester 30 points 2 years ago +30 / -0

When I was in my early 20s, I owned a duffel bag full of sand. Correction: I owned a duffel bag full of sandwich bags full of sand, each duct-taped closed so that I could easily add them to or remove them from the larger bag when I was taking it outside to do squats and hill sprints. In my mind, this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do, a view I questioned only when one of my friends, helping me to move house, said: “Ooh, this is heavy, what’s in this one?” Reader, they were furious.

I mention this not to show off, but to establish my credentials before the next bit.

Can we all appreciate how nice it will be when AI finally takes over these jobs? Because I have never seen a worse introduction in my entire life, this is just narcissistic ramblings. He thinks this is his Xanga.

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– FrozeInFear 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

Joel Snape is a writer and fitness expert

*Looks at author photo*

Are you sure about that?

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– TerpenoidTester 19 points 2 years ago +19 / -0

The man carried around small bags of sand in a larger bag.

He was probably JACKED. All fitness experts use small bags of sand and a duffel bag right?

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– NotMacgyver 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

That is how you distinguish the noobs from the experts. The noob will stuff his sand in the duffel while the expert will sub divide his sand for easier sand management.

They don't teach you this kind of practical knowledge in sand school, you only learn it through real, actual life experience

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– Mr_Cletus 16 points 2 years ago +16 / -0

It's the kind of gimmicky thing that you do to avoid lifting weights because you are afraid of the locker room showers and objective numbers.

Soys will go to great lengths to never know how much they can actually bench.

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– FuckGenderPolitics 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

afraid of the locker room showers

They're really not gonna like what awaits them when they get inevitably get caught touching children.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

This is extremely accurate lol. Some kids also do this because they don't have access to barbells.

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... continue reading thread?
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– GuestAccount69 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Hey, it worked in Dragonball Z, right? Just pump up the gravity and shit.

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– ArtemisFoul 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Even with that useless, obnoxious introduction, the "article" is still barely longer than Grauniad's e-begging box under it. Which could be fine, except brevity isn't always the soul of wit - I could write something more interesting than "waah Tate bad" drunk, blindfolded, and using a French layout on an Ergodox keyboard.

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– deleted 20 points 2 years ago +20 / -0
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– RoulerBleu 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

Free-range organic sand ain't cheap.

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– ArtemisFoul 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Yeah but for sprinting? That sounds terrible.

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