BigDaddy [he/him]
lib.gen
Not super important because compound lifts do a great job at targeting the core. But sure ab roller, plank, and side plank are my go to’s as well. If you can get a doorframe pull-up bar, leg lifts are my fav.
amber amber amber
Have him read douglass rushkoff’s books, who a lot of these ideas were taken from. He has a good interview with connor habib if you’re interested
I’m in graduate school to be a therapist. All of the students, and the professors, acknowledge that managed care/insurance is absolute bullshit and limiting; however, we’re told we have to learn to maneuver the system in order to work. At least at my school, there’s a large cohort who critique capitalism and pretty much recognize how solution-focused therapy, CBT, etc. are just tools to be able to create functional workers–professors laugh and agree–but there’s little discussion about what to do about it.
If I’m being totally honest, as someone who has been in therapy since 15-years-old, in-patient rehab, IOP, etc., what helped me the most was using mushrooms therapeutically and connecting with nature, meditation, and reading spiritual texts (Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism). I am embarrassed to admit this, as I’m well aware of the pitfalls of “new age” thinking. But it took something radically different for me to see the bigger picture. Is it possible to spawn this kind of change through talk-therapy alone? Probaly not. Mental health research is not making any important discoveries (apart from neurological advances), things are getting worse. Labels provide a convienant language to discuss mental health but it’s to complex to narrow diagnosis down to “depression, bipolar, anxiety” etc. As you can tell, I’m frusterated to no end about this and trying to figure out how to create systemic change (or atleast acknowledgement of the problem?) within the system itself.