What is happening to men?

Yeah, at the current level of my fitness, they would probably have to call an ambulance the first day on the hammer. When I came home to my wife, it would more like, babe I can't even move to walk three paces my back is killing me. It's ok though, I would be back out there again the next day until it killed me or I build my body back up.

Congratulations on staying active and finding pleasure in real work. It is a blessing.

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I feel you. There is nothing as satisfying as ending your day and looking back over your shoulder to see tangible results. And feeling that you earned the sore muscles and sunburn. Trading is ok as a means to the end. But last weekend I took down a row of hedges with my sawzawl...then my neighbor came over with his john deer tractor and we pulled out 20 monster rootballs..then took all of them to the dump. That made me more fullfilled that the money I took out of GS puts last week by a mile.

Hike..farm a garden...romp with my kids...dig holes...DIY EVERYTHING! Thats what I try to do to keep my sanity after 14 years of this crap. My goal Sunday is to be so sore from yardwork or play that I am looking forward to sitting in that chair for a few days. Not too trade though...just to recoup.

Funny thing is I always trade better the first half of the week. :D
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Yeah, at the current level of my fitness, they would probably have to call an ambulance the first day on the hammer. When I came home to my wife, it would more like, babe I can't even move to walk three paces my back is killing me. It's ok though, I would be back out there again the next day until it killed me or I build my body back up.

Congratulations on staying active and finding pleasure in real work. It is a blessing.
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Take it one day at a time like an alcoholic. Start with a walk one time around the block after dinner and 5 pushups when you get to your stoop every day. Then next week double it. And on and on... Cheesy sounding but you gotta start somewhere.

I can vouch for one thing. My best trading ideas have always come after a session of extreme physical activity. Truth. It clears the mind like you would not believe.

"just do her..er,ah it" as Tiger would say.
 
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Take it one day at a time like an alcoholic. Start with a walk one time around the block after dinner and 5 pushups when you get to your stoop every day. Then next week double it. And on and on... Cheesy sounding but you gotta start somewhere.

I can vouch for one thing. My best trading ideas have always come after a session of extreme physical activity. Truth. It clears the mind like you would not believe.

"just do her..er,ah it" as Tiger would say.
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LOL!

I am not that bad out of shape. I just don't do anything half assed. If I were to get in shape, I still think I am 17 and can run a 5.5 50 yard dash, or run the 1/4 mile in 47 seconds, or press almost 1 1/2 times my body weight. When I take walks with my dog, I could easily go for miles. It is my strength that is lacking. I just have never been one for the gym. I was always in good shape simply by playing pick up basketball games, or tag football with friends etc.

But yeah, going slowly at first reduces the risk of injury.
 
Sounds like you may have overdone the gym and now hate it. I used to do that, not sure if you did. I would workout for hours, even getting sick, and months later see no benefits, quit. Start again next year. Now I relax do an hour or 45 mins and gone, and I'm in good shape. I realized these meat heads are actually lazy, and rest and diet are everything. Sure if you are 300 pounds you need a few hours, but to build up a normal body, no... light workout or you beat yourself up for nothin.
 
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I am sick of myself honestly. I am seriously thinking of begging a construction company to give me a job as a jack hammer operator even though I have never done it.

I want to be out in the sun working with my hands and body. Nothing looks as stupid to me as some guy with all these muscles that he got in a gym. I want muscles because I work in a farm, or I build roads or bridges or whatever. I want to be sweating like a pig during work, go to happy hour with my buds, have a really cold beer, come home to my wife and fuck her brains out.
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Did that. Years ago, I was in retail brokerage and didn't care for it...for the same reasons you now have, I went into construction, working on a crew that was first on-site....we installed all the pipes(storm, sewer, water)...work was tiring at first, but you get strong very quickly(mixing cement by hand, carrying all sorts of tools and materials, shoveling stone)...foreman was into stocks and would come running out of his truck shouting "Wall St(my nickname), non-farm payrolls up .2%, whaddya think?"...best memory: cutting into roads with a diamond-tipped circular saw, surrounded by a giant cloud of dust with me right in the middle of it...loved it...and yes, women know how to catcall...it ended when I discovered futures trading, quite different than being Bud Fox.

If you're serious, try getting on a crew for the summer only: I knew of a few teachers who would earn extra dough that way.
 
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Sounds like you may have overdone the gym and now hate it. I used to do that, not sure if you did. I would workout for hours, even getting sick, and months later see no benefits, quit. Start again next year. Now I relax do an hour or 45 mins and gone, and I'm in good shape. I realized these meat heads are actually lazy, and rest and diet are everything. Sure if you are 300 pounds you need a few hours, but to build up a normal body, no... light workout or you beat yourself up for nothin.
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Well, the yearning is not for muscle, it is for work that builds muscle as a side effect of being outside, of being challenged physically, of ...


I just need a break from thinking.
 
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Did that. Years ago, I was in retail brokerage and didn't care for it...for the same reasons you now have, I went into construction, working on a crew that was first on-site....we installed all the pipes(storm, sewer, water)...work was tiring at first, but you get strong very quickly(mixing cement by hand, carrying all sorts of tools and materials, shoveling stone)...foreman was into stocks and would come running out of his truck shouting "Wall St(my nickname), non-farm payrolls up .2%, whaddya think?"...best memory: cutting into roads with a diamond-tipped circular saw, surrounded by a giant cloud of dust with me right in the middle of it...loved it...and yes, women know how to catcall...it ended when I discovered futures trading, quite different than being Bud Fox.

If you're serious, try getting on a crew for the summer only: I knew of a few teachers who would earn extra dough that way.
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Thanks for the story. I am serious. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
Long term movement in civil rights has distorted the reality of what men's role is. There is no day to honor the accomplishments "men" have undertaken since the begining of time.

At this point in the pussification cycle, we're too far along to grab reality by the balls and just be what we are. We really need the populas to respect men as they are. Too bad this type of violent awaking usually results from unprecedented crisis where only men thrive.
 
A company has no danger in not hiring a white male. Anyone else and they'll be forced to prove why they didn't hire them. I remember when I was younger a restaurant near my home didn't hire a line cook. He applied for a $6 dollar an hour job, but got a 7 million dollar settlement because he was black and the restaurant couldn't prove that they didn't hire him because he was black. A white male would never win such a lawsuit.
 
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