I am finding current events quite confusing. For 2 years the entire world has been psychologically terrorised about the "worst pandemic in 100 years (TM)". Peoples lives and National economies have been laid to waste by totalitarian government dictates to ostensibly protect us from the "deadly virus". Vladamir Putin just single handedly ended the pandemic in the West without a single injection mandate or lockdown. He entered Ukraine and, pooof, covid disappeared. But now the media and SM has stopped telling me to hate anti-vaxxers and start hating Putin. I don't get it? I would have thought that the guy who "saved" the world from the "pandemic" would be a hero? Is Putin somehow the Jesus of anti-vaxxers; sacrificing himself to absolve all the filthy unvaxxed of their sins? But Putin released the worlds first C19 vaccine and imposed the same pointless, self-destructive covid nonsense as the West. So that cannot be it. The media is not even accusing Putin of being racist; which we all know is the most heinous crime in existence. But we also know that racism is reasonable justification for destroying cities and murdering people. If Putin had accused the Ukranians of being racist before invading, would that make him a good guy? Its all so confusing. Its almost like every word from Governments and the media is nothing but ridiculous, hypocritical, BS propaganda?

First there were circus strongmen. Then some civilians asked the strongmen what it took to be like them? Then those civilians told other civilians what the circus strongmen said, with a healthy dose of hyperbole and 'chinese whisper' effect. 100 years later academics heard about this thing civilians were doing so they went out and studied it. 100 years later someone does a meta-analysis and says 99% of studies show that training like a circus monkey is the most effective way to train. 🤦‍♂️
Please stop looking to academia and 'studies' for advice unless you aspire to failure in the 'real world'. If you want to know how you respond to a diet, measure your body composition, follow the diet strictly and measure how your body composition changes. If you want to know how a training program works, test your maximum strength, follow the program, then see how your strength improved (hint: if you gained any muscle, you must have gained strength). It is no more complicated than that.
This is actual science: measure the things you are trying to affect and eliminate all other variables. Anyone telling you NOT to measure your body, diet and training is clearly scared that you will find out they are lying to you. Anyone telling you to worry about unmeasurable things (eg hormones, enzymes etc) is just trying to hide that they are lying to you. Trust real, relevant numbers and you do not need to worry about fools and liars.

“Lumen is a new super slick, super high-tech tool for “hacking your metabolism”. When you fellate the Lumen pocket sex toy, it tickles your intellectual erogenous zones by measuring the concentration of CO2 in your breath. Ain’t that awesome? I bet you always thought “if only I knew the concentration of CO2 in my breath, I would be a pro-bodybuilding World champion in minutes”.” Read my full blog on the Lumen device at
https://damonhayhow.com/lumen-metabolic-masturbation-sex.../

Meme of the year in my opinion

Who would’ve guessed that the virtue-signalling opportunist shysters at Beyond Meat, with backing by Bill Gates, are lying that their dangerous and defective product is good for you: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11469579/Beyond-Meats-Pennsylvania-plant-riddled-deadly-bacteria.html

WOW! Monica Lewinsky ain't got nuthin on ChatGPT. I guess we know who ChatGPT will be voting for at the next election...

I just posted to Facebook a picture of a dude soaring 50 feet into the sky on a skateboard, with just a 1 degree miscalculation away from potential quadriplegia or death. As I study that pic of an insane, death-defying feat of an extreme sport that guarantees practitioners to be hurt and injured, I cannot help but ponder the relative danger of leaning back on a bicep curl, or picking up a barbell from the ground, or using more than 60kg on any exercise in the gym.

Thank god for all those magnificently brilliant, genius coaches saving people from the most dangerous physical activity on earth: lifting any weight requiring genuine effort and concentration. God bless you for saving people from developing the skill to lift heavy weights safely, by encouraging rampant drug abuse as the “smart” alternative to working hard.

In 2023 we know that weight is like gender: reality is whatever you imagine it to be. If you believe an empty bar is heavy, then of course it is. If you are a man and believe a baby is growing inside you - or a muscle is growing inside you - then of course it must be.

Women can have penises, men can have vaginas and weaklings can have hulking, huge, ripped muscles. All people need is a powerful imagination… and lots of hormones (plus some surgery). The only things in the world that are a dangerous threat to imaginary reality are mathematicians, libertarians, weak flus and heavy weights.

So next time you see someone loading weight on a bar, do the woke thing and stop them like they were eating meat. Tell them they need to put away their toxic masculinity because heavy weights cause injury; to themselves, others and the planet. Tell them they don’t need weight; just imagination. Tell them to lift light and squeeeeeeeze. Tell them to pretend as hard as they can. Tell them that playing pretend is smarter than working hard. Treat heavy weights like covid: say it’s science, say it’s staying safe, say it’s the right thing to do. Then tell them to take lots of drugs made by a bunch of criminals because thats the safe and effective thing that everyone is doing.
#woketraining #staysafe

Happy International No Diet Day, everyone. Yes, there actually is such a thing; and its today, May 6th. For a proper understanding of what all the "health" geniuses mean when they spew their platitudes about today being all about mental health, bodily love, inclusivity and fighting "fat-phobia", here is a practical instructional video for you to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOx0wQ8lIxI

The Cis vs Trans debate is a hot topic. I just blogged on how the trans movement began with good intentions, but caused epidemic death and disease. Now we know trans-fats are evil and cis-fats are good fats. (What did you think I was talking about)? https://damonhayhow.com/cis-vs-trans-fats-of-course/

The weather here in Europe is HOT. According to the UN and Adam Bandt, it is because you and me eating meat and driving cars has caused "global boiling".

Meanwhile, some boof-heads at some place called NASA reported last year about the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano; the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. It sent a tsunami around the world and a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. It also sent 146 billion kilograms of water vapor into the stratosphere which the NASA scientists predicted would INCREASE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere

Truett Hanes set a World Record of 4100 chin ups in 1 day; about 800 sets. He does 100 reps everyday. Huge volume. But he is skinny with tiny lats. Muscle size = strength; NOT stamina. There is no link between training volume and size. Do less. Go harder. https://youtu.be/XzcfxycgNNQ

Hey Melbournians. Better start stocking up on toilet paper again. You know Dan is ready to go. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/its-really-happening-mask-mandates-contact-tracing-re-implemented-colleges-offices

Sooooo, an American man, falsely presenting as a woman, was representing Ukraine, which is representing America, in a war against Russia, which is being misrepresented as a war against Ukraine, is told by Ukraine to stop representing them, after an American senator questioned the man’s representations. In other words, bullshitters told a bullshitter to stop bullshitting, cos the boss bullshitter was getting shitty about the bullshit. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ukraines-american-trans-spox-picks-fight-us-senator-jd-vance

Thought of the day: “Be grateful you don’t get all the government you pay for”

Dan Andrews - the communist dictator who made life and business in Melbourne so insufferable that I left Australia forever - has done a Jacinda Ardern and abandoned the ship that he sank. He is wholly corrupt, incompetent, a pathological liar and exhibits extreme narcissistic and psychopathic traits. So he'll get a job at the UN, WHO or NATO next.

My first article for the Australian Libertarian newsletter and website, Liberty Itch: https://libertyitch.com/2023/10/03/a-different-way-to-scratch-your-liberty-itch/

Great news. Netanyahu ended the war in Ukraine the same way Putin ended covid. It’s not over; but nobody cares anymore cos there’s a new flag to put in social media profiles and a new thing to virtue signal about. So Russians will be replaced by Palestinians as the racial group to hate in our new “tolerant” woke world. And, shock of all shocks, the war that is starting is the only war in the world that all anti-war US presidential candidates will agree needs to be fought with limitless funding. The timing, and fact that the Americans are the only people who benefit, is not suspicious at all. 🙄

Smaller government, lower taxes and eliminating regulation is the path to social and economic success. Read my latest Liberty Itch article for compelling evidence: https://libertyitch.com/2023/11/07/smaller-government-georgia-shows-its-achievable/

Milei’s election campaign was so refreshing and seemingly anti-establishment that it was hard to believe he was not being censored, accused of massive tax evasion or having a slew of dubious and unprovable sexual assault allegations levelled against him. Unfortunately, his first moves are highly questionable and potentially explanatory. Aligning with the US, accepting IMF loans and announcing ‘austerity’ must be the most unimaginative and unsuccessful strategy in the long history of terminally bad Government decisions. Has any country, ever, successfully refinanced and restructured itself, to regain its full independence and sovereignty after taking IMF “bailout” loans? Has the IMF ever agreed to allowing a Government to implement broad-based Libertarian principles (excluding the broad based selling off of public assets to international vulture “investors”)? I certainly cannot think of any. Then, as if to prove his suicidal subservience to the most corrupt elements of the US Government, he welcomed and embraced Clown-Prince-Puppet Zelensky to his inauguration. Not only is Zelensky possibly the most corrupt US vassal leader in history, support of Zelensky must be among the most potent kisses-of-death to nations, economies and politicians in history. Finally, while arguments could be made against tying Argentina to the BRICS, snubbing an invite to actively engage in genuine trade with the BRICS in order to fully tie the Argentinian economy to the rapidly declining US, the most corrupt and incompetent US administration ever, and the corrupt vultures of the IMF seems far from logical or Libertarian. Hopefully this is all part of an ingenious pro-Argentinian deception on Milei’s part. But it’s looking more like another hugely disappointing sell-out of another potentially great country.