In 1987 the hardest thing a college freshman could have done was wrestle for the University of Iowa under Dan Gable.

When is the last time you were in a room with a group of guys who wanted to hurt you? When is the last time those guys were your teammates?

Wrestling isn’t fun. Wrestlers are mean. No one smiles at a wrestling practice.

Even when your body is young, you never fully recovery between practices. The grind never ends.

So why did some 24-year old dork in film school at NYU decided to pack his bags and head to Iowa? What was thinking? What was wrong with him?

What did he accomplish after 4 years of Iowa? What did he learn – not just about wrestling, but about life?

You don’t have to understand much about wrestling to enjoy this inspirational blog, Wrestling for Gable.

Some highlights:

There was a passage in the book I’m reading, called “The Discoverers,” about the 16th century Chinese and how they were isolated from the rest of the world. They drew all their maps of the world with themselves as the center, and all the far-off places that they’d heard of they merely put on the map as tiny little islands.

If you only measure yourself against things you already know, your map of the world is always going to be too small.

And that’s why I’m here.

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Jenny wants a normal life. I want an extraordinary life. I don’t even know what that means. I don’t know what I want.

I know what I don’t want:

I don’t want to live in suburban Cleveland and have a mustache and sell stereos at Best Buy. I don’t want my house cluttered with garage sale bric-a-brac, with ceramic figurines and antique dolls and those stupid arts-and-crafts cloth rabbits with the ears that don’t stand up.

I don’t want refrigerator magnets shaped like fruit, and I don’t want a kitchen memo board that says “Bless This Mess,” or a hot plate that says “May the Road Rise to Meet You” (whatever the f— that means). I don’t ever want to get so comfortable or complacent that I have to sigh and say, “This is it–the best I can do now is keep the lawn mowed.”

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Gable is cool. He gave a great motivational speech at last night’s practice. He’s not just a wrestling fanatic. He’s a life fanatic. He believes in reaching one’s maximum potential. He believes in toughness–in being strong. Sometime in our lives we will all have to face adversity–trauma, death, whatever it is. Maybe it’s the death of our parents, a brother or sister, the breakup of a marriage, the loss of a job, whatever. It’s coming. It’s going to happen. How are we going to handle ourselves then, as human beings? We’ve got to confront our fears, and we’ve got to come to terms with these realities. And we’ve got to be able to deal with them so that we can get on with living.

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If price (justifiably) has kept you from buying an Omega J8006 juicer, Amazon is offering one for a Black Friday sale price of $209 (link). That’s an insanely low price for a juicer that goes for $299 – and even at that price is a good value. (You get more juice out of your greens, saving you money over the long run.)  The sale might last another minute or hour; beats me. I do know that if I didn’t already have one, I’d be pouncing.

UPDATE: Sale’s over. Hope some of you got in on it.

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93 of you have ordered from iHerb. I would like to thank each of you.

A few people have asked about the iHerb coupon code on the side of my page, which notes you can save $10 on your first order over $40 and $5 on an order of any size by using couple code EKO606 (or clicking this link).

Let me explain why I have the promotion; what the promotion does for me; and how the promotion can make you money.

Anyone who uses that coupon code saves $10. I get 4% of whatever orders you make for the year. Since beginning the program in March, I’ve earned around $800. My projections indicate that I’ll make about a grand this year from iHerb.

Obviously that’s not making me rich, so why have it at all?

First, I actually shop at iHerb. I was a customer for several months before even realizing I could make some book-buying money from their program. iHerb had the best price on AOR Orthocore, an extremely advanced (and expensive) multi-vitamin, so I shopped there. (They had non-supplement stuff that I used too, such as mouth wash, tooth paste, chewing gum, shampoo, and conditioner.)

I usually do a price check on Amazon and iHerb. Sometimes Amazon is cheaper; sometimes iHerb is cheaper. Between the two sites I do 90% of my supplement shopping.

Every man needs a weekend distraction. Writing is mine. Some guys golf (greens fees and equipment). Some play tennis (monthly dues and equipment). I write (make some spare change).

Writing isn’t free. I pay hosting services each month and domain registration fees. I have to filter through spam comment. A blog is a lot like a garden. You need to pull the weeds.

How You Can Make Money From the iHerb Coupon Code.

Let’s say you make an order using my iHerb Coupon Code. iHerb will send you your very own coupon code.

You can pass this coupon code along to friends and family. Your friends or family members will save $10 on their first order over $40 and $5 on all other orders.

Let’s say your friend ends up spending $500 a year.$500 * 4% = $20.

That’s from one friend. Let’s say you have five friends. That’s $100. It’s free money, so why not take it?

If you’re on a college campus, print out flyers and distribute them. Hustle a little and you could have hundreds of customers.

In addition, I get 3% from those orders. That does not come out of your 4%. You get your own 4% and I get my own 3%. We both win.

Now some may say, “This sounds like a pyramid scheme.” But it’s not.

You don’t pay iHerb anything. You don’t buy products. You don’t need monthly subscriptions.

You just order a product you’d have paid more for at GNC or another brick-and-mortar site.

You don’t sell anything. I don’t sell anything. People simply save money.

From iHerb’s perspective, it’s cheaper having us telling friends and family about iHerb than it is in buying ads or starting a magazine. (Did you know that most bodybuilding magazines are owned by supplement companies? T-Nation is owned by Biotest. Biotest gets its customers by advertising its products within “objective” T-Mag articles and through forum posts.)

It’s not like this is multi-level marketing. Everyone of you guys who made an order knows someone who orders supplements. You save them $10 and get 4%. It’s really that easy.

You could even have your girlfriend or parents buy you supplements for Christmas. They’d save $10 and you’d get a 4% commission. I am not telling you to set up “shells buyers” that you order through, as that’s explicitly against the rules.

But if you want some protein powder for Christmas, why not have your mom or dad buy it for you?

So if you’ve been wondering what’s up with the iHerb coupon code, now you know. Feel free to use EKO606 (or click here) or pass it along to friends and family members.

And always remember, there is no such thing as easy money:

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I once drove a 33-year old friend of mine to the ER. He was having chest pains. He is on path to be rich, and save cancer, will be rich filthy rich by forty.

Unless you’re willing to kill yourself, you are not willing to get rich.

The first thing you’ll notice about How to Get Rich (here) is that the author did not get rich selling people self-help advice on getting rich. He got rich doing something else before writing about how to get rich.

Felix Dennis built a huge magazine empire. Everyone of you have read one of his magazines. He is responsible for Maxim, Men’s Fitness, and several gaming titles.

This is what he has to say about how to get rich:

How to Get Rich is something ever-so-slightly new in the world, or at least I have tried to make it so. It is an anti-self-improvement book – because it admits openly that the chances of anyone reading it it and then become rich are minuscule. The vast majority of you are far too nice. And comfortable. And sensible.

My book points out, in harsh detail, the damage to your present contentment and the risk to future and existing relationships that you run by seeking to get rich. It also deals with the coarsening of your nature that will accompany the rough and tumble of acquiring a piece of pie from another’s table. It points out, too, that avarice is tremendously time-consuming and that time is in somewhat short supply – our lives are way too short.

Getting rich means getting divorced, paying alimony and child support, having nervous breakdowns, using massive amounts of drugs, paying whores to have sex with you (there’s no time for game when you are chasing real paper), never being able to trust people who claim to love you, dreading talking to people because you know they are all looking for a way to get into your pockets.

You’ll have to beg investors for money, glad-handing and kissing ass on your way up.

Sound fun?

Getting rich also involves sacrificing yourself at the altar of money. The Gods demand that you give up everything about yourself. You don’t get to, “Follow your passion and the money will follow.”

Take Felix Dennis, for example. As you can tell by reading his book, he is a very good writer. He could have had a career as an author. He gave up his dream of becoming a poet to get rich.

How to Get Rich is a no bullshit guide to the game. He doesn’t lie to you. He doesn’t tell you to go flip properties. He tells you to risk your life or go home.

He tells you to work 14-18 hour days, ruin your relationships with friends and families, destroy your health…all for the chance at being rich. An honest man, Felix Dennis makes no guarantees.

Do what he says and you might get rich.

I encourage every man who daydreams fabulous riches to buy this book.

He lays down a guide to getting rich while also warning you of the pit falls. You may decide working a 9-5 and playing the lottery isn’t so bad, after all.

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Somehow guys got in in their minds that making fun of the military is edgy and cool.

When I posted about a fat feminist troll’s disrespectful conduct at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, the usual roaches and rats came out to inform us that soldiers do not fight for our freedom in Iraq.

That critique, such as it is, misses the point.

Through tedium, boredom, and pain, soldiers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier work 24 hour long shifts. They march for hours at a time in uncomfortable uniforms, all hours of the night and in all weather conditions. They inspect their uniforms dozens of times each day, demanding nothing less than perfection.

These men who exercise self-discipline, self-control, and mastery of one’s self.

How could anyone hate on that expression of the male ideal?

When is the last time you did anything hard? When have you exercised any self-restraint? When have you endured pain?

Hating on the military is neither cool nor edgy. It’s pathetic and insecure. It’s exactly what we’d expect of Lindsey Stone and feminized American men.

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It’d be too easy to ignore Lindsay Stone if she were an isolate incident. She is, however, the face of millions of American women.

Mistakes obnoxiousness and unoriginal sarcasm for humor? Check.

Fifty pounds overweight? Check.

Sausage arms and little piglet fingers? Check.

No respect for the men who sacrificed so that she could stuff her face at Chipotle and slurp down Trenta lattes? Check.

Refuses to demonstrate any remorse when gently corrected? Check.

You can read more details here.

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A lot of “manosphere” blogs are folding. Why? Roosh lists 3 reasons:

1. Having a manosphere blog could get you fired from work.

2. It’s hard to maintain a blog for over a year. It takes a freakish mind to write hundreds of posts on one or two topics.

3. Blogging remains a hobby for most, not a job.

Those are true. There are a couple of additional reasons.

4. Most men are not cut out for the game. Let’s face it, the game is brutal. Unless you work in a career like sales, finance, or law, rarely are you forced to prove yourself every day.

With a typical day job, if you do a good job, your boss will let you rest on your laurels. You can cruise today and then hustle tomorrow or next week.

If you work in sales, your boss wants to know, “What have you done for me lately?”  Ten good years as a salesman could be wiped away by a bad quarter. It’s not uncommon to get “blown out.”

Similarly, the game never lets you rest. You’ve fucked 100 women? Great. That girl you’re talking to now doesn’t know that. She’s just another prospect…just another read. Are you going to close?

Because of the game’s brutality, most men are happy to settle for a set of steak knives.

5. Guys fall in love. Most guys settle and some guys fall in love. I’ll never hate on a guy who falls in love. It’s a beautiful thing. A man in love would rather write love poems or snuggle with his girlfriend than write a blog. Who can blame him?

6. Men run out of content. If a guy quit the game because he’s a pussy, what is there to write about – trips to Ikea?

If a guy fell in love, how is he going to keep up a game blog? It’s pretty obvious that Roissy (the original R and not the current proprietors) feel deeply in love with a woman. That’s why his blog shifted to race-baiting and paleocon topics. Then he handed the blog over to some young guys.

7. Heterosexual men are weak. Most men have no follow through and are generally worthless. The guys at the gyms with the best bodies are often homosexuals. The definitive guide to manhood, The Way of Men (here; review forthcoming), was written by a gay. I’d rather hang out with Jack Donovan than most men who label themselves “alpha males who have taken the red pill.”

Read my Twitter.  Guys get butt-hurt all the time. Petulant is what describes the modern American men. And these childish, emotional reactions are coming from people who are reading my stuff – and thus should be more masculine and less pussified than average.

8. Men shift towards other pursuits. If you’ve run enough hard game that you can actually keep up a blog, your game has probably gotten pretty good.

Once you game goes from, “I stumble onto sex, i.e., get lucky,” towards, “My game is a purposeful approach to meeting women that has a high success rate,” you sorta get over it.

I can go out on any given weekend and get laid by a woman who, a few years ago, I’d have felt pretty happy to bang.

Once you know you can get laid, you lose the hunger.

9. Men get dopamine burnout. Remember when you first meet a hot girl? You start getting a boner just standing next to her. Your pulse quickens and your breaths get shallow.

Dopamine is about anticipation. Once you know you can get laid, there isn’t any anticipation. You get very blah, blah, blah about the game.

Dopamine Jackpot! Sapolsky on the Science of Pleasure

10. Going to make a juice. Peace.

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If you go in for an annual exam, you’ll get your cholesterol levels measured. (If you have insurance, get one every year. It will give you a baseline to determine how your body is aging and whether your diet and exercise program is working. I’ve had one every year since I was 28.)

The doctors will also measure your high density lipoprotein (good cholesterol), low density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol), and your blood lipid levels.

According to the Mayo Clinic, a cholesterol level below 200 is the goal;  an LDL of 100-129 is ideal for people not at risk for heart disease; a HDL level of 60 or above is best, and triglycerides are best below 150.

I just got my report card in the mail. My levels are, respectively: 190, 118, 64, and 40. In other words, my blood is perfect.

Here is the lab report (alpha blood):

 

For dinner I ate this:

 

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Look at all of that saturated fat. I cooked that in two tablespoons of coconut oil, to add more fat. I must be Paleo, right?

No. According to the Cult of Paleo, fruit is evil as it contains fructose. I drank a 16 ounce juice containing carrots, oranges, and pomegranates along with all of that dietary saturated fit and cholesterol:

Then I ate 2 of these:

And then 10 of these:

 

Since it was an off day, that was my entire eating for the day. (I’ll take another 10-20 liver pills before bed and that’s it.)

Yes, that was one meal. I don’t know how many calories that was or how many grams of protein, carbs, fat, or whatever it contained.

I’m not a cow who chews cod all day or who has to eat every 2.5 hours or else have a violent blood sugar swing. (Blood sugar swings are for women.)

I eat 1-2 large meals each day with lots of protein, saturated fat, fructose, and processed chocolate.

And have perfect cholesterol.

Train your ass off in the gym and you can eat whatever you want. You’ll have ideal cholesterol levels and perfect lab work.

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