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- Absolutely no fat-shaming, skinny-shaming, or shape-shaming.
- Be positive about people’s bodies but don’t be fetishistic.
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Quotes
A fascist worked out today, did you?
“I’m an ardent believer in equality, and being in the Communist Party is a way to spread this form of socialism and freedom for all the people”-Jeff Monson
“Every worker sportsman must be a soldier of the revolution”-Spartakiad
Resources
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide: https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
Databases for lifts/muscles:
Flexibility:
The R*ddit Wiki:
TDEE Calculator:
Please be aware that this calculator will ask if you're male or female
Other cool shit:
How to make your own foam roller
Athletes guide to foam rolling
WIP Schedule
Friday: Weekly check-in. Discuss what went right and wrong in terms of goals from last week
Saturday: Declaration of goals+community focus. What tangible, numerical goals are you going for? Don't know? We have ideas!
Sunday: Gals and enby pals take center stage
Monday: Meme Monday
Tuesday: Toot Your Horn Tuesday. Brag about what you've done, how good your progress is, who's making googly eyes at you, etc.
Wednesday: Wing Chun Wednesday. All about martial arts
Thursday: Nutrition. What's been bothering you about nutrition? Maybe we get some comrades from c/food to see if we can't get you where you're trying to go.
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Lenin having -3% chill about literally any subject he's even vaguely interested in moment.
neurodivergent king confirmed
I read this wrong and initially thought Lenin was a huge muscle guy
My grandpa grew up in your so-called glorious Soviet Union. Want to know the truth about communism? After declaring him "bourgeois", Vladimir Lenin threw my grandpa off Hell in a Cell and he plummeted 16 feet through an announcer's table.
he maybe was
this is why my friends mostly won't hike with me anymore
also I accidentally almost did the same traverse as him this week but weather got bad 😔
Mao had stuff to say about this. Keep in mind he was commanding a commie military most of the time. He would periodically write recommendations on why X and Y habits were liberal or revolutionary that were essentially just life advice and how to work together effectively.
A fascist worked out today, did you?
working out, like basically every other hobby, has nothing to do with marxism
What if my hobby is Marxism?
Checkmate, librul
Outrunning the cops does tho
Zhou Enlai's Guidelines for Myself:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/zhou-enlai/1943/03/18.htm
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Perhaps look for guerrilla warfare manuals written by communists. Probably has advice on staying fit as asymmetric warfare requires quick movements
Any specific recs?
There's this big muscley comrade on tiktok who posts workout propaganda. can't remember his handle
The swoletariet?
Wasn’t Mao a big exercise guy despite being, well, big lol
Mao was an excellent swimmer.
One of the reasons he invited Kruschev to hang out with him at the pool while he made fun of him.
Yeah, Mao did some propaganda thing at one point where he swam across a river to i guess show people he was still healthy, and apparently it was a big deal? I don't remember all the details.
He swam across a bunch of rivers. His most famous swim was just going down the Yangtze when he was old and out of his official position of power. They reported an impossibly fast swim for that one, lol.
the whole ordeal about the Yangtze river
Yeah that one was silly but he was actually a good swimmer
Lmfao I replied to the wrong comment, but yeah I agree
He was big when he was old, but dude kind of earned that after decades of slogging around China starving to death and being harried by Nationalist and Japanese armies. Like have you seen how many communists died on the long march? It's terrifying.
responding to immediate external threats is not discipline. being forced to follow the capitalist's routine is miserable, trying to impose one upon myself is similarly awful I just don't also become homeless if I can't make myself go to the gym or eat less than 2400 kcal in a day.
It's not self-discipline, but it is discipline. It's the difference between doing something a coach tells you to do vs. doing it yourself. I think the point here is more "you have the capacity to do a lot more than you might think," and less "self-discipline is the same as discipline imposed on you."
If you work out marxistically you'll be hungry and then you can eat beans.
something along the lines of theory/ logical thinking that would state how required it was to work out and develop discipline
The "develop discipline" part is pretty direct: there's a lot of work to be done to get from here to communism, and it won't get done absent a certain level of discipline. Developing some kind of discipline is simply a prerequisite to getting big things done.
Working out is much more tangential, but it can be a good way to develop that discipline. It's also healthy for you on an individual level, which can only help you contribute more to whatever leftist project you envision.
thank you for your write up, i love your podcast work!
Working out, making your own food, ect. is the only time in our lives under capitalism we get to enjoy the full fruits of our labor without thievery
Discipline applied by the bourgeoisie is ultimately just coerced self-discipline. We see a natural instinct to instill it in school children, and part of the purpose of grading a student is to rate them on a rubric of self-discipline (under capitalism). By the time most of us are finished with school, we've developed our own inner capitalist that tells us how to behave.
And that's taxing! Having to moderate your impuse to tell a karen to fuck off, or to leave work early exhausts us, and makes it that much more difficult to self-regulate in other areas of our lives. Constant advertisements throughout the day take advantage of this as well.
I hear people call American Leftists lazy all the time and it drives me nuts because we're mostly working class, and the US working class works more hours than anyone not specifically being colonized.
We're not lazy, we're tired, by design.
That said, if our forebears from the 1900s could find time to agitate during 16 hour workdays, we can too.
Marx telling me to clean my room
pls someone help unlock this article
Anna’s has it, put the number from the jstor url into the search to unlock any
https://annas-archive.se/search?index=journals&q=40871517
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: