Cause I don’t need to play by a set of rules to understand power dynamics.
I didn’t study psychology and human behavior for 10 years to end up relying on a sub for something I can already understand and utilize on my own haha.
The book is always on my bedside table, and has been there for 3 years, and if you really want to utilize that knowledge, you need to work on your social skills, not rely on a sub.
Plus, certain subs for me don’t require that many runs for long-term effect, like PCC or Khan St1, the latter I only ran for 1 day and it was enough
Was just a bit sick since Tuesday, but I finally graduated from the army program
Tomorrow imma head to the Olympics committee and start the transfer process, hopefully I can straight up start from this month, instead of one extra month at my current place.
Other than that, I’ve just been resting and kinda took a washout from my custom till last night, after which I ran Spartan, which straight up made me feel much better than I was earlier, due to which I ended up going to the gym for a leg day :))
Once you’ve tasted the power of the Ragnarock, it’s damn hard to let it go
Now, I know you operate on @invictus -power levels and badassery in general, and that might not apply to the rest of us But what are your thoughts on running Emperor Black for a prolonged period of time? Past the “recommended” 60-90 days? People tell me that it might be too… intense.
yo @Invictus so far this Journal it’s amazing, congrats for the results. Hopefully you can give us more insight about the custom with stark and mind eye’s because it was always an interesting combination to do. Also, if you don’t mind, would you be able to tell me a listening pattern which I can follow? I have DR + LBFH. I’ve been doing MWF listening pattern, but not only I feel but I know I should listen a little bit more. So what listening pattern should I implement? Also sorry for off-topic.
Okay so got quite a bit to say haha
But firstly, I handed in my resignation
Though this upcoming week is an off week for me, so I will just be finishing processes here and there, and just chilling
As for me and my customs, I’ve come to the conclusion that I like both Cosmic Transcendence AND Force of Nature, therefore, I’m using them interchangeably, though FoN is the one I like more, which is what I’m sticking with at the moment, till I feel like using CT.
It is intense, and it would definitely make you feel like there’s no joy in things anymore, but depending on how you are mentally, as well as how well you take care of your mental health, it can be used longer, though you gotta be careful, or else you’d be withdrawn.
I mainly guide it to only withdraw me from the world when I workout, as that’s the main reason I even use the EmpB core (just like how I was busy working out during the World Cup final, and the New Year’s Eve).
If all you’re using is those 2, I’d tell you to do the following:
Use them with an every other day pattern, however, every listening day, alternate the order, as seen below;
Monday: LBFH → DR
Tuesday: off
Wednesday: DR → LBFH
And so on.
This is an alternate way of getting subs to show you their deeper effects
And for the duration, take 5 days off after every 20 days.
I think it’s time to give myself some rest from EmpB, I wanna enjoy my workouts like before
Will update which custom im going back to soon, cause there was one Khan + Stark custom that I never really shared about on the forum, nor did I post it, so I’m most likely going back to it.
Speaking of Stark, can I somehow make room for 2 modules in this custom or should I make a separate one?
I’m talking about “A/SPS: Eyesight” and “A/SPS: Hearing”
And this is the custom:
Stark core
Wanted core
Entranced
Ethereal Presence
Carpe diem ascended
Victory’s call
Fenrir
Serum X (from what I remember you said it helps with reps in the gym, I started going to the gym as well and it should be useful.
Deep sleep
Jupiter
Furious Ascent
Heracles
Physical Shifting - Sexyness
Gloryseeker
Natural Winner
Direct Influencing Aura
Epigenetics & DNA Modulator
APS Head (for migraines and balance)
Khronos key @Invictus
Also if I have Fenrir already, would be a waste of a slot to add Furious Ascent as well or they work well together?
Those are 19 from what I see, so you have a place for one more module.
As for how the custom looks, isn’t it a bit too soon for you? Considering how just a month or 2 ago you were asking me about foundation building, and then about healing with DR
You might be in a state of FOMO, so check if that’s the case, otherwise the custom looks fine.
As for this, I don’t have any experience with Furious Ascent, so can’t comment sorry, but Fenrir is pretty good at getting things done no matter what.
I am doing DR + LBFH because I’ve checked a little bit the benefits and it has some masculinity to it as well, it should build some foundation. And I’m thinking to integrate my custom with this stack as well. Maybe every Sunday or if that’s too much after every 2 weeks I’ll do it on a Sunday or something. Also if you say Fenrir it’s already good I might not add Furious Ascent anymore but I don’t really know, I will still think about it a little bit. But yeah, the thing is that I’m wondering if my custom will suffer from the initial purpose of it (if that makes sense) by adding A/SPS Eyesight and A/SPS Hearing.
So I stopped listening to my customs with EmpB in them, and went back to an older ZPv2 custom that doesn’t have EmpB core, and well, here’s something I noticed:
My guess, on EB you have transcended your humanity, and have thus become… the Superman.
… who has no need for a pulse
But jokes asides, that is curious. How were your previous workouts, while eon EB?
EDIT: Also, thanks for the input!
I gotta say it is a bit weird. After two cycles on EB I don’t feel withdrawn at all. I just stopped wasting my time on useless social media… but IRL I feel even more connected with people, and I can’t figure out why
From the data I have, it seems while the workouts “felt” more intense (mentally), the amount I even burned per workout never really crossed 300kcal, except for 3 occasions, which were coincidentally during washout periods, so there’s that.
I found myself more likely to just not care about others as much, mainly because I would have rather been alone in solitude, diving deeper into who I am, and constantly just dissecting myself all the time, which is fine, but gets taxing after a while.
It also made me come off as a bit emotionless, mainly due to me being too much in my head, and always just thinking about deeper stuff.
Those 2 things made me now completely get over EmpB for the meantime.
But what are your thoughts on running Emperor Black for a prolonged period of time? Past the “recommended” 60-90 days? People tell me that it might be too… intense.
