Bez Tytułu - Issue #235
In this week's issue:
You Don’t Need To Train Harder, Just Smarter
The Last Photo Is Always Wrong
Protocol Survival
Drowning Rat Experiment
Why you forget what you’ve learn
Effective male communication
Secure vs Insecure people
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📰Something to Read
You Don’t Need To Train Harder, Just Smarter
Language: English | Reading Time: 15 minutes
The eccentric phase, the lowering, is where the leverage is.
Coming down stairs.
The bottom of a squat.
Putting the weight back down.
Muscles lengthening under load produce more force at a fraction of the metabolic cost. That asymmetry is the whole point.
The old framing treated DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) as the price of admission.
Nosaka flips it.
Gradual progression triggers the same adaptations without wrecking you.
The repeated bout effect handles the rest.
TL:DR - five minutes a day. Heel drops, chair squats, wall push-ups.
Especially useful for older people and anyone with chronic conditions, since the load on heart and lungs stays low.
🎬From Youtube
Language: English | Duration: 19 minutes
An interesting thing is happening on the most popular dating app.
You swipe through a profile and everything looks normal until the last photo.
A face that doesn’t belong, Crude edit, off proportions.
Easy to write off as a one-off.
It isn’t.
The same kind of image shows up across thousands of profiles, always in the same slot.
Christophe Haubursin, ex-Vox investigator, figured out why it’s there.
The answer doesn’t make Tinder look good.
🌐WWW Gems
Protocol Survival
Cost: Freemium
Most prep advice rounds to “two weeks of canned goods.”
Protocol Survival inverts that.
You enter your household, ages, headcount, what’s actually in the locker.
It runs per-person calorie and water math against your inventory and tells you which resource is your bottleneck.
Food, water, meds, whichever drops to zero first.
That’s your real survival horizon, not the optimistic one.
Free Catastrophe Survival 101 course on top.
🖌️ TL:DR
This week’s sketch note:
Author: AngelikaSkotnicka
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🎞Short Format
» Drowning Rat Experiment
» Why you forget what you’ve learn
» Effective male communication
» Secure vs Insecure people
🎧Banger of a week
Two Venezuelans who invented their own genre called merenguetón, merengue meets reggaeton meets Afrobeat, and rode it to #1 in Spain, outselling Bad Bunny.