Surefire Way to Save the Human Race
by TC
06/28/10

TC needs your help in reducing the number of mentally and spiritually weak a-holes in the world.

He's on fire! I loved NBA Jam as much as the next kid but I think they are taking a video game a bit too far.

Wow, T-Nation logo is back. Congratulations on that! Gotta come here more more often again I guess, maybe it stopped going down the drain it was started to...

Thanks TC. I've been frustrated with my current situation lately and it's because I feel like I haven't progressed in some tangible manner. Your article (and previous one's like this) really fires me up to work harder and create the change that I want to see.

The idea of 'maintaining' never made sense to me either, you're either getting better or worse so why would someone put effort to just stay the same?

You need to change the opening disclaimer. It should say "...an occasional feature...". Good article TC

All joking aside am i the only person that finds it truly disturbing that you have to pass a series of tests to drive a car yet any f'in moron with the proper "equipment" can pop out as many dumbass kids as they want to? For god's sake 90% of man's problems would be solved if A. you had to be of REASONABLE intelligence to breed and B. GOD FORBID financially able to support them on your own.

TC,

I left my laptop on and my new girlfriend of four days who now lives with me read the entire Atomic Dog. She wants your seeds and I can't get her to realize, you don't actually provide these to the public yet. But I also want her to want my seed. Any suggestions?

Luoma! You glorious bastard! You *listened*! Thanks!

I hope you keep pumping out these things every week like in days of old, you testosteronissimo you.

And I agree that there is something to be said for 40s Hugo Boss fashion. If you want to prance around in alemannic jackboots in public, I guess there is always the option of going goth :)

While I share your elitist self-improvement ethos, I have also seen the flip side of that coin: constant dissatisfaction with one's achievements and the inability to enjoy the present moment. And I ain't even that experienced at this thing called life, let alone grizzled. The dysgenic masses, with their hovering-around-room-temperature IQs, lemming-like worship of Wal-Mart and reality TV, casual fucking in the mud, and social life dedicated to endless vacuous gossip, surely are more content than us ivory tower ascetes sometimes. It's a trade-off: you can either be happy or you can have purpose. I, of course, intend to crush that dichotomy in due time :)

Productivity tip to ensure a steady flow of Atomic Dogs: every time you rub one out to barely legal cheerleaders on Youtube or whatever, write 10 words. That way you'll have like three or four editorials per week!

You started talking about putzes in the coffee shop and I immediately recalled one of my favourite Atomic Dogs, Vision Quest http://www.tmuscle.com/...ok/vision_quest

Good stuff.

Are you going to start selling "straws" like the sperm from prize bulls?

Me, I'll be striving...

If they did this, but with lebron james, the US would dominate the olympics for the next 40 years

Good article.

I'm also very glad to see the "T-Muscle" logo was changed back to T-Nation.

You know you've been on the forums too long when it takes you a while to realize the professor X in the article is in a wheelchair, and he's not the 280lb mod who eats 5 pounds of steak a day.

TC

i doubt you havent already thought of this, i mean you are purely fucking brilliant coughGIVE-ME-FREE-ANACONDA-PROTOCOLcough, but is there any chance you guys are gonna come out with just a carb-blend product?

correct me if i'm wrong but i think CT said the same carbs that are in FINIBARS are also in the new SWF.... that blend/mixture/whatever you wanna call it

Woohoo, good to get another A-Dog! Thanks TC!

I concur, it's not really satisfying or noteworthy to merely "maintain" something. And in many areas of life, if you're only maintaining while your peers, competitors, or the world in general is progressing, then you're actually falling behind if you're not at least improving enough that you "keep pace" with the current level of progress around you.

I like the idea of "doing my best at this moment with the resources available to me." Some days I might have plenty of energy, motivation, time, tools, and support to accomplish whatever task is in front of me. Other days, I might feel drained and overwhelmed, and I might not have all the resources and assistance to help me. But in all situations, all of the time, I can "do my best" with what I have in the moment.

Whether we're in the gym, at work, or with our partner, we're rarely "100-percent" physically, mentally or emotionally. Of course, if we only tried to make progress when we're at that elusive 100-percent, we wouldn't have too many occasions to move forward!

We should give ourselves credit for what we can do in the moment with the current resources we've got. Some progress, rather than mere "maintenance," is better than no progress at all. Someone said, "The best place to start being successful is where you are with what you have."