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Performance Area => Pics, Videos, & Links => Topic started by: Joe on October 10, 2010, 09:40:29 am
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIdbOL5efrA
Hopefully he will start coming out with badass workout videos again.
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Man, the guy got small as hell. He is really looking scrawny there and I liked it better when he performed his ugly but heavy squats, cleans, snatches and deadlifts. He used to have a decent bench, too.
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Man, the guy got small as hell. He is really looking scrawny there and I liked it better when he performed his ugly but heavy squats, cleans, snatches and deadlifts. He used to have a decent bench, too.
ya he lost so much power..
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I thought this was some kind of a weird joke.
Probably he realized women like fat slobs and he's trying to get to that.
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nice..
"Being alive is the struggle against death because death is the original and natural form/mode of “life”. When something dies, it “goes back” and “gives in” to the environment. The more alive something is, the more discrete it is compared to the ground it stands on – a.k.a. its surrounding. In other words, when an organism dies, it naturally returns to the environment as the dead body decomposes and becomes one with it. Just think of the temperature and the vital force of a body when it is alive… it is very much differentiated from its environment. But when a body dies, its temperature, élan vital, the will, and consciousness, or whatever you want to call it, are all lacking and dissipating as it becomes assimilated within the nature of its environment and surroundings. And because a dead body lacks the will, the consciousness, and the élan vital, it loses its power to differentiate and “pull” itself away from the environment and the ground it stands on.
Think of a time when we are depressed and feeling down. This is when we lack the energy to fight against the natural “forces” that want to pull us back upon itself. We lie on our beds and become immobile – we find ourselves in a mode of living that is close to death itself. If we continue to stay immobile and refuse to push ourselves back up against the gravity of earth and death, we will die of starvation or thirst and our bodies will decompose and we will become natural again, as part of the environment. Now think of a time when we are happy and joyful. We are full of will, energy, and vital forces that drive us to jump up and down with excitement. Now what happens when you exercise this will? You are distinguishing, differentiating, and pulling yourself away from the environment and gravity of death. Your temperature rises above its normal state and of the environment that embodies you, and you feel “alive”. So being alive is nothing but your will to fight against the naturalness of nature, to “pull” and “drive” yourself away from what’s naturally going to pull you back down to its natural habitat. Isn’t it true that athletes say they feel more “alive” when they are running the fastest, jumping the highest, and throwing the furthest? These extreme acts of athleticism are highly “unnatural”, for they have to be “forced” in a large degree to be accomplished.
The most natural and original state is the state of immobility. Think of the time when you fall asleep. If for some reason you fail to wake up, then you are merely letting death overtake you as you decompose and become assimilated by your surroundings in a process of RETURNING TO NATURE. What’s the opposite of that? Being alive to the extreme - sprinting, running, jumping and all other forms of forceful movements! These movements literally pull your body AWAY from your surroundings. The same concept can be applied to the mind and to thoughts. What is the most natural form of thought? Not thinking at all, with no thought in your head whatsoever. When we are in auto-pilot we almost never think about anything in particular because thinking is a highly unnatural process (our ancestors don’t think because it’s more natural that way because it expends less energy – it burns useless calories to think about problems other than mating or finding food, this is why philosophy and science and arts didn’t develop until we had the caste system…when certain classes of people can AFFORD to waste calories on thoughts other than thoughts about survival). What’s the most UNNATURAL form of thought? Abstract thoughts that take a lot of mental effort. Thoughts that are literally “up there”, as you pull your mind AWAY from what’s considered natural (not thinking).
In short, the more alive you are the more different and distinct you are from the environment that you are situated within. The more “dead” you are, the more alike and similar you are with the environment. When you are completely dead, you are one and the same with the environment. Just think of the way we handle death and the deceased. We deliberately immerse dead bodies with the environment by burying or cremating them. We BURY the dead IN THE GROUND so that it can rejoin the environment by the process of compounding and recycling. And we spread the ashes of the cremated into the atmosphere – the sea and the air so they can “go back” to where it came from and be one with their surroundings.
Sleep, especially dreamless sleep, is the morsel of death borrowed to keep up and renew that part of life which has been exhausted by day. Sleep then (especially dreamless sleep), is the original state. The embryo is always asleep, and the baby is sleeping most of the time. Dreamless sleep is the most natural and original form of existence (or lack of) because it is the mode of life that is closest to death. Socrates said in the Apology that he wasn’t afraid of death because it would feel just like a dreamless sleep. When we sleep dreamlessly we lose all consciousness, drive, and will, and we become immobile and inanimate and thing-like. This form of existence is more natural because it is more assimilated with our surroundings. We are all dreamless sleepers, and that is what makes us similar. Every night we unplug ourselves and retreat back to the mode of non-existence. As human beings, no matter who we are, what we look like, when and where we are born, what our professions are, and what we might have been through during the day, we all have ONE thing in common – we all have to unplug ourselves and sleep dreamlessly during the night.
At that moment of non-being and non-consciousness, we are all equally the same because there is no difference between two individuals when they are in a dreamless sleep. And as in death, we all go back to our original and natural state of being when we are in dreamless sleeps because non-being is the original state of all beings. It is only upon the unnatural act of awakening do we force ourselves to resume the roles that we partake in our lives, but such roles are unnatural because it takes a lot of “trying” and becoming to play a part that we are naturally not part of. But like I said before, it is precisely this unnatural will to “pull” ourselves away from the natural form of “life” (death) that we live and breathe and become who we are.
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-- frank yang
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Well yeah, he's kind of right... I so want to make a similar blog entry but I delayed so much...
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Well yeah, he's kind of right... I so want to make a similar blog entry but I delayed so much...
cool, you lazy shizz. im lazy too though, you could say, we both are giving-in to death.
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nice..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlwgMIpnBRE
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does anybody else think he seems a little "different"? to me he seems more quiet and a little bit more of a thinker/contemplater
i want to watch this frank yang-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGQfTgqQBok
not some quiet guy lift with no emotion then flex...i want those seizure hops and the 500lbs squat(with shitty form)
idk, maybe i just never watched him enough to know that he had quiet times and crazy times back to back or something
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does anybody else think he seems a little "different"? to me he seems more quiet and a little bit more of a thinker/contemplater
ya he actually sounded serious in that video, that's why i watched it.. i hate when he just babbles like a tard, but that vid was nice.
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On why I stopped lifting to make useless things and to live life in the abstract.
by Frank Yang on Friday, November 26, 2010 at 4:53am
I stopped lifting because it is too objective and concrete and practical. I wanted to strip away the practical and the concrete in order to live life in obscurity. It is not that one way of life is better than the other. I just wanted to try something different;to temporally escape the materiality and the corporeality of reality and experience the “higher” and more abstract plane of the world. This is why I engage in art and philosophy, so I can use them as means to render away the tangible and the definite by making objects and engaging in ideas that are abstract to the point of complete uselessness. Cars and furniture, no matter how beautiful they are, are not exactly considered art because they are practical and useful. Paintings and sculptures on the other hand, are art because you can’t really use them for anything else besides contemplation and thinking…and this is why I say that art, in its abstractness and conceptuality, is rendered to be purely intellectual. But things that are purely intellectual (art for art’s sake, thinking for thinking’s sake) are usually pretty pointless and useless. But they are celebrated because they indicate signs of status, genetic fitness, and that they have the capacity to free up the mind from the body, the subjective from the objective, the surreal from the real, and the abstract from the concrete.
This is why status symbols are usually wasteful and useless. The more useless and abstract something is, the “higher” its place is in the hierarchy of things and ideas because you are rendering away and pealing matter away until it becomes pure mind. This sense of uselessness however, is exactly what makes art and other useless things and ideas valuable. This makes sense from an evolutionary stand point because they indicate signs of genetic fitness, since you have to have your all your basic needs satisfied and covered in order to engage in endeavors that are not means to survival. Can you imagine a homeless person making sculptures or composing music? No, because these endeavors are low on the list of things with survival values. He doesn’t even have food and shelter, how is he going to have the time and resources and the energy for art?
But the lower the survival value, the higher the “pussy value”. In other words, to impress others, especially the opposite sex, uselessness rules. Why do you think women love gold necklaces so much? Because it has 0 survival value and is completely useless! But that is exactly its charm and value. Because if you can afford one, then it basically means that all your base and survival needs are satisfied. Imagine if you give a girl something useful for a gift, like an apple or a bottle of water…she isn’t going to be thrilled. This is the same reason why it almost always works when you seduce women with music and art. Likewise, when the brain engages in the abstract, the surreal, the theoretical, the intangible, and the conceptual, it is using its highest faculty…and it is precisely because all the other more concrete and practical matter of survival have been covered that the mind is able to free itself up to engage in more abstract ideas.
Frank Yang lol. Strength is practical for survival, but only up to a certain point. I guess you can say that powerlifting is pretty much useless too. This is why a 500 pound squat is impressive. To me, a 500 pound squat is kind of like a piece of abstract sculpture. But you can only impress other guys with a squat, and not girls because a good squat is not really aesthetically pleasing. So aesthetic + uselessness = status symbol.
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Well he's right.
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I actually really like his Zen-like approach to life
I'm not all for art being purely intellectual, 99% of all artists make their art because they want a nod or some kind of approval, so there actually is a certain goal to it most artists will not admit, in the end a piece of art, even though created out of the mind w. instruments, is more then just an expression most of the time.
I feel sports and art are very closely related anyway.
IMO
He needs to quit overthinking life, it ain't that complicated.
The point of life is to live, the more you live, the happier you are and the better you feel your life has become.
What living 'more' is, is up to the individual, I feel squatting and dunking on a dude gets me a huge rush, I also love the process, it's a challenge and I need to put forth my all and I truely enjoy a challenge in life, it makes me enjoy the moment and thus enjoy life.
I feel I don't live my life just to please others through the uselessness of the things I do in terms of survival ( might be the case tho).
Since it's my life, as a person and athlete I try to live life from my own perspective and do good from my point of view, that's all I need to know.
Not sure why or what he seeks to find with complex reasoning like this, even though it's quite interesting, I'm not sure where it'll take you.
If it takes you to a state of inactivity while he clearly is a talented athlete and must have enjoyed lifting those weights, then I think he's not going into the right direction.
Dude would make an awesome buddhist tho, except for his view on the getting pussy part he keeps referring to.
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Well.. Frank wants pussy haha. Just look at his "Max Effort Whoring Adventure" on Facebook. In Frank's defense, he's not some T.V. show that got cancelled and returned with a crappy premiere. Weird analogy, lol.
Anywways if you want to see more stuff like that... scream more while lifting, become bi-polar and record yourself while doing it. Also remember to run suicides after/while drinking a gallon of milk and eating a crapload of bananas, do ghetto workouts with your screaming brother and do/show funny shit in high school to upload them on youtube later.
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He also had a video with an avorton some time ago...
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Well.. Frank wants pussy haha. Just look at his "Max Effort Whoring Adventure" on Facebook. In Frank's defense, he's not some T.V. show that got cancelled and returned with a crappy premiere. Weird analogy, lol.
good analogy haha.. i could care less, if he wants to vert/strength train, then cool, if not, cool, his art is nice, he's weird, he writes cool shit.. it's funny to see people beg him for training videos.
Anywways if you want to see more stuff like that... scream more while lifting, become bi-polar and record yourself while doing it. Also remember to run suicides after/while drinking a gallon of milk and eating a crapload of bananas, do ghetto workouts with your screaming brother and do/show funny shit in high school to upload them on youtube later.
yup.. the next frank yang is waiting to be unleashed, inside of you!!! :-\
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bump cause damn, he got huge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byfc6SBqM-w
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this cracked me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxuHfvslsC8
the gym he's working out at is like 5 miles from my gf's parents' house.
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frank yang needs to fix his humor.
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lmfao, he seriously wants to be a dinosaur. Doing the deadlift with 2 fingers :P.
But MAN :o he eats a lot, now i know how much a less than big built guy eats 6000+ calories and that is take away food.
lol at sniffing creatine, or is it? :ninja:
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frank yang bulking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y90l9neenY
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this mirin' video is pretty good.. funny and well done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC4Pzjh4Tg
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seems to have gotten over his old gf pretty quickly. also, his triceps are awesome. i wonder if he had a fake dick on the front of his shorts or something.
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i think we have another frank yang thread somewhere.. but i'll drop this here. figured i'd give this video a shot. it's pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KB-mN3jf0
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seems to have gotten over Trimtone (https://www.sfgate.com/market/article/trimtone-review-16535793.php) and his old gf pretty quickly. also, his triceps are awesome. i wonder if he had a fake dick on the front of his shorts or something.
It's mostly drivel, but interesting drivel. I like this sort of stuff a lot actually. Didn't know he was into that kind of stuff.