I need something to do while waiting between sets. I used to just scroll instagram but have quit recently since it clouds your mind and kills your attention span.Since I wanted to start reading more anyways I thought about bringing a book to the gym to pass the time. Right now I'm reading a Manga but wanted to start with philosophy (Nietzsche and the like) once I finish it.The question now is whether people will find it weird since they all just phonerot between sets. Has anyone tried this or seen someone do this? Would you find it weird if you saw someone reading across the room?
>>77278643Why not just contemplate life between sets?
>>77278643Do what you want who cares, if you wanna read do it. Why do you need the validation of others to decide? Play your Gameboy for all I care
>>77278643if you have the capacity to do anything between sets except zone out and wait for the next set you're not training hard.you're a stupid fucking retard.
>>77278647Nah only books like mein kampf or thenew encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding are allowed.
>>77278646I've been doing exactly that and the only conclusion is that life is meaningless and everything I do is futile, hence the desire to read Nietzsche, I want to better understand nihilism
>>77278647Because I want to fit in. Isn't that what human existence is all about, fitting into the group and getting positive social validation?
>>77278643I actually prefer browsing the fph thread on /fit/ between my sets because it motivates me
>>77278810It's funny bro because you don't really know how intuitively right you are. Life is meaningless. And that's a good thing. This is the beginning of lack. Because life is meaningless we actually create a retroactive false wound. Once we are immersed into language this wound is the feeling that we are incomplete. language can never fully capture something it can only refer to it, something is always missing. From this lack is birthed desire. A desire that you want RIGHT NOW turns into neurosis ritual and an attempt to guarantee an outcome this is called surplus enjoyment. It's the painful enjoyment that comes from trying to force the gap of meaning to close. For example: if you want to be the next big musician. Healthy desire: working day by day steadily releasing songs making slow progress and enjoying it. Surplus enjoyment: you tweak a song for six months this is the song that makes or breaks your career you ruminate over it and neurotically tweak it and tweak it until it's perfect (it will never be) you are attempting to guarantee an outcome
>>77278643another reason why faggots take so long on a machine
