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• Entre Tetris e Chocolatinhos

  Uma manhã fria de julho. Café na xícara, pouco açúcar, barriga roncando, e a cabeça ainda presa entre duas noites: uma palestra sobre convivência que prometia mudança, e um silêncio estratégico num restaurante barulhento, quando alguém propôs um clube de leitura e alguém respondeu, sem querer, com o silêncio de quem espera que o assunto morra sozinho. Convido a todos a participarem dos grupos: Do Brasil e Em Português.

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• Meu sexto sentido

  Fim de tarde, tevê, família na sala e uma ocorrência...

• A matemática e a Gentileza

  Uma frase, uma via, um pedestre, seu cachorro, alguns carros e... um cálculo.

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• O dote não brilha sozinho

  O dote não brilha sozinho. Apaga, como lâmpada esquecida. E acende de novo, só quando alguém se lembra de apertar o interruptor — ou quando quem a possui decide, enfim, que a escuridão da sala já dura tempo demais.

• O teste da água

  E o homem? O homem não é fechado em si. Ele é jogado na água do tempo todos os dias. A manhã fria o dissolve um pouco...

• Areia Congelada

  Li, em algum prefácio, que a crônica nasce quando a gente não tem o que escrever...

• PAIN INSIDE

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• A world withered in joy and unseen in sorrow

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• What is actually going on with the prehab craze?

  Before this man is permitted to touch a barbell, he must first do his 30 min prep. Out comes the lacrosse ball, and he rolls his glute on it on the gym floor with the face of a man receiving terrible news over the phone. Then the foam roller, the full length of each leg, wincing theatrically at knots he has decided are there, even though science cannot yet see these knots. Then the little resistance band, looped above the knees for the side-steps, the monster walks, the clamshells, the entire…

• Is prehab just cleanup for problems bad programming created?

  A lot of prehab is just cleaning up problems bad programming created in the first place. I do not mean rehab is fake, injuries happen, and some people genuinely need corrective work before normal training even feels possible again. But lately I have noticed how much modern lifting culture turns predictable programming mistakes into specialized rituals that get marketed back to people as advanced wisdom. The shoulder is probably the clearest example.

• Is there really any such thing as 'mirror muscles'?

  One of the dumbest shifts in modern gym culture is the way people started talking about “mirror muscles” like they were fake muscles. Biceps. Side delts. Rear delts. Glutes trained directly. Rotator cuff work. Isolation exercises in general. Somehow all of this got framed as cosmetic fluff while endless compound lifting got rebranded as “functional.” And now there are people walking around with permanently irritated shoulders, aching elbows, unstable hips, and lower backs held together by…

• Can you admit what you're actually training for?

  When I started training seriously, the goal was to look like Christian Bale in Batman Begins. It was simple, I wanted to look good and I wanted to get laid. I was 20 years ago, when I was 14. I didn't over-complicate it, I didn't want athletic performance, cardiovascular health, longevity, mobility or any of the fitness buzzwords from 2026. I just wanted to look good. I feel the majority, if not practically all of us want the same, but now we go through complicated rituals to mask it...

• Did your biceps stop growing because the weight is too light?

  People got way too obsessed with “perfect form” on curls. If the weight is so light that your torso doesn’t even need to stabilize, it’s probably not heavy enough to force growth. Look, don't spend all your time doing biceps curls trying not to move the shoulders. GET THEM HEAVY. See arnold: Heavy standing curls where you cheat the concentric a bit, then fight the eccentric under control, are brutally effective. 5 hard reps with a weight that actually scares you will build more real-world arm…

• Can you ever build real blue-collar grip strength in a gym?

  I hit a 450-pound deadlift sometime before I decided to drop deadlifts and squats . Four plates and a 25, no straps. I like to remember that the whole gym was watching . I stood up with that bar like I was pulling Excalibur out of the earth itself. I made it. Then today I watched the maintenance guy at the office carry two busted office chairs in one hand, a ladder in the other, coffee balanced on top. I tried to do the same, my fingers would hurt. Never gripped anything on this angle. I asked…

• Do you actually train muscles, not movements?

  Most people do not have a movement problem. They have a weak-link problem. I am not talking about elite athletes, that's a minority and they're not on the internet reading me anyway. I am talking about ordinary people who want a body that can handle hard things without something dumb failing first. If your arms, shoulders, or grip give out before the job is done, I do not care what your squat and deadlift numbers look like. The body tells the truth fast.

• Does 'no days off' actually mean you're training hard enough?

  “No days off” is one of those phrases that sounds tough right up until you think about it for more than five seconds. Because what is the sentence actually saying? If you genuinely train hard, really hard, with enough intensity to force adaptation, your body will demand recovery. Not emotionally. Biologically. Tissue damage, nervous system fatigue, glycogen depletion, inflammatory response. The entire point of hard training is that the body cannot fully maintain itself without rebuilding…

• Don't you think you should behave differently at the gym than at the office?

  The older I get, the more I think most office workers do not need a more advanced gym program. They need to stop behaving like office workers for one hour. I am an office worker, but I feel I'm smarter about it. Let's go for big brain time Look, you sit all day at work. Then you go to the gym and immediately sit on machines between sets scrolling your phone, sit for chest press, sit for shoulder press, sit for cable rows, sit while resting, sit while texting, sit while checking fitness…