Exclusive Evil - Moral Hypertrophy Tips for the New Year

No half-reps.

I planned to take the rest of the year off, but this frame has the half-life of a fruit fly. So it goes. Hope you have fun with it. It’s how I imagine the spam folder of a dozen leaders across four ongoing disasters.

Had fun? Share it. Didn’t? Inform the press.

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Welcome to the December PrimeLifts newsletter. Put down the gingerbread, or unsubscribe. As black ice coats the nation, culling weak life, it’s time to hone your summer body. In fact, it’s almost too late.

Last year we championed moral flexibility, and PrimeLifters listened. They learned to bench stolen weight, sprint from the law, and cycle anything that got results. Morally flexible training built stronger, leaner, bodies primed for proxy warfare. November’s reader gallery was a pantheon of gods, who could almost be forgiven a sugar cookie. Almost.

Throw all that out. Burn it. None of it applies anymore. It’s junk science backed by popular hysteria. 2024 is the year of moral hypertrophy: the diamond-hard moral certainty that powers big lifts and big payloads. And the year without candy canes. Put it down. PUT IT DOWN. We’ll wait.

It’s not too late to fix old mistakes. Just follow these five simple laws for moral hypertrophy, and avoid the fate of the weak.

PrimeTip 1: Full ROM

Don’t sanction your own growth. Take each action through full ROM: Range of Morality. That means complete extension through enemy orphans, doctors, and everything in-between. It’s easy to get lazy and let a few kids cut a rep short. That’s how you stay small. Be your own strongman: hold yourself accountable to full ROM, every strike.

There’ll be critics. Ego lifters. Physical therapists. Amnesty International. Ignore them, and get after it. We’re not after partial reps or single buildings. We’re after full extension and city blocks. That’s how you build quality muscle, fast.

PrimeTip 2: Moral Flexibility

Hopefully, you didn’t actually burn our old advice. You’d have to buy it all again, because moral flexibility still matters. Flexibility makes plates and goalposts easier to move. They’re called verbal gymnastics for a reason: redefining “civilian” takes Olympian mobility. Start off with a simple bridge, and work toward the splits.

And cut sugar, it’s the worst white powder. Others make decent preworkout, and the metabolism boost is great on a cut.

PrimeTip 3: Cardiovascular Hardening

You don’t need cardio. An overtrained heart gripes about simple self-defense, and steals calories from your delts. A three-way training split (push-pull-purge) is enough strain. Remember cardio’s interference effect: fretting over reporters cuts into recovery.

Hard hearts make hard bodies. Don’t worry about coronary episodes. Sure, glassing villages sounds stressful. But that’s the beauty of moral hypertrophy: you won’t feel an attosecond of doubt. Just keep your ideological core tight.

PrimeTip 4: Media Diet

In the past, we’ve suggested a range of health, philosophy, and self-help books to inspire your journey. Burn them. Literally this time. Books shelter pacifist thoughts and pay pacifist royalties. Pacifism opposes the seizure of muscle, killing your gains. Making it the one enemy worse than rum cake.

Your new motto is CICO: cruelty in, cruelty out. Only take in the words necessary to fuel moral hypertrophy, and not a sentence more. This should be the longest thing you read this month. No open letters, UN reports, or rum cake recipes.

Put down the rum cake.

PrimeTip 5: Humanitarian Deloads

Healthy purges aren’t all go, all the time. Bodies and souls need rest, to come back stronger and colder than ever. That’s where deloads–brief breaks from high-volume violence–come in. Take a week away from training, and indulge some token sympathy for the cattle. Your joints and allies will thank you.

Then reload.

Security requires strength. That journey’s hard alone. But together we’re one, unbreakable rod. Put down the cookie or lose the hand.

Sincerely,

The PrimeLifts Team

Use the code “EthicallySwole2024” for half off supplements until February.

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Last volley of 2023! We made it. Thanks for hanging around.

-DD