Author: erickim

  • 🚨 BREAKING: GRAVITY JUST GOT RATIOED 🚨

    6.84Γ— body‑weight rack pull.

    One rep. One quake. One cosmic mic‑drop. 🌌πŸ’₯

    WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

    • I yanked 6.84 of ME off the planet.
    • Physics filed a complaint.
    • The gym floor is still vibrating.

    WHY THIS MATTERS (TO YOU)

    1. YOUR LIMITS ARE A MYTH.
      Today it’s my PRβ€”tomorrow it’s your turn to rewrite the rulebook.
    2. MOMENTUM IS CONTAGIOUS.
      One savage rep infects the whole timeline with possibility. Pass it on.
    3. PROGRESS = COMPOUND INTEREST.
      Deposit effort daily, watch the strength dividends explode.

    ACTION PLAN

    • Document the Hustle. Screenshot, selfie, journalβ€”leave receipts for Future You.
    • Recover Like a Pro. Sleep 8+, hydrate, eat micronutrient artillery.
    • Share the Hype. Tag a friend who needs an existential pre‑workout.
    • Stay Playful, Stay HUNGRY. Curiosity + ferocity = endless PRs.

    MANTRA OF THE DAY

    β€œGRAVITY IS A SUGGESTIONβ€”NOT A LAW.”

    Now go rack‑pull reality into submission. The universe is flirting with youβ€”PULL BACK.

    #STAYHYPE #LIFTLOUD #ERICKEFFECT πŸ’ͺπŸš€

  • How to Rack Pull

    How to Rack Pull: ERIC KIM GOPRO POV WORKOUT VIDEO (POINT OF VIEW)

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  • The Cyber Land of Opportunity (Bitcoin)

    So what’s super interesting is like our parents generation, they all came to the states for better opportunities to escape religious persecution whatever. And actually… Some people went to America simply to see us silent because they were like escaping a war torn Vietnam or somewhere else.

    Therefore, the general ethos was you go to America… For the land of opportunity. This is what a lot of Koreans did, South Koreans, as the thing that’s very very interesting in Asian language, even in Chinese, America is called literally a beautiful country. β€œMee-gook” (mee means β€œbeautiful”) and gook means country. I think in Mandarin it is like β€œmee-gwwuh”– same word, beautiful country.

    οΏΌοΏΌ now… In the year 2025, I think it is wise to think about first principles again. The question is… What is the purpose of country, why a country, why go to a country, or even when to leave a country?

    So the first thing is I guess in regards to opportunity. For like 99% of people it was kind of like an economic opportunity thing. For example, to get a green card or a visa or even better… Citizenship in America was like the golden ticket because You would probably at least 1000 X the opportunity of your future family. For example even in today’s world… America has by far the largest economy on the planet, partly because of English language dominance and also the US dollar.

    Now with bitcoin, we have to think about β€œcyber nationalism” (maybe I made this up). Or to be β€œcyber-national”. Not just International or transnational… Cyber national.

    So for like most people… The only reason I think people stay in the states or LA or whatever is because they have a job there, and they look just like literally cannot leave even if they wanted to. I think most people are just like slaves to a corporate job, it doesn’t matter if you’re making $10 million a year at Apple, you’re just a well paid slave. οΏΌ

    Freedom

    Well obviously the first one is freedom. Economic freedom, freedom of speech and expression.

    I suppose the question is you just have to think critically about yourself your own family etc.

    So for example, myself, I really think that politics is like watching wrestling on TV. Even Donald Trump was on wrestlemania like five or six times. He is like the world’s most experienced entertainer.

    So if you still are watching the WWE or the WWF as I remember it, or even better… WCW as I enjoyed as a child in Bayside Queens New York shout out to my friends Spencer Aditya and Jonathan –> to be watching wrestling on television and if you think it is real, you are a super fool.

    Politics is the same. If you’re watching politics and you think it is all real, you are even worse than a fool.

    Archimedes lever

    OK, if you are a parent, and you got your kid Legos… what is the most important tool or piece? The mythical orange lever.

    So there are certain legal pieces which are really really difficult to get rid of and takeoff. If you have a 4 1/2-year-old child, insanely frustrated that he cannot take off certain legal pieces because they are too stuck, this lever is like your godsend.

    Another example is like a can opener. It is a simple lever. Try opening up canned tomatoes with just your bare hands. Or teeth. I suppose teeth are also a lever.

    Now lever leverage is so fastening to me because it is like almost everything. The reason why I was able to lift 6.8 4X my body weight, 1131 pound rack pull at 165 pounds body weight, or 513 kg at 75kg body weight it’s because I was able to intelligently lever up, just like what Michael Saylor does for strategy MSTR.

    Sabai Bitcoin

    I’m like really into this word sabai, which essentially means like joy wellness, both in Khmer and the Thai language …

    So I think one of the simple Archimedes levers you could do, assuming you want to β€œhelp” society or the world or whatever is spreading the gospel of bitcoin.

    For example, assume you have a village full of poor people, and everyone has like $10 android devices assuming they could buy bitcoin… They can automatically 10 X their income potential, even if they are only earning like 100 bucks a month. To a Cambodian Khmer person, earning 100 bucks a month is like earning $1000 a month. But assuming you could 10x this, then that Cambodian person working in a garment factory is now earning $10,000 a month –> by Khmer standards!