/lit/ - Literature

>>11093532
Suck my asshole hair

>>11093534

No, u!

This has to be satire

Arete: Greek Sports From Ancient Sources

Why do you want such recommendations, and what do you hope to achieve by reading them? You seem to want confirmation of your own thoughts instead of challenges to them. Why do you want to read things that conform to your own biases?

Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport by David Sansone

>>11093548
>Why do you want to read on topics that interest you?

>>11093548
lol faggot

>>11093565
That very well might be the motivation behind the post, but considering the frequency of such posts, assuming that OP isn't just looking for a pat on the back isn't far-fetched. Perhaps, however, OP really is just interested in those topics out of purely "neutral" academic motivations.

>>11093577
haha yeah

>>11093587
I want to make a career out of sports yet im still in the early phases where im developing my character and attitude. Just because I feel like i need to do weightlifting dosent mean im the stereotypical meat head. A real man not only possesses physical might but also mental.

>>11093587
False requirement. There is no need to be dispassionate or unemotional about a topic to study it. A desire to study a genre already implies an emotional interest.

>>11093621
Fair enough. Perhaps I'm just worried that the OP is at risk of tumbling down a hill of ideology instead of surveying the literature from a steady ledge. Surmising intentions can be difficult.

>>11093603
I'm not presuming you're a meathead. Keep digging deeper, but try to keep in mind your biases. Fitness doesn't need to be stoic or right-leaning. In fact, I'd argue, if you were to look into the history of fitness education, at least in the US, you'd notice a shift away from "conservative" classical models of the body toward more "liberal" takes on well-being. If you hope to be well-informed, then seeking out a totality of understanding and recognizing trends of though would be better than immersing yourself solely in certain texts.

How has no one posted Mishima in this thread yet?

start with the greeks

>>11093688
Good joke.

Im looking for something similar to this picture but with a hardcore mindset twist.

>>11093702
>Good joke.
Plato is literally in that picture you responded with you silly tourist. And Hitler studied them too. Only a certified brainlet would skip the Greeks.

>>11093702
>Plato
>hitler
>Evola
Absolute pseud-core
Go right to Rene guenon, he has what you are looking for

>>11093743
This? What else? Im looking into Seneca the younger atm.

>>11093702

>>11093878
But i dont speak french and i dislike christianity.

>>11093860
>iron pill
>meme charts
>libtard btfo!!!! “Right extremism”
I’m glad more people are reading and getting into literature that challenges conventional beliefs. But Christ dude you have to stop drinking the 4chan coolade. This is a site for loosers and autists who are to confrontational and contrarian to browse normal sites. Stop taking this websites advise seriously.

But to answer your question you could read works like Ashtavakra gita if you like guenon. Also that chart is shit, do your own research and find out where you want to start.

>>11093532
Mishima- Sun and steel
Epictetus
Cicero- On Duties
Seneca- On the shortness of life
Machiavelli
Herodotus
Tuchydides
Xenophon
Arrian
Marcus Aurelius
Clausewitz- On War
Some Epic Poem of you choice
Of course Plato and Aristotle

>>11093532
Iron and the Soul by Henry Rollins is a good essay about weightlifting

>>11093702
You just smeared shit all over the iron pill list
I hope you watch your children embarrass themselves on stage

>>11093896
>>11093987
both of u are mentally disturbed cucks

>>11093702
>Yockey

>>11093680
checks all of OP's boxes including (larping) as a far right extremist

Sun and Steel definitely goes on OPs list

>>11094182
Just telling you how it is.

Like I said, stop drinking the 4chan coolade. This site isn’t going to help you become anything but mentally disturbed. Have fun with your meme pills

>>11094261
>>11094188

La Creaturenas are bullying me.

>>11094357
That’s right anon, if you read the specific combination of books found in all the meme charts on /lit/, Odin himself will decend from Valhalla and grant you enough aryan power to btfo all the Jews and finally lose your virginity.

Fucking retard

>>11094357
We can't give you what you are looking for, try /pol/.
They have what you need.

>>11094388
>>11094392

Why are you upset, retard?

>>11094469
I'm not, if it's dicks up your ass you are looking for you don't go to the library, do you ?

>>>/pol/

>>11094469
>>>/fit/
>>>/r9k/
>>>/pol/
There you go anon, three hug boxes just for you, where they cater to your special brand of autism

>>11094496
>>11094484


cuckalarm.mp4

>>11094501
Amazing arguement, see you on le day of the rope my bazed /fitizen/

deadlifts are so dumb

>>11094182
>>11094357
>>11094469
>>11094501
you're not gonna make it. literature is wasted on you

>>11093889
>i dislike christianity.
Not gona make it.

>>11094182
>>11094357
>>11094469
>>11094501
>Can you recommend me some books?
>why the fuck are you libcucks recommending me books lol wtf
this would be funny if it wasn't so sad

>>11094588
>shilling for a semite religion/political system

>>11094357
Mishima is the most solid advice you can get on your question

>>11093987
Daily reminder that this list is literal shilling. Everything but The Way of Men is published by the same small company that wants to hock their products to 4chan.

>>11093987
>the wasp question
>prottie
christians aren't gonna make it let alone prots
>>11094743
You want to read the Centurion Method, it's a might is right applied to mythology and working out book. If you just want the workout stuff go to like page 150 or so
http://www.order15.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CM-Reprint.pdf

>>11093532
Eugen Sandow's Strength and How to Obtain It is obligatory

>>11094881
it's arktos, and as far as i know that specific evola book and savitri devi aren't published by them. Funny enough those are the best books there

>>11093965
>Epic Poem
Iliad is the correct answer. Odyssey isn't /fitlit/ the same way the Iliad is. Nor is Hesiod.etc

>>11095684
Odyssey is like the end of your life after Iliad, if you want to take that approach, while Hesiod is like the campfire tales you tell when you go /out/

>>11095443

Looks interesting so far I hope its not a bunch of jumbo. Im disorientated so im going to sleep and read it in the morning.

>>11093532
>this fat steroid abusing criminal faggot
>"fit"

download FM 7-22 Army Physical Readiness Training. read all of it. then do what it says to the letter.

>>11093532
Andre Gide's work Corydon is exactly what you need in your life.

>>11095981
>FM 7-22 Army Physical Readiness Training

The army is focused on running marathons which you can do with subpar diets meaning it is not a feat of strength.

Also

>thinking doing baby tier callisthenics is fit

Yeah so i just watched it and you have a mental disorder. Coming at me so rude when you have 0% knowledge what youre talking about. Fucking retard anybody with half a brain can do the shit necessary to be in the special forces. And like I said im into weightlifting which means i must break world/national records if i want to get anywhere meaning i have to suffer more than others hence why im asking for non libcuck books. Is it that difficult to understand?

>>11096041
sorry there cutie pie, i read your OP where you were asking specifically for fitness literature. i didn't know you meant works to satisfy your fetish for greasy oily grunting manflesh.

>>11096112
inferiority complex spotted.

>>11096127
>projecting so hard you see yourself in others comments on 4chan
sah-GEH

the least normie fit lit you could read anon is an exercise physiology or kinesiology book. i would recommend essentials of exercise physiology (:

>>11093532
great collection of rough canadian short stories

>>11093702
Why is Nietzsche on that list? He has little in common with the others, especially Plato and Hitler.

>>11093878
Why do retards keep posting this picture

>>11093532
As soon as you stop being a faggot and realize that being a man has nothing to do with ideology you won't need a book to tell you how to lift weights or structure your workouts.
But I'm actually surprised no one has mentioned or discussed the Greek studies in this thread. Which again, you don't need to be a "far-right" loon to even use them.
>>11093545
7/10
>>11093563
8.5/10, David Sansone actually has some credit in this field (he studies ancient Greece)
>>11093680
9/10
>>11093702
>Hitler
>Spengler
>Plato
>Nietzsche
>Evola
God fucking DAMN. This is pure peak fucking psued, right to the very core. None of these have any relation to another at all.
Consider reading more before ever posting again.
>>11093878
I don't even speak French but looking at the titles on that graphic i'm able to see you're just another pseud
>>11093896
this.
>>11093965
8.5/10
>>11093987
The OG iron pill list is still 6/10

Jesus the absolute state of /pol/ ideologies. Imagine being so engrossed in bullshit that every prospect of your life is something to do with what another retard told you in an obscure post on an Bangladeshi farming forum. Lifting is far-right now? Holy shit, this is further beyond down-syndrome.

>>11097769
> Lifting is far-right now? Holy shit, this is further beyond down-syndrome.

Ok guess i should read harry potter instead then...

>>11093532
I'm very interested in this project as well. Here are a smattering of my list in a vague order in how to read them -- try to stay to this order.

The poems can be read in more or less any order whenever you want.

Books, or Aphorisms:
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway
Enchiridion, Epictetus
'On reading and books', Schopenhauer (not /fitlit/ necessarily, but a very good work for anyone who reads).
Meditations, Aurelius
The Iliad, Homer
Discourses, Epictetus
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Bhavagad Gita
The Republic, Plato
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche
Sun and Steel, Mishima
Ethics, Spinoza
Being and Time, Heidegger

Poems:
Preparedness, Markham
Comrades, Hovey
Invictus, Henely
If, Kipling
Self-Pity, D. H. Lawrence
The Oak, Tennsyon
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson
Law of the Yukon, Service
The Men that Don't Fit In, Service
Rhyme of the Restless Ones, Service
Casabianca, Felicia Hemans
Character of a Happy Life, Wotton

Some Holderlin, Schiller, or Goethe could probably help you along.

>>11093965
This list is fairly good; I would recommend almost all of them.

And an emphasis on Mishima's Sun and Steel; I would say its an 'intermediate' book if you're new to philosophy.etc, but it's a good place to start /fitlit/ if you have a philosophy background.

>>11093545
I'm interested; I'll add it to the list.

>>11095969
I wholly agree.

>>11097769
This guy actually knows his stuff. Listen to him.

>>11100456
Whoops, wrong picture.

>>11093688
I'm not OP, but is this pic legit? For starting with the greeks

>>11100456
Not OP but thnx for the recommends. Ill check these out.

>>11100516
Fairly legit. I wouldn't worry about about the red links. You could also probably play around with 'The First Philosophers' while you're doing other readings as well.

>>11100525
>>11100456
I'm glad to be of help. If you're doing the poetry, the works of Robert W. Service would be really fun ones to start with.

>>11100456
Il try to digest most of this by the end of summer or the year.

>>11100575
Thanx for the response man. Appreciated. Also don't really know what you mean by the red links? Not seeing em. Might be right in front of me lol. Ill keep the Robert W. Service works in mind.

>>11100609
Oh, they might be orange - I'm slightly colourblind.
I mean, 'The Trojan War: A New History'; 'Greek and Roman Theatre'; 'Greek Epic Fragments'

>>11100679
Ah i see. No worries. But thanks. Ill check those three out just to see. Appreciate the response man.