The Buffer

Man's Search for Muscle

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Discussing philosophical concepts that can apply to fitness and physique development

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The Buffer

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Health

Latest episode

Apr 11, 2026

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Episodes

Pragmatism vs idealism 30.12.2020

Is one preferable to the other in the fitness world?

What does it mean to be a man 29.12.2020

What does it mean to be a "man" or a "real man"? Also my cat ran away.

Why being oppressed is currency 23.12.2020

A discussion about the oppression Olympics, white privilege and toxic masculinity (aka horse shit)

The quickest and easiest way to build muscle 22.12.2020

How we can be more efficient with hypertrophy and physique improvement

Revisiting mentorship 21.12.2020

Follow-up discussion about being a mentor

Overcoming the 2 biggest obstacles 17.12.2020

Getting past the midday lull and not being satisfied. My blog: https://shawnthebuffer.wordpress.com/

The Warrior - and daily farmer walks 07.12.2020

A little bit about the book On Combat plus my new habit of doing farmers walks every day

Change "have to" into "get to" 31.10.2020

Mental reframing technique of the day derived from the Daily Stoic book

Jeff Cavaliere (athlean x) using fake weights? 30.10.2020

I guess I'm late to the party here, but having just seen this, here are my thoughts on the situation... Probably different than you'd expect!

Another day another Muslim terrorist attack 29.10.2020

What causes this?

Stop being a coward! 29.10.2020

Practical advice on how to take on a courageous personality rather than a fearful one.

One key to improve results 28.10.2020

For fitness and training there is really one thing you can focus on that will vastly improve results....

Review of Sean Nalewanyj 27.10.2020

Content review of Sean Nalewanyj

Stoic bodybuilding 26.10.2020

Blog post: https://shawnthebuffer.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/stoic-bodybuilding/

Why are we so divided? 24.10.2020

Like ants in a jar we seem to be at one another's throats these days. Why is that?

How socialism works 09.10.2020

A bit off topic, but interesting discussion about socialism and how it relates to fitness

The unreachable horizon of conditional happiness 08.10.2020

Trying to adjust our aims so they are in harmony with our nature

Sustain and Abstain 07.10.2020

According to Epictetus these are the two keys to philosophy, and they also seem to be the two key words for #health and #fitness.

Cut the puppet strings that bind you 06.10.2020

Another mediation from Marcus Aurelius and also Epictetus. How to utilize this idea for #health and #fitness

Bodybuilding - momentum 05.10.2020

Marcus Aurelius quotes along with other philosophical and physiological ideas about using "momentum". #dailystoic #fitness

Superman training for Halloween 04.10.2020

The next goal on the way to making progress....

What if you don't have a "why"? 01.10.2020

How to keep on track with goals when you don't know why they're important to you

To juice or not to juice? 26.09.2020

Should you use steroids... A very difficult dilemma to consider

The power of gratitude in times of tragedy 23.09.2020

Continuing my series on tools by Phil Stutz - using grateful flow to get through hardship

Carl Jung's shadow philosophy - how to incorporate/integrate it 17.09.2020

A little bit more philosophical today as we talk about the archetype of the shadow to go further into to work of Phil Stutz and Barry Michels (tools)

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