A close friend of mine and I exchange biweekly emails reviewing our progress and performance of the past two weeks. It serves as a way to keep each other accountable and stay on track. The method we use is simple yet extremely effective. With the New Years celebrations in full swing, I find myself looking back at the year that passed, 2014. As I contemplate the various events that took place and things I experienced, it dawns on me that our biweekly review format offers a solid way to review the entire year. I believe people get far too caught up in Read More

As I slid another 45-pound plate onto the bar, I had an odd sensation of nostalgia. This felt somewhat disturbing, so I stopped and wondered when the last time was that I had lifted as much weight. For the better part of the last year, my workout had consisted of exercises unrelated to weightlifting, such as running long distances and doing a bunch of jumping jacks. Getting back into the weightlifting routine, I realized I was a whole lot weaker on the bench than I had been a year and half ago. This decline merited further examination. Measuring progress and fitness can Read More

2014 has been a tremendous year for Return Of Kings. We have made serious strides every month in terms of readership and have the highest number of dedicated readers and commenters in the site's history. Traditional sex roles week was a success and we have more writers on staff than ever before. ROK has provided incisive, relevant, and timely commentary on serious public issues as they arise, all the while continuing to provide fresh perspectives on historical, philosophical, and spiritual issues. Furthermore, ROK has also continued to provide insight into travel, game, and general tips for life. In celebration of these accomplishments, Read More

We've all known the above idiom, yet many men continue to embody it in reality, usually for the worse. We then have are cases of men wifing up sluts, whores, pornstars, predatory women, etc. with a deluded self rationalization that such trash is indeed treasure, and with often terrible outcomes, some of which are triggered later out of natural territorial instincts. Why? Because of faulty discernment while choosing women to begin with. One single object (a woman) appears in three different ways: to the man who practices austerity it appears as a corpse, to the sensual it appears as a woman, Read More

I was visiting a friend of mine in Switzerland recently, and when I woke up on Saturday morning he was cleaning his military issue automatic assault rifle on the kitchen table. He apologized that he had to go to report for compulsory shooting as part of his military service. I love guns, so I invited myself along and had a great time shooting with him, but he seemed fed up with the obligation. This is the difference between doing something because you have an interest in it and being forced to do it. The difference is only psychological, but it can Read More