how did you learn how to stretch in gym class as a kid? i think i was doing it wrong the whole time
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specifically what i picked up is that i was supposed to try to stretch as far as possible and hold it there as long as possible
this was dumb and stupid. i think i have now learned a better way to stretch
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the better way to stretch appears to be to extend until the first point at which you encounter resistance and hang out there. maybe wiggle back and forth a bit. wait for the resistance to relax
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feels about a million times better. actually working through some longstanding tension in my thighs
why the balls did no one tell me this as a kid 😡😡😡
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among other things, this form of stretching is
1) wildly non-competitive; it does not matter if someone else can stretch more than you, it's completely irrelevant to the actual point
2) does not happen on a fixed timescale; nobody can timebox when the resistance will relax
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can't believe i spent so much time trying to *match other people's bodily positions* instead of being taught how to feel what was right for my body smdh
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all of this is a metaphor for a bunch of other things too, i mean, take your pick really
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the first time i caught even a hint of this was when i was in a random free yoga class and the instructor said something like "yoga is supposed to feel good" and i was like [extreme pikachu face]
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like wait wait wait you're telling me exercise isn't intrisically about suffering what???
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hey remember how we went to school where we spent 8 hours a day for over a decade having what our bodies could do completely under the control of authority figures
boy i wonder if that had any lasting effects
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thinking about the poast that's like "I will take this child and make it associate cleaning with anger and trauma" except it's about exercise and stretching and all the other care/feeding/use aspects of being a human body
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My top three subjective measures are Intensity, Effort (subjective feeling of complexity), Comfort.
Learning a complex move? Low intensity and high effort. Weightlifting? The inverse. Both: comfort always at least middle-high.
