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Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

I invented a variation on lifting dumbbells. Maybe it already exists.. Probably. I mean, surely...

Do one lift, turning the dumbbell 90 degrees while lifting from hip to shoulder, then after slowly letting it back down, continue to the floor, with knees bent but heels still on the floor - so, a squat. Then straighten up and lift the weight over your head, in a pose like you're waving goodbye to someone already very far away. Slowly let it back down to your hip, where its ready to begin the first part again. That's one rep.

I was getting to where my current weight was meaningless and I could just do reps forever. I don't want to buy a higher weight - these things are 'spensive.

I'm beat. This new exercise takes everything.

#exercise #gym #fitness

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Sleventy3 1y ago

Lean machine

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

I should tell the ladies that's my name

Sleventy3 1y ago

Lean machine

Nah that’s not your name

Sleventy3 1y ago

Lean machine

Nah that’s not your name

You’re walking the walk

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

"Hey, I'm Walking the Walk, nice to meet you"

Idk, it doesn't really roll. Might get the convoy going, though

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

squatting with your heels on the ground is very slavic

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Very Asian too. They use it as a resting position while at a bus stop or something

its important to open up your hips

particularly if you do lots of sitting meditation

otherwise you risk damaging your knees

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

I heard about that the other day, but I'm not sure what it means. Idk how to open hips..

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

forward and sideways splits stretches... even just touching your toes helps reduce the strain from it... meditation is much like sitting at a computer in this respect

if you don't stretch the muscles and they get worked or sit in a rigid position for a long time it makes them shorten and then they will pull at the tendons and any shit on your bones hurts like fuck

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Okay, this is good. I'll add that stretch to my routine

I do the the Ashtanga primary series

but just squatting is a good start.

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Cool, I'll look it up

If you can do full primary well you're basically already a super-hero.

The sun salutations and first 6 or so asanas are enough to get the body ready for sitting meditation.

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

This is going to be a long project for me. I can't even come close to these stretches people are doing in these videos...

But that's okay. Thanks for giving me that keyword - that unlocked a lot of new information

I am not naturally flexible

It took me a full year before I was able to do the full primary sequence at all

It's best to start doing just sun salutations

Memorize Surya Namaskara A and B?

I'd suggest doing five of those each, every morning.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i do it also, it's just instinct... my father too... austro-indonesian

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Its very healthy. I use the flat heeled squat for working on my back problem. I'd bet the parts of Asia that still do it have measurably better health

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

asian genetics predispose to looser joints also, but this could be a product of culture

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Asians have good genes. Good looking people, haha.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

asian genetics are mostly the dominant genes

the fertility of the region has consistently led to high population density and broad genetic mixing so the asian thing is literally what happens when you shuffle human genome enough

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

And the genome should be shuffled. I do think each country has a right to be distinct, so France should be full of French people, etc., but its impossible not to notice that the smartest and healthiest people are mixed.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

that is a separate thing, F1 hybrid vigor

the more distance between the genomes of parents the more likely the children are to be highly vigorous

that is what the "giants" of Genesis at the time of Noah were... F1 hybrids with "angels"

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

F1?

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

F1 is the generic turm for the first generation of a hybrid mix

in some cases this is a sterile individual, i forget which kind of horse, mule?

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Yeah, mule, although very rarely they're not sterile. But then the second generation is sterile, like its a rule or something

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

idk if they are sterile but the general rule with hybrid offspring is they are highly variable

like, i saw this in a family of a friend... only the first child had black skin like dad but all the rest were pale

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Its also possible the mother was... less than ideally trustworthy...

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

no, the pale children were all otherwise typical austro-indoneesian skull shapes and everything, no, they had the same father

though you have a point, it could have been another austro-indonesian father, but they were all very similar personality and looks, just one was dark, the others were all pale

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Nvmd, wikipedia rescued me. I wonder if a half "Chinese" person is f1 or f3 or 4 - they're already super mixed there. Japan might be a better case for f1, though not sure to what purpose

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

no, if the hamming distance between two individuals genomes is short its' not a hybrid, hybrids are literally just highly separated, but capable of breeding genomes mixing

like, most of the whole rainbow of species of grass seeds are this, wheat, barley, rye, etc... they came from humans finding close enough related grasses that were able to have pollen and flowers mix and voila

hybrid is kinda like that margin of breeding ability between two genomes that are close to speciating

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

So it probably doesn't apply to humans. Europeans and east Asians are both mixed with Neanderthals and Neanderthals were a different species. So the difference between modern humans is less

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

there is a range of difference that still alows breeding, and in this range, you can have hybrids, where the genome is mostly different

neanderthal was just one of the several subspecies of humans that could breed... look up iberomarussian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberomaurusian

it's heavy going but if you read this you'll understand that the genetics of north africans were quite distant from most of the similar timed bones found elsewhere on the planet, and actually they are the origin of white skin, and the culture of the iberomarussians were associated with the domestication of cattle

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

btw, hamming distance is a metric of distance between numbers, and the bigger the numbers get the more complex your scheme of defining the number system, the more difficult it is to evaluate such a thing as a "hamming distance"

Hamming was an early scientist in the field of coding systems and his theories led to merkle trees and galois fields among others, essentially number systems that are based on something other than simple addition and subtraction

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Hmm. I once met a Berber girl in Hong Kong... very attractive.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, berber genetics mostly congregate around morocco and nearby but they are the origin of white skin

Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Okay, second day trying this. I think it's better to separate it out into two different exercises. Better form by concentrating on one movement. Also the floor to ceiling lift is better when the starting position has the weight by the foot opposite of the hand - so pulling across your torso.