The Great Things About You—and Everyone Else
You’re amazing. You really are. The odds that you ended up being exactly you are staggering, and yet, within a level of individual variability that would leave the stoutest statistician weeping in the …
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3 Ideas That Will Change the Way You See Your Body (Part 2!)
In my last article, I mentioned near the end that “if there’s one thing you learn from the Reembody blog, let it be this: muscles don’t create movement patterns; they respond to them.” Did anyone …
Why Stretching Isn’t Working For You
Everybody has a tight spot: hamstrings, IT bands, shoulders, groin. Sometimes tightness comes and goes; sometimes it’s the only way you can remember ever feeling. You tell yourself you should stretch more. Maybe …
How Joints Use Leverage (And Why That’s Awesome)
This is an atlatl: More specifically, the handle in which the spear is cupped is an atlatl. Humans have been using devices like this for hunting and warfare for around 30,000 years. …
What “Stability” Really Means in a Fitness Environment
Albert Einstein famously quipped: “There is no hitching post in the universe.” A hitching post, in this case, means a starting location: a point A. When an object is moving, the …