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When it comes to core development the dragon flag and its variations are still so massively underrated It was popularised by Bruce Lee and with good reason Some of the benefits: - Anti-extension for deep core stability - Engages lats, glutes, hip flexors, shoulders, and triceps -Improved body control,... show more

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56,563 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

This home lunge superset isn't for the faint of heart. The burning heat in your legs will beg you to stop, but the strength and growth you'll reap make it all worth it. 4 sets of 12 forward lunges, then 12 Reverse right away. Build a lower body that stands the test of time: Lunge Form Cues Set-Up: Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, hands on hips or at your sides. Alignment: Keep your chest up and shoulders back. Step: Take a big step forward, lowering your hips until both knees are bent at 90 degrees. Brace: Engage your core and maintain balance as your front foot lands to stabilize the movement. Push: Drive through your front heel to return to the starting position. Breathing: Inhale as you lower into the lunge, exhale as you push back up. 5 Lunge mistakes and how to avoid them 1. Taking Too Small a Step - What Happens: A short step limits the range of motion, reducing muscle activation in the glutes and quads. - Fix: Step far enough forward to allow both knees to bend at 90 degrees. 2. Rising Onto the Front Toes - What Happens: Lifting the heel shifts balance and reduces engagement of the glutes and hamstrings. - Fix: Keep your front foot flat, pressing firmly through the heel. 3. Poor Hip Alignment - What Happens: Tilting or rotating the hips reduces balance and proper muscle engagement. - Fix: Keep your hips square and aligned with your torso throughout the movement. 4. Feet Too Narrow or Wide - What Happens: Misaligned foot placement reduces stability and increases the chance of losing balance. - Fix: Keep your feet hip-width apart to maintain balance and proper alignment during the lunge. 5. Not Engaging the Core - What Happens: A weak core reduces balance and stability, increasing the risk of wobbling. - Fix: Brace your core upon landing to absorb the impact and keep your torso steady and aligned. Reverse Lunge Form Cues Set-Up: Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, hands on hips or at your sides. Alignment: Keep your chest lifted, core engaged, and shoulders back. Step: Step one leg back, lowering your hips until both knees are bent at 90 degrees. Land: Land on the top of your back foot with the toes pointed to stretch the ankle and prevent assistance from the toes. Push: Drive through your front heel to return to the starting position. Breathing: Inhale as you lower into the lunge, exhale as you push back up. 5 Reverse Lunge Mistakes and how to avoid them: 1. Using the Toes for Support on the Back Foot - What Happens: Relying on the back toes reduces the stretch in the ankle and shifts focus away from the front leg. - Fix: Land on the top of your back foot with the toes pointed to stretch the ankle and isolate the front leg fully. 2. Leaning Forward - What Happens: Leaning forward places unnecessary strain on the lower back and reduces engagement of the glutes and quads. -Fix: Keep your chest up and shoulders back to maintain an upright posture.Letting the Front Knee 3. Collapse Inward - What Happens: Knee valgus increases stress on the knee joint and reduces stability. - Fix: Ensure the front knee tracks over the middle of your foot throughout the movement. 4. Letting the Front Knee Collapse Inward - What Happens: Knee valgus increases stress on the knee joint and reduces stability. - Fix: Ensure the front knee tracks over the middle of your foot throughout the movement. 5. Pushing Off the Back Foot - What Happens: Using the back foot to assist reduces the workload on the front leg. - Fix: Focus on driving through the heel of the front foot to return to the starting position.

This home lunge superset isn't for the faint of heart. The burning heat in your legs will beg you to stop, but the strength and growth you'll reap make it all worth it. 4 sets of 12 forward lunges, then 12 Reverse right away. Build a lower body that stands the test of time: Lunge Form Cues Set-Up: Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, hands on hips or at your sides. Alignment: Keep your chest up and shoulders back. Step: Take a big step forward, lowering your hips until both knees are bent at 90 degrees. Brace: Engage your core and maintain balance as your front foot lands to stabilize the movement. Push: Drive through your front heel to return to the starting position. Breathing: Inhale as you lower into the lunge, exhale as you push back up. 5 Lunge mistakes and how to avoid them 1. Taking Too Small a Step - What Happens: A short step limits the range of motion, reducing muscle activation in the glutes and quads. - Fix: Step far enough forward to allow both knees to bend at 90 degrees. 2. Rising Onto the Front Toes - What Happens: Lifting the heel shifts balance and reduces engagement of the glutes and hamstrings. - Fix: Keep your front foot flat, pressing firmly through the heel. 3. Poor Hip Alignment - What Happens: Tilting or rotating the hips reduces balance and proper muscle engagement. - Fix: Keep your hips square and aligned with your torso throughout the movement. 4. Feet Too Narrow or Wide - What Happens: Misaligned foot placement reduces stability and increases the chance of losing balance. - Fix: Keep your feet hip-width apart to maintain balance and proper alignment during the lunge. 5. Not Engaging the Core - What Happens: A weak core reduces balance and stability, increasing the risk of wobbling. - Fix: Brace your core upon landing to absorb the impact and keep your torso steady and aligned. Reverse Lunge Form Cues Set-Up: Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, hands on hips or at your sides. Alignment: Keep your chest lifted, core engaged, and shoulders back. Step: Step one leg back, lowering your hips until both knees are bent at 90 degrees. Land: Land on the top of your back foot with the toes pointed to stretch the ankle and prevent assistance from the toes. Push: Drive through your front heel to return to the starting position. Breathing: Inhale as you lower into the lunge, exhale as you push back up. 5 Reverse Lunge Mistakes and how to avoid them: 1. Using the Toes for Support on the Back Foot - What Happens: Relying on the back toes reduces the stretch in the ankle and shifts focus away from the front leg. - Fix: Land on the top of your back foot with the toes pointed to stretch the ankle and isolate the front leg fully. 2. Leaning Forward - What Happens: Leaning forward places unnecessary strain on the lower back and reduces engagement of the glutes and quads. -Fix: Keep your chest up and shoulders back to maintain an upright posture.Letting the Front Knee 3. Collapse Inward - What Happens: Knee valgus increases stress on the knee joint and reduces stability. - Fix: Ensure the front knee tracks over the middle of your foot throughout the movement. 4. Letting the Front Knee Collapse Inward - What Happens: Knee valgus increases stress on the knee joint and reduces stability. - Fix: Ensure the front knee tracks over the middle of your foot throughout the movement. 5. Pushing Off the Back Foot - What Happens: Using the back foot to assist reduces the workload on the front leg. - Fix: Focus on driving through the heel of the front foot to return to the starting position.

Alex Bernier

14,524 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Are you a body dysmorphic bodybuilder who is never big enough when they look in the mirror? Cool, this isn't for you. But if you're a man over 40 who still wants to have a body that not only looks good but performs well, then know this: Lifting weights isn't enough. To really feel, look and perform your best you're going to need a different approach. Fail to do this, and you'll suffer these preventable aches and pains. Here's what the weekly plan to get you there: • Mobility exercises • Jumping exercises • Sprinting variations • Bouding exercises • Isometric exercises Do this, and you'll build a body that performs as good as it looks while preventing injuries.

Are you a body dysmorphic bodybuilder who is never big enough when they look in the mirror? Cool, this isn't for you. But if you're a man over 40 who still wants to have a body that not only looks good but performs well, then know this: Lifting weights isn't enough. To really feel, look and perform your best you're going to need a different approach. Fail to do this, and you'll suffer these preventable aches and pains. Here's what the weekly plan to get you there: • Mobility exercises • Jumping exercises • Sprinting variations • Bouding exercises • Isometric exercises Do this, and you'll build a body that performs as good as it looks while preventing injuries.

Ted Ryce

26,811 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

This stretch should be mandatory for people who sit at desks. It's called a T-Spine Extension. As we get older or if we sit for long periods of time our thoracic spine becomes less mobile. This can cause neck, shoulder, and lower back pain as well as a hunched over croissant type of posture with the body. The T-spine extension helps you stretch your lats and upper back to reverse age or sitting related mobility issues. How to do it: 1. Make sure you're in full elbow flexion in the bottom position. 2. Make a double chin so that you don't drift into forward head posture. 3. As you rock back, brace your core and focus on extending through the upper back and flexing through the shoulders, rather than just arching the lower back. Do this for 6-12 reps daily. Your back will thank you.

This stretch should be mandatory for people who sit at desks. It's called a T-Spine Extension. As we get older or if we sit for long periods of time our thoracic spine becomes less mobile. This can cause neck, shoulder, and lower back pain as well as a hunched over croissant type of posture with the body. The T-spine extension helps you stretch your lats and upper back to reverse age or sitting related mobility issues. How to do it: 1. Make sure you're in full elbow flexion in the bottom position. 2. Make a double chin so that you don't drift into forward head posture. 3. As you rock back, brace your core and focus on extending through the upper back and flexing through the shoulders, rather than just arching the lower back. Do this for 6-12 reps daily. Your back will thank you.

Dan Go

694,246 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

This is a better and more challenging demonstration of my AI music theory cli tool and skills library. I told the agent only that I wanted to take the traditional Irish song, Clare's Dragoons, and to create a piano rendition of the main verse and chorus followed by a series of variations in the style of Mozart's famous "Twinkle Star Variations" (K. 265/300e), and that it should spawn Codex with the skills and prompt it to do that for me and to invoke any relevant skills in the system. This was in Codex with GPT-6 Astra xhigh and with the workspace loaded up with just the 320 skills that are part of the music AI skills library, and with the mtdt (music_theory_data_tool) cli tool available for use by the agent. The agent was able to find suitable sheet music for the Clare's Dragoons song and then used mtdt to convert that into its internal representation form, which makes it easy for the agent to work on the music and to convert it to any other desired format (like a PDF engraving, midi files, etc). It then researched the Twinkle Star variations and used various skills to compose and review and refine the variations. Why do I think this task is more demanding than writing a fugue in the style of Bach? Well, for one, it's a lot more structured, so you have much less flexibility and room for "artistic license." Ultimately, you have to render the original tune accurately, and then the variations have to sound similar enough to the original tune while introducing various creative musical manipulations to be interesting. It's pretty challenging to balance those two priorities: it's easy to lose the thread of the original tune, and easy to overcompensate for that and end up with something that only slightly tweaks one or two aspects of the original. Now, this is obviously not at the level of Mozart, but I think it's not that bad and will likely get much better over the next year as I improve the skills and tool and especially as models get better and more multimodal, so they can "listen" to the results in addition to reading the score. I'll provide the full prompt that the "controller" agent wrote for the agent that actually created the variations in a reply to this post. You can also see in the screenshots in this post the massive number of intermediate working files and artifacts created during the process, which gives a ton of visibility into how the agent did its work and reached its decisions. Not a black box! And I can assure you that I didn't mess with anything at all: this entire process was automated from start to finish and you're seeing the exact end product the agent produced without any revisions or feedback coming from me or any other human (the controller agent did ask for some revisions from the worker agent, which you can see in the final pic in this post). I'm trying to think of some other fun demonstrations. Maybe taking famous video game music (Mario 2? Ocarina of Time?) and making a version in the style of Schumann or Rachmaninoff. I'm open to suggestions!

This is a better and more challenging demonstration of my AI music theory cli tool and skills library. I told the agent only that I wanted to take the traditional Irish song, Clare's Dragoons, and to create a piano rendition of the main verse and chorus followed by a series of variations in the style of Mozart's famous "Twinkle Star Variations" (K. 265/300e), and that it should spawn Codex with the skills and prompt it to do that for me and to invoke any relevant skills in the system. This was in Codex with GPT-6 Astra xhigh and with the workspace loaded up with just the 320 skills that are part of the music AI skills library, and with the mtdt (music_theory_data_tool) cli tool available for use by the agent. The agent was able to find suitable sheet music for the Clare's Dragoons song and then used mtdt to convert that into its internal representation form, which makes it easy for the agent to work on the music and to convert it to any other desired format (like a PDF engraving, midi files, etc). It then researched the Twinkle Star variations and used various skills to compose and review and refine the variations. Why do I think this task is more demanding than writing a fugue in the style of Bach? Well, for one, it's a lot more structured, so you have much less flexibility and room for "artistic license." Ultimately, you have to render the original tune accurately, and then the variations have to sound similar enough to the original tune while introducing various creative musical manipulations to be interesting. It's pretty challenging to balance those two priorities: it's easy to lose the thread of the original tune, and easy to overcompensate for that and end up with something that only slightly tweaks one or two aspects of the original. Now, this is obviously not at the level of Mozart, but I think it's not that bad and will likely get much better over the next year as I improve the skills and tool and especially as models get better and more multimodal, so they can "listen" to the results in addition to reading the score. I'll provide the full prompt that the "controller" agent wrote for the agent that actually created the variations in a reply to this post. You can also see in the screenshots in this post the massive number of intermediate working files and artifacts created during the process, which gives a ton of visibility into how the agent did its work and reached its decisions. Not a black box! And I can assure you that I didn't mess with anything at all: this entire process was automated from start to finish and you're seeing the exact end product the agent produced without any revisions or feedback coming from me or any other human (the controller agent did ask for some revisions from the worker agent, which you can see in the final pic in this post). I'm trying to think of some other fun demonstrations. Maybe taking famous video game music (Mario 2? Ocarina of Time?) and making a version in the style of Schumann or Rachmaninoff. I'm open to suggestions!

Jeffrey Emanuel

12,829 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen

If you sit all day, do these 3 exercises daily: 1. Asian Squat x 60 seconds Chairs lock your hips and ankles at 90 degrees for eight hours, so your body stops giving you anything deeper. Drop your hips until your hamstrings touch your calves, heels down, chest tall. Elevate your heels or hold a doorframe if you tip back. 2. World's Greatest Stretch x 5 reps per side Hits your hip flexors, hamstrings, T-spine, and glutes in one sequence. Step into a deep lunge, both hands inside your front foot, drop the inside elbow, then rotate that arm to the ceiling and follow it with your eyes. 3. Bar Hangs x 60-120 seconds Sitting compresses your spine and rounds your shoulders forward. Hanging is the only thing that reverses the load. Grab the bar, go completely dead, let your shoulders ride up by your ears. Do not brace. 5 minutes total. Do it for a month and your future self will thank you.

If you sit all day, do these 3 exercises daily: 1. Asian Squat x 60 seconds Chairs lock your hips and ankles at 90 degrees for eight hours, so your body stops giving you anything deeper. Drop your hips until your hamstrings touch your calves, heels down, chest tall. Elevate your heels or hold a doorframe if you tip back. 2. World's Greatest Stretch x 5 reps per side Hits your hip flexors, hamstrings, T-spine, and glutes in one sequence. Step into a deep lunge, both hands inside your front foot, drop the inside elbow, then rotate that arm to the ceiling and follow it with your eyes. 3. Bar Hangs x 60-120 seconds Sitting compresses your spine and rounds your shoulders forward. Hanging is the only thing that reverses the load. Grab the bar, go completely dead, let your shoulders ride up by your ears. Do not brace. 5 minutes total. Do it for a month and your future self will thank you.

Dan Go

89,174 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten