biology
Pushing off from the toes and buttocks of each alternating “back leg” supports the spine, lifts the chest, and imparts a sense of power, ease, and confidence. (Location 738)
walking is so energy efficient, it takes months or years for small doses of exercise to add up to substantial weight losses. (Location 3372)
Plug walk -- walk with chest held high, spend energy on the totality of the form
Cultivate healthy posture through a process of self-study. You will need to create new sense memories for what feels balanced and stable through the means suggested in the following chapters. Remember that your posture is a dynamic activity, not a static position you can assume and then forget about. Your posture is the ongoing perceptual process by which you orient yourself to gravity and to your relationship with the people, objects, and events in your world. (Location 478)
Posture can change given external demands in the real world -- and the person who is calm will go with the flow and edify their posture 202301092344 to match their environment.
Can also be utilized like Xiaoli (from Baki) 202301031244
Our muscles wrap around our skeletons in layers, like layers of clothing. In general, the outer muscle layers produce the visible motions of the arms, legs, and trunk, while deeper muscles provide support for joints and internal organs. Contraction of these deep muscles lets us create the stability we need to control our actions. (Location 356)
Outer muscles provide the aesthetics and inner muscles hold everything (guts) in place.
Lower repetition, slower, and higher weight results in greater strength gains
Higher repetition, lower weight, fast movements create endurance type gains. 202212292307
Muscle is supported by tendons and fascia 202301102354
I watched baby monkey on a pig, and went down a rabbit hole into the brutal short life of primatedom.
There is a whole ass section on YouTube just dedicated to following the melodramas of monkeys in southeast Asia that rake in millions(!)of views
Monkeys are reactively violent, as opposed to humans which are proactively violent:
Grown-up humans play more than adults of other species, and we fight far less often than other primates like baboons and chimpanzees. Even the most belligerent human groups ever studied engage in violence about 250 to 600 times less frequently than chimpanzees. (Location 2562)
…hunting and other forms of planned aggression are utterly different psychologically from reactive aggression. Violent criminals, ruthless dictators, torturers, and other proactive aggressors can simultaneously be loving spouses and parents, reliable friends, and patriotic fellow citizens who remain utterly calm and pleasant in situations that would send a chimpanzee or a toddler into a rage. They also don’t need to be as physically powerful. (Location 2657)
Chimp Mother Carries Corpse for Weeks
There's a lot to unpack here -- the natural instinct of motherhood, burial practices in humans vs other species, the structure of animal societies that say so much without saying a word, grief, the need to anthropomorphize literally every fucking thing, etc.
Apparently not an uncommon event.[1]..
Insane Edits
Almost worse than all of the above was the absolutely unhinged edits these video creators are putting into these videos:
Like what in the actual fuck is this lol
or at least caught on camera more than once which already sounds like a lot ↩︎