#principles of exercise

[strong-healthy]

Basic principles of exercise.

Certainly! The basic principles of exercise are fundamental guidelines that help individuals design and implement effective workout routines. These principles ensure that exercises are safe, efficient, and beneficial for overall health and fitness. Here are the key principles of exercise:

Specificity: Exercise training should be specific to the particular muscles or systems of the body that you want to improve. For example, if you want to improve cardiovascular endurance, focus on aerobic exercises.

Progression: The intensity, duration, and frequency of exercise should gradually increase over time to improve fitness levels. Gradual progression prevents overexertion and reduces the risk of injury.

Overload: To improve fitness, the body must be subjected to a level of stress that is greater than what it is accustomed to. This can be achieved by increasing the intensity, duration, or frequency of exercise.

Adaptation: The body will adapt to the demands placed on it. Regular, varied exercise challenges the body, leading to physiological adaptations that improve fitness levels.

Recovery: Adequate rest and recovery time between workouts are crucial. Muscles need time to repair and strengthen after being stressed during exercise. Lack of proper recovery can lead to overtraining and injuries...

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[lokh]

remembering very abruptly that i desperately need to work on lowering my cholesterol levels. anyone got any advice

[themonkey2025]

[funkle420]

dude i was feeling so great before a pathetic cis man once again questioned my intelligence

[beevean]

Now that Brain has stopped anxieting (and thankfully I won't have nightmares for the time being), I really want to return to write

I want to be in full form. I want to start longfic. I can do this in the same way I know I can lift 90 kgs if I try hard enough 💪

[sjweminem]

i was checking an old folder and found this one of 19yr old me and i am PISSED man i had BARELY just started hrt i had zero changes from it but this dennis could kick my current dennis ass so easily fuck my stupid baka life

[vv-ispy]

something something samsara cycles I don't think it's a coincidence that the overthrow of Decarabian involved Jean and Diluc's ancestor + Venti's lookalike friend -> Mondstadt archon quest the key players taking down Dvalin were Jean and Diluc + Venti

Is. Traveler Amos?

Or put another way, traveler is the one with the floaty friend -> bard has the floaty friend. Venti is friends with Dvalin the terror of the tower/Amos is friends? Lovers? Something? With Decarabian the tyrant in the tower. Venti -> Amos, Traveler -> Nameless bard, Paimon -> Venti?

[clandestinegardenias]

Look, I understand the desire for a revolution. I do. And it’s possible I might be convinced that we need one, at some point. I am open to the idea that I might be wrong!

But…literal Marxist theory posits that the way you get to a communist society is by working your way through a democracy. That’s the first STEP. Then you move to democratic socialism, then socialism, then communism. Anything that moves us away from a democracy (as I’m concerned another Trump presidency would, that man wants to be a dictator so bad) is a step AWAY from a leftist agenda. Because sure, maybe you get your ‘glorious revolution’ if Trump is president because he literally makes living conditions so unbearable that it triggers widespread revolt but from a critical Marxist standpoint you’d be revolting to get back to a democracy so you can start at that step all over again! This is a big reason theorists posit socialism/communism in the Soviet Union fell apart; too big a change too quickly and skipping steps in between.

We also have to consider that getting to the point of full blown revolution would mean catastrophic levels of suffering for people with lower socioeconomic power—POC, the queer community, folks in poverty, people with disabilities, etc.

AND any US dictatorship or similar government has an entire industrial military complex to back it up. A successful revolution would necessitate either getting that military complex on board, in which case you often end up with a military dictatorship (you can imagine how well THAT goes) or beating it which…I’m sorry, even the entire civilian population of the US cannot do. The military is light years more advanced than it was in Marx’s time, rebellion is so so so so much more complicated. It also sets a precedent for violent exchanges of power that tend to set countries up for a decades/centuries long tailspin of military coups in which the people with the most gun power (again…usually not vulnerable groups) win control.

I’m not trying to be a fatalist, here. I actually think fatalism is a tool of the oppressor and we have to fight against it tooth and nail. I’m just trying to logic out what will happen if Kamala/Walz lose and Trump/Vance win. What does that really look like? What is the next step, the next outcome that will lead us to a better place? And I just cannot, for those reasons above, see a Trump presidency leading us anywhere good. That IS what we will get if people hold out on voting for Harris as a form of protest. I’m all for protest!!!!! But it needs to be in a different avenue, because you have to consider the real life repercussions not voting will have.

I mean, what are the options? What happens if people protest by not voting? (...this assumes you don't start from the position that Harris and Trump will be literally NO different in office, which, well, that's another post)

1. Harris wins regardless, but a signal is sent that people to the left aren’t appeased and democrats need to do more. How effective this would be in moving actual policy is debateable, and it also puts the moral onus/responsibility conveniently on others just so you can feel like your hands are clean while simultaneously risking a worse outcome. Not cool.

2. Trump wins. Far more likely because, as we saw in 2020, the country was nearly evenly split on Trump vs. Biden. Current polling shows more or less the same with Trump vs. Harris. If the left stays home, the likelihood Trump wins skyrockets. So, what happens next?

2.A. Trump wins, but the world doesn’t end. He doesn’t do anything too terribly awful. The left has ideally signaled they will only vote for a Dem if they are liberal enough. I seriously doubt Trump won’t do anything too terribly awful though—look at what his first presidency did!!! Look at Project 2025!!!!! So. Other option.

2.B. Trump wins and the world is on fire. He strips away womens’ rights, queer rights, he tanks the working class and worker protections, starts a war, starts a dictatorship, whatever. He already started a lot of this during his first presidency. In this case, either…

2.B.1. This is still not enough to trigger a revolution. Vulnerable people are hurt and die at a far greater pace than under a Democratic presidency. We go on as before, fighting to regain key protections. Perhaps the Dems put forward a more liberal candidate to try and beat him next time, if democracy still exists, but likely? We end up with a conservative centrist anyway.

2.B.2. Trump does trigger a revolution. All I can see is how many vulnerable people would suffer and die. The military HAS to be involved and either takes control of government (terrible start to socialism!!!!!) or kills revolutionaries en masse and the rebellion fails. If civilians somehow defeated the US military, which is an astronomically low possibility, then we set up a more liberal democracy...how, exactly? With all the conservatives and moderates still in our country? Honestly, HOW. Kill them? Try and make them ‘see the light’? That happens via education, not a civil war. We could try and go straight to communism but theory and history show us that doesn’t work—you have to work your way towards it through democracy.

It is SO much more efficient and would put so many fewer vulnerable people in grave danger to start by keeping the democracy we already have by voting in Harris and THEN working on our protests to shift the needle towards democratic socialism. We’ve seen that these protests CAN WORK!!!!! They got us Biden dropping out!!!!! Harris picked a VP far more appealing to a liberal mindset than many of her other top options! WE ARE ALREADY SHIFTING THE NEEDLE. Keep it shifting, don’t give in to fatalism, and remember that you have to go through the steps to have an actual, stable, reliable socialist or communist republic. Vote.

[sewerpalette]

Thinking about if all subnautica leviathans were humans in college for a little art exercise.

Please I can’t be the only one: Void chelicerate, ghost and shadow HAVE GOT to be alt/emo kids, and I BET YOU they would have actually named themselves void, ghost and shadow like little edgelords.

Also sea trader is a camping enthusiast.

[divinekangaroo]

browsing for a quality 'learn to draw' online program.

[yangularoo]

Part 4 of "teaching friends about animation": This time focused on a character face close up! To keep a character looking tight and "consistent" despite the squashing and stretching, keep the eyes and nose in the same place compared to each other. The very center of the face is the focal point and the further away the part of the face from the center, the more stretch you can give the part. The squash and stretched used in this way leads us easily into the next principle: Anticipation. The "squash" motion stores up energy that is released into the "stretch" motion. We'll get into that next. ^^/

[0rchidm4ntis]

:')) having to pay to access a necessary resource for an assignment truly feels like bs

[projectbatman193]

This is something that I keep seeing, people think that lifting a lot or being jacked makes you dangerous in a fight, but it's more about skill (and yes, training helps, but you have to do specific training too)

[shabbytigers]

what exactly is the damage to me though? like, why do i not want my data in the training set? it seems like the broader upshot would be big corporate AIs move a tiny bit in the direction of reckoning with a person like me existing in the world as opposed to assuming that no such person exists, which is to the good. meanwhile i gather the photos app will take a shot at organizing my giant pile of images for me, which is meaningfully to the good. so the downside is what? the robot sees my business? it is 2024, my dude, that’s kind of my blanket assumption about everything.

Oh _lovely_. Everyone go turn this off:

Enhanced Visual Search in Photos allows you to search for photos using landmarks or points of interest. Your device privately matches places in your photos to a global index Apple maintains on our servers. We apply homomorphic encryption and differential privacy, and use an OHTTP relay that hides [your] IP address. This prevents Apple from learning about the information in your photos. You can turn off Enhanced Visual Search at any time on your iOS or iPadOS device by going to Settings > Apps > Photos. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General.

[3am-cheerios]

the HELL did you just say to me

[anti-gravity-insanity]

College me will never know how good xe had it. All I want to do in the whole wide world right now is spend the whole day at the library. And what do I have to do instead? Go to Work!!