[MattSavinar]

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I do think it's important to focus on opposing muscle groups. For example, in most older adults, after a lifetime of walking and sitting, the flexor muscles on the backs of the legs have greatly shortened and weakened. These need to be stretched and strengthened to bring them into balance with the quads. I don't know what you mean by such terms as "underactivation" and "unplugged."

[Narz]

Spring Creek, good luck. PM me in 6 months, let me know how it's going.

Re : relearning to move/use muscles/be in one's body/etc. : If I could afford it I would go to someone regularly who teaches Alexandar technique. I read some books on it and went to one session and found it very helpful.

I say this now as I'm laying on my back w/ my laptop on my chest. Old habits die hard. All in all being on the Internet for more than a few hours a day is simply not healthy.

[Heineken]

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I do think it's important to focus on opposing muscle groups. For example, in most older adults, after a lifetime of walking and sitting, the flexor muscles on the backs of the legs have greatly shortened and weakened. These need to be stretched and strengthened to bring them into balance with the quads. I don't know what you mean by such terms as "underactivation" and "unplugged."

[Aaron]

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[Ludi]

I still don't have my shit together, but I'm learning new things all the time. I don't feel I need to reach a goal of "personal completeness" or something.


Skill I'm learning currently - how to make fitted dress patterns.

[Loki]

I used to have a goal of "personal completeness," or something like that at least. That was my driving motivation when I was younger (teens and early twenties). It's stuck with me ever since, though I no longer believe that "personal completeness" is even possible.

Improvement is possible, but let's parse.

On the one hand, there's learning new skills and abstract information, or improving one's physical fitness. Learning to play the guitar or shoot a rifle or sew a dress from scratch or grow potatoes. All good skills to know. There's also abstract knowledge, like the philosophical differences between the Hinayana and the Mahayana, or the chemical basis of photosynthesis, or Thomas Jefferson's musings on yeoman farmers, or theories about Peak Oil. Also good to know, in moderation. And being physically fit is never a bad thing, unless it prevents greater pleasures.

On the other hand, there's being a better person. I guess this mostly means being nice to people. Or generally being happier ("smiles are contagious" and all that rot). Or focusing your mental energy on some bit of wisdom someone happened to write down thousands of years ago. This is what religion and philosophy usually boils down to. And if being nice to people helps you get laid, all the better

[Heineken]

Someone I used to work for put it this way: "It's more important to be kind than to be clever." (He was both, at different times.)