Ehhhh, you’re kinda’ discounting how broad “average” is. Some people cannot even get close to touching their toes without daily stretching (like me) whereas some people can grab their feet and they do nothing extra.
For people like me, daily stretching quite literally directly prevents injury both from exercise and when normal movement goes awry like when tripping.
Yea, that’s usually the case when something is actually heavy to be fair. Always a good idea to make sure they’re the muscles that tighten first!
Also to add more context; I specifically strength train the ‘bad’ way of lifting things, as it were. Like hyperextensions, bird dogs, superman, etc, so I’m not joking when I say I lift some “lighter” things in a ‘bad’ way when convenient. lol
… though if I feel back strain start to build up, you bet your ass I’ll reposition! Only a fool (like younger me) just goes for a lift without paying attention to what the body is saying.
It is very easy to hurt yourself doing strength training without experience pushing your body’s boundaries. Getting familiar with stretching first can be the difference between starting strength training successfully and overdoing something and turning the experience in to a painful turnoff.
Repeated motion injuries can happen even in very fit people. The body needs time to heal even from low impact/low stress movement. Especially if it’s at the edge of what’s “easy”.
A good example is a food server. Even if you can handle the weight of a fully loaded tray easy enough, unless that weight is like throwing a nurf ball around for you, you’re going to need a healing period after a long shift. Most likely longer than any asshole shift manager would ever allow if you’re a small pretty gal.
I’d say stretching and familiarizing yourself with what the edge of acceptable motion is goes A LOT further with not hurting yourself. You can deadlift all you want, but if you don’t know how to deal with shifting weight or an odd position once you start doing some generic activity that doesn’t mirror the lift, you’re still going to hurt yourself.
In fact, overconfidance with being able to lift a heavy amount vs dealing with shifting forces can be the reason someone tries to move too much weight in the first place. Think lifting a solid, easily grippable mass of a steel bar vs moving a heavy-ass wobbly mattress. The mattress might be a fraction of the weight but it’s still a pain in the ass. Don’t know how to deal with weight suddenly shifting? That’s a pulled back anyways.
At least for flexibility and balance. They’re a nothing burger for strength, but strength can only come after your body can actually move without hurting itself.
Nah, not those alone. Developing only one side of a movement can cause serious health problems. Like how people that get only their calves really strong are prone to getting pulled tibia muscles doing sports because those muscles cannot keep up and fatigue out quickly. I can only imagine how terrible it would be to only have a strong back if you end up doing the wrong movement some day.
I still do if the weight in less than around 100lbs, but that’s only because I’ve strengthened my back to the point where 100lbs is no big deal even in weird positions, and bending at the waist is sometimes way easier.
Seriously depends. If someone is out of shape, starting with a game can be both disheartening when you physically cannot compete and make you far more likely to injure yourself when you’re not paying full attention to what your body is doing.
Going from out of shape (and most nonphysical people are out of shape nearly completely) to in shape is a treacherous path that should not be taken lightly.
Not to say sports are a bad idea, but they aren’t a silver bullet.
Stretching in general helps, it doesn’t even have to be yoga. Though a good yoga routine makes it easier to hit most of the major areas.
and stretching. Gotta’ stretch, especially if you’re like me and aren’t naturally very flexible. I’ve probably avoided dozens of injuries just by knowing my limits well and making sure they don’t show up pitifully fast.
Perhaps a base drawing the AI and prompter are riffing off of, but this collage is so nonsensical and only gets worse the more you look at it. Most of it is either AI, or the artist has some very curious mental disorders.
This ai generated crap does less than nothing to promote communism.
Blanket downvoting stuff just makes you a useless hater. Downvote the ones that are just saying things that aren’t funny or parody. At least this one is using irony to be a comic, whether or not you care about it or the artist.
Congratulations, so am I? What I said is applicable to FAR more than Japan having low age of concent laws and media reflecting that…
You seem to want to miss the point, so have fun being a bigoted shit that only contributes to the problems you whine about…
I mean, yours is more accurate as far as like the Salem Witch Trials, but humans absolutely murder each other over 100% imagined beliefs. Just look at … the vast majority of history.
The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition for starters. You’d be silly to think none of the boots on the ground believed the propaganda.
I desperately hope you are ESL with all the assinine takes.
You do realize that kind of jaded opinion on art is akin to the prudish teachings of religion, right?
A pretty lady choosing to show some cleavage doesn’t magically make it OK to SA them simply because they made a choice you disagree with… They CHOSE to go in to public like that, not unlike how an artist CHOOSES to present their art.
Yes, it is not exactly the same, but ideological associations do not have to be literally equivalent to never the less have strong similar tendencies.
If you’re against even fantasy being sexy, I’d hate to hear what you’d think of a sexy reality…
Because rich morons think they’ll get free digital slaves out of it. Because they’re rich morons who do not understand anything they ask for.
I also don’t want to discount yoga! It’s good motion and position trianing and definitely stretches plenty, at least for ‘tight’ people like me.
I just wanted to point out that one doesn’t need to do an entire routine just for stretching. (although still, yoga’s a great way to start a journey with exercise, especially if someone isn’t a self-starter type)