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  I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-09 22:32 -0500
    Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) "Hoofington P. McSnort" <hoof@mcsnort.com> - 2022-09-09 20:57 -0700
      Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-09 23:07 -0500
    Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-16 21:35 -0500
      Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-16 23:02 -0500
      Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-17 12:27 -0500
        Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-23 21:53 -0500
          Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-24 14:19 -0500
          Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2022-09-25 00:53 -0500
          Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-01 19:54 -0500
            Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2022-10-02 12:39 -0700
            Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-08 22:06 -0500
              Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-09 00:30 -0500
              Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-09 15:14 -0500
                Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-14 22:43 -0500
                  Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-21 22:58 -0500
                    Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Jack Reacher <jack.reacher.150150@gmail.com> - 2022-10-23 14:13 -0700
                      Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Jack Reacher <jack.reacher.150150@gmail.com> - 2022-10-23 14:22 -0700
                    Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-28 23:51 -0500
                      Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-29 23:30 -0500
                        Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-10-30 20:30 -0500
                          Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-11-04 22:47 -0500
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                              Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-) Physfit Freak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2022-12-01 00:33 -0800
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#861426 — I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-)

This week passed so fast it's hard to believe. Of course Monday of it we 
were off. And in a glimpse I got two days of my own time on my hands 
again :)

Nothing beats a job that forces you to go to bed on time, get's you up 
early, make you shower and shave, iron your pants and shirts, forces you 
to have a reliable transportation, and puts you to some combination of 
physical activity and thinking and record keeping for 8 hours 5 times a 
week.

Nothing!

Simple and at the same time to a good extent creative (if you have the 
head for it). No need to cook. No need to eat but just 3 times a week 
total. Then on Friday evenings your time becomes 100% yours for 48 hours!

Life's good.



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#861427

On 9/9/2022 8:32 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> This week passed so fast it's hard to believe. Of course Monday of it we 
> were off. And in a glimpse I got two days of my own time on my hands 
> again :)
> 
> Nothing beats a job that forces you to go to bed on time, get's you up 

Apostrophe's and they're use's, you blithering wankmaggot.

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#861431

On 9/9/2022 10:57 PM, Hoofington P. McSnort wrote:
> On 9/9/2022 8:32 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
>> This week passed so fast it's hard to believe. Of course Monday of it 
>> we were off. And in a glimpse I got two days of my own time on my 
>> hands again :)
>>
>> Nothing beats a job that forces you to go to bed on time, get's you up 
> 
> Apostrophe's and they're use's, you blithering wankmaggot.
> 

میخای کون بدی روت نمیشه؟


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#861781

On 9/9/2022 10:32 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> This week passed so fast it's hard to believe. Of course Monday of it we 
> were off. And in a glimpse I got two days of my own time on my hands 
> again :)
> 
> Nothing beats a job that forces you to go to bed on time, get's you up 
> early, make you shower and shave, iron your pants and shirts, forces you 
> to have a reliable transportation, and puts you to some combination of 
> physical activity and thinking and record keeping for 8 hours 5 times a 
> week.
> 
> Nothing!
> 
> Simple and at the same time to a good extent creative (if you have the 
> head for it). No need to cook. No need to eat but just 3 times a week 
> total. Then on Friday evenings your time becomes 100% yours for 48 hours!
> 
> Life's good.
> 
> 
> 


Time passes even faster than two years back! :) It was Monday just the 
other day, and now it is Friday again :-) Can't believe this.

Two more days on my hands, plus this wonderful evening after a walk.

It could be the new life that I have had. It must be it. If time passes 
fast and yet I look younger in the mirror, ... yes it must be my new 
management. Eating 3 times a week and walking 3 times a week (albeit 
shorter distances) after work.

The TV addict neighbor saw me in the yard the other day and came closer 
to ask how my work is going, but instead checked me out and said, "Have 
you begun chasing women again?" I said, "Why?". She came even closer and 
looked at me from head to toe and said, "You look different! You're 
looking for a woman, aren't you!"

"Not for a Cro-Magnon alcoholic bitch like you, I ain't" I said in my 
mind :)

Then back inside, I got curious and compared the picture that I'd taken 
2.5 years ago in the mirror to what I look in the mirror now. I'm 
definitely younger! In the picture (taken on order for a girl I loved in 
Tehran University years) my hair is 100% white, but now it's got a lot 
of gray in it! So either weak tiny black hair close to the scalp got 
stronger and grew as tall and healthy as the white ones, or some of the 
white ones turned black again, if such a thing is possible.

I weigh 25 pounds less. A few tiny wrinkles on my forehead back then are 
totally gone. My energy has increased. I like my job more than in those 
days, cause all around me now are bright young Hispanics, full of life, 
compared to those sick motherfucking Cro-Magnons with whom I had to 
work. They sure as hell died of Covid and the remaining ones retired, 
and company knows better who to promote and hire.


Even in that picture, she'd expressed surprise how young I looked 
compared to my age. I owed that to my physical activity at work and, 
overall, managing my life well. When I saw hers then, I was 
disappointed. She looked just like Ali MacGraw back then in early 1970s, 
girls in the department called her "Physics Barbie" behind her back. Now 
I could hardly recognize her.

She had chosen and continued in nuclear physics and right after her PhD 
the new government closed all the universities (where she was teaching 
and working), so when USA declined to give her visa she went to Canada 
and stayed and worked there since early 1980s at a reactor job, just 
retiring when she found me via internet.

Funny that I decided against developing my relationship with her this 
time around also, for the exact same reasons I had back then in 1976 :)
She was still the same person and I was still the same person! We didn't 
match.




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#861784

On 9/16/2022 9:35 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> On 9/9/2022 10:32 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
>> This week passed so fast it's hard to believe. Of course Monday of it 
>> we were off. And in a glimpse I got two days of my own time on my 
>> hands again :)
>>
>> Nothing beats a job that forces you to go to bed on time, get's you up 
>> early, make you shower and shave, iron your pants and shirts, forces 
>> you to have a reliable transportation, and puts you to some 
>> combination of physical activity and thinking and record keeping for 8 
>> hours 5 times a week.
>>
>> Nothing!
>>
>> Simple and at the same time to a good extent creative (if you have the 
>> head for it). No need to cook. No need to eat but just 3 times a week 
>> total. Then on Friday evenings your time becomes 100% yours for 48 hours!
>>
>> Life's good.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Time passes even faster than two years back! :) It was Monday just the 
> other day, and now it is Friday again :-) Can't believe this.
> 
> Two more days on my hands, plus this wonderful evening after a walk.
> 
> It could be the new life that I have had. It must be it. If time passes 
> fast and yet I look younger in the mirror, ... yes it must be my new 
> management. Eating 3 times a week and walking 3 times a week (albeit 
> shorter distances) after work.
> 
> The TV addict neighbor saw me in the yard the other day and came closer 
> to ask how my work is going, but instead checked me out and said, "Have 
> you begun chasing women again?" I said, "Why?". She came even closer and 
> looked at me from head to toe and said, "You look different! You're 
> looking for a woman, aren't you!"
> 
> "Not for a Cro-Magnon alcoholic bitch like you, I ain't" I said in my 
> mind :)
> 
> Then back inside, I got curious and compared the picture that I'd taken 
> 2.5 years ago in the mirror to what I look in the mirror now. I'm 
> definitely younger! In the picture (taken on order for a girl I loved in 
> Tehran University years) my hair is 100% white, but now it's got a lot 
> of gray in it! So either weak tiny black hair close to the scalp got 
> stronger and grew as tall and healthy as the white ones, or some of the 
> white ones turned black again, if such a thing is possible.
> 
> I weigh 25 pounds less. A few tiny wrinkles on my forehead back then are 
> totally gone. My energy has increased. I like my job more than in those 
> days, cause all around me now are bright young Hispanics, full of life, 
> compared to those sick motherfucking Cro-Magnons with whom I had to 
> work. They sure as hell died of Covid and the remaining ones retired, 
> and company knows better who to promote and hire.
> 
> 
> Even in that picture, she'd expressed surprise how young I looked 
> compared to my age. I owed that to my physical activity at work and, 
> overall, managing my life well. When I saw hers then, I was 
> disappointed. She looked just like Ali MacGraw back then in early 1970s, 
> girls in the department called her "Physics Barbie" behind her back. Now 
> I could hardly recognize her.
> 
> She had chosen and continued in nuclear physics and right after her PhD 
> the new government closed all the universities (where she was teaching 
> and working), so when USA declined to give her visa she went to Canada 
> and stayed and worked there since early 1980s at a reactor job, just 
> retiring when she found me via internet.
> 
> Funny that I decided against developing my relationship with her this 
> time around also, for the exact same reasons I had back then in 1976 :)
> She was still the same person and I was still the same person! We didn't 
> match.
> 
> 
> 
> 


Nevertheless, we had a wonderful 3 weeks of evening conversation via 
Telegram. We chose to communicate in written form for a good part of it 
cause we were engaged in sensitive and sometimes precision talk. She 
talked a lot and asked a lot. Same woman I knew from 1970s :)

She was also the one who had encouraged me (rather insisted) to learn 
German in Tehran. I attended a few semesters (or "terms") of Goethe 
Institute and learnt quite a lot of German despite one of my brothers' 
wishes (he'd studied in Germany in 60s and hated that country).

She was a formal, strict, and idealistic person. Could throw her entire 
life into it if necessary. Everything that I wasn't. Everything that I 
could not tolerate :-)) Hahhahah :)

Do you know why she was so good in German language? Cause she wanted to 
read Marx's works in original German!

I wouldn't do that if someone held a shotgun to my head! I was, and I 
am, from another planet compared to communists. To me, even the fucking 
Americans are nothing but wretched communists. So now go do your figuring.

She wasn't a communist either, but out of curiosity she was taking 
"dialectical materialism" courses from other departments alongside her 
physics courses. And now she wanted to read Marx in his original language...

Hehe :)

So that's why she had learnt German so well.

She was amazing in many respects other than just looks; bright, 
intelligent, and full of controlled passion. A disciplined and often an 
unforgiving person. But I was not made to stand a woman like that, and 
she could sure not stand a man like myself. Very different natures had 
built us.

Ok, time to watch a pirated movie and hit the sack. Fuck you all. Fuck 
every single one of you Bozos.






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#861804

On 9/16/2022 9:35 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> 
> "Not for a Cro-Magnon alcoholic bitch like you, I ain't" I said in my 
> mind :)


Even 8 years back when she was still fuckworthy I couldn't convince 
myself to fuck her. She'd asked in the car, at my door, on just about 
any opportunity that had come up, and I had declined. But she was at 
least Texan. Some remnants of decency still existed deep down in her. 
Also she had cats, many cats, that didn't look well-fed. Her car had 
broken down followed by losing her job as a result. Although only in her 
early 50s, she'd subsequently managed to get part of her dead husband's 
social security money, and together with her younger advanced alcoholic 
sister was subsisting on that.

To help her, i.e., to help her cats really, I offered her a job at my 
place of work so she could commute with me to and from work. I was still 
in that Chinese company and my word would go a long way with them.

She agreed and went through application and tests, etc. Got hired at 
some simple job, the only CH among otherwise Hispanics. Then a week 
later her urine test results came back and they fired her :)

I said to myself, "Ok, I did my part anyway."

Then out of blue, a week or so later she texted me that they had changed 
their mind! Those Chinese guys weren't that keen about not-hiring 
ex-cons and druggies, etc. If you worked well, you were game in their 
eyes. And she had done excellent work in there in that first week.

Plus, it was me who had recommended her. They'd seen us riding together 
to and from work and were perhaps under the impression I was fucking her 
and more. Hispanic girls in the parking lot leaving work would wink at 
me walking with her toward the car and made kiss gestures in all 
naughtiness.. Hehe :) I kept telling every curious person that she was 
just a neighbor.

So, she got the job at last, thanks to me and no one else.

For about 4 months I gave her ride to work until she gathered enough 
money to buy an old 2nd hand Cavalier. The car was in pretty good shape 
and a Canadian neighbor who bought and sold cars on the side had sold it 
to her at a fair price. By all probability had fucked her as well for 
part of the deal. She _was_ fuckworthy back then.

I breathed a sigh of relief. Almost every fucking evening on our way 
back from work I had to stop at the store so she'd get her six-pack for 
the night :-( Oftentimes a 12 pack. Friday evenings? One whole fucking 
case. Like her younger sister, she was alcoholic alright, but not as 
advanced as the former was. She could at least work, or so I thought.

I kept receiving notes from employees and leads themselves that her 
breath smelled alcohol. She had told me to tell them it was "mouthwash." 
I was sick of all that.

But listen to this! "Physicist time" :) Just _one_ week after she 
purchased the car and began commuting to work independently, she quit 
that job! That's when I found out she was too far already in substance 
abuse to hold and manage a job by herself. Now I gave it a good chance 
that her previous car also was not the reason for her losing her job. 
The reason must've been herself.

It was close to Christmas time and amount of work had increased and 
every single one of us were needed badly at that company. My all time 
answer to their inquiries that "She was just my neighbor" wasn't 
convincing enough for them. So it reflected badly on myself as well.

As far as I know, she didn't see one day of work since then. Her car 
also disappeared within a month. The Canadian had bought it back cause 
she needed the money, so go figure.

To pay bills, her single half-crazy alcoholic brother who was holding a 
job moved in with them. Their house (inherited from their dead parents) 
has 3 rooms, so things looked ok from outside. Then he got fired at his 
job as well, and shortly after, her working young son moved in with 
them. That's how things have been with her since. One of them must be 
sleeping in the living room. Or could be that the son fucks her aunt :)

This is, by all probability, close to the story of the majority in the 
Cro-Magnon portion of the population in this country. You dimwits are 
easy to fall prey. Nothing much is needed, really. The mechanism that 
saves the MH in their lives doesn't exist in you.

You're a temporary thing :) Rings a bell?












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#862066

Wasn't it just a couple of days back that it was Friday evening, and I 
was here talking about it?.. Hehe :-) How can it be Friday evening again 
this soon!

If my life goes this fast, even after reaching the age of 100 I'll feel 
only a couple of years has passed since 2022. So I don't know if I'm 
losing out, or I'm just too relaxed or what :-)

Of course it helps and eases my mind too that you dimwits now have to 
pay more for your stupidities :) That must have something to do with it.

Funny the way they do that to you. They've had your $100 bills printed 
for them and their cronies as often as they've wanted, and spent them at 
any price for items and services that they've whimed to have; prices 
jump up, then they turn around and tell the rest of Americans "This is 
again a period of inflation that we're having."

It's like hitting a hammer hard on someone's cranium and then on top of 
that turning back and telling him "Of course it is understandable that 
you feel intense pain cause your head collided with an object after all! 
Makes sense? So of course you should feel pain, be a man, accept it and 
deal with it."

:-))) God how stupid you Americans are.. It's not that funny anymore. 
You've become disgusting. Disgusting describes you people better than 
"funny." A shame to humankind.

Speaking on me becoming 100. One thing I'm sure. The day will come that 
not one of you in this hellhole will be alive when I still come to this 
forum to blog! Not that your absence would makes any difference as far 
as sci.physics is concerned, but you'll all be dead instead of alive and 
in this forum. You'll be forced to recede to where you always belonged 
in your lives, suckers. To those holes you'll be in. OUTSIDE of this 
forum. Time will recycle goofballs like you back into nature, and I love 
that. Sci.physics is not your place and never meant to be.

But myself and my blogs will still be here and increasing in extent, on 
that wonderful day, when 80% of your body masses are recycled :) I won't 
be the same person of course. I migrate, remember? But I will be even 
better then.

Ok, not bad. Pooped out and aching for some reason, but it's Friday 
evening again. Did my work today, did my 5 miles three times a week 
after-hour walk, and have just finished my wonderful Pilates session. An 
all physical day, so now my brain wants to explode in activity for a 
change. Now I want to kick your worthless two-bit overgrown asses hard 
and bad! And this evening happens to not even be my eating day, so I 
have time.

Speaking of physical activity, I should perhaps clear up something. In 
my experience at least, walking alone is not enough. Yes, it does 80% of 
the job, but still falls short. Same with having just a physical job and 
relying on that for your physical activity needs. I've done all that and 
know what I'm talking about. It would be like eating only potatoes in 
your life :) Hehe :) Water and potatoes, and nothing else. It will keep 
you alive for some time, but one way or another you'll get sick and die 
much sooner than you should.

So Pilates is also needed.

But I was doing Pilates twice a day beginning with 15 years prior to the 
day that I was diagnosed as a diabetic. So Pilates alone also won't do 
it. It became sufficient and quite complete when I changed my job to a 
warehouse job.

For one, if you want to have flexibility (Pilates provides much more 
than just flexibility), and by that I don't mean making ballerina or 
yoga moves, but ability to do stuff in everyday life that require 
flexibility, your walking long distances and/or working long physical 
hours at work won't give that to you.

Example. This happened less than a month ago. My CH alcoholic neighbor 
brought a large bowl of soup to my door saying that (read it "I'm still 
waiting for you to fuck me") she didn't want to throw it away and nobody 
in the house is willing to touch it. It was great soup, I thought to 
myself "I can feed it to the raccoon that comes every midnight" and 
thanked her and accepted it. But right before she handed the bowl over 
it slid a bit in her hands and some of the soup poured down over her 
toes. Kitchen faucet was the closest thing so I took her there so she 
could wash it off in the sink. She is a tall woman (as tall as myself) 
and she is several years younger than me, yet she could not raise her 
leg high enough to place her foot in the sink. And women are supposed to 
be more flexible than men. Her stiff joints and her thick, out of shape 
mid-section was in the way. I could easily do it and demonstrated it to her.

She does hourse work a lot. Day and night, in fact. That's why alcohol 
has not yet gotten the best of her. She's practically the maid in that 
house, taking care of everything for four people that live there. Her 
sister and brother are too advanced in alcoholism to be able to help 
with anything at all, and her son who pays all the bills won't touch 
anything. So she gets a lot of physical activity indeed, but she 
couldn't raise her long leg high enough to place her foot inside the 
kitchen sink! She had to go to the bathtub to do it. She could enter a 
bathtub!

So mere physical activity required to maintain one's chores doesn't do it.

There's a catch, though, and this is what I want to say in this blog. 
Walking is natural enough to be almost harmless. Or housework. Or almost 
all physical jobs. But when Pilates comes into your life, you've got to 
be careful! Things you'll do aren't natural anymore and if you don't 
know what you're doing, and you sure don't, you can hurt yourself.

So you're going to need a no-nonsense, carefully studied and tested and 
compiled Pilates book written by someone who is a professional in the 
related medical fields. There are hundreds of Pilates books out there, 
99% of them are junk if not dangerous, compiled by non-professionals, 
enthusiasts, Arindams, snake oil hustlers, hobbyists, ex-actors, 
ex-actresses, ex-marines, ex this and that, plus all those whose reason 
to do so is nothing but the fact that they have mortgages to pay. None 
of those hustlers are qualified to write and compile a sensitive book 
like that. This is what I'm trying to say.

That was part of the reason I had insisted on finding the original 
German version of the Pilates exercise book that I'm using, cause the 
Persian translation this guy (someone from Rasht, Iran) had made is 
annoyingly substandard. People of Rasht have their mother language of 
Gilaki, and can learn to speak proper Persian to a good extent but 
should not translate a precision foreign book into Persian! Only someone 
who was born and raised among Persian-speaking parents should do such 
translations. I curse that guy every day (twice a day, in fact), reading 
the detailed instructions to the exercises.

The author of this book knew what he was doing, and did an excellent job 
of that. The proof of it for me speaks for itself. 60 years of its twice 
  daily use by my father didn't make him experience any physical ailment 
or injuries (same with my own 35 years of using it this far) coming from 
  doing those exercises. The author was an experienced clinical 
professional in that field plus being a medical doctor.

He has included a large list of ailments that occur in the 
musculoskeletal and cardiovascular, even digestive systems among people, 
that can fully be alleviated by carefully choosing the appropriate set 
of exercises in this book. He gives plans of action for each ailment. He 
knew his anatomy perfectly. I found that out when I took anatomy courses 
in biology school 20 years ago and realized how his stretch, strength, 
even breathing exercises were carefully designed to cover various layers 
of muscles, in groups as well as individually, as far as it could be 
done! Very clever and careful guy who even adjusted the exercises 
according to slight anatomical differences between different people, and 
carefully explained and modified the standard procedures for them as 
well, as was needed.

The only limit in detail and rigor that I see in this book comes from 
this sucker translator. Sometimes it is not clear what the author is 
saying because this translator didn't quite know how to express it in 
Persian language, and often that happens just where precision 
description is needed.

He didn't even respect the integrity of the book, and adds stuff of his 
own liking to the text without mentioning that they've not been in the 
original. I doubt this author knew that many sayings and idioms that are 
customary only among Persians! There is even a quote from Quran in it 
right in the main text of the book! :-(

When I read the preface of the translator, author, and the text of the 
book itself, nothing is seen beyond the translator himself. The style, 
idiosyncracies, manner of reasoning, manner of explanation, everything 
is coming from the same mediocre mind. When I go from translator text to 
the author's text nothing feels different :-(

The sucker wanted to _own_ this work and be the only one responsible for 
its existence. Deliberately not a single reference to original is given 
except those which he had no way of avoiding under sloppy laws of his 
time in Tehran. Author's name in Persian alphabet and that he was 
German. Nothing else is there about the whereabouts of the original 
book. The title cannot be trusted either.

I bet there are newer and possibly even better Pilates books written 
since, but my problem is that they're not as fully tested as this one. 
I'm not sure what happens if someone follow such exercises twice a day 
each day of his life. Because this sort of activity can be dangerous.

I had a friend who eventually lost the use of his left knee by 
inadequate exercises that some uneducated and inexperienced coach in the 
university had imposed on them.

The beginning and end of the exercise sessions were always chosen to be 
running around a basketball court (Bingo - big mistake), and the idiot 
coach had those people run always in the same direction as well. Even in 
both directions would still be harmful. So as days and months passed, 
this friend began to feel an ache in his left knee. And the ache became 
stronger and eventually he had to stop going to those sessions. A 
medical doctor after questioning and examining him told him that he had 
damaged his left knee by running always counter-clockwise around the 
relatively small court, way too small for safe running along the 
circumference.

Then a year later even in the absence of such "exercises" his normal 
walking got affected and he started to limp. Doctors recommended that 
surgery be done. The first surgery was in 1979, and by mid 1980s many 
more surgeries had been carried out and the knee had steadily gotten 
worse. I didn't see him after that (he went back to Iran after getting 
his degree) but in the last months he was here he was constantly using 
crutches under both armpits to move around, at home as well as in the 
university. A 25 year old man.

I have other examples of this in my memory, of personal observations 
(over-doing volleyball, martial arts, .. etc) but I've made my point.

That's what happens when you and your coach don't know what you're 
doing! In Pilates, you have every reason to be careful about the 
exercises because they're not normal and natural moves yet you'll be 
doing them daily for years and years.

Now this is not the whole story cause you also want your Pilates book be 
effective! Hehe :)

Yes, it is easy to be extra conservative about choice of exercises to 
get absolutely sure you stay safe, but you may end up just wasting your 
time :) Pilates must be _effective_ also, and to be effective it has to 
be intense to some degree and done often enough to create positive 
changes in your body. Lots of Pilates books, especially the ones written 
for women by some ex-actress or ex-singer or so, are really useless, not 
much more than psychological help giving you the idea you're doing 
something good for your body.

The Pilates book my father used gave him 65 years of health while being 
diabetic! You cannot find diabetics who live to see the age 94. That's a 
hell of a lot of effectiveness. This same book has kept me healthy and 
younger than my age. It _is_ effective for the young and old, male or 
female, as the author claims it too. But it is also efficient. Doing two 
20 minute sessions of it every day is all you need to worry about. The 
rest is done by itself :) Once in a while I miss one of the sessions, 
which is ok. Even 20 minutes of it per day goes a long way.

Safety, effectiveness, and efficiency, I think all three better be 
there. No wonder only a master in that field can provide all three in 
one book for you. No wonder so many Arindams hustling Pilates books 
aren't successful.

So there is this careful balance to Pilates which you never had to worry 
about in your hiking activities or physical jobs, or amount of 
housework, etc. With the above said, I wish you good luck with finding 
the right one for your own practices.

And when I say this, don't ever think I'm speaking to the present 
readers of this forum. Present readers are society's trash.

My word for the present readers: First! Fuck yourselves. Then! Promptly 
fuck off. My blogs aren't for you.





















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#862108

On 9/23/2022 9:53 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> So Pilates is also needed.


To get it as a service, you'd have to pay good money to a reputable 
business to either send you an expert or have you in their massage 
parlors and do the right job on you. Twice a day! Hehe :)

But... First off, how do you know where and which ones are reputable? 
"Chinitas" claim to do the same thing, but charge you fuck money and 
arrange a fuck in there for you, especially on Fridays after work :)

It'd already past my time when I learned the word "Chinitas". I would 
overhear workers as end of the work day would get near on Fridays, 
expressing excited remarks between themselves about this "Chinitas" :)

They'd get paid and first thing they did was to go to one of these 
Chinese massage parlors ("Chinitas"!) and blow half of it away before 
going home. Legal prostitution in Dallas area.

So which is what you're aiming at, Pilates or Chinitas? :)

Unless you're a billionaire or at least a multi-millionaire, you cannot 
afford to get Pilates delivered to you. They don't even show that in 
movies to you anymore, have you noticed it? It's not for you to know and 
see. You'd only afford, at best, a Chinitas excursion instead, once a week.

So you've got to do it yourselves. You may think it can be looked at as 
a medical need and there are insurance companies. If you ask medical 
industry to do it for you for medical reasons, it'll be as expensive as 
true Pilates businesses. Physical therapy which is based on most recent 
research is very expensive in USA. Orthopedic physicians study for years 
and years to prepare themselves for it, and charge you accordingly if 
you seek their help.

None of the insurance companies these days cover such "medical" services 
for you. You pay for it out of your own pocket, and you better be, hehe, 
again, either billionaires or multi-millionaires to afford it.

Are you a billionaire? More importantly, are you a Clutterfreak? If you 
are a Clutterfreak you can get every bit of that "service" free of 
charge. Twice a day :)

That's the difference between a Clutterfreak and something like you, 
sweetie.









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#862122

On 9/23/2022 9:53 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> With the above said, I wish you good luck with finding the right one for 
> your own practices.

Cause you're going to need luck :-)

If it wasn't for my father discovering this book (albeit its Persian 
translation) and noticing its value, I would've needed a lot of luck 
discovering it myself. I was indeed very lucky to have that man as my 
father.

So you will need luck as well as a lot of caution to find a good one. 
The subject is one tricky, complicated area and nothing short of a lot 
of education and professional experience can handle all that complexity.

Slightest mistake and you will hurt yourself, possibly irreversibly, 
like the left knee of that young fellow. Or totally useless wrists as a 
result of overdoing the competition volleyball, or two-inch increase in 
the length of someone's right hand as a result of practicing karate 
hours a day for many years. The latter could not wear a jacket or shirt 
right off the store racks anymore! His right hand had become both longer 
than the left one, and thicker too, all the way from shoulders to the 
other end of his hand. When you looked at him standing face to face 
three meters apart, the difference between his right side and left side 
was obvious to see!

In human anatomy, some muscles are meant to be stretched but there are 
also muscles that are _not_ meant to be stretched! You can't just 
stretch anything about your body and call that exercise. If you attempt 
to stretch the latter, knowingly or unknowingly, you will hurt yourself, 
perhaps for life. Human anatomy and its complexity of functions and 
features can only be understood by scientists. You can't be an 
"ex-marine" and understand this subject enough to write Pilates exercise 
books based on that. It's not your job.

Ok, enough said about this.







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#862440

On 9/23/2022 9:53 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> But when Pilates comes into your life, you've got to be careful! Things 
> you'll do aren't natural anymore and if you don't know what you're 
> doing, and you sure don't, you can hurt yourself.


A good visual example of the above:

https://streamable.com/w0vjw4

He probably damaged some tendons at one of the most sensitive areas of 
the body, the knees. So prospects of it getting better is poor.

One from my own observations:

There was an American student in school who had dislocated his knee just 
once while playing soccer. It never got better no matter what they did, 
and even while doing normal walking he had to be extra careful that the 
knee doesn't jump out of the socket sideways :-(

You don't try to invent stuff in Pilates, and it doesn't matter you are 
an Arindam doing it or a careful and reasonable man. You just don't know 
enough of it (you don't know ANYTHING really) to try ideas of your own.

You need a very careful and knowledgeable and experienced guide, either 
in person (in case you're a billionaire) or via a one of a kind book 
that's lost and buried under thousands of ineffective or dangerous 
Pilates books authored by Arindams of different shapes and colors and 
genders.

Here is another example of getting inventive!  (broke her foot bones)

https://streamable.com/41ggne

You think Cro-Magnons aren't capable of getting more stupid than that? 
Think again. This is accepted "gym" activity somewhere:

https://streamable.com/94mow7

Even goats will be here when Cro-Magnons go extinct. Cause goats don't 
have the type of flaws in them that you have.




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#862479

wat day does friday fall on?

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#862773

On 10/1/2022 7:54 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 9/23/2022 9:53 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
>> But when Pilates comes into your life, you've got to be careful! 
>> Things you'll do aren't natural anymore and if you don't know what 
>> you're doing, and you sure don't, you can hurt yourself.
> 
> 
> A good visual example of the above:
> 
> https://streamable.com/w0vjw4
> 
> He probably damaged some tendons at one of the most sensitive areas of 
> the body, the knees. So prospects of it getting better is poor.
> 
> One from my own observations:
> 
> There was an American student in school who had dislocated his knee just 
> once while playing soccer. It never got better no matter what they did, 
> and even while doing normal walking he had to be extra careful that the 
> knee doesn't jump out of the socket sideways :-(
> 
> You don't try to invent stuff in Pilates, and it doesn't matter you are 
> an Arindam doing it or a careful and reasonable man. You just don't know 
> enough of it (you don't know ANYTHING really) to try ideas of your own.
> 
> You need a very careful and knowledgeable and experienced guide, either 
> in person (in case you're a billionaire) or via a one of a kind book 
> that's lost and buried under thousands of ineffective or dangerous 
> Pilates books authored by Arindams of different shapes and colors and 
> genders.
> 
> Here is another example of getting inventive!  (broke her foot bones)
> 
> https://streamable.com/41ggne
> 
> You think Cro-Magnons aren't capable of getting more stupid than that? 
> Think again. This is accepted "gym" activity somewhere:
> 
> https://streamable.com/94mow7
> 
> Even goats will be here when Cro-Magnons go extinct. Cause goats don't 
> have the type of flaws in them that you have.
> 
> 
> 
> 


You're most likely Cro-Magnon. Here is an even more inventive CH scheme 
for you to do "exercise":

https://streamable.com/g1v8uu

I'd call that one the "Jim Pennino" level of inventiveness. Cause the 
guy jumping there isn't just a Cro-Magnon, but likely a Cro-Magnon of 
"engineer" type.

Now let's put the extremes aside and let the CH among you be CH and get 
gradually eliminated in time. Let's do what I made this blog for. And 
that's speaking about a few no-nonsense facts in Pilates for the 
occasional modern human that may read this blog later.

As I said before, 99% of Pilates books out there are fake. They're each 
somebody's inventions or blind copying of somebody else's inventions. 
They lack the two main bases on which good Pilates books are founded.

That remaining 1%, the good books out there, are the ones utilizing the 
two needed bases. About half of them use proven clinical techniques 
discovered through years of practice and enormous amount of trial and 
error by professionals in the field, and the other half are based only 
on scientific literature.

Every now and then, like 1% of the cases that make the above 1%, a book 
will come out with a combination of both. Just enough scientific 
literature to make you understand what it is that you are doing; and 
adding to that, the use of different proven methods and related 
exercises for you to gain what they purport to accomplish.

This 1% of the 1%, is what I am after. I had a hunch that the ancient 
Pilates book I've been using, originally also gave the scientific 
literature on which the author's ideas were based, and the stupid 
translator (he was _not_ a translator - he was just a student in Germany 
studying film) completely omitted those sections and such references to 
reduce the book to a level that he could handle. THAT, then, would make 
sense as why he did not provide necessary information about the origin 
of the book, because he knew this book had not been formally 
"translated" at all.

I'm not looking for the original book anymore. I want a newer and most 
probably better one. This book's content is 90 years old :-)

Back in 1978 and till about 1983 I searched and looked and could not 
find the right Pilates book. I really looked everywhere, all were a 
league below this book. Such a book didn't exist yet as far as I knew. 
But that was 40 years back.

I really haven't done a thorough search for one of these jewels in this 
day and times. My time is now limited. When I had the time, during 
essentially two years of lock up because of Covid 19, I was mainly 
experimenting with something much more important, a way to replace my 
lost physical hours at work. The Pilates part of the deal was not as 
important as being physically active many hours a day as is required for 
a diabetic.

Still, despite being problematic, this book is quite comprehensive, you 
can see the scientific mind behind all that idiosyncrasy that the 
mini-brain translator has adored it with. The reasoning, the plan, the 
classifications, they all speak volumes about the author.







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#862776

On 10/8/2022 10:06 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
> https://streamable.com/g1v8uu
> 
> I'd call that one the "Jim Pennino" level of inventiveness. Cause the 
> guy jumping there isn't just a Cro-Magnon, but likely a Cro-Magnon of 
> "engineer" type.


In case you didn't notice, this was not a joke. The stupidity in that 
man jumping to stand on the stone and instead slipping and hitting his 
pelvic bones on it is quite a match to the stupidity in Jim Pennino.

This stupe, Pennino, came inside a _physics_ forum to brag about why he 
began his schooling in physics but later left for "engineering" 
department.  He was bragging about that, think about it!

A good analogy would be a prostitute becoming a member of some Church, 
then bragging to others there how she was initially a Church person but 
later left it for prostitution... This is the kind of stupidity that I 
see in that fucked up man, Jim Pennino, and that other fucked up man 
jumping down on that stone.

In a physics environment, this Pennino is a "prostitute" who's deemed it 
ok to go to Church and teach those people some stuff!



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#862797

On 10/8/2022 10:06 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> Still, despite being problematic, this book is quite comprehensive, you 
> can see the scientific mind behind all that idiosyncrasy that the 
> mini-brain translator has adored it with. The reasoning, the plan, the 
> classifications, they all speak volumes about the author.


Every structure this book has, I found to be the most logical. For 
instance, the depth of discussion on stretching goes well beyond the 
breathing exercises and those for strength. This is so because 
stretching is the most tricky one among other types of exercise. 
Strength exercises are often self-limiting and prevent you from going 
too far into them to damage yourselves. Breathing exercises are almost 
100% benign (if you are otherwise healthy). But in stretching, you can 
hurt yourself easily, so this author goes well into discussing 
everything that the book says you ought to do when it comes to stretching.

Let me give you an example of it. I have not seen this level of 
attention and explanation in any Pilates book I've so far checked.

Back then, in 1930s (or earlier, I'm not sure when it was written), the 
newer more complicated types of stretch that's called "PNF" in USA 
hadn't been invented yet (it was thought out first in 1940s by some 
physician). So stretching in this book is classified under four types only:

1- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons comes from some type 
of slow movement of body unrelated to that muscle

2- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons is directly exerted 
by another muscle that always works against the stretched muscle.

3- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons doesn't come from 
any part of the body. Either someone else does it for you, or one's 
weight is used to exert the force.

4- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons comes from the 
momentum of a part of body that's thrown away from center of mass in a 
manner that causes a stretch in the muscle and tendons in question.

For all four types, the author explains in detail what is done and what 
the drawbacks are and which ones are better than the other ones in 
almost every situation and purpose, and gives ample examples. For 
instance the author believes that type 2 above does not always work as 
well as type 1 for a healthy person because the extent of flexion in the 
opposing muscles to stretch a certain muscle are sometimes quite 
limited. But he explains that this same limitation works great for doing 
such type 2 stretching for purposes of rehabilitation after an injury! 
Cause the goal is now _not_ to stretch the length of muscles and tendons 
beyond normal, which is necessary for a healthy person, but to bring the 
length _to_ normal so the disabled person can move naturally again :)

So the choice of the type of stretching has much to do with who is doing 
it and for what purpose, and this book is totally based on such 
considerations, from begin to end. Very careful and logical treatment of 
the complexities involved. I have not seen this level of care in a 
Pilates book yet. It requires a scientist to work all these situations 
correctly to provide the reader with exactly what he needs to do for 
purposes for which he's reading the book.







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#863052

On 10/9/2022 3:14 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 10/8/2022 10:06 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>> Still, despite being problematic, this book is quite comprehensive, 
>> you can see the scientific mind behind all that idiosyncrasy that the 
>> mini-brain translator has adored it with. The reasoning, the plan, the 
>> classifications, they all speak volumes about the author.
> 
> 
> Every structure this book has, I found to be the most logical. For 
> instance, the depth of discussion on stretching goes well beyond the 
> breathing exercises and those for strength. This is so because 
> stretching is the most tricky one among other types of exercise. 
> Strength exercises are often self-limiting and prevent you from going 
> too far into them to damage yourselves. Breathing exercises are almost 
> 100% benign (if you are otherwise healthy). But in stretching, you can 
> hurt yourself easily, so this author goes well into discussing 
> everything that the book says you ought to do when it comes to stretching.
> 
> Let me give you an example of it. I have not seen this level of 
> attention and explanation in any Pilates book I've so far checked.
> 
> Back then, in 1930s (or earlier, I'm not sure when it was written), the 
> newer more complicated types of stretch that's called "PNF" in USA 
> hadn't been invented yet (it was thought out first in 1940s by some 
> physician). So stretching in this book is classified under four types only:
> 
> 1- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons comes from some type 
> of slow movement of body unrelated to that muscle
> 
> 2- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons is directly exerted 
> by another muscle that always works against the stretched muscle.
> 
> 3- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons doesn't come from 
> any part of the body. Either someone else does it for you, or one's 
> weight is used to exert the force.
> 
> 4- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons comes from the 
> momentum of a part of body that's thrown away from center of mass in a 
> manner that causes a stretch in the muscle and tendons in question.
> 
> For all four types, the author explains in detail what is done and what 
> the drawbacks are and which ones are better than the other ones in 
> almost every situation and purpose, and gives ample examples. For 
> instance the author believes that type 2 above does not always work as 
> well as type 1 for a healthy person because the extent of flexion in the 
> opposing muscles to stretch a certain muscle are sometimes quite 
> limited. But he explains that this same limitation works great for doing 
> such type 2 stretching for purposes of rehabilitation after an injury! 
> Cause the goal is now _not_ to stretch the length of muscles and tendons 
> beyond normal, which is necessary for a healthy person, but to bring the 
> length _to_ normal so the disabled person can move naturally again :)
> 
> So the choice of the type of stretching has much to do with who is doing 
> it and for what purpose, and this book is totally based on such 
> considerations, from begin to end. Very careful and logical treatment of 
> the complexities involved. I have not seen this level of care in a 
> Pilates book yet. It requires a scientist to work all these situations 
> correctly to provide the reader with exactly what he needs to do for 
> purposes for which he's reading the book.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


Look around you (if not at yourself). By seeing how people walk or how 
their postures are, you can make an educated guess whether they do 
Pilates or not; or whether they need it.

Remember the very tall old man I was talking about in my other blog who 
sometimes walked on the same track that I did? There were two of them 
and both needed a good Pilates book and sure as hell didn't have! I bet 
they had sport pasts (most likely in basketball) and walking at that age 
was their way of staying true to how they thought they could help 
themselves. But the point here is, they didn't know what they were 
doing. As a result, in the course of one whole year of my observing them 
none of them improved and both eventually disappeared. Probably died.

One, as I had described in that other blog, walked as if he had a dildo 
up his ass. His hanging hands and arms arced a good 10 inches away from 
his torso as if to encourage himself to stay in the "exercise" mood. His 
pelvic bones were in a perpetual state of maximum yank forward like in a 
doggie style fuck he pumped his dick all in and then froze at that 
moment and the subsequent moments of his life no matter in what activity 
he was engaged. From pelvis the spinal column continued upward going 
first backward like on the circumference of a circle and then up close 
to shoulders coming back forward getting close to horizontal and then 
shooting straight from that point on with his neck and head, the latter 
two perpetually at a 45-degree angle to vertical, as if he is looking at 
the ants on the ground.

That's how that man walked! He couldn't even look straight in a 
horizontal direction. Couldn't keep his neck and head on a vertical line 
to be able to do that, so had to use his eyeballs and do what we mortals 
do when we look up without turning our heads, only for him it was to 
look horizontally forward!

That's what you become when you don't know jack about the Pilates that 
you need. Even when you have sports background, and reside in the 
wonderful U S of A.

I have videos of my father at the age of 94, walking and moving like a 
healthy 50 year old man. Slightly slower than one, but in every other 
respect as normal and natural as someone 44 years younger than him. 
Biden acts and moves like a man much older than that particular 94 year old.

This is the difference that the right Pilates book makes in your life.



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#863344

> 
> That's how that man walked! He couldn't even look straight in a 
> horizontal direction. Couldn't keep his neck and head on a vertical line 
> to be able to do that, so had to use his eyeballs and do what we mortals 
> do when we look up without turning our heads, only for him it was to 
> look horizontally forward!
> 



Or hell, could be that the old fart is still alive but has arced even 
more, so now he walks as a tetrapod, too ashamed to be seen in public. 
You might think with those long basketball player hands and legs how he 
would do that. He'd get himself close to the Indians' defecation 
position first, lowering his ass toward the ground. Since his ass and 
his base of his hands are connected via torso, his hands get closer to 
the ground. Then he'd pass his arms over his bent knees inside towards 
each other, then reaches his hands to the ground and distributes the 
weight over all four legs. Kind of like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_agama#/media/File:AgamaSinaita01_ST_10_edit.jpg

Would he come outside and walk like that?

Same with the other two I mentioned in that blog. The Chink and the 
Beaner. They walk funny too, despite being much younger. I have no doubt 
it is the result of some stiff tendons and joints and weak muscles 
involved in walking. They haven't improved either in two years.

So something important is still missing in just walking as a way to get 
one's exercises. Mainly stretching, but also strength Pilates if not 
Cardio.

Some nuts think exercise means cardio! If they want to exercise they 
just do the cardios.. Hehe :) Cardio is always a part of Pilates (my 
Persian book refers to them as "breathing exercises") and is pretty safe 
if done according to same instructions from a proper Pilates book.

For those bozos who think exercise is just cardio and the rest is just 
yoga and body building, cardio become even more dangerous than 
stretching. Forget about getting hurt, cause it can kill you! There are 
famous people who tried to invent their own ideas and plans for it 
and... yes, died as a result :) Hehe :)

Do you remember the actor who played "Artemus" in Wild Wild West TV 
series? He dropped dead in the middle of playing tennis under the 
intense sun in 100+ degree temperatures! He must've imagined, "Oh baby, 
if this is not exercise I wonder what is!"...

And he wasn't a 22 year old man either :) So...

Let me see, who else... strange people come to my mind that I don't 
think you know. One was a bright electronics, a genius really, that had 
created some of the best analog circuit designs that could ever be done. 
I took 4 electronics courses as my electives in undergraduate physics. 
Even in Tehran, in those courses, his name and his mastery was mentioned 
and showed to us.

But he drank too much, and the funny thing is, he was actually a fitness 
enthusiast at the same time. He caused himself an untimely death in his 
early 50s by jogging along sidewalks, then ending the session by... not 
walking a bit to cool off then go home, but running up a hill! ... 
Dropped dead.

On his way running up that hill he must've told himself, "God I'm sooo 
American!"

And there was that early blogger on West Coast who found out a marathon 
will be held in his town in a few months, so he got interested in 
running and began self-training. Said in his blogs that he'd decided to 
participate in it. He trained and trained himself for it, and was so 
enthusiastic about it, then the marathon date arrived and he joined them 
and dropped dead in the middle of it. I don't remember his name. He was 
well known among geeks. He was quite young too, like in his late 20s.

Here in Dallas around same lake that I used to walk and make a full 
circle every weekend, a marathon was once held in the 1980s (10 miles 
the circumference - don't know if they repeated the rounds or not). Then 
I read in the newspaper that one of the participants had died in that 
marathon.

Self-styled cardios can kill you. Period.

Pilates isn't something you can invent and get yourself happily engaged 
with as if it's some fucking "fishing" that you decided to try, or going 
"bowling". It is both very sensitive and quite complicated! It requires 
the use of decades of professional experience and study of hundreds of 
academic papers to do it right. They're still studying it because there 
are areas in exercise that those scientists and practitioners don't yet 
understand.


















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#863433

https://www.youtube.com/user/SupremeMasterTV04

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#863435

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ybdABxMX8

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#863636

On 10/21/2022 10:58 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> So something important is still missing in just walking as a way to get 
> one's exercises. Mainly stretching, but also strength Pilates if not 
> Cardio.


The pre-agricultural,  pre-domestication man received all three types of 
activity all the time, every day! He had to walk long distances, climb 
many trees to pick nuts or fruits, and if very lucky to injure an animal 
with his weapon, then run after the animal until the latter collapsed. 
Running was not part of everyday life, but would happen sometimes. He 
didn't just walk all day.

This was so for a very long time, then the cold got very intense (about 
20 thousand years back) and just hunting and gathering would not provide 
enough food anymore, so human was forced to get quite creative and try 
every imaginable way of survival using what was at his disposal in those 
years. This is how domestication was discovered and used towards keeping 
animals in large numbers instead of going hunting them.

Did the three main types of physical activity, after domestication 
began, cease to exist? Certainly not. To get a good glimpse inside the 
life of that man, I think your best bet is to watch the lifestyle of the 
last of them who still exist in Iran (and nowhere else).

In 1925 Cooper (guy who later created the King Kong movie) made a 
documentary about those people. It is a jewel to see, and is the only 
remaining clue on how man after domestication lived for a few thousand 
years until weather got warmer and the agricultural period ensued.

The name of that movie is "Grass", and I think it is free to see. Just 
make sure you see the complete version of it, not the edited and 
shortened forms.

After seeing that documentary, you'll realize what man had to go through 
to make a living in the domestication period :) The activities involved, 
even with the use of animals to also ride on, were huge. In fact, much 
more than the hunting/gathering period required. That man, certainly 
received every form of exercise, all three types of Pilates and a good 
amount of exertions each day.

It was the agriculture that at last stopped the man's day to day life 
(as far as physical activity is concerned) from being a match to the way 
his body was put together. Not only that, agriculture also changed man's 
diet, and the frequency of eating itself, to something that didn't match 
his body and metabolism well. But these last two effects aren't the 
subject of this blog. In this blog, I'm only talking about the physical 
activity aspect of the discussion.

To make one's physical activity, types and levels both, match the human 
body's features that are developed to meet them, all three types of 
Pilates must be done, plus hours of walking. Every day without 
exception. Only then, at least as far as activity is concerned, we'll be 
doing just what our body is built for.

What we eat, and with what frequency, is another task to get underway. 
I've discussed it many times. Your best bet is to read Jason Fung's "The 
Diabetes Code" to understand exactly why, and how, you should do that.

We are metabolism machines. Part of it is what goes inside us in what 
quantities and with what frequencies, and the other part is how best to 
metabolize and utilize what goes in. When both styles of life as 
mentioned above gets underway, you'd be living like how human should.















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On 10/28/2022 11:51 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> The name of that movie is "Grass", and I think it is free to see. Just 
> make sure you see the complete version of it, not the edited and 
> shortened forms.



The copy at archive.org even though a gig large is only the first 20 
minutes of this documentary. Don't download that.

The complete version might not be available anymore free of charge. It 
should be more than one hour. What is sold now is 1 hour 11 minutes, 
which might again be a somewhat edited form of it.

I say that because when Cooper died, Tehran's TV stations had a program 
about him and showed the original full version of the movie on TV. It 
was so long that I got bored watching it and began going about my own 
business during it a few times. A 1 hour 11 minuted film wouldn't do 
that to me.

Or could be that this is a matter of speed. They may have deliberately 
speeded up the film to make its duration shorter for whatever reason. 
The samples that I tried today, all, were sped up a bit and didn't match 
normal human movement speeds.

Up until a few hundred years ago, you could still find some people 
around the world living like that. But right now, only in Iran one can 
see some remnants of them still in existence. None exist outside Iran 
anymore. The technology, mainly railroads, brought some changes in the 
manner of their lives and made it easier for them, but Grass was made 
just before railroads were developed in Iran. So Grass's content on that 
subject is genuine information. It is _exactly_ how human lived after 
domestication began and brought all the problems as well as benefits to 
human's life, a mode of life that lasted a few thousand years, before it 
got warmer and agriculture began and gradually took over at the expense 
of that earlier form of life.


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