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Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-)

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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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