Quaranturnt Day 21 - Would You Rather: Pull Teeth or Pull Towels?

It’s Friday. That used to mean things like dates, house parties, drinks at the local places where people get drinks. It was great. Now, it means tomorrow you can wake up and keep on both your pajama bottoms AND the tops. 

But maybe we can still do those same things. Like for instance, if anyone wants to go on a zoom date, I have a few friends who could meet you anywhere you want - Zoom, FaceTime, Hangouts, Snapchat - it’s your choice. 


For drinks though, I want to throw out a reminder that drinking water is abundantly important. Do you like nice hair? Drink water. Do you like soft skin? Drink water. Do you like headaches? Then ignore my advice!

A Case For Yoga - Part 2
Ok so this isn’t specifically a case for Yoga, just stretching and recovery movement in general. But I think Yoga is one of the best options - the reasons for why will become clear.

I said yesterday I believe yoga is great for three reasons: injury prevention, self-diagnostics, and kinesthetic sense.

• Injury Prevention - Yoga forces you to control your movement at all times. There are no rapidly moving, uncontrolled, heavy-weighted movements in yoga. So you end up building great control in all sorts of deep positions. If you can hold a good 30s lunge in yoga, you can likely pick up a heavy box and carry it up the stairs with less injury risk and, less functionally, you’re also likely safer in heavy squats. 

• Self-Diagnostics - Most fitness-related injuries you are at risk of are not caused by sudden traumas. You’re not getting tackled on a field, and you’re not actually likely to get hit by a car. But you may be like me and herniate a disc if you don’t stay on top of what’s going on in your body. The good news, your body doesn’t keep breaking-down dysfunctions quiet. When I herniated a disc, I had felt a strange tightness in my hamstring, unlike normal stretching, for a month every time I touched my toes. Yoga is great because it takes you through these wide ranges of motion while instructing you to focus inward. That lets you truly test everything out and learn quickly how your body should feel and compare that to how it feels each session. 

• Kinesthetic Sense - This is your ability to understand where your body is. If you’ve ever learned a movement and someone was like “keep your back straight” and you thought “is it not straight right now?” then you had more to develop in your back-related kinesthetic sense. This is extremely valuable for learning movements like handstands or deadlifts, but it’s also important for things like keeping healthy posture or healthy running form. Is it not inherently obvious that you should be able to know what your body is doing?


Here is the IG post!
Today is hamstring focused. Important vocabulary for the day: Isometric. Isometric work is work your muscles are doing even though they aren’t actually moving. A plank is isometric - work, despite no motion. Similarly, today we will do deadlifts with a Towel