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Re:Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a... by lmilcin on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:24AM (#25032955)
I think weight exercises are way too overrated and misunderstood. People think they can take a single exercise, load themselves up with a lot of weight and that is enough when in fact this is just asking for problems. Weight exercises require a lot of knowledge, you need to know which muscles you are training because you also need to know how to train the other muscle to keep things in balance and you also need to know how to watch for trouble.

I would personally recommend almost anything else -- running, swimming, natural weight exercises (ie. when you are in unstable position lifting your own weight), that train a lot of different muscle at the same time and help keep things in balance.

Re:Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a... by minerjoe on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:37AM (#25033350)
Balance.

I was a college football player, 60 lbs. heavier than now. When I met my current martial arts teacher he told me flat out, "it's going to take me 20 years to fix what you did to your body." He was right. I'm still fighting to heal tha damage that intense weightlifting over many years did to my body.

Strength is nothing without balance, relaxation, and control. Weight lifting is generally about isolating the muscles, when you should be working on integrating them.

Re:Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a... by hopw_roewur_ne on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:06AM (#25033528)
> Weight lifting is generally about isolating the muscles

Bodybuilding often involves a high degree of isolation exercises for fatigue management and for building specific muscles. But good luck deadlifting, squatting, pressing, snatching or clean&jerking etc without "integrating" muscles, or without good balance.