Wednesday

Who taught you how to use your body?

This is a reasonable question, and most people could not give a decent answer.
Did anyone teach you:
  1. Optimal body use
  2. How your muscles work
  3. Coordination
  4. Timing
  5. How and why to relax your body
  6. Balance
  7. Proprioception (relative position of body parts/awareness of how much strength is being applied)
  8. Rhythm
  9. Mind/body unity
  10. Leverage
  11. Kinaesthetic awareness (knowing where you limbs are positioned without needing to look)
  12. Biomechanics
  13. Footwork
  14. Biofeedback
  15. Ambidextrous use of the limbs
Your parents probably did not teach this to you.
School did not teach it either.
PE or physical education in school translates to mean 'sport' and sport is not teaching you how to use the body for anything other than what the sport requires.

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