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Or a durian.

Do you have any suggestions for where he might get started on the topic? I think that’s what he’s looking for.

My interactions with the Trek fandom at large is limited, I admit, but do you really run into a lot of people who actually think Garak wasn’t morally a pretty terrible person? I know quite a few fans of Trek who enjoy watching DS9 but don’t think the characters were paragons of virtue. I think it’s possible to watch something and enjoy it but not agree with the actions of the characters.

Orange is the new command red.

Arbeit macht frei. Again.

A politician? BSing and grandstanding? I’m shocked.

Well, range of motion and stretch aren’t really valid criticisms for plank IMO. It’s intended to train your core to resist extension forces and train proper neutral posture under load in your lower back. Cable crunch doesn’t do that, and in the context of lower back pain, crunches could be detrimental. With the plank, there is progressive overload, if you do more than one set and you progress the exercise. This might look like an appeal to authority, but the trainers and physiotherapists I learned from state that.

You’re free to believe it’s a shit exercise, but I have personally benefited from it, and so have my clients.

What would you recommend instead?

Edit: At the earlier stages it’s a strength exercise, but later, as your capacity improves, it becomes an endurance exercise. Again, the main purpose is to teach the body to resist forces that might cause you to hyperextend your lower back. Planks help prevent an anterior-posterior chain imbalance.

I don’t know if you’re kidding or not, but the point of the plank is to strengthen your abdominal muscles’ ability to resist motion and hyperextension of the back, not to generate it. But if you have any specific concerns about the exercise, I’d be happy to hear them and pass them along to my physio. Then I can come back and tell you what they said.

Do you have any photos from inside?

I’m a personal trainer, I’ve destroyed two lumbar discs, gotten disc replacement surgery and currently working with a physiotherapist to get back on track. Back pain can have many causes. Anything from disc degeneration to muscle imbalances. If you’re not in pain that prevents you from doing them, there are a few exercises my physiotherapist has me doing.

• Glute bridge to activate your glutes. Underactive glutes can cause you to compensate with your lower back muscles, causing overuse.
• Prone cobra for strengthening your back muscles.
• Plank and side plank for strengthening your abdominals, obliques and deeper core muscles
• Lying hamstring stretch. Tight hamstrings, common in people who are sedentary or sit a lot for work, can cause referred lower back pain.
• Kneeling hip flexor stretch. Hip flexors are also commonly tight in people who are sedentary or sit a lot. Can cause a muscle imbalance with the posterior chain, altering the length-tension relationship in the muscles.

But if you have more severe lower back pain, go see a doctor and get an MRI if necessary to find out if there’s something going on with your discs. Don’t just try to work through pain and ignore the problem. That’s what I did, and it just made things worse. You may not necessarily need surgery, but it’s good to find the root cause so you know what options you have.

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Yes he was, as far as I can remember.

This is all theater by the CCP to distract from the fact that they sentenced him to a de facto death sentence.

Siler.

“Privacy” from people peeking at your phone, while containing a hundred methods of tracking, monitoring and stealing your data on the system itself.

Easy for them to look at us as if we’re just things that can be bought and sold. Many of us play the part. We need to stop cooperating with them.

Thanks mate, and best wishes to you as well. You have china to deal with in your part of the world, we have russia.

Can you mention some of the changes you’ve made? Maybe it would help someone who might read this comment chain.