I thought I was strong when I first started Gymnastics Strength Training (GST). I'd been lifting weights in the gym for years and increasing my squat, deadlift, chin-up, overhead press and bench numbers. But it didn't prepare me for GST, especially Straight-Arm Scapular Strength (SASS) movements.

As humans, we like to push and pull objects with bent-arm strength. The default motor pattern is to use our biceps and triceps.

Most of us have very little awareness of straight-arm strength because we have poor scapular motor control regarding protraction, retraction, elevation and depression.

Without awareness, how can we train it?

If we don't train it, how do we strengthen it?

Google Arts & Culture’s new initiative Inside a Genius Mind offers an interactive experience of the codices in which Da Vinci made his sketches, diagrams, and notes.

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/TAEPZtXK2s139g

The Internet Archive maintains an enormous Live Music Archive of concert recordings, not all of them by the Grateful Dead.

https://archive.org/details/etree?tab=collection

In addition to Rusted Root and the Grateful Dead, you can stream or download a wealth of recorded live shows from bands like Little Feat, Blues Traveler, My Morning Jacket, Los Lobos, and the Smashing Pumpkins, as well as singer-songwriters like Warren Zevon, Elliott Smith, Jack Johnson, Robyn Hitchcock, and John Mayer.

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How to draw vector portrait easily in adobe illustrator cc 2023.

In this video tutorial I will teach you tools like the shapes, shape builder, the pen tool, creating and organizing layers, curvature tool, and more to create stunning illustrations in Adobe Illustrator CC. This step by step illustrator tutorial is perfect is you're a beginner or an advanced designer looking to polish some techniques. You will be able to create this cool looking Lebron James vector portrait.

Note* This is my personal way of working and by no means the best nor the only way to create illustrations. If you don't understand certain parts of the video, let me know in the comments below and I'll glady help you out!

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Every year I ask myself these 40 questions. I’ve shared this list with my family and closest friends, and always enjoy discussing answers as we reflect on th...

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See also my 40 questions to ask yourself every decade.

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.

Up until now, text editors have been focused on input. The next evolution of text editors will make it easy to alter, summarize and lengthen text. You’ll be able to do this for entire documents, not just individual sentences or paragraphs. The filters will be instantaneous and as good as if you wrote the text yourself. You will also be able to do this with local files, on your device, without relying on remote servers.

In a “A camera for ideas”, I coined the term synthography to describe synthetic images created with generative models.

Text generator is a handy plugin for Obsidian that helps you generate text content using GPT-3 (OpenAI). - GitHub - nhaouari/obsidian-textgenerator-plugin: Text generator is a handy plugin for Obsidian that helps you generate text content using GPT-3 (OpenAI).

Use Text Generator to generate ideas, attractive titles, summaries, outlines, and whole paragraphs based on your knowledge database.

Cleaning your walls doesn't often make your to-do list. Did you know you should be cleaning your walls regularly? Here's why, and how often.

Benefits To Cleaning Your Walls With a Mop

You don’t need much to effectively clean your walls:

• Microfiber flat mop with telescoping handle;
• Household mop bucket;
• Dishwashing liquid, such as Dawn,
• Neutral-pH floor cleaner like Mr. Clean;
• Microfiber cloth or sponge for spot cleaning.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this simple idea: The person who aligns themselves with the general principles of the world goes further and faster than the person who doesn't.

Here’s the trick to seeing things differently: put your energy into being right, not feeling right. While that sounds simple, it’s far from easy.

Feeling right, on the other hand, often requires you to believe you are an exception.

rather than tell yourself you made a mistake you chalk it up to the world not working as it should. It’s as if that little voice in your head says, “You’re not wrong; the world is.”

Each year I do an updated rundown of the cheapest places to live in the world, from the perspective of someone who wrote the book on this subject and regularly travels to the countries featured.

There are a few countries that are similarly priced to the above that you could consider that show up on some lists such as Laos, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru and—depending on the current exchange rate—Mexico.

A faster youtube embed. Contribute to paulirish/lite-youtube-embed development by creating an account on GitHub.

Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources. - GitHub - terkelg/awesome-creative-coding: Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources.

We'll walk you through everything you should turn on or off in the iPhone's camera settings app.

1. Switch to 4k resolution
2. Shoot at 24 frames per second
3. Turn off “HDR Video”
4. Turn on “Grid”
5. Turn off “View Outside Frame”
6. Turn on “Macro Control”

An unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Learn how to structure iPhone apps with drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more.

In a dark room, lighting a single candle may feel like a drastic change. But in a room already lit by ten candles, adding one more might not feel as significant. Or, while the intensity of sound is determined by the amplitude of the sound wave, doubling the amplitude does not make it feel twice as loud to humans.

This idea can apply to graphic design, for example, typographic scale or making contrast of sizing between visual elements in general.

Compare two type scale examples below. The left increases the font size by 6 points each step, while the right increases the size by the ratio of 1.2x (each step is 20% larger than the previous). You can see the change between each step appear to decrease as the size increases in the left example, while the change feel more consistent in the right example.

$fontsize = b \cdot r^{(step - 1)}$

$\begin{aligned} step = \log_{1.2} \frac{fontsize}{b} + 1\end{aligned}$

Shoulder pain can be incredibly debilitating, but it doesn’t have to be. In this article, we’ll discuss its origins and its preventative and treatment measures.

• Self-Myofascial Release (SMR)
• Restoring Positions of Function

With the shoulders, poor positioning often looks like the shoulder joint being forward from a stable position. Rounding forward, scrunching forward, whatever you want to call it.

Ideally, the head of your shoulder should sit above your spine like a golf ball on a golf tee, perfectly vertical over your hips and ankles.

I read Moby-Dick in April 2020. For weeks afterward, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I started making maps and diagrams as a way to figure it out.

Designed by Peter Gorman, 2021
www.barelymaps.com
@barelymaps

Enable anchor links on content headings

There are several plugins you can add to extend markdown-it, but in this example we are adding anchor links to our content headings. We're also extending the idea from our slug update to update which characters are removed and replaced to create anchors.

A great deal of my learnings and inspiration comes from the great content from Yubin Ma at AiTuts, where you can learn more about prompting and view a myriad of examples.