“The best posture is the next one,” a rehab expert explains. “The problem is staying still. Your body isn’t built to sit frozen at a desk for eight hours. You need variety. Switch positions, stand, stretch, and so on.”
His advice echoes a lesson from the tatami. After a break from an injury, I fought worse, though I remembered techniques and kept my strength. I’d lost a subtle skill: “energy management.”
That’s what I call dosing effort in a match, blending tension and ease. It’s like the peristalsis of the throat, the heart’s pulse, or breathing—in and out, up and down, on and off.
Try an isometric exercise, such as a plank. The more tired you are, the louder you thank heaven for even a second’s rest. The body recovers quickly when given a chance.
Almost any task takes time. You don’t hit a Wow result in one strike. Mastery is about spreading energy wisely from start to finish. On a chart, the best strategy looks like a wave—a smooth sine curve.
Your results in business, sports, or art can soar higher. Stop praising “isometry”:
pushing through fatigue,
non-ergonomic desks,
endless work heroics,
skipping vacations,
chronic sleep debt,
forgotten meals,
ignoring pain.
Instead, make your life rhythmic, like Nature:
animal migrations,
moon phases,
brain waves,
ocean tides,
seasons.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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