It also
happened that part of my research in risk overlaps with complexity
theory. The first thing one learns about complex systems is that they
are not a sum of body parts: a system is a collection of interactions,
not an addition of individual responses. Your body cannot be trained
with specific and local muscle exercises. When you try to lift a heavy
object, you recruit every muscle in your body, though some more than
others. You also produce a variety of opaque interactions between these
muscles.
This complex system method applies to all situations, even when you engage in physical therapy, as I did for an injured shoulder. I discovered that doing the more natural barbell presses and (initially assisted) pull-ups, works better and more robustly than the complicated and time consuming multi-colored elastic bands prized by physical therapists. Why don’t physical therapists make you do these robust barbell exercises? Simply, because they have a rent to pay and, just as with gyms, single-exercise machines look fancier and more impressive to the laity.
- Strength Training is Learning from Tail Events, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This complex system method applies to all situations, even when you engage in physical therapy, as I did for an injured shoulder. I discovered that doing the more natural barbell presses and (initially assisted) pull-ups, works better and more robustly than the complicated and time consuming multi-colored elastic bands prized by physical therapists. Why don’t physical therapists make you do these robust barbell exercises? Simply, because they have a rent to pay and, just as with gyms, single-exercise machines look fancier and more impressive to the laity.
- Strength Training is Learning from Tail Events, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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