the Viking body – high myofibroblast counts in the tissue, high stability, low mobility – vs the acrobat – low MFB counts, high mobility, problematic stability – as two different body types – don’t send the Viking to yoga class, don’t assign the acrobat heavy weights. [Thomas Myers]
SNAPSHOT seeing things at the systems level where patterns also stand in for emotional quanta, instinctive intelligence... i myself prefer those analyses that lead to possibility, instead of those that limit and constrain. which is why in the case of the viking and the acrobat i would venture that yoga is the very thing the viking should be doing, only with the caveat that it be done excruciatingly _slowly_. this is exactly the sort of student that needs a very prolonged training path. vikings need time to work their shit out. for the teacher, refraining vikings from risktaking by insisting on a certain training incline is the most humane thing you can do. vikings are the impatient bullies, and most often this is constructive and called-for in their lives, but yoga teaches us how to be in our own opposite and still be at ease. therefore yoga is the very thing the viking needs to do... exactly because he's not built for it.
the acrobat would benefit to explore their mass-making, stabilizing, power-producing potential through gravity training, but not of the barbell variety. barbells are never a good idea when proprioception is asymmetrically developed into high areas of specialization and whopping zones of amnesia. a good practice is one that uses ones own body architecture as the counterweight or lever in training. yoga, tai chi, pilates, swimming. anything that challenges the perceptive center of gravity and doesn't let the acrobat work exclusively from the level of their laxity in joint to bone relationships.
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