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Old 07-24-2009, 04:55 PM   #204
Erick Mead
 
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Re: What is IT?

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Joep Schuurkes wrote: View Post
Agreed. The muscles do operate when using 'it', but in a different way than the simple Western biomechanical view, i.e. bones and joints as levers and power coming from the muscles associated with each lever.
I do hope to try and broaden your view (not an uncommon one) on the horizons of "Western biomechanics" in this context.

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You mean a curl like this, right? The normal way of doing it (joint isolation and leverage) is antithetical to 'it',
Quite so.
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Joep Schuurkes wrote: View Post
... sure, but you could do that curl by using 'it' as well.
Good, but let's stick with "curl" as meaning the tradition leveraged one . How, if at all, would you differentiate between what is occurring in the musculature in a "curl' (in that leverage sense), and a standing snatch of the weight from suspended at the waist to the same ending position?

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Erick Mead
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