November 10, 2024

The Layback Press

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Brandon Chien   This is a full-body lift that is “old school.” It involves a “clean movement” to the shoulders, and then a press of the weight overhead. The benefits are it helps us maintain some low-back strength while getting upper body strength. Although it looks like it would hurt my back, it’s very similar […]

The Thing About Daoism Is… (part 1)

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Dare Carrasquillo   “But, Actually…” For all the mytho-poetic rhetoric around hermits, enlightenment, non-action and immortality, Daoism is fundamentally about none of that whatsoever. At least, not in the ways that materialists think. …and if you think that somehow, you’ve escaped materialist philosophy, well, that’s how they got you. It’s baked in. Materialism, Scientism, Theism… […]