Yam Uncle's Thoughts

The coronavirus is really picking up, can't really see things getting better quickly.  My gym recently closed (I don't remember if I've said that here already) and so it's kind of sucked having to stay inside and work out in my room.  But on the other hand it's been a pretty good time to look into things I've always wanted to look into, and one of them is openFrameworks. Basically openFrameworks is this library of code that you can use to make art with code.  I was interested in it last year, but I had a lot of things going on and was also kind of busy, so it was hard to get into it.  But yeah, now I have time and it's been pretty fun. What I think is also interesting about openFrameworks is its co-founder, Zach Lieberman.  He has a couple videos on YouTube where he's talking at a conference and explaining his new school, the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC).  Which, by the way, is also an insanely interesting program; I remember watching their s...

I think one of the biggest differences between when I used to lift before, and now, is my increased focus on mobility.  Now that I have more time on my hands, it's been easier to fit in a consistent stretching routine before going to bed.  It lasts about an hour but probably could go a little faster if I tried to.  Anyways, the reason I wanted to write this blog was to think a little bit more about my mobility work, and ways I might change it.  And the biggest catalyst for me wanting to reflect on my routine was weightlifting.  I watched this video about static stretching by Quinn Henoch, a physical therapist who works with Juggernaut Training Systems.  I also watched this video and this video , a two part series on basically what is Quinn's stretching philosophy, the way I see it.  So after watching some of Quinn's videos, I got a sense that these were some of the main points of his mobility philosophy: Try to get the athlete as close as po...

Hey internet, it's me again.  I haven't written here in a while, I thought maybe I'd write about how weightlifting sounds more fun.  I get nervous when I write these, because other people can read them.  I'm trying to tell myself to just calm down and write.  But then ironically by writing these interludes that remind me to calm myself down, I get more agitated by the fact that if I don't get straight to the point with these blog posts then people will get bored easily.  It's this self-conscious loop.  Jeez maybe it's easier for me to just write this for myself.  I mean gosh it almost is like I'm writing exclusively for myself to begin with.  Anyways.  So I have to start out by saying that I haven't done olympic weightlifting in almost like 4 years.  The very little I did to begin with, I was only doing hang cleans because that was what was prescribed in my workouts.  I don't know if I was doing them correctly, I had shit mobility...