Why womens can do the splits easier than males: SubPubic Archic greater than 90 degrees!

 Women tend to have greater flexibility than men, and this is partly attributed to differences in their pelvic structure, specifically the subpubic arch. 

 

The subpubic arch and its role

• The subpubic arch is the angle formed by the convergence of the inferior rami of the ischium and pubis bones.
• In females, this angle is typically wider (often greater than 90 degrees), while in males, it's narrower (less than 90 degrees).
• This wider subpubic angle in females allows for greater mobility and range of motion in the pelvic area, according to the Cleveland Clinic. 

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Impact on flexibility

• This broader pelvic structure and wider subpubic arch in women are believed to facilitate a greater range of motion, particularly in activities like splits that require significant hip abduction and external rotation.
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2.5 million years ago Homo species coexisted w/3 other hominin species: Paranthropus, A. garhi, & Australopithecus

  We report the presence of Homo at 2.78 and 2.59 million years ago and Australopithecus at 2.63 million years ago. Although the Australopithecus specimens cannot yet be identified to species level, their morphology differs from A. afarensis and Australopithecus garhi. These specimens suggest that Australopithecus and early Homo co-existed as two non-robust lineages in the Afar Region before 2.5 million years ago, and that the hominin fossil record is more diverse than previously known. Accordingly, there were as many as four hominin lineages living in eastern Africa between 3.0 and 2.5 million years ago: early Homo¹, Paranthropus², A. garhi³, and the newly discovered Ledi-Geraru Australopithecus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09390-4

The presence of both early Homo and Australopithecus at Ledi-Geraru has implications for hominin taxonomy and diversity in this region in the 3.0–2.0 million year interval. Despite the relative paucity of fossils discovered in this time interval, evidence for multiple non-robust lineages in eastern and southern Africa indicates that taxonomic diversity had already evolved by 2.5 Ma. Here we examine taxonomic and phylogenetic hypotheses for the newly discovered hominin specimens from Ledi-Geraru.

First, although the Asboli sample contains only two molars (Table 1), and they predate Homo specimens A.L. 666-1 and MLP-1549 by more than 150,000 years, we regard the most parsimonious hypothesis to be that these are members of the same species of Homo³⁰. The existence of Homo at Ledi-Geraru by around 2.78 Ma was previously established by the LD 350-1 mandible¹; the new dental material from the Asboli area, as well as the LD 302-23 premolar described here from the Gurumaha sedimentary package, provide additional evidence of Homo prior to 2.5 Ma.

 

Total Gym for ACL therapy: "Early partial weight closed chain functional squat" Tom Campanero founder 50 years ago!

 People claim volume of sets without enough reps as increased resistance within the sets will NOT build muscle but it will build strength in terms of tendons. Total Gym has great stretching exercises - I think this is key to combine with squats, chest press, etc. If you work one muscle then it causes soreness in the other muscles, etc. So then I just stretch what part of the body that is sore. I do "impulse exercising" - I guess these are micro-reps. Power reps - double "extra heavy" 3.25" wide bands for squats are great for a quick testosterone activation! Tyson did 1000 squats a day. So I'm not too worried about reps/wasted volume because Total Gym works so many muscles at the same time. More of a concern is overall health and Total Gym helps to ensure health by stretching and also by not compressing the spine. So with the Total Gym you can work hard without worrying about spine compression or tendon injuries, etc.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ujjga_RRw

So the Total Gym keeps your spine aligned without compression on the spine... key for therapy. 

 the Elite Pro that was supposedly "refurbished" on ebay for $215 (that's including the shipping and tax) - arrived BRAND NEW.

That's my comment from over a year ago! I forgot what a great price I got but Total Gym then shut down their "outlet" store. hahahaha. It was "refurbished" but brand new! So probably just returned but never opened.... 

 Chuck Norris first used Total Gym to heal his rotator cuff so he didn't need surgery. That was when Total Gym first started - so it originally was always focused for rehab therapy and that was its biggest market via selling to fitness dealers ten years later in the mid-80s...

Then it moved into the home fitness market with Infomercials and then into the exercise functional training gym market in 2003 with Gravity.

This was combined together ten years ago.

 Both Total Gym and Wheel of Fortune are 50 years old this year and both capture complete Americana culture that I have lived my whole life! 

 how many model names has Total Gym had in 50 years? Here's all the manuals available.

There's "small frame" (what I have), "large frame" and "commercial" models - as about 50 different models!! 

So there's 36 different manuals available!!  

1) Xtreme, 2) Elite, 3) Shaper, 4) Supreme, 5) Elite Plus, 6) Apex, 7) GTS, 8) Gravity, 9) XLS, 10) Evolve, 11) Elevate Encompass 12) Ultra 13) Fit 14) Platinum Plus 15) Pro (recalled with free repair kit issued for cables and handles) 16) Power Tower 17) Electra 18) 1000 (recalled with free repair kit issued for cables and handles), 2000, 3000, 1100, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, 2200, 2500, 3000, 19) Flex, 20) Force, 21) Premiere 22) Summit 23) Ultima 24) Gold Plus 25) XL7 26) Pinnacle 27) Titanium, 28) 14000, 26000 (see the manual here) and the patent for the Total Gym 26000 is here. 29)  Total Gym Supra Pro

Wow so that was the start of the Total Gym Rower concept. 2016-7. 

  The Total Gym advertises that one can do "pullups"
with the unit. Well, technically, you can simulate the pullup motion - just
as one would perform a real pullup using a regular chin-up bar. But there's
very little exertion in doing a Total Gym "pullup." You'd have to perform
about 100 of them just to give your muscles any sense of a workout. You'd
be better off just performing a regular, real pullup instead.

That's true unless you detach the middle pulley - then you are lifting half your weight. If you increase the angle by using the pulley foot bracket you can lift 2/3rds of your weight. 

 Pull ups with a lower back spinal fusion - still healing - Stevie Richards professional wrestler

 

Eugene Sandow hand grip secret of muscle training: more Body Weight training secrets from Paul Wade

 https://dn790001.ca.archive.org/0/items/sandowgetsphysicl00sanduoft/sandowgetsphysicl00sanduoft.pdf

I was thinking about qigong master Jim Nance's dad since I was told how he did a certain training exercise every night for his muscles - based on grip.

 

A Total Gym user advocates using muscle grip attachments to the handles based on Eugene Sandow - very fascinating.

Eugene Sandow used the below "adjustable spring grip dumb bells" - 3 lbs each for his strength training. 30 minutes a day. 

 Eugene Sandow has been called "The Father of Modern Bodybuilding". The Sandow Trophy, which is given to each year's winner of the Mr Olympia Professional Bodybuilding Championship is named for Eugene Sandow. Sandow was renowned for his physique, but also his amazing strength. Sandow challenged and outlifted many professional strongmen, who were much larger and heavier than Sandow was. Sandow was 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 202 lbs. Sandow was able to outlift bigger and heavier opponents because Sandow knew how to recruit more of his muscles than his rivals could recruit of theirs. Sandow sold 3-lb adjustable spring grip dumbbells, which he invented in 1899, using grip compression as the method of progressive overload to develop muscular endurance, size, and strength.

 

 full text is word searchable

A  little  time,  as  has  been  said,  should  be  devoted  to  the  free 
movements,  with  the  dumb-bells,  and  before  entering  upon 
the  exercises  proper.  This  will  accustom  the  hands  to  the  grip 

id  weight  of  the  bells.  Like  putting  a  rifle  into  the  hand 
}f  a  soldier  at  squad-drill,  when  he  has  learnt  his  facings  and 
bhe  goose-step,  it  will  steady  the  recruit  and  give  resistance 
ind  the  requisite  tension  to  the  muscles,  particularly  those  of 
bhe  wrist  and  the  forearm.  The  dumb-bells,  it  must  here  be 

epeated,  should,  for  beginners  especially,  be  of  light  construc- 
Dion,  either  of  wood  or  of  iron  ;  in  the  latter  case,  they  may 
>e  covered  with  leather.  For  women  and  the  youth  of  both 

3xes,  their  weight  should  range  from  two  to  three  pounds 

ich  ;  for  male  adults,  from  three  to  five  pounds  each.  The 
length  of  time  given  daily  to  training  must  necessarily  vary 

ith  the  age,  capacity,  and  physical  conditk  n  of  the  pupil,  as 

201 


well  as  with  the  amount  of  leisure  he  is  at  liberty  to  devote, 
at  any  one  period  of  the  day,  to  the  movements.  If  thirty 
minutes  cannot  be  given  continuously  to  the  exercises,  perhaps 
fifteen  can  be  snatched  twice  a  day  ;  but,  at  the  outset,  any 
one  exercise  should  not  be  prolonged  beyond  the  point  when 
the  muscles  tire,  though  every  exercise  should  be  continued  until 
they  ache,  and  the  mind  should  be  put  into  the  work,  that  the 
muscles  may  feel  the  strain  and  receive  the  full  benefit  of  the 
toning  and  building-up  process. 

 This  is  a  point  that  cannot  be  too  much  impressed  upon  the 
pupil-in-training,  as  it  is  the  basal  fact  upon  which  all  success- 
ful physical  instruction  rests.  There  must  be  a  concentration 
of  the  will-power  upon  the  exercise  in  hand,  and  the  dumb- 
bell must  be  held  and  used,  not  passively,  but  as  a  potentiality 
to  be  actively  and  strenuously  exerted,  that  the  muscles  may 
first  be  loosened  and  then  alternately  contracted  and  relaxed, 
in  the  process  which  Nature  has  designed  for  their  healthy 
growth  and  development.  With  flabby  muscles  there  can 
hardly  ever  be  vigorous  frames  or  sound  health.  Nor  need 
the  possession  of  either  be  a  matter  of  serious  or  difficult 
attainment.  Much  might  be  gained  by  an  exercise  of  an  hour 
or  two  a  week  in  the  intelligent  use  of  a  pair  of  light  dumb- 
bells. Even  out  of  a  daily  "constitutional"  we  might  get 
more  benefit  did  we  impart  energy  to  our  movements,  and  put 
the  muscles  of  progression  to  strain,  in  a  sharp  and  exhila- 
rating walk, — bearing  in  mind  that  the  test  of  having  put  the 
muscles  to  use  is  to  have  tired  them. 

 

 In  all  exer- 
cises with  the  light-weight  dumb-bells,  the  knees  must  be 
bent,  that  the  muscles  of  the  leg  may  feel  the  strain  of  the 
movements  of  the  upper  limbs.  Tighten  the  grip  of  the  hands 
on  the  dumb-bells,  and  make  tense  the  muscles  of  the  arms  ; 
then  alternately  flex  or  bend  each  arm  at  the  elbow  inwards 
and  upwards,  till  the  dumb-bell  is  in  line  with  the  shoulder, 
back  of  the  hand  to  the  front,  shoulders  and  elbows  well 
drawn  down,  and  the  upper  arms  close  to  the  sides.  In 
lowering  the  dumb-bells,  straighten  the  arm  to  its  full  length, 
and  repeat  the  alternate  movements  till  the  muscles  ache. 

 

The  bar  of  the  dumb-bell,  in  these  swing- 
lifts,  must  be  grasped  close  to  the  fore-lying  sphere  until 
the  weight  is  swung  well  up,  when,  by  a  slight  jerk  up- 
wards, the  centre  of  the  bar  and  the  proper  poise  are  gained. 
The  advantage  of  this  is  obvious,  as  the  upper  sphere  of  the 
dumb-bell  will  be  supported  in  the  lifting  movement  by  the 
grip  of  the  closed  thumb  and  fingers,  while  the  lower  sphere, 
swinging  free,  will,  by  its  own  weight,  receive  greater  impetus 
in  the  ascent.  The  pupil  will  now  put  the  movement  into 
practice,  taking  care  to  keep  the  back  as  straight  as  possible, 
bending  the  body  freely  on  the  hips,  and,  as  the  bell  curves 
upwards,  incline  the  body  backwards,  and  move  the  right  foot  a 
little  further  to  the  rear,  to  preserve  the  balance.  The  elevat- 
ing of  the  dumb-bell  aloft,  it  will  be  understood,  is  a  con- 
tinuous movement,  the  right  arm  getting  under  it  when  it  has 
been  swung  up  from  the  floor,  by  a  quick  dip  of  the  knees, 
and  the  instantaneous  straightening  of  the  arm  and  left  leg, 
the  left  arm  bracing  the  body  by  the  support  given  the  hand 
on  the  left  hip.  The  exercise  will  be  good  for  strengthening 
the  spine,  and  the  muscles  of  the  chest,  arms,  and  lower 
limbs. 

EXERCISE  28. 

SLOW  LIFT  FROM  THE  GROUND  TO  THE  SHOULDER. 

This  is  a  slow  lift  from  the  ground  to  the  shoulder,  designed 
chiefly  to  develop  the  biceps  and  forearm. 

Paul Wade books: 

 https://ia600400.us.archive.org/29/items/ConvictConditioning-HowToBustFreeOfAllWeaknessUsingTheLostSecretsOfSupremeSurvival_201711/C-Mass-%20Paul%20Wade.pdf

 The answer has to do with training methodology. Generally speaking—I’m
paraphrasing here, kid—there are TWO types of resistance training, both at
different ends of the spectrum. The first is nervous system training. The second
is muscular system training.

 If size is your goal, you gotta shift your training away from nervous system-
style work to pure muscular work. Stop training like a gymnast, and start training like a
bodybuilder.

................. 

I'm certain, I'd bet money, that the real person behind the name “Paul Wade” was never a convict, but instead, is an ex-gymnast (maybe even a former Olympian) .

Paul Wade says he spent 20 years in prison 

  In fact, Paul Wade does not do interviews and does not allow photographs of himself. Why? Because the "convict" in Convict Conditioning is no joke.

Paul first entered prison in 1979 and spent nineteen of the following twenty-three years behind bars................

Paul Wade telling a prison story: 

He was telling me how lame all the new machines in modern gyms were. “Modern lifters should go old school,” he kept saying. “Less is more. Get rid of the Swiss balls, Nautilus machines, electronic lifting equipment and all that other garbage. Then you'll be able to focus on what matters.” For the most part, I agreed with the dude.

He didn't like current training methods either, and he wasn't afraid to say so. “People focus on every new fad that rolls around.” He spat. “Old-time strongmen didn't do this. They didn't bomb and blitz with high reps, giant sets, or super-advanced periodized routines. They just lifted heavy iron. Real strength is about the basics. Less is more!”

Less is more was a theme of his training philosophy. It's a pretty good theme, usually. So I challenged this guy.

I asked him, “Do you really believe less is more when it comes to strength work?”

“F*** yeah! Absolutely!”, he nodded with total conviction.

“So, if less really is more when it comes to training, why don't you get rid of the barbells and dumbbells?”, I asked.

He looked kind of perplexed, and eventually wandered off.

https://pccblog.dragondoor.com/tag/paul-wade/

https://wildmantraining.com/the-book-convict-conditioning-not-the-real-thing/

 you progress by increasing volume, then you progress by increasing intensity (hence the term “double progression”). The only difference between bodyweight strength training and strength training with external weights is that with body weight work the “resistance” you increase is the difficulty of the movement, rather than just throwing more weight on a bar.

 

the original Total Gym patent and Larry Westfall, the CBN connection

 https://patents.justia.com/inventor/douglas-dale-mcmurray

Applicant: Total Gym Global Corporation

Inventors: Thomas J. Campanaro, Joy L. Campanaro, Dan McCutcheon, Douglas Dale McMurray 

 

There's been 6 million plus sold!! All through television ads and some Big Box retailers (Costco, Walmart, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 this is the best overview training vid for Total Gym and it's Larry Westfall - someone not listed in the patent but as a co-creator of the company.

I think he was brought on later.

 Larry Westfall joined the partners and the four men developed the Total Gym in 1974.

 They brought on business partners Dale McMurray and Larry Westfall and in 1976 and the first Total Gym homegrown TV commercial hit the market.

  The machine engages all muscle groups, allowing over 200 functional exercises on calibrated levels of incline resistance—full range of motion; heavy progressive resistive and light resistive exercises; upper and lower body stretching and strengthening exercises and comprehensive aerobics. The Total Gym was designed to be easy to use and facilitate the five key components of exercise: cardiovascular endurance (aerobics), muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition. The machines typically take up much less space than a complete set of weights and machines.

  the partners began soliciting specialty dealers, forging relationships with 200 stores that exclusively sold fitness equipment. In 1981 alone, the three partners attended 210 conventions across the U.S. They recruited and trained more than 350 people and dispatched them to conduct in-store demonstrations on the Total Gym. Through this channel and by attending trade shows, Total Gym sold 36,000 machines in 1984.

 The year 1987 brought a strategic shift in Total Gym’s target market when the company discovered that a significant number of sales were to physical therapists who knew the benefits of functional exercise. The company was renamed Engineering Fitness International Corporation (efi Sports Medicine). After years of touting the benefits of functional exercise, the medical community finally caught on.

 https://cbn.com/article/not-selected/larry-westfall-and-total-gym-story

 When they founded Total Gym in 1974, Larry was searching for a purpose. He soon realized that he had to bring the Lord into his life. A strong believer, he wanted not only to help himself, but to serve others. Larry says his role is usually behind the scenes, while Tom is the face people know.

 https://startingstrengthmirror.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Gym

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm sent an interesting paper from a couple researchers in India (a Ph.D. and master's)

 

"Space quantum joins time quantum and becomes a particle at the time wave hits the detector."

Hi Bhandari Nandan: Thanks for your interesting paper. The observation of time takes place in space and thus always in the past but if you study the "weak measurement" experiments of Yakir Aharonov's research group - using entangled photons - it is proven the future changes the past. So the momentum can be changed before the particle exists and this future change is thus called a "negaparticle" that is a "gravitationally repulsive" force. This modular momentum is thus a byproduct of the time-reversed negative frequency that inherently can not be observed and thus is nonlocal. But in terms of quantum biology this force can be listened to - as is found in nonwestern Indian philosophy as meditation with eyes closed: Hence "spanda" as a concept in India. This means that your claim for a symmetric space that reappears to join the time due to the inherent symmetry of the space is actually what is increasing the entropy on Earth as ecological entropy. For example consider this quote:  "As proved by Hawking, had the Universe's entropy increased been reversed, this reversal would be impossible to observe. This is because time orientation of all biological processes (as we show elsewhere in detail) relies solely on entropy's increase."

Avshalom C. Elitzur, Shahar Dolev
Black-Hole Uncertainty Entails An Intrinsic Time Arrow, Dec. 2000

So again in terms of biology we can listen to the future and this is why human language originates from music first. The three gunas of Indian philosophy are based on music theory as I have detailed.

So it was the claim of an external symmetric observation as the definition of space being unlimited that was the fundamental lie or the "Liar of the Lyre" (Philolaus) and thus promoted by Plato. The Brahmin Cipher also relies on this is symmetric definition of zero with a phonetic symbol for geometry as a "one to one" correspondence between geometric symbol (external observed measurement) and number.

So in the case of nonwestern philosophy we have corroboration provided by noncommutative quantum algebra as explained by Fields math professor Alain Connes; simply summarized as "two, three and infinity." This means, as Pythagorean philosophy taught, along with nonwestern philosophy, "one is not a number." Again this confirms that listening is a superluminal process whereby the source of the one is the source of the light as meditation - the "OM of light" as it is called in Indian philosophy.

Of course our Western modern science is very precise and thus is our religion as technology - but it is not accurate at the foundation of reality and thus inherently is driving "biological annihilation" on Earth as our ecological crisis. Algae, however, as the basis for oil and coal, is primarily powered by nonlocal quantum transfer through negentropy of blue light. So our mitochondria originate from algae. The microtubules that work with the mitochondria thus demonstrate this evolution of the "negative frequency" as a negative refractive index - as Dirac Cone that is nonlocal and superluminal in matter. This has been the focus of Sir John Pendry's research utilizing "negative frequency" to convert virtual photons into photon energy.

For me, I simply observe the empirical science data that now documents the increasing reaction of algae growth to our CO2 emissions as an entropic byproduct of burning algae products (oil and coal) for creating industrial technology - modern synthetic agriculture for example. So the arctic ice will soon by gone, thereby unleashing pressurized methane as a byproduct of ancient algae production, currently in the subsea ocean shelf, East Siberian Arctic Shelf, at 1200 gigatons with taliks melted to pretrigger an "abrupt eruption" of 50 gigatons soon, thereby doubling atmospheric temperatures.

Our CO2 emission rate being 100 times faster than the natural rate of 12 gigatons per 200 years thereby reverses all such "progress" of our high technology based on previous algae growth. hahaha. I am not against science and technology since obviously we are submerged within it. An "exorcism" of spacetime is thus being conducted by the increasing algae growth and hence Sir David King's focus on deep ocean algae growth to sequester enough CO2 to reverse the entropic damage done thus far in the past 100 years of accelerating industrialization. 

If I were to simply close my eyes and meditate to create a spacetime exorcism then my energy would go against industrial entropy - literally creating a shock to the "system." hahaha. I know this is true as I have done that work already. People attack as a lower emotional exorcism reaction - since our spirit ghost controls our biological development and thus our lower emotions drive our left-brain and right hand dominance for technological production. This left-brain dominance requires lying about the truth of reality - as a deep psychological denial. This lying by the left brain has been proven in split-brain experiments.

thanks,

drew

Muscle resting metabolism burns more calories for protein synthesis long term including fast twitch Type II myosin hibernation!

  In this study, it was reported that 100 g protein feeding stimulated greater increases in post-exercise MPS [muscle protein synthesis] rates than 25 g protein over a 12 h post-exercise period. These findings contrast with previous research showing that post-exercise MPS rates are maximally stimulated with approximately 20 g of protein, with no further increase in MPS with 40 g protein (45, 95). One potential explanation for the differences in these findings could be the type of exercise employed. The study by Trommelen et al. (98) assessed MPS following whole body RE [resistance exercise], whereas the studies by Moore et al. (95) and Witard et al. (45) used leg based RE. There is some precedence for this, with previous research indicating that 40 g of protein feeding may be more effective at increasing MPS than 20 g of protein feeding following whole body RE training (99). This is likely caused by the increased demand for AAs [amino acids] following whole body compared to isolated leg-based training, with the 20 g protein dose potentially not supplying enough AAs to meet the demands of the greater number of muscles utilised in whole body RE.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.1419229/full 

 given that four 20 g protein feeds were more efficacious than two 40 g protein feeds (46), it would be surprising to see a shift in favour of an even higher dose, but less frequent protein feed. In sum, RE is a key stimulator of muscle anabolism, but the intricacies of maximising the MPS response are still debated. Repetitive protein feeding containing EAAs/leucine within the 48–72 h post-exercise period should be the primary aim of anyone pursuing muscle hypertrophy, with any additional benefits of large quantities of protein intake (> 40 g) in response to whole body RE requiring further validation.

 

  Elevated muscle mass correlates with improved metabolic status, while fitness levels expressed as muscle strength are indicative of overall health [1,5,23].

 https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/12/3400

 myosin metabolic states during torpor unexpectedly led to higher levels in energy expenditure of type II, fast-twitch muscle fibers at ambient lab temperatures (20 °C). Upon repeating loaded Mant-ATP chase experiments at 8 °C (near the body temperature of torpid animals), we found that myosin ATP consumption in type II muscle fibers was reduced by 77–107% during torpor compared to active periods. Additionally, we observed Myh2 hyper-phosphorylation during torpor in I. tridecemilineatus, which was predicted to stabilize the myosin molecule. This may act as a potential molecular mechanism mitigating myosin-associated increases in skeletal muscle energy expenditure during periods of torpor in response to cold exposure. Altogether, we demonstrate that resting myosin is altered in hibernating mammals, contributing to significant changes to the ATP consumption of skeletal muscle. Additionally, we observe that it is further altered in response to cold exposure and highlight myosin as a potentially contributor to skeletal muscle non-shivering thermogenesis.

 https://elifesciences.org/articles/94616