Hello Friends,
Freedom isn’t free; keep things in good order. The physical body is the perfect model for the political body. The healthiest nation is the one which balances freedom and order; too much freedom results in anarchy, too much order – in tyranny. In between, nudging to one side or the other dependent upon the issue, the longest surviving nations with the greatest quality of life.
Similarly, fitness should be a balance between mobility and stability. Too much mobility and ruptures occur; too much stability, and movement becomes impossible. Either pole creates low quality.
The parts of the body which should be free, can only be free, if the parts that are stable, remain stable. If a joint meant for freedom becomes restricted, the body robs freedom from a stable joint.
Destabilizing a joint, meant to remain in order, creates first vulnerability, and then collapse at the first collision or sudden shift. Likewise “stretching” a stable joint, because it’s believed to be “inflexible”, causes mobile joints to limit their freedom because of the threat to the entire body.
Unfortunately, mobile joints have the motor-belief that more movement is always better, so they’re in a constant state of “encouraging” stable joints to join the movement.
Contrarily, stable joints have their motor-belief that mobile joints should assist in the positional security of the entire structure, and seek to impose stability and prevent “unneeded” movement.
You need to be the executive office in charge of these two big babies. You can’t afford to favor one or the other but must look at the whole picture. How is the body AS A WHOLE gaining greater function for all of its constituent parts balancing safety and quality of life?
A sound fitness philosophy and a sound political philosophy aren’t balanced at any point in time, but in a constant balancing act. At the apex of that philosophy is a commander in chief with no ulterior motive; only the ostensible compassion to keep both babies healthy, but not cave to the tantrums of either.
Very Respectfully,
Scott B. Sonnon