Our back muscles are essential to an upright life, yet few people give them the time of day.

Your posture stands no chance against this weakness.

Rear-side muscle strength is a must in today’s world.

Your body will fall forward otherwise.
Strength train for the benefit of your skeleton, and you'll find an endless source of motivation.

Most of your back muscles have their tendons pass through your arm pits.

This area gets real tense when you lift heavy weights or spend your day typing away.

Use your thumb to gently massage your arm pits, or even better, get a deep tissue professional do it for you.
Best exercises to strengthen your back in no particular order:

- Swimming
- Rowing/Kayaking
- Rock climbing
- Pull/Chin-ups
- Other forms of rows (dumbbell, barbell, cable, elastics)
- Olympic Weightlifting
- Calisthenics
- Scapular exercises

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This pressure can build up in excess, wreak havoc on your joints and muscles, then lead to pain and dysfunction.

Many are unaware they hold so much stress there.

Relieve daily.
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The fine muscles of the face fill our words with life.

They are interwoven to do complex movements that mirror your thoughts as you express yourself.

The greatest Renaissance artists studied how these muscles worked together to better express their subject's emotional state.
These pictures show the many different muscles that light up to produce a specific expression.

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Our eyes move 80 times a minute, yet the muscles involved get no attention in exercise routines.

Long screen days change the mirrors of your soul for the worse.

You lose the harmony of your eye muscles and the quality of their movements.

Train them daily for balance and focus
Headaches and neck tension after Zoom meetings are abnormal.

These symptoms will become chronic and affect the quality of your life if you leave them unchecked.

These eye exercises can be done anywhere and require no equipment:

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Sleep is vital for the growth of a child, and night time disorders now affect nearly half of them.

You'll be shocked to find out how fast the tide can turn.

This thread presents what happened after 115 5th-grade students did breathing exercises twice a week for 3 months. Image
1175 3rd and 5th grade children from two Northern California school districts followed a modified PE curriculum including:

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115 of them participated in a sleep study at the same time. ImageImage
The results after two years were exactly what you'd expect from such a protocol:

- 74 minutes of sleep added every night on average
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- Noticeable improvements after only 3 months
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25 Jul
My city Montreal hosted some of the CIA’s mind control camps 60 years ago.

They took children with psychiatric symptoms and fried their brains to a crisp with LSD, daily electro shocks, and sensory deprivation

Who knows what else.

Approved and encouraged by the government.
Some of the victims and their families are still alive today.

Chronic migraines or fatigue? Hyperactivity?

Bed wetting?

Your family member would have been eligible for the legal torture promoted by healthcare professionals and lobbied bureaucrats.
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If you need a reason to exercise today, do it for the 100,000 miles of blood vessels in your body.

Let your life force flow from your brain to your toes and feed all your muscles.

You’ll feel a surge of energy and improved thinking for the rest of your day.
Vasodilation - the widening of your blood vessels by the relaxation of their muscular walls.

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