2015 yılından beri yoga ve pilates eğitmeniyim. Son üç yıldır da fitness eğitmenliği yapıyorum. Bu süreçte binlerce saat ders verdim ve farklı disiplinlerin kadın bedeni üzerindeki etkilerini yakından gözlemleme fırsatım oldu.
Öncelikle şunu söyleyebilirim: Yoga, pilates ve fitness birbirinin alternatifi değil, birbirini tamamlayan egzersiz sistemleridir.
Yoga; esnekliği, nefesi, dengeyi ve zihinsel iyilik hâlini geliştirir.
Pilates; duruşu düzeltir, merkez bölgeyi güçlendirir ve vücut kontrolünü artırır.
Ancak konu kas kütlesini korumak, kemik yoğunluğunu artırmak, metabolizmayı hızlandırmak, yağ oranını azaltmak ve yaş aldıkça güç kaybını önlemek olduğunda, bilimsel olarak en etkili yöntem direnç (ağırlık) antrenmanıdır.
Kadınların ağırlık çalışmasının onları "erkeksi" göstereceği düşüncesi de bilimsel bir gerçek değildir. Kadınların testosteron düzeyi erkeklere göre çok daha düşüktür. Bu nedenle doğal yollarla aşırı kaslı bir görünüm oluşturmak oldukça zordur. Tam tersine, doğru planlanmış ağırlık antrenmanları daha sıkı, daha güçlü ve daha sağlıklı bir vücut oluşturur.
Üstelik ağırlık çalışmaları sadece kaslar için değildir. Kemik mineral yoğunluğunu artırmaya, osteoporoz riskini azaltmaya, eklemleri desteklemeye, insülin duyarlılığını geliştirmeye ve günlük yaşam kalitesini yükseltmeye de önemli katkılar sağlar.
Bu nedenle kadınlara "fitness yapmayın" demek yerine, doğru teknikle ve kişiye uygun programla ağırlık antrenmanı yapmalarını teşvik etmek gerekir.
Her sporun yeri ayrıdır. Ama kadınların güçlenmesini sağlayan, sağlıklı yaş almasına en büyük katkıyı sunan egzersizlerden biri direnç antrenmanıdır. Bilim bunu yıllardır söylüyor.
Lütfen sosyal medyada bilimsel temeli olmayan bu haberdeki gibi kesin yargılara değil; araştırmalara, güncel egzersiz bilimine ve alanında eğitimli uzmanların görüşlerine kulak verin.
I remember one of my best teachers, who was a Chinese medicine doctor and whose own teacher was the personal doctor of the dalai lama (a man who smuggled sacred texts out of Tibet for his safety and then taught my own teacher this information), used to tell us that not only do these processes happen in our body but that we can amplify them to much higher levels through visualizing them doing these exact movements while in meditation. He had a long history of helping people who were paralyzed bring back movement to their limbs or getting feeling back after strokes or nervous system illnesses - through meditating on these movements we don’t usually have the privilege of seeing.
Learn about these different movements that occur in body, the synapsis’ and pathways, and try to find photos or videos of what they look like and then you can meditate while visualizing them coming online. Energy always flows where attention goes. Good to use it for these types of processes. Can be greatly amplified and healed over time. Every single thing is Qi.
turns out, reading a lot, exercising, loving people without expecting anything back, protecting your alone time, focusing only on improving yourself, and sometimes staying out late with friends who make you laugh until it hurts is a pretty good way to live.
I keep on revisiting this. You might not realize the depth of what he said. In urdu poetry, there is a concept where poets view God as a lonely being, so lonely that He created free willed humans for company. Loneliness is a Godly trait & whoever enters its realm meets God there
The most chilling part of this isn't what the phone is doing to your attention.
It's what it's doing to your imagination.
There was a time, not long ago, when boredom was the birthplace of everything interesting about a person. You were stuck somewhere with nothing to do and your mind, denied external input, started producing its own. Weird ideas. Strange connections. Memories that surfaced and got examined. Dreams that slowly clarified into directions. Questions that had no immediate answer and therefore demanded that you sit with them long enough to develop an actual relationship with the unknown. This is where curiosity lived. This is where creativity came from. This is where the self got built — in the unscheduled, unoptimized, productively uncomfortable space of a mind left alone with itself.
The phone abolished that space so gradually nobody filed a complaint.
What replaced it is something that looks like curiosity but functions as its opposite. Real curiosity moves outward from something internal — a question you generated, a wonder you arrived at yourself, a thread you chose to pull. What the algorithm delivers is the simulation of curiosity. It shows you something you didn't know you wanted and manufactures the feeling of discovery while removing the most important part of discovery, which is the self that does the seeking. You are not exploring. You are being shown. And the distinction matters more than almost anything else about how a human mind develops over time.
The ancient concept of the soul — across traditions, across centuries — was always pointing at the same thing. The part of you that is generative rather than receptive. That produces rather than consumes. That authors rather than reads. Every spiritual tradition worth taking seriously had practices specifically designed to protect this generative capacity from being colonized by the noise of the world. Silence. Fasting. Solitude. Prayer. Meditation. Not because the world was evil but because the signal from within was quiet and the noise from without was loud and you had to choose which one you were going to let run your life.
The phone is the loudest thing that has ever existed and it lives in your pocket.
It was designed by the most sophisticated behavioral engineers in human history with one specific mandate — capture attention and hold it as long as possible. Every feature, every notification, every autoplay, every infinite scroll is the output of thousands of experiments run on hundreds of millions of people to find the most effective way to keep you from putting it down. You are not weak for finding it hard to resist. You are a human nervous system encountering something it was never built to defend against.
But here is what nobody in the conversation about screen time and dopamine and digital wellness ever quite says directly.
Every hour you spend being fed what to want is an hour you don't spend finding out what you actually want. And a life spent chasing algorithmically generated desire instead of soul-generated desire is not your life. It is a very convincing substitution for it.
The black glass is empty. What fills it is someone else's agenda dressed up as your interest.
Put it down long enough to remember what your own mind sounds like.
Every student needs to read "You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites" by @lelouchdaily.
"It’s like walking into a movie halfway through—you can’t understand the plot because you missed the beginning."
Unfortunately, those who need to hear it most, seldom do.