Think about the last time you walked down a steep flight of stairs. What were your thigh muscles doing? They weren’t actively pushing you forward; they were acting like a sophisticated braking system, controlling your …

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Think about the last time you walked down a steep flight of stairs. What were your thigh muscles doing? They weren’t actively pushing you forward; they were acting like a sophisticated braking system, controlling your …

We deconstruct an all-in-one machine to reveal the physics, biomechanics, and material science that shape how we train. We live in an age of compression. We squeeze entire record collections into our phones, vast libraries …