14/11/2021
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One of my pet peeves is educators vomiting half the pages of a technical dictionary onto the small silver screen of Instagram.
Sure, mechanics has to have some of its own wordage, but far too often we have people say something like vector when they really just mean direction.
In which case, they should just say direction because itβs a word we all understand, whereas vector sounds like it was something concocted by some kind of Elon Musk figure in an attempt to obfuscate the point (see we can all use fancy words).
And look, even if you do know what the word vector means, that doesnβt mean the rest of the world or your audience does. And so, if I was to ask you to describe the concept simply, could you? If you canβt, thatβs a problem if you call yourself an educator or communicator.
One of my favourite ways to try to communicate something seemingly complex is to find an every day example of it in action. Thatβs how we make sense of things we donβt yet understand.
Now, unless you happen to have had the worst childhood since Joseph Fritzel became a grandparent, Iβm hoping youβve been on a see-saw.
At the heart of it, all the terminology and the concepts of leverage and torque arenβt much more complex than understanding a see-saw.
On a see-saw, lighter things can overcome heavier things by simply being further away from the pivot point.
If you can staple that concept to the forefront of your mind, youβll go a long way to grasping the foundations of exercise mechanics.
