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by wwweston 26 days ago
FYI - if there's any reason to believe your particular hypermobility issues might be rooted in any kind of named or unnamed connective tissue disorder, be sure to familiarize yourself with the potential vascular hazards of heavy lifts in general and Valsalva breath-holding specifically. Hypermobility can be a sign that you've drawn a genetic lot which means that you don't even have to lift all that heavy to create aneurysms.

And in keeping with our theme of the limits of both LLMs and humans, unfortunately many exercise and medical professionals may not focus on how some specific genetic lots work until a catastrophic problem presents itself.

> ignoring feedback that a movement was causing pain, prescribing stretches to increase flexibility in a hypermobile person

So glad you found better advice than this!

LLMs are fantastic tools for exploring a topic, coming up with good questions and lines of understanding to pursue with professionals, and in picking professionals. I think they're also poor outright replacements for people especially when it comes to deep and important domains, but still quite useful.