Rest

Three pieces on a word we think we understand — and rarely examine.

Rest is often thought of as the space between efforts.

Here we begin from a different premise: rest is an essential design variable in how the body adapts.

These essays move from training architecture to lived experience, widening the lens with each piece.

What Are You Timing Your Rest For?

Rest intervals deserve the same attention as the sets they separate.

A technical examination of how intelligent program design must define precisely what happens during rest intervals, how long they should last, and what they are ultimately for.

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Unfold the Seated Body

An interruption of the posture of modern life.

Deliberate acts of movement throughout the day — for the spine, hips, and shoulders — restore range, circulation, and awareness.

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The Myth of Rest


What we’ve been taught about recovery is not what the body actually knows.

A challenge to the belief that exhaustion is a virtue, and a meditation on how the layered excess of motherhood collapses the simple frameworks meant to contain it.

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