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you lift weights along muscle systems designed to handle load. Your wrist/elbows etc are relatively weak. See tennis elbow, etc. The other issue is that you

you lift weights along muscle systems designed to handle load. Your wrist/elbows etc are relatively weak. See tennis elbow, etc. The other issue is that you end up writing 4-6hrs a day in school 5days a week, wheras the gym is something like, maybe 20 minutes per muscle group? depending. And that doesn't tend to be more than 3-4x a week. I used to weightlift with a much lighter ex. The one thing I noticed was that even tho I could lift substantially more, our recovery rate was basically the same. So I'd end up with a lot more nagging injuries over time if I didn't properly take care of myself.

egypturnash 6y ago
It also doesn't help that nobody teaches you proper form for holding a pencil. You start a sport, you're gonna be made aware that there are ways to do the sport that immediately hurt, and that there are ways to do it that won't hurt immediately but will fuck you up for sure in the long run, or even the medium run. There are ways to hold a pen or pencil that will fuck you up in the long run for sure, and most people hold one in these ways. I didn't learn proper form until I was in my twenties, via lore passed on from master animators I was working under. I've since seen the same knowledge in places like "old penmanship manuals" but it sure was not a thing I was taught as a kid learning to write. Fountain pens, you kinda have to learn decent form to use. A Bic? You can write with any kind of grip, even one that looks like you tied your fingers in a knot around it.
- Symbiote 6y ago
  I remember being taught how to hold a pencil correctly when I was 5. When I was about 8/9 we had to use fountain pens. However, I don't think the advice was ever repeated.
- saalweachter 6y ago
  Yeah, if you look at the old manuals, they almost spend more words explaining how to sit, position the paper, and hold your arm than how to form the letters. Hint for lefties: move the paper around until it is at an angle that doesn't cramp your wrist. For some reason everyone's instinct is to align the paper with the desk, and then contort themselves around it.
plorkyeran 6y ago
Yeah, rest days are incredibly important. If you wrote until your hands are tired and then did not write again until you were fully recovered, perhaps you could do something akin to weight training for writing. That isn't what anyone actually does, though.

egypturnash 6y ago

It also doesn't help that nobody teaches you proper form for holding a pencil. You start a sport, you're gonna be made aware that there are ways to do the sport that immediately hurt, and that there are ways to do it that won't hurt immediately but will fuck you up for sure in the long run, or even the medium run. There are ways to hold a pen or pencil that will fuck you up in the long run for sure, and most people hold one in these ways. I didn't learn proper form until I was in my twenties, via lore passed on from master animators I was working under. I've since seen the same knowledge in places like "old penmanship manuals" but it sure was not a thing I was taught as a kid learning to write. Fountain pens, you kinda have to learn decent form to use. A Bic? You can write with any kind of grip, even one that looks like you tied your fingers in a knot around it.

Symbiote 6y ago
I remember being taught how to hold a pencil correctly when I was 5. When I was about 8/9 we had to use fountain pens. However, I don't think the advice was ever repeated.
saalweachter 6y ago
Yeah, if you look at the old manuals, they almost spend more words explaining how to sit, position the paper, and hold your arm than how to form the letters. Hint for lefties: move the paper around until it is at an angle that doesn't cramp your wrist. For some reason everyone's instinct is to align the paper with the desk, and then contort themselves around it.

plorkyeran 6y ago

Yeah, rest days are incredibly important. If you wrote until your hands are tired and then did not write again until you were fully recovered, perhaps you could do something akin to weight training for writing. That isn't what anyone actually does, though.