My teacher weaponized his discount. In the grade school I was at you stayed with the same teacher for 1-6 grade, and my teacher kept a classroom library. And every year when the book fair came around, every kid that kept their grades at the B line or higher got to bring him one book that he would buy and add to the collection.

My class ended up makin that man put up two new bookshelves over those six years.

My program offered free weekend rentals from the local video store. Then fuckin blockbuster gobbled up all the locals and said “no, fuck that shit”. Luckily I was aged out by then.

Yup, that’s a huge factor people don’t tend to think about when it comes to fitness. It’s the reason they tell you not to do a lot of cardio if you’re trying to do hardcore strength training. Your body only has so much adaptive “bandwidth”, and trying to do to many things at once will massively reduce your progress in all of them.

It’s partially your height. Naturally lower center of gravity means naturally better stability, plus the less you have to lower yourself to get a lifting grip on something the less effort int takes to get the thing and yourself back up.