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I'm teaching myself baritone uke and wondering what the "correct" way to make the shape is? Or at least, how do the people of this subreddit do it? I'm imagining this is similar to the discussion around "do you hold the neck with your thumb wrapped over so you can hold down the 4th string, or only use your other four fingers to push strings?", where the consensus seems to be "only use the four fingers because it will be better once you're more experienced." My hand is used to barring them because I learned bar chords on guitar first. I've been trying to force myself to finger each separately but struggle to get my hand to do the thing. If I bar all four strings to make the shape, am I developing a bad habit that will cause struggles later?

In 2013, I dropped my 2009 MacBook off a deck. It still ran fine so I didn’t think anything of it until I went to open it again the next day and it wouldn’t boot. Yes I know I should’ve backed it up immediately but I was young and dumb. I was living in the Caribbean and the only computer guy on the island said the hard drive (SATA if that matters) booting capability was lost and had to be replaced. He quoted me $500 to recover the data (maybe) but I was too broke to pay for it. Fast forward to today, I now live in a midsize town on the mainland, and the hard drive has been sitting in bubble wrap in a sandwich bag in my file cabinet for 13 years. I can finally afford the $500 but am assuming it will be more expensive now. If I were to bring it to my local computer guru, would it be realistically possible to recover data from that old of a unit? If so, how much might that cost?

I'm doing Dr.Lisa.dpt's Runner's Complete program 2x/wk but also want to add in a heavy glute isolation day for some extra hip/booty volume. The RC plan focuses a lot on single leg compound lifts in forward, lateral, and rotational planes, and generally sets of 4x10 or 3x10. I know that in general, these will train the whole lower part of my body, but I am also a little self conscious of how muscular my quads are from 25 years of high-level soccer. I'd like to incorporate high weight/low reps (4x6, 5x5, etc) of glute isolation exercises so I can train those muscles without also hitting my quads/hamstrings as much as doing hip thrusts or squats. Is it counter-productive to do heavy isolation exercises on different days than higher rep/lower weight exercises on other muscles? Like, do I need to choose between one or the other? For a goal like this, would large glutes/hips counteract efficiency of an other-wise trained posterior chain? Could this have a negative impact on my running post-base building? Does anyone else have similar experience (either with running or a different sport) where you combined functional strength/conditioning with aesthetic goals for a specific muscle group?

I'm putting this in xxfitness rather than xxrunning because others might have other primary sports. My running workout plan focuses a lot on single leg compound lifts in forward, lateral, and rotational planes, and generally sets of 4x10 or 3x10. I do it 2x/week. I know that in general, these will train the whole lower part of my body, but I am also a little self conscious of how muscular my quads are from 25 years of high-level soccer. I'd like to incorporate high weight/low reps (4x6, 5x5, etc) of glute isolation exercises so I can train those muscles without also hitting my quads/hamstrings as much as doing hip thrusts or squats. Is it counter-productive to do heavy isolation exercises on different days than higher rep/lower weight exercises on other muscles? Like, do I need to choose between one or the other? For a goal like this, would large glutes/hips counteract efficiency of an other-wise trained posterior chain? Does anyone else have similar experience (either with running or a different sport) where you combined functional strength/conditioning with aesthetic goals for a specific muscle group?

Basically the title. Has anyone actually completed the program? I love how varied the workouts are and feel good after 4 weeks, but haven’t observed any significant impact on my running. Did you get faster, do you recover from tempo or long runs any differently, do you notice any differences in your mechanics, and/or do you feel different mind/body awareness during runs with consistent strength training? I’d be lying if I said I’m not also hoping to do a little body recomp through the process. If you experienced that, I’d be interested to hear about your experience but that’s a very distant second thought.

And also, how do you clean it?