ot; 6packscaredy; a little scary…

[FlyerInHi]

You don’t just feel better, but you are better.

Peers have middle age pains and ailments. they feel lethargic, sit their asses in front of the tv and drink beer. I don’t know what pain is. I keep on going and going like the energizer bunny.

[scaredyclassic]

I guess. Ok.

Its kind of a moneymaker to take care of yourself.

But that’s nO reason to get and exposed.

I think I may be out to prove something

[NotCranky]

What about strength competitions ,scaredy. Interested in that? There are some that are pretty much all-comers events, I believe.

[scaredyclassic]

no. i am too weak. but i am going to be much more awesome next year.

[FlyerInHi]

There is a huge difference between training for competitions and exercising for a lifetime of looking good and being healthy.

People who win competitions frequently don’t have the fortitude for a lifetime of commitment to health. Health is not about get rich quick schemes, but more like building a solid base and earning 2% compound interest.

[scaredyclassic]

True but I think there’s something to be said for “big pushes” trying to breakthrough plateaus which

[FlyerInHi]

There is fast result, fun, and glory in competition. Not so much in lifetime health maintenance.

In my condo complex there is a gym guy who sells workout supplements and i sure other performance “juices”, if you know what I mean. He looks buff but all fat and water when you see him walk around shirtless. His back looks a little hunched over.

The young guys who come buy his stuff look good but the older ones are clearly over the hill and probably not any healthier than the general population.

Long life and health depends on avoiding oxidative stresses. Competition and the associated juicing that athletes undergo to compete compound the oxidative stresses.

Like financial management past glory is no predictor of future returns.

[NotCranky]

The rebuttal seems very misplaced, definitely off base, FlyerInHI

I agree a lot of people get hungry to be in the limelight, for glory and $, and once they are out of it, don’t have active healthy lifestyles. I am not really concerned about them.

Most people compete for social life and reasons of health and fitness…Nobody gives a darn about anything but the top finishers in sports. Theres no glory, maybe a few bragging rights to annoy friends and co-workers with. Moderate competition is no worse than no competition at all healthwise, and may be an improvement on the social side(which contributes back to health). Lots of people , including people who are relatively slow or weak derive motivation to stay fit from a 5k or a all comers event of some kind….perhaps playing a team sport.

40,50,60,70, 80 years and up still doing it …it isn’t for the glory.

[scaredyclassic]

Like a swim race we are ultimately competing against our own best past time or result.

Doesn’t hurt to try to get stronger or faster

[FlyerInHi]

Blogstar, I agree on your latest post about competition.

However consider that lots of people do things to their health detriment. There is a guy in my condo complex who sells performance supplements and “juices”, if you know what I mean. That guy looks puffed up and he’s asking for medical troubles. Every gym has such a dealer.

Juicing, especially self-medication, adds enormous oxidative stresses onto the body. Juicing is so prevalent now that high schools kids do it.

[no_such_reality]

For some reason, most of this thread reminds me a HBO episode of real sex where a guy was talking about having the surgery where the cut tendon or something in your penis so it hangs bigger and how important it was to know when it got tough in business that he had a bigger Johnson in his pants.

Not a metaphorical I got bigger brass balls, but a literal comfort in fighting out the business negotiation because with the surgery, he thought his penis was bigger than theirs. Just one of those LOL memories.

I have great appreciate for our forefathers and mothers. As another mentioned previously, the average subsistence Ghana, could probably kick all of our asses in a fist fight and definitely work us physically into the ground.

Work ‘back then’ was work and they were lean and strong. The Voyagers carried multiple packs weighing 90 lbs each. These aren’t big burly guys, they’re lean guys, probably weighing in at 140-150 pounds, lugging 270 lbs of pack over a half mile slick muddle hilly mosquito infested portage. And back for more.

Driving railroad spikes all day. Loading hay bales. digging ditches, etc.

[FlyerInHi]

6pack is only 135lbs. He’s a stud.

[NotCranky]

[quote=FlyerInHi]6pack is only 135lbs. He’s a stud.[/quote]
…….and the rest of us are being quite modest.

[scaredyclassic]

i concede the penis contest.

I’d like to still b e in the running for weight carrying for distance in my weight class though

[NotCranky]

Distance running, the regular way w/o weights, has a problem as a sport. There should be weight class divisions like in Lifting. A 200 pound person running a 5 minute mile might be as good or better than a 125 pounder running 4.00. I wonder if there are a lot of big Kenyans who would dominate the big guy divisions.

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