Posted on 11/20/2012 10:36:15 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Indeed, and some still do. This reporter needs to visit a farm and see what it's like for a 12 year old boy to work 12 hours a day up in a 100 degree barn throwing and stacking hay bails. I think I bailed hay every summer from when I was 9 to 20 years old. No gloves, no shirt, no long pants. $2/hr. Glad to get it.
I started weight training about 1988. Within a few months I blew a Mitral valve and ended up having a mechanical replacement in 1990.
No more weights for me! Walking is my thing, but not to excess!
Save your sanity. Ignore all advice from the government.
Trying to get my joints back up to par, I've been doing 3 days light weight/high rep and 3 on cardio. No supplementation, although I've upped my water intake a bit to help keep the system flushed.
I hate to admit this, but I've been thinking of getting in to crossfit. Most lifters frown on it as it leans you out a lot and the granola-munchers have kind of infiltrated it. But, that's kinda what I'm looking for now. Leaner, less bulky.
Getting too old to be carrying this much weight, even in muscle much less fat.
True. You have to give your muscles some rest time to rebuild.
Does your husband lift too?
It’s not “like” milk... It IS milk. Just the protein and concentrated.
Alternate meat and whey proteins. Guys should stay away from soy proteins as they contain veggie estrogen. Doesn’t work QUITE the same way animal estrogen does, but why risk it? ;-)
http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/core_march_9.htm
A sphincter says what?
Future nanny state mandate: Thou shalt only be as pumped up as the skinniest dweeb!
Nanny State PING!
Future nanny state mandate: Thou shalt only be as pumped up as the skinniest dweeb!
Nanny State PING!
I heard Michael Savage say once that light exercise is the key to good health and long life. The stories here about the damage done and repaired needed due to excessive weightlifting are testament to that, I think.
We certainly can’t look to our genetic background to suggest we should be doing anything to our bodies that requires surgery that wasn’t available in the past. Also, the extent to which a modern exercise routine at a gym mimics what primitive man would do in the wild is questionable. There would’ve been more varied movement and physical activity on a hunt or on a farm, not being locked in position on a machine.
And, of course, ingesting any kind of supplements, especially unnatural ones, could easily have unpredictable and deleterious effects on one’s health. Not to mention doing that is TOTALLY unnecessary if your goal is to improve your health.
Physical health is a worthy goal. Men becoming obsessed with their physical body image the way that a young woman suffering from anorexia or bulimia does is not. Human history tells us how harmful and destructive vanity is to the human spirit.
The real fear is that these kids are releasing teststerone into the world. This is something leftists cannot abide. They like their men sissified and their women bullish and angry.
You. Owe. Me. A. New. Keyboard.
. . . and ugly.
You hardly sound like a dead corpse.
I concur, based on experience. What is possible may not be what is best.
Or as I always point out, the first documented marathoner, dropped dead right after finishing it.
I knew the soy was a bad idea. He eats plenty of meat, I think, but he likes the extra protein from the milkshake, especially when he’s running and doing weights.
It funny that “they” would be concerned about a boy’s spending two hours a day in the gym, but not about his spending two hours a day playing video games or eight hours a day sitting in classrooms not paying attention.
I saw earlier where LA County lifeguards can make $150,000/yr, but assume it entails joining a union (and certainly entails living in a morally dead zone).
Nobody has a neck that long.
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