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Today’s men are not nearly as strong as their dads were, researchers say
Washington Post ^ | August 15, 2016 | Christopher Ingraham

Posted on 08/16/2016 6:24:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A man’s hands say a lot about him. My own father, at 66, still has the calloused, gnarled hands of a guy who did competitive weightlifting in college and spent much of his career grappling with 1,500-pound dairy cattle as a large animal veterinarian. I, on the other hand, have the soft palms of a modern-day desk jockey. My hands are delicate, well-moisturized, and prone to blisters if I spend too much time in the garden.

And I’m not the only one. A new study in press at the Journal of Hand Therapy (yes, a real thing) finds that millennial men may have significantly weaker hands and arms than men the same age did 30 years ago.

Researchers measured the grip strength (how strongly you can squeeze something) and pinch strength (how strongly you can pinch something between two fingers) of 237 healthy full-time students aged 20 to 34 at universities in North Carolina. And especially among males, the reduction in strength compared to 30 years ago was striking. …

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To: Mears

Yes, my bad. I was thinking about Korea as well, but again, the country wasn’t really mobilized for Korea like WWII. Also it happened so relatively close to the end of WWII.


61 posted on 08/16/2016 8:27:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jsanders2001

Positioning and using your body efficiently...that comes from actually working. Trying to get the shingles up to the roof, pushing the lawn mower for eight hours, carrying a load of wood for the fire, etc.

Nobody seems to work anymore except for red necks in the country. And I mean north, south, west and east, rednecks can be from anywhere.


62 posted on 08/16/2016 8:27:36 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Olog-hai

. I, on the other hand, have the soft palms of a modern-day desk jockey.


So, go out a dig ditches and stop with the virtue signaling.


63 posted on 08/16/2016 8:32:19 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: ETL

Hipsters: Nerds with beards.


64 posted on 08/16/2016 8:59:06 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: miss marmelstein

All real men use moisturizers on their hands, it’s called “diesel fuel” and “motor oil” isn’t it?


65 posted on 08/16/2016 9:05:43 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: castlegreyskull

Super slow weight lifting.
Google Barbara Walters does 400 lb leg press
....and see the video
Also several videos on the same technique
Came out of osteoporosis research


66 posted on 08/16/2016 9:16:13 AM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: wbarmy
< Nobody seems to work anymore except for red necks in the country. And I mean north, south, west and east, rednecks can be from anywhere

Say what you will about rednecks but our country would not be what it is today without them. They are critical to our infrastructure and gittin'er'dun...: )

67 posted on 08/16/2016 9:34:04 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai

I’m not surprised.

When I was a kid my entire summer consisted of riding my bike around the neighborhood, swimming and playing pickup ballgames in the park.

Today’s kids barely wander off the couch.


68 posted on 08/16/2016 9:37:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jsanders2001

I lived in rural Michigan. Pretty far north.
And home to some of the red-neckiest red-necks the nation has to offer.


69 posted on 08/16/2016 9:38:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

Ahhh. But they are smart enough to know how to change the tire fluid....


70 posted on 08/16/2016 9:44:42 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: jsanders2001

Spot on! That is a huge problem with the national media at all levels. They are in a gigantic echo chamber and can’t see outside of their world.


71 posted on 08/16/2016 10:09:07 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: CodeToad

Beards, and man-buns.


72 posted on 08/16/2016 10:10:11 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: manc

The males standing next to SHRILLARY! at her rallys all look like fags or suffer from low testosterone syndrome


73 posted on 08/16/2016 10:34:58 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Rome2000

Indeed. I was up in Boston about 5 years ago and walking around and noticed how girlie those boys are, I say boys as they are not men. Maybe it has to do with the amount of colleges, but what a bunch of weeny fairies. My sons said there are some right little pansies and most have never had a fight or done hands on work in their life.


74 posted on 08/16/2016 10:53:52 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Mr. Douglas

At sixty three, I can still run circles around the guys who work for me, all of whom are young enough to be my grandsons.

‘course, I’ve been working construction for nearly forty years.


75 posted on 08/16/2016 11:02:12 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Construction for 40 years?!

That’s impressive!


76 posted on 08/16/2016 11:02:54 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Mr. Douglas

“Construction for 40 years?! That’s impressive!”

Thanks, but it’s not that great a feat. Do the same stuff month in, month out, year in and year out, and your body just acclimates to it.

My granddad didn’t put away his tool belt until he was over 80. I once caught him nailing up the last sheet of a new drywall ceiling when he was 81. He was the only person on the job site that day.

Now that was impressive.


77 posted on 08/16/2016 11:30:18 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: DuncanWaring

“...and man-buns.

Those are NASTY! *yuck* Like dreadlocks for white nerds.


78 posted on 08/16/2016 12:30:36 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Olog-hai

They have really well developed thumbs, however.


79 posted on 08/16/2016 7:47:11 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Windflier

>> Do the same stuff month in, month out, year in and year out, and your body just acclimates to it.

Yup. It’s all about the activity, and not much else.

I worked in the print industry into my 30s. I had serious hand and arm strength. Unfortunately, that’s not the case today...

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BTW, I had the opportunity to see Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy together on stage a few weeks ago.


80 posted on 08/17/2016 12:59:49 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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