Posted on 08/10/2016 6:24:50 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Feminist-tainted junk-science.
I’m weaker than I was 30 years ago.
I’m opposite. My grip got stronger. 30 years ago, I was three years old. I’m much more strong today, and a heavy diesel equipment mechanic.
I don’t believe this, because people lift weights today more than they did then.
“Housecleaning and laundry were major manual labor in my grandparents generation.”
Yep,my mother washed with a wash board.
Shoveled coal into a coal furnace in the basement.
I am a spoiled rotten senior citizen.
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I was in better shape at 47 then I was at 17, but I was in much better shape at 29 then I am at 59.
My Dad, who passed away at the age of 91 in 2010, could kick the ass of men in their 30’s when he was in his 50’s. His Hands were massive from growing up on a farm in Manitoba and Ontario in the 1930’s
Heh heh heh... let me tell the next 33 years will be completely different.
But that’s alright.
It doesn’t take long to lose your power.
I was a college athlete. I was never that great with weight lifting but I could throw the javelin, discus, and put the shot almost as well as our 300 lb. weight men.
I was a sprinter and hurdler and only weighed around 180. I could do 28 pull ups and that was the only time I tried it.
After being married a few years and working behind a desk or more often behind the wheel of a car, I had grown soft and did not even realize it.
We were walking in a park and I saw some playground equipment including bars. I jumped up and grabbed a bar thinking I would impress my wife. I was shocked that I could not do a single one. The extra 40 pounds I had put on didn’t help either.
Bahh. I can still hoist a fork with either hand.
I am about the same.
For whatever reason, I never had much in terms of muscle or tone among a long list of deficiencies . I had being tall though. Not that it did me a whole lot of good.
My dad is a very physically strong guy though.
As an old Quebecois guy I used to know would say, “faggot hands”.
Ditto that, when I started my first job (1960) was delivering furniture, refrigerators up stairs and whatever, I was 120 lbs soaking wet. real work.
Metrosexuals.
yup
You never knew anyone that milked cows. Lifting weights makes muscle mass, but those guys that milked were strong. They made great wrestlers.
Not many tubbies then, either.
I find myself using 1/2 inch drive where I used 3/8 thirty. Years ago.
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