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How Far Fitness Has Fallen
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:19 pm
LINK
And for those that don't want to read WYHI?
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According to the latest research, human fitness has decreased so dramatically in recent years that even the strongest of us would consider ancient men to be, well, monsters.
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if you were to cross paths with one of your farming ancestors (circa 7,500 to 2,000 B.C.), he'd shove you to the ground, kick sand in your face, and jog off into the sunset with your mate slung over his shoulder. And even with somebody else’s partner slung over his other shoulder, you’d probably never catch up to him. Such has been our musculoskeletal decline in only a handful of millennia.
“Even our most highly trained athletes pale in comparison to these ancestors of ours,” says Dr. Colin Shaw of Cambridge University’s Phenotypic Adaptability, Variation and Evolution Research Group. “We’re certainly weaker than we used to be.”
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This decline in physical activity and bone strength has led to osteoporosis, decrease in fitness, obesity, and myriad other problems and diseases. Ironically, “We have an overabundance of nutrition and we train better,” says Shaw, “but we’re overweight and we’re not challenging our bodies like we used to.”
“The average U.S. citizen is considerably less fit than the average hunter-gatherer or forager,” says Dr. Loren Cordain, professor emeritus of health and exercise science at Colorado State University and author of The Paleo Diet. “The lesson to be learned is not from early farmers and their dietary and exercise patterns, but rather from our hunter-gatherer ancestors and their dietary and exercise patterns. These examples represent the norms for our species and the environmental experiences which conditioned our genome.”
And for those that don't want to read WYHI?
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:22 pm to JOJO Hammer
does his research say how he knows this?
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:23 pm to JOJO Hammer
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Even our most highly trained athletes pale in comparison to these ancestors of ours
I call bullshite on that.
ETA: Every old pic i've seen from the 1800-1900s the men all look much smaller/shorter than today's men.
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:24 pm to JOJO Hammer
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The average U.S. citizen is considerably less fit than the average hunter-gatherer or forager
Duh
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:25 pm to Jones
I guarantee I would win in a fight. I would do the fake tennis ball throw trick that I use on my dog in order fool those dumbass neanderthals. No way he is defeating me
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:26 pm to JOJO Hammer
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“The average U.S. citizen is considerably less fit than the average hunter-gatherer or forager,”
Well, duh. We aren't tracking down mastodons these days, we're driving to work.
While it makes sense, and I actually subscribe to some of the principles of the paleo diet, this isn't really ground-breaking research here.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:26 pm to JOJO Hammer
Steroids disproves this.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:27 pm to JOJO Hammer
quote:so this is an infomercial for his book
Dr. Loren Cordain, professor emeritus of health and exercise science at Colorado State University and author of The Paleo Diet
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:27 pm to JOJO Hammer
I would wreck my 4'5" tall 102 lb 2000 BC counterpart.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:28 pm to loopback
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Every old pic i've seen from the 1800-1900s the men all look much smaller/shorter than today's men.
Agreed. Just look at the athletes today compared to 50 years ago. Bigger, faster, and stronger.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:30 pm to JOJO Hammer
How bout fitness dik in..
Wait
Wait
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:31 pm to JOJO Hammer
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Even our most highly trained athletes pale in comparison to these ancestors of ours,”
bullshite.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:31 pm to Jones
quote:Fat fricking Americans.
The average U.S. citizen is considerably less fit than **INSERT ANYTHING**
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:31 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Did our ancestors even crossfit?
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:33 pm to JOJO Hammer
I'd hit it..... About the other thing. Diet, and 3 to 4 thousand years of technology make this a ridiculous argument. Ape man cannot defeat my bullet or my cigarette lighter.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:36 pm to JOJO Hammer
Result of working smarter, not harder.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:37 pm to loopback
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ETA: Every old pic i've seen from the 1800-1900s the men all look much smaller/shorter than today's men.
You do realize 19th & 20th century western civilization was not a hunter-gatherer society, right?
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:39 pm to JOJO Hammer
Well, we're living a hell of a lot longer than they did back then, so I guess that means we win.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:40 pm to JOJO Hammer
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According to the latest research, human fitness has decreased so dramatically in recent years that even the strongest of us would consider ancient men to be, well, monsters.
"monsters " is ridiculous. We have modern day hunter gathers like the San(Africa), isolated Amazonian groups & up until recently Indigenous Australians.
They may be more healthy overall & suffer less from diabetes ,heart disease,etc, but they are certainly modern humans not different from us 8n more advanced society.
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