LOL, a whimsical topic. No, I think there are greater dexign faults with the human body. My biggest bitch is kissing ..... or more specifically noses. Wouldn't kissing be so much easier without this akward projection getting in the way ?.
Its only kinky the first time.
The body is a temple. Respect it.
I am just responding to the post above this one but I think this needed its own separate box. I have always been very fit. I do it for the health reasons and I do it because when I look good and keep this body lean and mean then I got the hotter girls and if you think that isn't some serious fun then you just haven't tried it. When I am physically in premium conditioning then I have more energy and more energy means more living that i can squeeze out of this thing we all call life.
I don't eat tasteless food. Personally I do not find that burst of grease that fills my mouth when I bite into french fries or chicken wings tasty either. Some people do and if sloth makes them happy then thats no skin off my back either. If they want to sit on the sidelines because they dont' have the willpower to stay healthy and run at the front of the pack, then that is their choice
Trust me I drink alcohol all the time. Its part of networking and being in the industry. I eat what I want and I work out harder to burn it off. Now I'm lucky anyway because my body type is naturally inclined to lean muscle. I would have to eat a lot to get fat. And there are more important things to do in my life than indulge the gluttony and feed the greed.
I don't know how much happiness that overweight guy with diabetes and cholesterol and blood pressure through the roof is having while he sits in his lazyboy chair and eats donuts and pizza all day but that if that is his idea of fun then fine. Its not like he's going to live a long life in that condition so he might as well live it up anyway right?
Driver you write whole bagfull's of crap. You obvioulsy don't know anything about nutrition, serious athelete's reck there body by what they put it through. A serious runner can die from their blood vessels constricting which leads to a stroke. You can exercise to much and your body just say's enough already.
You really do talk yourself into little rut's, on these forums you poor little man. You invite negative comments from most of the forums threads you visit. I read your comments for a laugh you know, not becasue you make much sense. It's all me me me me me and it's boring now mate!
I agree with Xuani. Looking at the stats, the likelihood that you will die from being "too healthy" is basically a random shot in hell. Most of the people who die from a blood clot or even the Grinkov effect (when an Olympic skater died from a heart attack when he was 28) are rare cases because they involve the athlete having a pre-existing condition that was triggered by his physical activity.
On the other side of the coin, the likelihood that someone with Type 2 Diabetes caused by an unhealthy lifestyle will suffer a major health calamity like stroke, heart attack, blindness or amputation are probably more a matter of time, rather than a remote possibility. Sure there are drugs you can take to control your sugars, but type 2 diabetes can be reversed in the early stages by eating well, exercising and getting your health back into control so you don't even NEED to take expensive drugs and deal with the disastrous health outcomes waiting for them down the road.
There are also studies that show that diets where a person (or any animal) maintains a low body fat percentage and stays thin will live considerably longer than someone who is overweight and inactive.
I do think it's a matter of choice. Health is important to some people and less important to other people. But to say that runners are predisposed to strokes, nutrition is unimportant or that athletes are at high risk for health issues because of their training regimens has absolutely no grounding in facts.
Just going to chime in a little on exercise harming you. I've never known about stroking out being a problem, but I do know that your feet, ankles and knees are not meant for running, the punishment of slamming down on them ever step, over long periods of time, where your joints down. I know because it happened to me. When I was in the military, we ran every day. 3 miles a day to start with, then you work your way up. When I was invited to begin Recon training (BRC for those who know), 13 miles a day is not a bad day. When I got out of the military, I was doing 13 miles 2 sometimes 3 times a week. I now see a podiatrist and masseuse on occasion due to sore joints.
Lifting heavy weights is also a problem on joints, I don't know how many people I've seen with torn rotator cuffs due to excessive weights being lifted. Torn muscles also never heal back properly and will never be as good as they once were.
So yes, exercise can hurt you. For the most part, it does not and will lead you into a healthy life, but only if you don't take it to extremes.
C'mon Driver.. there has to be a personality to go along with the hard body.. you're not giving yours a fair shot.. it's ok to trumpet health and 'clean living' but the truth is not everyone thinks a pair of size 28 jeans you buy off the boys rack at Sears is all that hot.. the rest of us think life is a playground and we work hard.. we play hard.. and we pay the freight for doing it.. sometimes it's best to enter a room quietly.. and let the 'wow' factor settle in before you start howling at the moon.. I'm just sayin'.......
Its not burning calories, but its fun.
