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Are athletes really stronger (15m Vid)

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Just stumbled upon this. Some might have seen it.

For those who haven't, really interesting video, it's a talk about records and athletes n shit.

 
Your title got me confused brah.

The guy does present a compelling case against it but.. yes, they are getting stronger and better due to PEDS and shit like EPO.
 
Your title got me confused brah.

The guy does present a compelling case against it but.. yes, they are getting stronger and better due to PEDS and shit like EPO.
Watch the whole video.

I promise you it's interesting :)

He isn't against it. It just looks like that in the beginning.

Just watch the whole thing :D
 
Didn't watch your video cause my attention span wont allow me 15min..but..

Athletes are stronger based on doing sports and training their bodies from a young age. If you take two kids with equal genetics and one plays sports growing up while the other doesn't. It makes sense that the sport kid will be inevitably stronger..
 
15 minutes ?
I’m not too ashamed to say that my attention span is just not capable
 
Breaking...


the average lifespan is no longer 36.
 
According to this video rat poison + brandy is a PED
15 minutes ?
I’m not too ashamed to say that my attention span is just not capable

TL;DR athletic performances are better today thanks to

-Better technology and nutrition
-Better talent pool and more specialized body types
-Breaking mental limits
 
According to this video rat poison + brandy is a PED


TL;DR athletic performances are better today thanks to

-Better technology and nutrition
-Better talent pool and more specialized body types
-Breaking mental limits
you=my rock
 
even in MMA, i think the sports evolution is pretty overstated... someone like Erik Paulson was a well rounded fighter by todays standards even before UFC 1
 
Yeah, it's a cool video that gets posted here from time to time. It's pretty interesting. In some ways, we've actually regressed.

For example, in the 80s they had to reduce the physical requirements for the army because new recruits were getting broken bones and other injuries. It was because sneakers with soft rubber soles made people's legs develop more weakly. There is a time during puberty where your body takes on its final form and if you wear soft soled shoes your legs will just have weaker bones.

EDIT: "Other archaeological evidence, this time from fossilized footprints in the Willandra Lakes region of Australia dated to 20,000 years ago, shows that even ancient men of our own species were apparently capable of remarkable athletic feats. Those footprints, indelibly pressed into the soft mud of a shallow temporary lake by Aboriginal hunters, allowed archaeologist Stephen Webb to calculate that one of the men, a 194 centimeter giant named T8, reached speeds of 37.3 kilometers per hour. This is only slightly slower than Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and probably indicates T8 could have run even faster if he was put on a rubberised track in spiked shoes."

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-mcallister/pre-modern-man_b_836265.html
 
I watched it and it is interesting. Thanks for posting this.
 
Yeah, it's a cool video that gets posted here from time to time. It's pretty interesting. In some ways, we've actually regressed.

For example, in the 80s they had to reduce the physical requirements for the army because new recruits were getting broken bones and other injuries. It was because sneakers with soft rubber soles made people's legs develop more weakly. There is a time during puberty where your body takes on its final form and if you wear soft soled shoes your legs will just have weaker bones.

EDIT: "Other archaeological evidence, this time from fossilized footprints in the Willandra Lakes region of Australia dated to 20,000 years ago, shows that even ancient men of our own species were apparently capable of remarkable athletic feats. Those footprints, indelibly pressed into the soft mud of a shallow temporary lake by Aboriginal hunters, allowed archaeologist Stephen Webb to calculate that one of the men, a 194 centimeter giant named T8, reached speeds of 37.3 kilometers per hour. This is only slightly slower than Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and probably indicates T8 could have run even faster if he was put on a rubberised track in spiked shoes."

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-mcallister/pre-modern-man_b_836265.html
For the leg thing, your bones remodel themselves to become more dense and injury resistant if you train.. I'd think if you went a few months with no shoes, your feet/ bones would be the same as someone from the 1900s. Ever felt a muay thai dudes shins? They're like metal poles. The army just takes dudes with no training

The second thing about a caveman being as fast as Usain Bolt sounds like bullshit
 
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