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From the fine article: "Prolonged and excessive aerobic exercise efforts such as marathons, ultra-marathons, full-distance triathlons, and very-long-di
by biot 11y ago
From the fine article:
"Prolonged and excessive aerobic exercise efforts such as
marathons, ultra-marathons, full-distance triathlons, and
very-long-distance bicycle rides are inconsistent with our
genetic heritage. The pattern of exercise for which we are
genetically adapted involves a diversity of activities
performed intermittently, at moderate intensities and
moderate durations. Even in highly trained individuals,
high-intensity, multi-hour endurance exercise effort is
associated with damage to the myocardial cells and
connective tissue."
If your idea of hunter-gatherer fitness is running marathons all day, perhaps reading the article would enlighten you otherwise?
edit: See Table 2 in particular for a list of hunter-gatherer activities and corresponding modern activities. Note only 1 or 2 out of 13 activities involves running.
- toyg 11y agoMy idea of hunter-gatherer fitness is something optimized to give all you have before you're 40. Something optimized for violence (men) and procreation (women). That's stupid. We didn't evolve to live as long as we do today. We didn't evolve to eat what we'll have to eat to sustain a population of trillions. If we strive to be what we evolved for, we'll go backwards. We should strive to be what we want to be, what we can be.
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- gaius 11y agoBut see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
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- pasquinelli 11y agotracking isn't running a marathon.
- DanBC 11y ago> If your idea of hunter-gatherer fitness is running marathons all day Parent poster said in their comment that running marathons all day is not healthy: > > Running slowly for long distances is not the epitome of top-health
- biot 11y agoStating that after asking "Why would I want hunter-gatherer fitness?" (presumably a rhetorical question) implies that their understanding of hunter-gatherer fitness involved running slowly for long distances. I may be wrong but I don't see why it would have been brought up otherwise given that the article already addresses that point: "The prospective clinical trials that have been performed assessing the health effects of various exercise regimens and the observational data are generally supportive of the health benefits conferred by a hunter-gatherer style of fitness regimen. A growing body of data indicates that many of the benefits of exercise accrue at relatively low to moderate levels of exercise. Continuous higher-level activity, such as jogging 32 km/week, was not found to be statistically better than walking 19 km/week for reducing features of the metabolic syndrome."
- hoorayimhelping 11y ago>Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html