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Safer is arguable. We actually don't know how unsafe psychedelics are in a controlled, professional setting, but people get hurt exercising all the time. If yo

Safer is arguable. We actually don't know how unsafe psychedelics are in a controlled, professional setting, but people get hurt exercising all the time. If you think the two are anywhere near each other in terms of instantaneous effectiveness, you must be tripping. Exercise can take months to possibly help. A single good trip can fix years of depression, months forward.

Alex3917 8y ago
> people get hurt exercising all the time. Olympic weightlifting is actually one of the safest sports. But most people who lift are doing body building or more sport-specific training, which is where you see most of the injuries.
- Rumudiez 8y ago
  Olympic athletes are professionals. Anecdotally, my “yoked” coworkers frequently hurt themselves. Out of twenty people on my team, two hurt their backs so badly in the last month that they can’t sit or stand for more than an hour or two, among other minor injuries. Meanwhile, I commute by motorcycle exclusively five days a week and have never missed work due to or come to work with an injury. The safeness of any given activity is relative to each individual and their training.
  - Alex3917 8y ago
    > Olympic athletes are professionals. They're actually required to be amateurs, but otherwise yeah. :-)
  - MortenK 8y ago
    Olympic weightlifting is just the name for a discipline which incorporates a specific set of barbell excercises. It's injury rate is indeed extremely low (From Hamill, B. “Relative Safeety of Weightlifting and Weight Training” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 8(1):53-57, 1994 https://imgur.com/a/0jI0CzK https://imgur.com/a/0jI0CzK). Your typical gym-goer does all kinds of other stuff though, like crossfit and similar nonsense, which is highly injury prone. The "classic" (i.e. Olympic) exercises, is a very safe sport.

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Safer is arguable. We actually don't know how unsafe psychedelics are in a controlled, professional setting, but people get hurt exercising all the time. If yo

by allthenews 8y ago

Alex3917 8y ago
> people get hurt exercising all the time. Olympic weightlifting is actually one of the safest sports. But most people who lift are doing body building or more sport-specific training, which is where you see most of the injuries.
- Rumudiez 8y ago
  Olympic athletes are professionals. Anecdotally, my “yoked” coworkers frequently hurt themselves. Out of twenty people on my team, two hurt their backs so badly in the last month that they can’t sit or stand for more than an hour or two, among other minor injuries. Meanwhile, I commute by motorcycle exclusively five days a week and have never missed work due to or come to work with an injury. The safeness of any given activity is relative to each individual and their training.
  - Alex3917 8y ago
    > Olympic athletes are professionals. They're actually required to be amateurs, but otherwise yeah. :-)
  - MortenK 8y ago
    Olympic weightlifting is just the name for a discipline which incorporates a specific set of barbell excercises. It's injury rate is indeed extremely low (From Hamill, B. “Relative Safeety of Weightlifting and Weight Training” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 8(1):53-57, 1994 https://imgur.com/a/0jI0CzK https://imgur.com/a/0jI0CzK). Your typical gym-goer does all kinds of other stuff though, like crossfit and similar nonsense, which is highly injury prone. The "classic" (i.e. Olympic) exercises, is a very safe sport.