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Not sure how attacking "young people" as weak solves anything. It's simply what the job demands. If you are working in construction chances are you are stronge
by phatfish 7y ago
Not sure how attacking "young people" as weak solves anything. It's simply what the job demands.
If you are working in construction chances are you are stronger than someone sitting at a desk. Put the person sitting at the desk in the construction job for a month and I bet they build some muscle.
Same as sitting the construction worker at a desk 8 hrs a day will make them physically weaker.
This is the reason for the boom in gym membership in the last ~15 years.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI'm not attacking young people as weak. It's a known trend, a trend that even the federal government implicitly acknowledged by lowering fitness standards for younger military members but not older members. Gym membership may be up because we've lost a lot of other avenues for getting some exercise. Lifestyles have changed in recent decades. Kids are much more likely to play video games instead of playing sports with neighbor kids out in the yard or street. I'm not against vide games. My kids always played a lot of them. But I also made sure they had opportunities to get some physical exercise, if only so my insomniac oldest child would sleep some and he couldn't sleep if he didn't get some physical activity in on a daily basis.