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Haha that link is hilarious. You can do 15 pull-ups? Well, then you don't have to worry about any emergencies. It'll save you if you get into a car accident, s

Haha that link is hilarious. You can do 15 pull-ups? Well, then you don't have to worry about any emergencies. It'll save you if you get into a car accident, surely. And yeah, sorry, but 'get more strength so you can eat more' isn't really very convincing.

Swizec 12y ago
It actually might save you in a car crash. Strength makes it less likely to dislocate joints and also makes it moderately likelier that you will be able to pull yourself out of a wreck. Being in good shape also makes adrenaline more useful because your body can actually do stuff. And good cardio form helps with the old ticker not getting tired out too much after spikes in heart rate, spikes also tend to last less time. Furthermore, scares won't give you a heart attack because high heart rate won't be a shock to your body (afaik heart attacks happen when the body gets shocked and things sticking to your artery walls get dislodged and travel to bad parts of your body to form clots). And I guess you just don't like food all that much.
- Anderkent 12y ago
  Sure, but the subset of situations where it will save you is so small and the level of effort required high enough that you can't really argue that you should become strong because it will help you survive. Don't get me wrong, I agree with exercising in order to be healthy, or to look good, or for fun if that's ones fancy. But the fascination with physical strength that seems to be fairly common boggles me.
  - JanezStupar 12y ago
    In realm of physical activity, getting stronger means getting faster, more agile, better precision and increasing ones endurance. And as an added bonus mental state improves as well. An athlete wants to have as good a ratio between mass and strength as possible. Thus when I was pursuing strength I was doing it for the sake of increasing my athletic performance.

Swizec 12y ago

It actually might save you in a car crash. Strength makes it less likely to dislocate joints and also makes it moderately likelier that you will be able to pull yourself out of a wreck. Being in good shape also makes adrenaline more useful because your body can actually do stuff. And good cardio form helps with the old ticker not getting tired out too much after spikes in heart rate, spikes also tend to last less time. Furthermore, scares won't give you a heart attack because high heart rate won't be a shock to your body (afaik heart attacks happen when the body gets shocked and things sticking to your artery walls get dislodged and travel to bad parts of your body to form clots). And I guess you just don't like food all that much.

Anderkent 12y ago
Sure, but the subset of situations where it will save you is so small and the level of effort required high enough that you can't really argue that you should become strong because it will help you survive. Don't get me wrong, I agree with exercising in order to be healthy, or to look good, or for fun if that's ones fancy. But the fascination with physical strength that seems to be fairly common boggles me.
- JanezStupar 12y ago
  In realm of physical activity, getting stronger means getting faster, more agile, better precision and increasing ones endurance. And as an added bonus mental state improves as well. An athlete wants to have as good a ratio between mass and strength as possible. Thus when I was pursuing strength I was doing it for the sake of increasing my athletic performance.