Good lord. Is there anything Rand Rover doesn’t have ass-backwards?
And if you aren’t strong enough to carry itback, then you will be standing there like an idiot miles away from home having exerted yourself for no reason at all.
“That wise man sure is a fool!”
–Fool
In any event, weight training improves one’s endurance, but endurance training doesn’t improve one’s ability to lift weight, so by weight training I get both benefits. Also, as it turns out, I don’t have to chase my dinner every night, but I do want to look good and feel good, so I lift.
Tell me: do those skinny beanpoles in the persistence hunting video above look like they might not be able to handle getting the meat back to the hearth?
Or sitting there eating a nice dinner.
Somehow I very much doubt that you could carry a 1,000 lb moose.
Do a youtube search for Rippetoe on breath to hear Mark Rippetoe tell you what’s what.
No, you can eat some of it yourself; and then you can cut as much off as you can carry and take that back. So if you can catch it you gain anyway; but if you can’t catch it you gain nothing.
A caveman who can’t figure that much out isn’t going to survive very long anyway.
As a lawyer (I think that’s your occupation), you don’t have to do anything out of necessity that requires you to lift more than maybe 50 lbs, and even that seems unlikely in most day-to-day activities. If you need to move a sofa around the room, you’ll probably have help anyway (something the primitive runners probably had if they had to drag a carcass across the plains).
The point is that in this day and age, we don’t need to run long distances, and we don’t need to be really strong, unless our specific job as a marathon runner, courier, football player, or mover requires it. Therefore, it’s strictly about looking good (beauty is in the eye of the beholder, of course) and feeling good (I feel better after running than lifting, and you after lifting instead of running). I lifted in high school because my sports required strength, and I’m glad as hell I don’t need to do that anymore. I’d rather be lean and in good health at 170 than lean and in good health, but at 190, carrying around extra mass just…because.
As to the issue of your friends’ Facebook updates, just hide their statuses, or find new friends.
What kind of self-respecting caveman cooks his own dinner fercheissakes? And he’s supposed to carry the chianti, sides, and spices etc with him?
What the hell is with this whole weight training vs. endurance hijack? I do both extensively and, interestingly enough, I got stronger when I did additional endurance training and I got better stamina when I did more weight training too. They’re complementary. The reason I got stronger was for the same reason you do complex exercises and isolated exercises. Yes, I got some endurance benefit from weight training, but by training it specifically, I got better endurance benefit and that directly applied to my weight training because I could train longer and harder. And you can tell who does both and who doesn’t, because the guys who don’t do any endurance training may be big, but they’ll never have the definition to go with it.
But specifically to the OP, yeah, endurance sports can be kind of boring, since there’s no real change in the activity being performed. But ultimately, endurance is a major factor in just about every sport. You know those infamous fourth quarter teams? They may not score as fast as the other team, but they out last them and win in the end. That’s essentially the same thing you see when comparing sprinters and long distance runners.
And, for the sake of completion, it’s the same with weight training. What’s particularly interesting about seeing a guy life 400kg then try to lift 402kg then 404kg? Sure, it’s fascinating if you’re really interested in the sport and understand the context, but if not, it means nothing. And yet, strength is an integral part of just about every other sport, whether it’s how hard you hit your opponent or how far you can hit or kick or throw a ball, or whatever.
So no, they’re not any dumber than any other sport, it’s just not something you like. And it’s no different than the arguments we see periodically about whether football or soccer is better (even though football is better :P).
See also: rope-a-dope.
I’d be a lot more irritated by people posting shit about how great their church service was or how their kitten is the cutest ever than someone posting about SOMETHING POSITIVE. :smack:
You’re into fitness, your FB Friends who ran the Tough Mudder are into fitness, just a different kind. THIS is what gets you fired up? Interesting.
Pace yourself, good man. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Boaster, I think that definition is more about diet, so good definition is possible without endurance training.
Leftfield, the point of ragging on the tough murder huh is that he’s a fay slobs who walked through cold mud and then acted like he climbed Everest or ran a four minute mile.
Interesting typo on my name. :dubious:
Anyway, you think or you know? Because your information is incomplete. Diet is an important part of any workout regimen, no matter what you’re training for. Yes, if you have two people with similar builds and they both do similar weight training and one eats like crap and the other eats well, the latter will look better. And by the same token, if two guys have similar builds and similar diets and do similar weight training regimens, the guy who does some endurance training will have better and faster results.
You don’t like endurance sports and training, fine, no one says you have to. I know plenty of guys at my gym that refuse to do any cardio and don’t seem distraught about their physiques. But that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have very real tangible results.
Sure if all you do is compare the calories burned in cardio to calories you can cut from your diet, yes diet wins in terms of fat loss, but cardio has other benefits too, like actually improving your endurance. Thus, like I said, it means you can work out hard and longer, which means you lift more weight more times and get stronger faster. Bodybuilders routinely do an enormous amount of cardiovascular training, particularly when preparing for a show, which is when they’re most trying maximize their definition.
Anyway, I still don’t see what any of that has to do with endurance sports. In the same way that I have a lot of respect for a professional football or basketball or baseball player, that their skills far surpass my own, I have the same respect for amazing endurance athletes, like your marathoners and biycyclists.