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[quote]anthropocentric wrote:
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I find that incredibly silly. Humans have amazing adaptability – we can attain incredibly strength, impressive vertical jumps, extreme flexibility, or astounding endurance.

Active people choose to engage in that which they are passionate about. Marathons are a test of speed and endurance. People that finish all 26.2 miles in three hours have contributed extreme dedication to training and recovery aspects of their lives. They spend more time running than most of us spend in the gym so that they can achieve a competitive time.

I began running to lose weight and ultimately went on to run in the 2005 Seattle Marathon which I hold as an incredible personal accomplishment. Now I’m a weightlifting trainee, but I still have respect for the sport of distance running because I know how much dedication is required to succeed. Furthermore, I’m glad that there are people pushing all boundaries of human limits – it’s inspirational.
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Yes.

I hope to someday run a marathon. Recently, I’ve begun to hope to achieve a sculpted body as well, through weightlifting. I’m prepared to work hard for both goals. I’m also protective of my body…the last thing I want is to sideline myself permanently. But I could just as easily hurt myself lifting as running. There’s a reason I’ve got a Flameout shark swimming along the side of my computer screen here at the weightlifting site.

I suspect the girl who blew her knees in the Boston Marathon knew well in advance that she was destroying them, but was too deeply engaged in the dream to back out. Just qualifying to run Boston is a big deal to the average distance runner (to “BQ,” they call it).

I don’t think a weightlifter who’d qualified to compete in one of the big shows would behave any differently. You’ve made it close enough to the top that you can almost taste it…but your knees (shoulders/elbow/wrist) aren’t doing so great…what are you going to do? Keep going and hope for the best, would be my guess. And then go ahead and regret it later, when it turns out you didn’t win.

I would never sacrifice my knees to my desire to run a 26 mile race. But I’m not a competitive runner.

There are other goals I would definitely risk my knees for, though.

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[quote]Sentoguy wrote:
MidDistanceMac wrote:
Failed 1ce on a 1rm deadlift went for it one last time when i’m getting my hands all set up and getting focused…

“Hey man do you want me to spot you in your squat?”
Me:“You mean my deadlift?”
“Oh yea thats what I meant I can push on your chest and then on the back of your hips to give you good leverage”
Me:“Honestly I’ve never heard of that so no man”
“Alright well I don’t wnat to fuck you up or anything but if you need me I’ll help out”

He was hitting on you. :stuck_out_tongue:

As far as stupid quotes, I don’t really have any original ones to add. Just the usual “but, I don’t want to get too big”. The other day I did have this newbie guy come up to me and ask me a bunch of questions about exercises. I answered them as concisely as I could, as I realized that he was a newbie and wanted to set him on the right track.

He then asked me for some exercises to work his traps. I told him “shrugs and rows are good, upright rows work as well. But, personally I feel that Deadlifts and Rack deadlifts are the best.” To which he replied “oh, I can’t do deadlifts, my chiropractor says they’re bad for your back.”

Seriously, what is it with people who are supposed to be in the health field (doctors, chiros, PT’s (physical therapists) not having a clue about exercise, and being completely misinformed about certain exercises in particular?[/quote]

I’m a chiropractor and I do deadlifts. Keep in mind, sometimes people don’t always relay correctly what the doc says. Sometimes there are physical reasons not to do certain exercises.

And sometimes health care professionals are lazy and since they don’t know anything, they err on the side of caution.

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[quote]tom63 wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
MidDistanceMac wrote:
Failed 1ce on a 1rm deadlift went for it one last time when i’m getting my hands all set up and getting focused…

“Hey man do you want me to spot you in your squat?”
Me:“You mean my deadlift?”
“Oh yea thats what I meant I can push on your chest and then on the back of your hips to give you good leverage”
Me:“Honestly I’ve never heard of that so no man”
“Alright well I don’t wnat to fuck you up or anything but if you need me I’ll help out”

He was hitting on you. :stuck_out_tongue:

As far as stupid quotes, I don’t really have any original ones to add. Just the usual “but, I don’t want to get too big”. The other day I did have this newbie guy come up to me and ask me a bunch of questions about exercises. I answered them as concisely as I could, as I realized that he was a newbie and wanted to set him on the right track.

He then asked me for some exercises to work his traps. I told him “shrugs and rows are good, upright rows work as well. But, personally I feel that Deadlifts and Rack deadlifts are the best.” To which he replied “oh, I can’t do deadlifts, my chiropractor says they’re bad for your back.”

Seriously, what is it with people who are supposed to be in the health field (doctors, chiros, PT’s (physical therapists) not having a clue about exercise, and being completely misinformed about certain exercises in particular?

I’m a chiropractor and I do deadlifts. Keep in mind, sometimes people don’t always relay correctly what the doc says. Sometimes there are physical reasons not to do certain exercises.

And sometimes health care professionals are lazy and since they don’t know anything, they err on the side of caution.

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Yea… either that or he wanted to touch me while i was volnerable using all my effort to lift weight. Eke.

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[quote]tom63 wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
MidDistanceMac wrote:
Failed 1ce on a 1rm deadlift went for it one last time when i’m getting my hands all set up and getting focused…

“Hey man do you want me to spot you in your squat?”
Me:“You mean my deadlift?”
“Oh yea thats what I meant I can push on your chest and then on the back of your hips to give you good leverage”
Me:“Honestly I’ve never heard of that so no man”
“Alright well I don’t wnat to fuck you up or anything but if you need me I’ll help out”

He was hitting on you. :stuck_out_tongue:

As far as stupid quotes, I don’t really have any original ones to add. Just the usual “but, I don’t want to get too big”. The other day I did have this newbie guy come up to me and ask me a bunch of questions about exercises. I answered them as concisely as I could, as I realized that he was a newbie and wanted to set him on the right track.

He then asked me for some exercises to work his traps. I told him “shrugs and rows are good, upright rows work as well. But, personally I feel that Deadlifts and Rack deadlifts are the best.” To which he replied “oh, I can’t do deadlifts, my chiropractor says they’re bad for your back.”

Seriously, what is it with people who are supposed to be in the health field (doctors, chiros, PT’s (physical therapists) not having a clue about exercise, and being completely misinformed about certain exercises in particular?

I’m a chiropractor and I do deadlifts. Keep in mind, sometimes people don’t always relay correctly what the doc says. Sometimes there are physical reasons not to do certain exercises.

And sometimes health care professionals are lazy and since they don’t know anything, they err on the side of caution.

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Hi Tom,

That’s great that you do deads.

And also I wasn’t trying to suggest that no health care professionals know what they’re talking about in terms of exercise. It just seems to be a growing epidemic where health care professionals are becoming excessively cautious (and often times downright wrong) when it comes to certain exercises.

I can completely see what you mean about health care professionals being lazy. I’ve never seen a more generally unhealthy, and out of shape, group of people than those working in hospitals (health care).