It occurs to me, Paul, that there is a lot about how you describe training for size, that just seems to fit with our evolution. I saw it written somewhere recently, that apex predators, or at least the large muscular ones, typically spend the vast majority of their time just ambling about, sleeping, eating, socializing, etc., and then occasionally display violent outbursts of power and aggression, to either catch and kill some food, win some contest or to defend their patch.
If we translate this back to very early mankind, its not hard to imagine that men and women who were best at getting themselves into a comfortable environment, which they would occasionally have to provide for and defend, with similar violent outbursts of power and aggression, would be those that grew the biggest and strongest. Also, a successful community would not be forced to display power and aggression very frequently, since that would mean there was something unsustainable in where or how they lived. On the other hand, those who followed herds long distances or spend long hours gathering food etc., would be fit for that purpose, light, lean, agile and with high stamina.
If we can simulate with weights what big guys and gals of the distant past used to do when they had to kick ass, then maybe that what makes us grow muscle best…
I’ve been lifting weights in an harsh, hot and dry environment to inflict extra stress and speed up my adaptation and evolution. Also I try to walk without rythm.
Nah, you see, I never went for that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” stuff. Of course maybe you just live in Texas and have no choice…
You see, ChickenLittle. YOU GET ME. That there is some proper primeval, liftin, eatin and sleepin. I had no idea that my first post made so much actual sense!
My family have had to come to terms with the fact that I don’t share food. My better half genuinely looked shocked the first time I let little man eat off my plate.
You are aware that until a couple hundred years ago, maybe less, the average hight was about half a foot smaller than we are now?
The cavemen you see on TV are actors, or more likely animated. We have no idea how jacked they were, we don’t actually know much about them at all, so basing our life decisions on very padded out hypotheses of how they lived seems like a poor choice at best.
Which actually squares well with my point: that being jacked is actually an energy expensive anomaly that could ever only have been experienced by people who managed by some miracle to live in those conditions and environment. Thanks for humouring me by the way
Most animals are going to be jacked and strong as fuck naturally; their sudden bursts of violent speed are because of this fact, not the cause for it.
Humans very quickly figured out that farming and herding was WAY easier than hunting, and our muscles evolved to be better suited, naturally overall, for endurance. Muscle is very difficult for the body to sustain, and it made way more sense for us to maintain muscle mass that suited endurance endeavours, not intense bursts of power.
If trained, humans are capable of being some of the greatest endurance creatures on the planet, something that helped us dominate herds. I bet if you were to look back at some of the earliest humans, they weren’t jacked and muscle bound, they were probably lean and swift.
