Coached soccer…and am also a PE teacher.
Still unsure how that is of any relevance to this topic however…
So I’m probably safe in assuming that I would recognize no names of the folks whom you’ve coached, right?
Which is why I go back to “post a physique picture”… Otherwise no one cares about the arguments being presented because there is a gaping hole in the ‘credentials’ department.
I often find folks advising/arguing with others on what to lift, how to eat, optimal training, etc. Yet when you look at them, it’s as if they’ve never dieted or smelled the inside of a gym in their life.
So I say again,
Because those with admirable physiques aren’t averse to sharing those pictures with others. It emboldens their argument.
Those who are unwilling to show their ‘resume’, well…
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And I say again…what does a good physique have to do with heart health and longevity?
You do realise that no centenarian, when interviewed, has ever bragged about lifting poundages or has shown photos of themselves from their earlier years hitting a most muscular pose.
You do also realise that I could have, and did, coach at a level that you wouldn’t have heard of the athletes? Does that make my knowledge and credentials less valid? My question about the coach / athlete analogy still stands, as you failed to address it properly.
Was Peter Coe, Seb Coe’s father and coach have to beat his son, for his son to listen to him? He coached his son from a young age. Was his coaching less valid when his son was younger? Did he only gain credibility once Seb was an Olympic champion?
Your insistence on viewing physiques and finding them of an acceptable standard, before accepting someone’s opinion is pretty immature and invalid to be fair.
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Jack Lalanne? Didn’t he have a brother that didn’t exercise…but lived a year longer? Then no…
And is that the only example you can find?
I have no dog in this fight my dude: I just think Jack is awesome and a fantastic example of a dude that was jacked and lived to be almost 100 doing awesome stuff the whole time.
If not being awesome means I only get to live one year longer compared to being awesome my whole life, I’ll trade that year at the end.
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I may or may not be “awesome”. Regardless I have little desire to pose semi naked and display it on the internet just to prove my credibility in a debate, as Andrewgen_receptors would have us all do…
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I hope you can vector more toward the former my dude.
Another near miss: Joe Weider
His brother, not as gifted as Jack’s.
EDIT:
You’ve got me on a rabbit-hole here, haha. Another near miss was Mr. Bill Pearl
ALSO had a brother
Can’t find his death date though.
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I’m sure someone might view me as awesome…and if it’s my children, then I’ll be a happy man. But if no one else does…then I rightly don’t care. The beauty of getting older is that you start to lose the worry of what other people think about you…it’s quite liberating really…
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Why don’t YOU think of yourself as awesome? That’s more my concern.
I think I’m VERY awesome. I love me. If I didn’t, I’d change me until I was awesome.
Life is too short to not be awesome. Even IF you get to live to be 100.
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Not my place to say. I like to stay humble. There are too many people shouting about how good they are on the internet…
I’m happy with me…awesome or not…
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The other interesting thing about this paper is that it defines weightlifting as moderate activity. If that’s right, someone who trains only HIT style and doesn’t do anything else probably won’t hit the minimum recommended minutes of activity per week and certainly isn’t going to get the extra benefits of going 2x the recommended activity levels.
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Good point…
Jack was amazing. I recall reading an article that described how well he ate his whole life. I’m sure that plus all the physical activity contributed to his longevity.
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I don’t see an incongruity in staying humble while still thinking of myself as awesome.
I hope, one day, you will give yourself permission to think of yourself as awesome. Please don’t make it to the age of 100 without thinking of yourself that way one day. You may even find that your kids are willing to think of you as awesome if you think of yourself as awesome.
I’m my kid’s superhero. They love how big and strong daddy is. And I’m willing to share that with them. That, in and of itself, is also awesome. It’s self perpetuating.
You might dig what Josh Bryant talks about here regarding positive self-talk.
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Hell yeah! Jack was the man. “If it tastes good: spit it out!” Haha.
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I just think that it was good genes. His non exercising brother lived a year longer…
And didnt George from George and Gracie live to be a hundred and he drank and smoked cigars
Betty White was 99, don’t think she did any cardio
My grandmother was 99…never exercised in her life and ate junk food
Steve Reeves i believe died at 79, did cardio all the time
Arthur Jones was 81 i think…never did cardio
The famous runner died in his 40s from a heart attack…back in the 80s or 90s
Strawman arguements when Jack Lalanne and others are mentioned to try to prove longevity from exercise or cardio
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Bill Pearl died last year