[QUOTE=Drake;1157275]Are you like Rocky in Rocky III? Strong an’ all, but needs to lean up, learn how to move “like a colored person” (According to Tommy), and then run on the beach in short shorts?[/QUOTE]
LOL !
I can certainly be leaner, you saw my video clips of the PE fist right?
[QUOTE=wenshu;1157285]It’s a weird disconnect. If people were so much more rugged back in the day, then why does life expectancy keep increasing? Outside of environmental control factors like better sanitation and medical care.[/QUOTE]
No viking maruders, no pestilence, but if you look at the places in which everyday violence and health are concerns you will say a much lower average death age.
In N. America the average is pushing the 80’s I think but in some parts of the world it’s in the 40’s.
In Canada we have more people over 100 than ever ( I think I read that somewhere).
[QUOTE=Drake;1157216]If we got our cardio up to a healthy level, you could run 5 miles at an easy 8:00/mile pace and be perfectly capable of dealing with thatever is at the end of the road.
Humans just got fat and lazy. Even the humans we think are in decent shape are pretty sad compared to our ancestors. We are in such awe of African runners, but the fact is, they are just what we were.[/QUOTE]
I might be in the minority but I don’t think being able to run a lot is amazing. If you practice at it it will come(Field of Dreams reference).
So what if Africans can win a 22 mile race. Can they do anything else? This goes for all runners not just Africans.
Personally I think part of the pinnacle of human physICal development lies in what gymnasts do. I don’t mean the really thin women that do flips in the air. I’m talking about people that can do plank with just their arms supporting
them and not leaning on their feet. That’s got more functionality than running a million miles.
[QUOTE=wenshu;1157285]It’s a weird disconnect. If people were so much more rugged back in the day, then why does life expectancy keep increasing? Outside of environmental control factors like better sanitation and medical care.[/QUOTE]
Not as many things to infect/eat/pillage/rape/burn/stab/impale/chop/beat/bury/crucify/drown/suffocate/incinerate/puncture/defile you, I imagine…
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1157287]
I can certainly be leaner, you saw my video clips of the PE fist right?[/QUOTE]
nope, think i saw a picture of you once, but that’s about it.
[QUOTE=SavvySavage;1157289] That’s got more functionality than running a million miles.[/QUOTE]
I fookin hate that word. So much.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1157131]Maybe the paleodiet was an option for our paleo cousins, but over the many generations our bodies have “evolved” to the exposure of grains and cereals and a more “agricultural” diet as opposed to a “hunter-gather” type.[/QUOTE]
i think that the fact (at least, i think it’s a fact) that lactose tolerance is the MUTATION and lactose intolerance the norm/baseline backs up the idea that we HAVE evolved/adapted to modern diets. the point the paleo people try to make that we haven’t evolved in 10,000 years was a big sticking point with me.
as for the running…i think some people can run heel to toe just fine w/ no major issues and some can’t. those that can’t could probably benefit from trying POSE or whatever you want to call it.
[QUOTE=JamesC;1157321]I fookin hate that word. So much.[/QUOTE]
no doubt…in my experience with the crossfit crowd, they were mostly so busy training for functionality that they didn’t actually DO anything functional.
[QUOTE=JamesC;1157321]I fookin hate that word. So much.[/QUOTE]
Hating that word serves no FUNCTION. Oh I said it.
Having stronger hamstrings is more functional than having strong quads because you can do your girl doggy style without cramping…oh man I must be *****.
That’s a functional of my paleo brain.
haha…all this talk of Kenyans and no one has posted this???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
uh, slightly nsfw…as if you shouldn’t know what the link is to.
[QUOTE=SavvySavage;1157347]Hating that word serves no FUNCTION. Oh I said it.
Having stronger hamstrings is more functional than having strong quads because you can do your girl doggy style without cramping…oh man I must be *****.
That’s a functional of my paleo brain.[/QUOTE]
real men makes her do all the work…
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1157240]You are beginning to sound like Uki.
We are breaking human performance records all the time, at both the elite level AND the “everyday” athlete level.
Distance, speed, jump and lifting records are all being brokenm which means that we are running faster, longer, jumping higher and further, lifting more.
And we are doing that wearing spandex, that has got to count for something ![/QUOTE]
I was thinking I was sounding more like a respected biologist from Harvard…
[QUOTE=Oso;1157343]i think that the fact (at least, i think it’s a fact) that lactose tolerance is the MUTATION and lactose intolerance the norm/baseline backs up the idea that we HAVE evolved/adapted to modern diets. the point the paleo people try to make that we haven’t evolved in 10,000 years was a big sticking point with me.
[/QUOTE]
Good point, I love milk and I’m not at all lactose intolerant.
Just polished off a glass of 1%.
If I went Paleo, I think I’d die- I couldn’t imagine a life without Vietnamese Pho.
[QUOTE=Oso;1157349]real men makes her do all the work…
;)[/QUOTE]
No way. I love taking the lead when it comes to s e x. I get bored when she takes over.
Anyway, I like what someone said about the lactose intolerance mutation thingy. I used to have issues with milk when I was a kid, kept eating ice cream regardless, and today I’m fine. I don’t get bloated and have to take a dump right after.
Having a limited diet doesn’t feel right.
it were a joke…
[QUOTE=Pork Chop;1157309]nope, think i saw a picture of you once, but that’s about it.[/QUOTE]
Perv.
LOL !
[QUOTE=Drake;1157375]I was thinking I was sounding more like a respected biologist from Harvard…
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/pdfs/2007c.pdf[/QUOTE]
Far be it for me to argue with some guy from Harvard, although Ia m sure that for every one claiming A there is at least another claiming B.
But I am not that interested in the subject to search for a rebuttal.
Suffice to say that I don’t agree that the pinnacle of human biological evolution happened millions of years ago.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1157426]Perv.
LOL ![/QUOTE]
thank you master… i assume my dirty old man training is coming along as expected?
hot ****
Wow, this forum moves way too fast for me. I come back a couple days later to see if there were any replies, and BANG four pages! Well, at least you guys seem to like the subject. All the better.
Seriously, thank you for the feedback. I enjoy running and I’m always looking for a method that will conserve my joints, so I figured I’d consult the honourable and knowledgeable colleagues of the forum 
I guess I’ll stick with this forefoot/barefoot stuff for a couple weeks and see how it works out.
heh, you’re lucky it stayed on point, at that.