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by KyleSchuant » Mon May 06, 2019 5:30 pm
A good presentation from Austin, asdf. He puts academically and medically what we have seen in the gym, though of course a medical professional sees even more messed-up people than even a trainer specialising in older beat-up folk does.
Further to what I said above, Sean, a lack of reading literacy ability makes itself felt early on and throughout life. But a lack of movement literacy takes a while to hurt someone, because the natural activity we do as children (toddlers squat, young kids jump and run and swing off monkey bars, older kids throw balls and wrestle each-other and so on) builds a base, and a young person's natural resilience can make up for all sorts of shitty sedentary behaviours.
But by the time they're 40 their youthful resilience has faded away to an extent leaving them weak, sick and in pain. Reading illiteracy they would have been in trouble from 12 years old or so, movement illiteracy they can get away with until they're 40.
I know of no large population studies of who can perform this or that movement, except gait and grip strength. But we have them for diet. Only 4% of adults in Australia have the recommended 5-6 serves (2.5-3 cups chopped) vegetables daily. And it's 0.4% in 15-25yo males. 20 year old males aren't getting bowel cancer due to lack of fibre, but 60 year old males do. If only 4% of adults are eating a few cups of vegies a day, how many do you think are physically strong and mobile enough to squat down below parallel and get back up again... once?
Boris Bachmann made his Squat RC series of instructional videos inspired, he said, in part by seeing so many people do it badly in the gym, but also because he saw his father die of emphysema. He said "towards the end, getting in and out of a chair was a metabolic conditioning workout for him." It need not be so.
The work we do is important, and growing in importance as the proportion of older folk in the population increases, and as the Western world becomes more electronic and sedentary. This is why I was disgusted you were excluded by SS, Sean. This shit is more important than branding. We need to grow things.