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I did **** like this all the time in High school at track practice. If I yell track or Lane 1 or something of the sort, I'll go around you the first time assuming you didn't hear me. The second time your getting run over.

Fun times.

Overlocking your knees will make you pass out even if you have no weight. You don't want to take this too far.

What does overlocking mean?

i think the reason you can pass out standing for a wedding or something from locking your knees has to do with blood pooling/restriction/whatever. It's like holding your breath, it'd probably take like a minute to have an effect. when you deadlift you are not standing with knees locked for more than a few seconds.

i think he means extreme hyper extension such that your legs snap in half as you fall with the weight and you pass out due to shock

I lolled.

k, I was confused. I tried to make this happen, but I think my Golgi are pwning me. Or I need more anterior dominance. Well I tried this like how you "pull yourself" into a squat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuw6Mw0H2LE

ldo

So much youtube is blocked here. FML.

normal

The vast majority of the population is in terrible shape, very weak, very sad.

This applies to probably 50% of the people who go to the gym and god only knows the % of people outside the gym.

Yeah we have more fatties than ever before and it's getting worse every day, but even people who look like they may be in decent shape (ie thin) are in horrible shape and are just thin or skinny fat because of some odd and unhealthy low calorie diet or genetics, not because they actually do anything related to physical activity.

If you got 100 random people ages 18-45 off the street and put them through a simple fitness test, how many do you think would do decent on it?

It takes so little work to get into just OK shape. I'm not talking about being a beast or anything, I'm just talking about a decent level of strength/endurance.

People either don't care and the ones that care are usually woefully uninformed or ignorant. The fact that proper physical education is not mandatory in schools is a huge societal fail.

But it doesn't surprise me, the bulk of the population is completley stupid when it comes to finances, history, technology, you name it. Why should matters of strength, or diet, or phyiscal fitness be any different?

It's hard to say all that without sounding like some sort of arrogant, self-righteous A-hole... but it's just so sadly true.

Health and fitness is no longer as important to ones life as it used to be. We can still live forever in crappy shape, and no longer need to use our bodies to be productive for the most part. Just like being an expert at arithmetic is no longer as important as it once was. The #1 reason why people get in shape is to attract the opposite sex. So of course it all is based on looks, not on any actual fitness.

Fitness takes constant effort, so it's not surprising it's low on most peoples priority list.

A friend of mine had a stress test done last week and he said it consisted of the following:

8min @ 4mph
2min @ 5mph

Both were at "18% incline" according to him. I am not sure if that means 18 degrees or whatever but it sounds like a relatively steep incline. He said the person who runs the test informed him that approximately 20% of the people who take the stress test can complete the full 10 minutes.

Of course, that isn't a random sample because...

a) This was in South Florida. A lot more elderly people there.
b) Most people who go in for a stress test are having some issues. Very few people who feel perfectly fine just stop in to see what the deal is with their heart.

it means 18 per cent.

Gotcha... well, I'm assuming it's steep. But 10 minutes at a very slow jog should be manageable regardless. Not easy as it is designed to stress your heart but people should be able to finish. 80% failure is sad.

wow i thought you were saying 20% fail but then i did a double take.

18% incline is sick steep. like, there are very few roads in the world at that percent.

http://www.google.com/search?q=overl...ient=firefox-a

IIRC the US caps roads at a 15% grade, but lol canada will have roads your beater can't go up.

<3 google

ORLY?

Integration =/= Freedom

Can you watch this video commenting on global internet censorship?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAvg6CU6sI

lolol awesome

like 2 years ago i "tried out" to be a state trooper for the hell of it. they gave us a fitness test, the wonderlic, and a basic interview to weed out psychos as the first round, before moving on to serious interviews/background checks etc.

it was amazing how terrible the average prospect was physically. the test was super lol. the categories were: pushups, situps, vertical leap from standstill, hamstring flexibility (!), 300m run and 1.5 mile run.

they ranked you 1-20 pts on each category and you had to have 60 total to pass (so average 10 per) with no zeroes. the standards were very low. i think i did like 35 pushups and that was a 16 or something. my vertical was like 25 inches and that was again high teens. i ran the 300m in a group of 8, got 42 sec and won by approximately 75 yards. that was somehow worth a perfect score. approximately 40% of applicants actually passed this joke test, and you have to assume the hugest lard-asses stayed home.

San Fran must push that to the limit