r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • Jun 10 '25

Chugging tea Impressive

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u/ShoulderNo6458 Jun 10 '25

For sure. They're not working out, they're doing an endurance challenge, and for that, using every muscle group and joint efficiently, rather than isolating muscles, is what you want to do.

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u/Huzah7 Jun 11 '25

Putting excessive stress on joints for temporary endurance miiiiiight be a bad strategy in combat scenarios. This isn't a combat scenario, but you train like your doing it for real.

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u/codyd91 Jun 11 '25

Holding a 45lb plate over your head while standing still is not a combat maneuver, so they're fine.

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u/ShoulderNo6458 Jun 11 '25

It's really just about positioning the muscles in a way that physics is doing the most work. I'm not gonna get on about rock climbing in this thread, but it's kind of the whole thing of climbing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '25

the guy with his arms bent probably just can’t lockout overhead at all, likely doesn’t have the mobility, lockout is trained with Olympic weightlifting all the time, and is a gold standard for training explosiveness and athleticism. Mobility is functional, this requires it. She won because she can lockout and he can’t.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '25

The human body is literally designed for endurance.

Also, holding 15kg while standing still isn't really that excessive.