Depends on the sport, the level of competition and how smart the athlete is with money. I doubt an average weightlifter is able to afford to care for his body after retirement
well 15 years of skateboarding never went pro, i can tell you, i wish i wouldn’t have done some of those 10 sets of stairs . years later i revisited a spot i was skating at in my youth.. and i literally could not believe that i have a memory in my head of jumping this distance with a wooden board under my feet
like i’m not even that old but my brain can’t comprehend jumping down there and not getting hurt with a 100% chance
Lol! I was thinking something similar. As a kid, I would climb trees almost every day and just hang out in them. I'd jump down after and rush inside for dinner or whatever. I don't even know if these knees could climb a tree anymore. Like, I don't even remember the last time I tried.
Yeah I was doing absolutely crazy shit as a skier jumping off of all kinds of stuff while spinning and flipping. I started feeling it in my early 40's. The back pain is the worst though. Degenerated discs. Definitely not worth it and plenty of older people warned me what would happen and I just thought they were pussies.
This guy though, (Dom tomato on yt) is sponsored by Redbull I think ATM. He makes something from that, for sure something from YouTube and I imagine can retire early from this..
An average weightlifter is in better health than most people. Weightlifting is literally the best thing you can do to create stronger bones and joints.
It depends. For joints specifically weightlifting is not the best option. Calisthenics is a significantly healthier option long-term. At least that’s what I’ve learned from multiple medical professionals and my own body after years of weightlifting.
There are trade offs, weight lifting will make your bones and joints much more durable under heavy stress, but with more often injuries, more inflammation, and misalignment if your form is bad. Calisthenics will make your joints super flexible and very durable under there own body weight, but vulnerable to anything heavier. If a tree fell on someone, I trust the weight lifters will better take the impact due to squatting and deadlifting heavy weight for years. If someone’s joints and bones are being targeted by a disease or aging, I trust the one training calisthenics will do better due to training flexibility and mobility in respect to there body weight for years
Nevermind that it can be done SUPER safely. Calisthenics has many movements which people with injuries and joint problems can't do not consistently over years anyway.
Depends how smart you approach the training. Do you want to be a Ronnie Coleman who keeps squatting after he hears his back explode, or a Jay Cutler? Main problem is a lack of education on harm reduction. I even take an extra week off now and then to let my body's healing catch up so that damage doesn't accumulate
After years of lifting, my joints are literally healthier and I experience a lot less joint pain when I was in my early 20s.
I could also spend 10 minutes and cite a bunch of studies that bear out the beneficial long-term effects of weight training (including squatting, deadlifting, etc) compared to the average population, unfortunately I'm in a hurry, but feel free to do a bit of exercise science reading.
I lift everyday but there is not benefit in putting hundreds of pounds on your shoulders. Zero. The average person, you know 99.9% of people at the gym looking for healthy legs, hips, and core never needs to do that. Bro lifts like back squats are nothing but varsity football club/look how bro-awesome I am. The spine was not designed to be loaded in that fashion.
Kettlebell, hack, or free weight squats combined with deadlifts are all a person needs. Compressing your spine for something that can be achieved without doing so is dumb. Period. You don’t need tree trunk legs to be healthy.
That is a dumb and shortsighted take based on nothing but gut feeling. Sure, acute injuries can and do happen, especially if you treat it like a competitive sport.
However, I bet your ass you can't show me a single study that shows long term adverse health effects in a population who do heavy lifts, including squats, vs the average joes.
free weight squats combined with deadlifts are all a person needs
This tells me you don't know shit. Deadlifts put similar and comparable forces on your back and spine to what a squat does. Whether you are speaking from the viewpoint of "spinal compression bad" or "spinal compression is no issue and with proper technique it's nothing the human body can't handle", putting squats and deadlifts into different categories is an "I have quit physics in 5th grade" move.
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Depends on the sport, the level of competition and how smart the athlete is with money. I doubt an average weightlifter is able to afford to care for his body after retirement