Sports lifestyle. Health or a fashionable tribute to corporations?
Death at a rave in a fitness club
I hope everyone is aware of the unprecedented health benefits of sport?
It is pointless to argue with this. About the same as with the wind in some cases. The forces are not equal!
Behind the athletes is all the power of the fitness industry - a multibillion-dollar, branched, advertised octopus that has launched its tentacles into the brains of the world community.
It is impossible to defeat all this whopper now. But you can try to trip it up. Slyly. So that, immediately run away, until they slammed.
You can start with the most popular now, with marathon runners.
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Men who are enthusiastically running long distances should take a closer look if their breasts are growing, as scientific studies have shown that they have a high probability of a decrease in testosterone, which can tragically affect their personal life when they still reach the girl.
Not every sport is created equal
The sport of high achievements stands on ruined health. Quite a lot is said about the tragic consequences of excessive enthusiasm for physical activity. No one in their right mind will send a core to a marathon, and a pensioner to triathlon starts, but ordinary physical education is always spoken of with respect, reverence and extreme approval.
General strengthening, muscle - skeletal-developing, mentally invigorating gymnastics, this is the same medicine that doctors of all directions prescribe, even if they are not doctors, but psychologists or, for example, homeopaths.
Nevertheless, some harmful or useless effects, even of the simplest exercises, have been known for a long time, you don't need to go for new research.
Let's start with animals. Human, of course, too … … but now we're talking about wild
Evolutionary development implies the preservation of the most beneficial qualities and useful skills in a species. So why, in the wild, no one goes to fitness clubs?
Look at the lion, his pastime is simply copied from the healthy lifestyle brochure "You can't live like that." Eat, sleep, watch TV from the branch to your land. Sometimes growl for spite.
Even on the hunt, lionesses build the trajectory of the chase so as to spend as little energy as possible.
A man is not a runner at all, he, even in contrast to rarely running lions, does not have effective shock absorbers in his paws. Our designer (God or evolution, whatever) did not expect that we would come up with a healthy lifestyle and begin to rush around. Hence, joint injuries and a 10% annual increase in the number of orthopedic beds in hospitals.
Exhausting yourself physically to keep fit or lose weight was also not intended. According to the instructions.
Moreover, scientists have long known that physical education, on the contrary, leads to an increase in the fat content of an individual. By measuring insulin levels in the blood, they found that the fattrests remained elevated after exercise. Over an hour! This means that the body processed glucose from the blood and put it in reserve in the form of glycogen and fat.
From heart to fitness
Regular exercise is thought to enlarge the arteries and thus reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
This goes back to the 50s, when scientists noticed that bus drivers were more likely to have heart problems than conductors who moved more. Then we really looked at the workers and saw an inverse relationship - the loaders at the docks held their hearts more often than the builders, although they had more physical activity.
Statistics from the 80s showed an increase in cardiac mortality with the rise in television broadcast of aerobics programs. In America. We did not measure.
The idea of the protective function of sports for the heart came from athletes. Those showed an increase in the throughput of the entire cardiovascular system.
Further research, however, refuted the dependence of the state of the heart and blood vessels on physical education. A 4-year study of 16,882 casual employees aged 40 to 64 showed minimal exercise benefits:
Core studies have shown similar results:
A pan-European test produced very unpleasant results - an increased risk of cardiac death and morbidity among sports fans.
In general, there is a hypothesis that muscle stress raises cholesterol levels and leads to atherosclerosis. I have not yet come across scientific papers with thousands of experimental athletes confirming this hypothesis, but the idea itself is funny. And not at all anti-scientific.
To whom is sport useful?
Despite all the advice, sports do not protect against type 2 diabetes.
In the 90s in England, the government introduced a health and fitness program for the population. In further observations and statistics, it was not possible to identify any benefits for the heart or for other body functions.
Billions circulate in the healthy lifestyle industry. Books, magazines, videos, shoes, clothing, inventory, pharma, clubs and fitness centers.
Are you sure that when you are advised to go in for sports, whose interests are not behind it?
Further more
Physical activity for a woman, such volumes that can help reduce fat, also lead to a slowdown in puberty, menopause, menstrual irregularities, diseases of the reproductive and reproductive systems.
Well, everyone's favorite pain in the side while running. Anyway, any pain during exercise. If professional, trained athletes can still continue their classes overcoming unpleasant sensations, due to wider blood vessels and an expanded capacity of the circulatory system, then an ordinary person risks dying trying to heroically run (where? Why?), Holding on to his side.
Broken arms, legs, you don't even have to mention. But besides them, there is also asthma, itchy skin and even hives, as a result of increased training.
It seems that exercise should enrich the blood with oxygen, set in motion the stagnant mechanisms of the body?
Bummer! After 5 (five!) Minutes after the start of classes, there is a noticeable and prolonged decrease in pressure - a sign of heart fatigue. And you play for hours in fitness clubs.
Obese, in general, it is better not to approach sports. They wear weighted belts every day.
Hit run
We remember about the "fight or flight" reflex. At the moment of an emergency, the body turns on all its reserves, from heart rate, to pressure and ventilation of the lungs (there is a lot of everything, the Internet will help you). Anything to kill the enemy or escape, gaining supersonic speed.
BUT! These reserves are included, for a short time. Going in for sports, you keep the body in this stage for hours. And functions designed for a minute's concentration start to work much longer.
For example, to produce corticosteroids - adrenal hormones, which are seen in the destruction of the cardiovascular system, the development of hypertension and stomach ulcers, a decrease in the general body's resistance to external factors and cancer. Their long-term presence also leads to rheumatoid arthritis.
How to be saved?
It is clear that it is impossible to completely quit sports. Sometimes it's fun to play soccer or basketball. Also, you can not do without pumping the relief before the summer season. But already to lose weight, with the help of physical education is not necessary.
Running, jumping, training on an ongoing basis is not necessary at all. Firstly, it is simply harmful, and secondly, think about who is responsible for all this sports bacchanalia and who are the beneficiaries of the worldwide sports madness. Look at research dates. Everything has been known for a long time. Fitness is not synonymous with health.
Think of the lion in the tree and make a better list of movies you haven't watched. And in general, count how many things you missed while ruining your health in the gym.
And again, look at the wild animals. Those who run faster come running first. To death.
Unhurried, live longer. Turtle, elephant, Churchill …