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- From: krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith)
- Subject: Re: The fittest people on the planet.
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:34:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.153456.26318@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: balance in life
- References: <1993Jan21.033520.28797@athena.mit.edu> <1jm16oINNoik@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> <C1Hnyw.5zy@csn.org>
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- In article <C1Hnyw.5zy@csn.org> pae@teal.csn.org (Phil Earnhardt) writes:
- >In article <1jm16oINNoik@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> laurie@bnr.co.uk (Laurie Constantin) writes:
- >
- >>It's very sad that bodybuilding and powerlifting can be at both extremes of
- >>the health scale - on the one hand, recreational body builders and
- >>powerlifters (and natural competitors in those sports) are probably a group
- >>of the healthiest, fittest people on the planet.
- >
- >If you add "by some criteria" to the end, I'd agree with you.
-
- Phil,
- I think that you are "quibbling" a bit here. If Laurie had said something to
- suggest that powerlifters/bodybuilders were _the_ healthiest/fittest folx
- on the planet, exclusive of others, then your comments would make sense
- to me.
- >
- >In my book, all-around SpeedSkaters are some of the greatest atheletes around.
- >Not only do they have to have fantastic speed and agility for the sprints,
- >they must have huge endurance and tolerance for pain in the longer events.
- >Every second that they're on the ice they must balance on very thin edges. And
- >the amount of committment (and strength!) that it takes to "dive" into a turn
- >-- going 60 to 70 degrees off of vertical -- is simply unimaginable to people
- >who haven't done it.
-
- Your comments regarding speed skaters are well noted, but let's not forget
- bicycle racers, gymnasts, swimmers, wrestlers, and soccer players. Most sports,
- especially _individual_ sports, can be very exacting, physically, once you get
- well beyond the novice level. (to the other folx out there, if I left out your
- sport, there was no slight intended..... tryin' to keep this short, y'know :-))
- >
- >The atheletes who compete in the world aerobic championships rate pretty high,
- >too.
- >
- >>Laurie, a concerned and drug-free powerlifter.
- >
- >--phil
-
- Keith R
-