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- From: pae@teal.csn.org (Phil Earnhardt)
- Subject: The fittest people on the planet.
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:25:42 GMT
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- In article <1jm16oINNoik@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> laurie@bnr.co.uk (Laurie Constantin) writes:
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- >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.
-
- 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.
-
- The atheletes who compete in the world aerobic championships rate pretty high,
- too.
-
- >Laurie, a concerned and drug-free powerlifter.
-
- --phil
-