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The 'I Feel Like Being Healthier' Thread!

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nobo:

--- Quote from: snalin on 20 Mar 2009, 08:37 ---Biceps will also help me not get so god damned many bruises when fencing.

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Actually triceps make your arms look bigger. The biceps are just the frosting.

Alex C:
Triceps are easily on the same level as biceps in terms of actual functional strength as well. I've noticed that many amateur bodybuilders will have the stereotypical pumped biceps but that athletes like high level rugby and football players end up with ridiculous triceps to go along with their biceps whether they mean to develop them or not. It's particularly noticeable if you see them with a shirt off; pads and short sleeves sometimes do a surprisingly good job obscuring just how much muscle those guys are packing just below the shoulders.

Spluff:
The triceps are actually much greater in terms of functional strength; almost all upper body compound movements utilize your triceps in one way or another.

Alex C:
Yeah, that makes sense. I sorta figured it must be that way just from what I've seen but it's not like I've ever really studied anatamy or anything.

supersheep:

--- Quote from: Juxtaposition on 20 Mar 2009, 12:20 ---the caveman diet

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I was just reading up on this, and it's amazing the amount of bullshit that people will spout to justify their particular diet.
"There are races of people who are all slim, who are stronger and faster than us. They all have straight teeth and perfect eyesight. Arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, depression, schizophrenia and cancer are absolute rarities for them. These people are the last 84 tribes of hunter-gatherers in the world."
Yes, because in general hunter-gatherer societies have slightly lower levels of medical care than us.

"Around 10,000 years ago, an enormous breakthrough was made- a breakthrough that was to change the course of history, and our diet, forever. This breakthrough was the discovery that cooking these foods made them edible- the heat destroyed enough toxins to render them edible."
Cooking could have started as early as two million years ago, but probably more like 250,000 to 50,000 years ago. 10,000 years ago we discovered farming these crops - and the thing is, hunter gatherers had been eating these things for a long time, because hunter-gatherers will eat things that provide high calories for low effort, because it's most efficient. That's how crops evolved - hunter gatherers ate them!

Now this is not knocking any actual benefits the caveman diet might have for you - if it works for you, awesome! But I hate the justifications that people use for such stuff. It's pseudo-scientific and dishonest. (I'm rereading Guns, Germss and Steel and the stuff I read on the caveman diet annoyed me by being wrong.)

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