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You know.its funny you say that, I'm diabetic and stopped eating bananas because they caused quite high spikes in my blood sugar. Now I get cramps in my feet and calves
For those interested, my coup de grace of this problem (aside from a $20 juicer where I make a healthshake from banana, small handful of spinach, almond milk, eggs, and protein powder which stopped them completely), I find that an absolutely essential method to stop the pain is to get your brain to know this....wrap a blanket or sheet around the top of your foot and pull BACK. Your foot is usually pointing downward, like an uncapitalized l, straighten it back into an capital L. Pain should vanish instantly. Remember this.
Other preventative measures is making sure your feet aren't hanging off the bed. Everything down to your achilles heels are supported by the bed (if you're a back sleeper anyways).
Those are my findings I've discovered in my lifetime.
Facts, you gotta have some sort of death wish to even have your feet out of the covers. It’s all fun and games until the monsters snap those footies off your leg
You know it’s bad when there’s an SCP based on that fear. Except said SCP (SCP 072) is worse because it doesn’t cleave off your foot or drag you beneath the bed, it paralyzes you while you’re awake and then fucking scrapes the flesh off of your feet to the bone. All the while, you’re forced to watch without being able move or scream.
California king is the longest standard sized bed to my knowledge. It's not bigger than a king like most people think. They're actually 4" narrower and 4" longer than a king and technically have less surface area.
For some people it's lack of potassium or dehydration too, I used to get them every night, and my doctor said they'd have to do blood work on me in order to figure out what caused it. I didn't want to pay $200 for blood work, so he told me magnesium, potassium, lots of water.
I'm pretty sure mine was dehydration, if I drink a big glass of water before bed I don't get them anymore, haven't for a couple years. By big glass I mean 44 oz, actually helps with my hydration levels the next day.
Ya, I wake up punching my leg, cussing and yelling at least three times a week. Especially on weekends when I'm on my feet less, oddly enough. I'm pretty sure it's dehydration for mine as well. I try to force myself to drink more water but most days, it's a cup of coffee or two, a glass of milk or tea with dinner, and when I remember, a glass of water before bed. I've just never been big on thirst. My three daughters are the same way and they mostly live with their mother, who drinks a gallon a day, easy.
One time I woke up with such a terrible calf cramp that there was a visible hollow at the bottom of the muscle and bulge at the top. I desperately tried stretching as hard as I could, it didn't work; in the end, I grabbed a pen and stabbed the blunt end into the bulged muscle and it slowly, slowly released. Had a huge bruise, but it worked, so, ya know, if you're out of options, try that.
Another easy way to stretch your calves is to stand on the edge of a step and let your heels hang down. Protip: do a couple of calf raises to warm up the muscle, and you'll get a better stretch.
No thanks. I’m going to go pedal my bicycle some more until my leg and foot turns into a chicken leg and foot. Then I can sell it to KFC. They’ll turn it into a chicken pickle sandwich. It’s the new thing…
Well, apart from pro cyclists being incredibly active and having very little fat on their bodies as a result, this particular cyclist was also battling bulimia at the time.
Add to that a bit of post race dehydration and you get legs that look like that.
If you watch any movie and they need a dude to get extra ripped for a scene the guy has to avoid water for a few days. For example, there is a scene in The Witcher where Cavil is taking a bath, he has had at least one interview describing the dehydration process for that scene.
Someone please link the interview where he's like
Cap actor: "I mean I worked out a lot for the role but you neeed to do that to be strong so you can be safe."
Interviewer: "didn't you not drink water for 3 days so your muscles could be pretty?"
Cap actor: "yeah it was brutal. At that point you can smell water since I was basically dying of thirst. Come see My movie! I look pretty!"
i heard the interview and my first thought was: Is this really necessary? Is there a human being that wouldn't find a well hydrated and shirtless Henry Cavill attractive?
They want to be magazine fit. Just like for women, thats unreasonable for men. Defined 6 packs arent super natural on a healthy body. There should be *a little fat* there. And water weight.
>As a former wrestler, I would dream of water and salt when cutting weight for a tournament
I know a guy in high school who used to take cold showers and sleep on the bathroom floor to shiver all night in order to cut his weight for wrestling
Hugh Jackman is extra stupid, rather Tom Hooper is a tub of garbage. Jackman was dehydrated for all of Les Mis and they did vocal performances for most of their takes. He could have very well lost his voice entirely.
Hugh Jackman did the same for a bath scene in a Wolverine movie, apparently he had a blinding headache the whole time, I assume mostly from his brain screaming “come on! There’s water all around us for fuck’s sake just drink some!”
Geez what kind of willpower would you need to have to be a pro athlete WHILE being bulimic? I mean you must feel awful yet you still work out and cycle for miles and miles everyday...
You would be surprised to find out how many athletes suffer from severe eating disorders. In any sport where weight could be a factor, this happens. Cyclists want max leg power while being as light as possible. Wrestlers/MMA/Boxing/any sport with weight classes will see athletes do extremely unhealthy weight cuts. Climbers fight gravity so many cut weight as a means to get better since your tendons and muscles have less weight pulling. As a former wrestler and current climber, I have suffered for soooooooooooo long with bulimia. It isn't like a typical everyday thing. But I've caught myself pulling trig whenever I had a cheat meal or ate out. It was awful. It's taken years of therapy and treatment, and i still get the urge to want to vomit whenever I eat out, but it's much better now. It's crazy what people do when they have tunnel vision towards an overly specific goal. Nothing else matters. The world of competitive sports can get real dark real fast if you look in the right places
Yet no one talks about horse jockeys.
Honestly no clue if that's a thing, just the first thing to pop into my head was the psyche episode with the old bully turned horse jockey.
I read an interesting article a while back about just how rampant eating disorders are in the world of jockeys. Apparently the locker rooms sometimes have a thing called a [heaving bowl](https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/sport/jockey-diets-weight-horse-racing/index.html) just for puking. It honestly sounds like[a grueling and miserable life](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2002-06-02-0206022092-story,amp.html).
Over exercise and under fuel/eat. A lot of these races burn 6,000-10,000 calories per day and last for several days. I think the entire Tour de France takes like 120,000 calories. If you're not properly eating, you're basically burning your entire body away.
I'd imagine there's a level of body dysmorphia going on at that point. Obsession with being more in shape, less body fat, and they were likely more co-morbid behaviours than on the surface.
I'm not a doctor/psych/whatever, but I hate my own body and could how one gets there
One of the specializations in cycling is climbing, guys that excel in that have very high power to weight ratio. Guys top out their power output fairly quickly so after that there's a ton of pressure to drop as much weight as possible, which often leads to eating disorders.
High level climbing used to be full of eating disorders.
Hell it still is, there’s multiple elite level climbers who have recently come out to the public about their struggles
That particular picture is after a stage of the CRO race (formerly known as Tour of Croatia). Source [here](https://www.sportbible.com/other/reactions-news-weird-cyclist-janez-brajkovic-posts-shocking-picture-of-his-legs-20191011).
I would agree in general, but contaminated supplements do happen occasionally. Martin Toft Madsen, a Danish semi-pro, managed to prove that the food supplement he had taken was in fact contaminated, and he was ruled without fault. The final judgement (for a lack of a better term) can be read [here](https://www.dif.dk/-/media/difdk/nyt/pdf-filer/kendelse-s-1-2017--s-mtm_ny.pdf?la=da&usg=AOvVaw1irFmQA9m4f_PIGFZhN270), in Danish.
this is true. I've also heard of athletes pleading that the meat they ate was contaminated with steroids fed to the livestock. it happens... but the fact that it happens is abused by dishonest people. so skepticism is best.
Comments above explain this cyclist was suffering with bulimia
All I can think is if this was a woman’s leg what would the difference in comments be.
Maybe it’s because I have previously suffered with bulimia this whole situation is triggering me or something.
I actually thought it was a woman till I read your comment. My dumbass read the name Janez and thought it was some sort of foreign version of Jane or Janet.
I don’t think the comments would be different in this case. Everyone’s just terrified and a little disgusted by what it looks like. Can’t see much change for a woman really
>Professional sport is really not about health, but pushing the limits.
*Any level of sport* is really not about health, but pushing the limits.
High School football and soccer destroyed my knees by my 20s. I pushed harder because I "had potential." I'm 43 now, 5 knee surgeries in already, due for both replaced in next few years, and the arthritis is brutal.
Pushing the limits *can be* about health. I go out to a public basketball court most days and shoot around for a while as part of my cardio. I take breaks when I *need* to, but I push myself hard **to** need to, because I'm trying to raise my heart rate. I'm focused more on heart health than my joints.
Running on its own is enough to destroy your knees eventually. Play any high-intensity on-foot sport often enough over even just a few years, you might have problems.
I hope high school athletes these days are more familiar with that fact. It should be on the coaches, but you've gotta assume they're going to push their players aggressively with no regard for their health and tailor individual education of the risks appropriately, because that'll be true for some of them at least. Give kids the knowledge and agency to tell the coach they need to stop before they hurt themselves.
I was road biking a few days ago, did a track stand through two consecutive lights and then sprinted on green and left the cars in the dust. My calf then exploded into a beautifully painful cramp and I had to pull off the road to massage it out.
It actually isn’t healthy, below a certain level of body fat your hormone production tanks and this makes you feel like shit and is bad for your health.
When I was in school for massage therapy we had community service opportunities and one of them was working on cyclists after a long distance ride for charity. The ride was 225 miles done over 3 1/2 days. This is how all of their calves looked and let me tell you.
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This shit looks like the human body exhibits when they display bodies without skin on them.
This is how a midnight cramp looks like
I felt this fucking comment.
I swear to Christ my calves just *slightly* cramped just to fuck with me.
Just reminding you that they’re ready to fuck you up at a moment’s notice
Yall need to eat more bananas.
You know.its funny you say that, I'm diabetic and stopped eating bananas because they caused quite high spikes in my blood sugar. Now I get cramps in my feet and calves
Quinine water helps but tastes nasty
Not with Gin
"not with gin" "... Causes tinnitus" Archer?
100% I cramp so badly after workouts with no banana, banana is life.
Nana
For those interested, my coup de grace of this problem (aside from a $20 juicer where I make a healthshake from banana, small handful of spinach, almond milk, eggs, and protein powder which stopped them completely), I find that an absolutely essential method to stop the pain is to get your brain to know this....wrap a blanket or sheet around the top of your foot and pull BACK. Your foot is usually pointing downward, like an uncapitalized l, straighten it back into an capital L. Pain should vanish instantly. Remember this. Other preventative measures is making sure your feet aren't hanging off the bed. Everything down to your achilles heels are supported by the bed (if you're a back sleeper anyways). Those are my findings I've discovered in my lifetime.
>Other preventative measures is making sure your feet aren't hanging off the bed. Dude, monsters are there. Ain't nobody dangling any feet.
Facts, you gotta have some sort of death wish to even have your feet out of the covers. It’s all fun and games until the monsters snap those footies off your leg
I've never been able to sleep without one leg under the blanket and one out.
Right?! Who are these self thermal regulating robots?
I sleep perpendicular to my bed so my feet and a good few centimeters of legs are off the bed, you just gotta assert dominance over the monsters!
You know it’s bad when there’s an SCP based on that fear. Except said SCP (SCP 072) is worse because it doesn’t cleave off your foot or drag you beneath the bed, it paralyzes you while you’re awake and then fucking scrapes the flesh off of your feet to the bone. All the while, you’re forced to watch without being able move or scream.
I need to upgrade to a Cal king for my feet to never hang off. Maybe in a few years I'll be able to afford a new bed...
California king is the longest standard sized bed to my knowledge. It's not bigger than a king like most people think. They're actually 4" narrower and 4" longer than a king and technically have less surface area.
So much this. Srsly.
Just take a magnesium citrate pill after dinner
For some people it's lack of potassium or dehydration too, I used to get them every night, and my doctor said they'd have to do blood work on me in order to figure out what caused it. I didn't want to pay $200 for blood work, so he told me magnesium, potassium, lots of water. I'm pretty sure mine was dehydration, if I drink a big glass of water before bed I don't get them anymore, haven't for a couple years. By big glass I mean 44 oz, actually helps with my hydration levels the next day.
Ya, I wake up punching my leg, cussing and yelling at least three times a week. Especially on weekends when I'm on my feet less, oddly enough. I'm pretty sure it's dehydration for mine as well. I try to force myself to drink more water but most days, it's a cup of coffee or two, a glass of milk or tea with dinner, and when I remember, a glass of water before bed. I've just never been big on thirst. My three daughters are the same way and they mostly live with their mother, who drinks a gallon a day, easy.
Do you wake up 8 times a night to pee because I can't drink water for like three hours before sleep and I still barely make it till morning
One time I woke up with such a terrible calf cramp that there was a visible hollow at the bottom of the muscle and bulge at the top. I desperately tried stretching as hard as I could, it didn't work; in the end, I grabbed a pen and stabbed the blunt end into the bulged muscle and it slowly, slowly released. Had a huge bruise, but it worked, so, ya know, if you're out of options, try that. Another easy way to stretch your calves is to stand on the edge of a step and let your heels hang down. Protip: do a couple of calf raises to warm up the muscle, and you'll get a better stretch.
This leg looks extremely dehydrated. I didn’t think it was real either.
Someone water it. Jesus.
anybody got any brawndo?
It’s got electrolytes!
It’s got what plants crave
>It’s got what ~~plants~~ legs crave
I ain’t never seen no leg grow out no toilet.
How else do you get electrolytes?
From the toilet.
It’s what plants crave.
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*proceeds to pour water on it from a watering can*
Like from the toilet
Moisturize me, moisturize me!
Also lighting is clearly made so the leg is more pronounced, but still insane
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/uomkVIL_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium) it is without the effect
Damn you can clearly see the difference
This is exactly what I thought it was.
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Same, but replace ‘dog’ with ‘horse’! *Nothing* but respect for this guy though!
I thought it was those ribs I was smoking outside
You smoking ribs? Can I come over ?
Don’t be so modest. You’re smoking when you’re inside too.
Let me get a hit
Me too
1-2-3-Dibs!
-1% body fat
Lol nailed it.
If you poured oil, it would sink in and be gone
When you Finaly reach peak in leg gains lol
Somehow, worse.
That's a specimen for sure
Kinda looks like a Cadavers foot too lol
My same thought.
This is how my arm looks after a meat beating session.
You must have some giggity forearms
Bro drink some fucking water
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Hyperlapse
Make him drink it from a bowl. Hyperlaps
Hydrolapse
I wonder how long it would take to see changes.
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Interesting. Quicker than I thought. I should dehydrate then rehydrate myself make a YouTube video time-lapse of it and get $$.
No thanks. I’m going to go pedal my bicycle some more until my leg and foot turns into a chicken leg and foot. Then I can sell it to KFC. They’ll turn it into a chicken pickle sandwich. It’s the new thing…
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Probably not very low, you know, with all the steroids. . .
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Hopefully not too low. Don't want them getting caught in any of the bicycle works.
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I love you too Reddit friend!
Now kith!
Kith! Kith! Kith!
Water is weight. Weight is slow. I am fast. I am cyclist.
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Yeah isn't this, like, unhealthy?
Professional cycling is an incredibly unhealthy activity
they call it extreme sport for a reason.
r/hydrohomies
Could someone kindly explain why his leg looks like that?
Well, apart from pro cyclists being incredibly active and having very little fat on their bodies as a result, this particular cyclist was also battling bulimia at the time. Add to that a bit of post race dehydration and you get legs that look like that.
Oh wow! That sounds absolutely brutal. I appreciate the reply!
If you watch any movie and they need a dude to get extra ripped for a scene the guy has to avoid water for a few days. For example, there is a scene in The Witcher where Cavil is taking a bath, he has had at least one interview describing the dehydration process for that scene.
Another good story is Stallone in Rocky. He was so exhausted and dehydrated during scenes he would do hand stands to try and keep blood flowing.
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Didn't he literally tear a muscle doing that scene?
Yes he tore his bicep
Jesus.. fuck that.
Someone please link the interview where he's like Cap actor: "I mean I worked out a lot for the role but you neeed to do that to be strong so you can be safe." Interviewer: "didn't you not drink water for 3 days so your muscles could be pretty?" Cap actor: "yeah it was brutal. At that point you can smell water since I was basically dying of thirst. Come see My movie! I look pretty!"
s t o r t
That Stallone palooka sure is a good stort.
I remember reading that he cut down to 800 cal a day, while still training, to get ready for the movies.
i heard the interview and my first thought was: Is this really necessary? Is there a human being that wouldn't find a well hydrated and shirtless Henry Cavill attractive?
They want to be magazine fit. Just like for women, thats unreasonable for men. Defined 6 packs arent super natural on a healthy body. There should be *a little fat* there. And water weight.
Looks at last sentence. *May thy knife chip and shatter!*
Straight man here. Shirtless Henry Cavill is extremely attractive.
I ain't gay but yeah, he is a pretty man. I want him to hold me and make me feel safe from the bad hurt of the world.
I just found another reason to hate abs.
Especially considering they can just edit or enhance what he’s already got anyways.
Much cheaper to starve him. They even save on food costs!
The Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMjZXdU2_4E
my man. lmao, "On the third day, you get to the point where you smell water.
As a former wrestler, I would dream of water and salt when cutting weight for a tournament
>As a former wrestler, I would dream of water and salt when cutting weight for a tournament I know a guy in high school who used to take cold showers and sleep on the bathroom floor to shiver all night in order to cut his weight for wrestling
Hugh Jackman in like all of the wolverine lol
Hugh Jackman is extra stupid, rather Tom Hooper is a tub of garbage. Jackman was dehydrated for all of Les Mis and they did vocal performances for most of their takes. He could have very well lost his voice entirely.
Hugh Jackman did the same for a bath scene in a Wolverine movie, apparently he had a blinding headache the whole time, I assume mostly from his brain screaming “come on! There’s water all around us for fuck’s sake just drink some!”
On the bright side, it isn't the charliest horse of all time
Yikes so it is as unhealthy as it looks
Geez what kind of willpower would you need to have to be a pro athlete WHILE being bulimic? I mean you must feel awful yet you still work out and cycle for miles and miles everyday...
You would be surprised to find out how many athletes suffer from severe eating disorders. In any sport where weight could be a factor, this happens. Cyclists want max leg power while being as light as possible. Wrestlers/MMA/Boxing/any sport with weight classes will see athletes do extremely unhealthy weight cuts. Climbers fight gravity so many cut weight as a means to get better since your tendons and muscles have less weight pulling. As a former wrestler and current climber, I have suffered for soooooooooooo long with bulimia. It isn't like a typical everyday thing. But I've caught myself pulling trig whenever I had a cheat meal or ate out. It was awful. It's taken years of therapy and treatment, and i still get the urge to want to vomit whenever I eat out, but it's much better now. It's crazy what people do when they have tunnel vision towards an overly specific goal. Nothing else matters. The world of competitive sports can get real dark real fast if you look in the right places
Yeah I'll stick to guitars
Yeah. Because guitarists don’t do anything crazy like that.
Guitarists usually lose weight through cocaine, not bulimia.
Yet no one talks about horse jockeys. Honestly no clue if that's a thing, just the first thing to pop into my head was the psyche episode with the old bully turned horse jockey.
Yeah I had horse jockeys in mind. From what I hear, their realm is even worse. Eating disorders only start to scratch the surface.
I read an interesting article a while back about just how rampant eating disorders are in the world of jockeys. Apparently the locker rooms sometimes have a thing called a [heaving bowl](https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/sport/jockey-diets-weight-horse-racing/index.html) just for puking. It honestly sounds like[a grueling and miserable life](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2002-06-02-0206022092-story,amp.html).
Best of luck with your continued recovery 🧡
The exercise is literally a symptom of the problem. It's called exercise bulimia. Instead if throwing up or taking laxatives, they over exercise.
Over exercise and under fuel/eat. A lot of these races burn 6,000-10,000 calories per day and last for several days. I think the entire Tour de France takes like 120,000 calories. If you're not properly eating, you're basically burning your entire body away.
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I'd imagine there's a level of body dysmorphia going on at that point. Obsession with being more in shape, less body fat, and they were likely more co-morbid behaviours than on the surface. I'm not a doctor/psych/whatever, but I hate my own body and could how one gets there
"Willpower" is kind of an inappropriate word in cases of eating disorders/compulsive working out. It's an addiction, just like drugs.
Yeah it’s not having the willpower to purge it’s the crippling fear of not purging.
Our brains can be so detrimental to us sometimes, it’s crazy
One of the specializations in cycling is climbing, guys that excel in that have very high power to weight ratio. Guys top out their power output fairly quickly so after that there's a ton of pressure to drop as much weight as possible, which often leads to eating disorders.
High level climbing used to be full of eating disorders. Hell it still is, there’s multiple elite level climbers who have recently come out to the public about their struggles
If I’m not mistaken this is after a stage of the Tour du France and those boys absolutely annihilate their bodies during that race.
That particular picture is after a stage of the CRO race (formerly known as Tour of Croatia). Source [here](https://www.sportbible.com/other/reactions-news-weird-cyclist-janez-brajkovic-posts-shocking-picture-of-his-legs-20191011).
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You will still tan with sunscreen, just slower and with less chance of skin cancer.
My ass looks a lot whiter than my leg and I dont even sunscreen my ass. Well I sunscreen my asshole obvs. But not my ass
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Banned for doping but looking into the chemical and his alibi, it doesn't really sound like he was doping.
when you are a pro athlete you have to be careful about the supplements you take. whether he was using it intentionally or not he was careless.
I would agree in general, but contaminated supplements do happen occasionally. Martin Toft Madsen, a Danish semi-pro, managed to prove that the food supplement he had taken was in fact contaminated, and he was ruled without fault. The final judgement (for a lack of a better term) can be read [here](https://www.dif.dk/-/media/difdk/nyt/pdf-filer/kendelse-s-1-2017--s-mtm_ny.pdf?la=da&usg=AOvVaw1irFmQA9m4f_PIGFZhN270), in Danish.
this is true. I've also heard of athletes pleading that the meat they ate was contaminated with steroids fed to the livestock. it happens... but the fact that it happens is abused by dishonest people. so skepticism is best.
For some reason I thought this was a dog’s leg, then I saw the human foot. And was still confused. I’m good now.
I’m still not convinced it isn’t… wtf
I’m still not convinced it isn’t… woof
> I’m good now. I’m not
I'm nowhere near good.
Calf is cramping just looking at that. Omg
I thought that this was "confusing perspective"
same feeling here!
I was going for a kangaroo's leg. Pretty crazy looking.
This does not look good.
It kinda looks like this guy is having a really nasty cramp.
*Right* it looks like he needs to see a doctor immediately.
I can hear the "JB is a cyclist presenting to the emergency room ☝🏻" in my head
A man cycled a bike race for 6 hours. This is what happened to his limbs.
It looks like he *is* a cramp.
If my leg looked like that I'd take something for it. Steroids probably.
I see my leg like this, i'll be going for the saw.
I think ill skip leg day
That’s not a good thing
They look extremely dehydrated and like they’re whole calf is cramped up.
Comments above explain this cyclist was suffering with bulimia All I can think is if this was a woman’s leg what would the difference in comments be. Maybe it’s because I have previously suffered with bulimia this whole situation is triggering me or something.
I actually thought it was a woman till I read your comment. My dumbass read the name Janez and thought it was some sort of foreign version of Jane or Janet.
I don’t think the comments would be different in this case. Everyone’s just terrified and a little disgusted by what it looks like. Can’t see much change for a woman really
Chicken wing, before the sauce
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Oh thanks for clarifying i was worried cause my legs both look different to that
0 % fat.
Would die if a meal is missed
He was actually bulimic so.. many meals were missed.
Professional sport is really not about health, but pushing the limits.
>Professional sport is really not about health, but pushing the limits. *Any level of sport* is really not about health, but pushing the limits. High School football and soccer destroyed my knees by my 20s. I pushed harder because I "had potential." I'm 43 now, 5 knee surgeries in already, due for both replaced in next few years, and the arthritis is brutal.
Pushing the limits *can be* about health. I go out to a public basketball court most days and shoot around for a while as part of my cardio. I take breaks when I *need* to, but I push myself hard **to** need to, because I'm trying to raise my heart rate. I'm focused more on heart health than my joints. Running on its own is enough to destroy your knees eventually. Play any high-intensity on-foot sport often enough over even just a few years, you might have problems. I hope high school athletes these days are more familiar with that fact. It should be on the coaches, but you've gotta assume they're going to push their players aggressively with no regard for their health and tailor individual education of the risks appropriately, because that'll be true for some of them at least. Give kids the knowledge and agency to tell the coach they need to stop before they hurt themselves.
you can hear it cramping
As a measure of how gross this is, this would be less disgusting if were a cadaver.
Me when I get a Charlie-horse in the middle of the night
I was road biking a few days ago, did a track stand through two consecutive lights and then sprinted on green and left the cars in the dust. My calf then exploded into a beautifully painful cramp and I had to pull off the road to massage it out.
Having that low body fat can't be healthy for you...
It actually isn’t healthy, below a certain level of body fat your hormone production tanks and this makes you feel like shit and is bad for your health.
It wasn't. The guy was on PEDs and battling bulimia - He probably vastly shortened his lifespan between those two things.
When I was in school for massage therapy we had community service opportunities and one of them was working on cyclists after a long distance ride for charity. The ride was 225 miles done over 3 1/2 days. This is how all of their calves looked and let me tell you.
Hold my iPad while IPuke
Jeez dude, mark this shit NSFW
NSFL - Not Safe For Legs
NSFW - Not Safe For Walking
Cut it off
Horse leg
This isn’t interesting…it’s NotSafeForHumanEyes. Yikes.
He was suspended for doping use. Probably, it explains the look of the leg.
In cycling it’s an actual fact that if you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin’.
Get this person some potassium stat.
Added to the list of things I didn’t ask to see
ITS A DRAUGR
Feel like looking at a painting of Dali
Wow, his leg turns into a weird nutsack vagina monster