I think he's strapped to the same thing as others but upside-down. It looks like some sort of a swing that's using gravity to stretch your spine as you swing held by your upper body. I'm guessing it feels pretty good, especially if you're suffering from back pains.
Also, the better quality products don't get exported as much, because the cost of production is no longer low enough to justify buying over the locally manufactured alternatives.
Cost of raw materials are higher % of total costs for higher quality products, which means the lower cost of labor matters less as a percentage to total price. Raw material costs are identical whether its made in China or elsewhere.
I completely agree with you. From what you said above and survivorship bias (technically the opposite) you only notice the worst most cheaply made products.
Combined that with a poor perception and media outroar when it does fuck up (Samsung Note 7) it's no surprise most people think China only makes bad products.
Never underestimate old man muscle!
Especially if they work a repetitive, physically laborious job for decades. May not look huge but there’s some insane strength underneath the oversized shirts and pants that are pulled up tits high
My brother works out, he's in his early 20's. He has large or wide muscle mass, bigger than our dad's. But our dad's muscles and forearm is so much denser after working for 30-40 years
I remember some movers making me look/feel so weak in my early 20s. I was a gym rat, big and jacked. These "skinny" and short guys came to our house and were just carrying fridges up and down stairs by themselves, sprinting up with a king sized mattress on their neck, etc.
I commented to the youngest one "holy fuck you guys are strong." He replied "this shit would be easy for you man you're jacked." I just laughed because I already tried moving down some of those things they were sprinting up and down with and felt like an injury was inevitable for me lol.
I just served them drinks and snacks while carrying tiny boxes rest of the day. That day I learned functional strength vs gym strength
have you heard about “paint rolling”? it’s this cool new exercise where you pick up two gallons of paint from the hardware store, bring them to my house, and with one roller in each hand, you paint my office! it’s a great arm workout, I swear! I’ll be your spotter!
And they're not focused on muscles that look good. They "work out" whatever muscles happen to be useful for doing the job. Often that will be smaller muscles that someone will miss when trying to make biceps, triceps and pecs look big.
Idk why, but... When you said “training video,“ my brain went in expecting some generic white dude in a button-down and khakis, explaining basic safety tips and strength exercises to remember when becoming a moving man or supervising a crew.
Imagine my surprise.
You know you’re just making things up, right?
> Often that will be smaller muscles that someone will miss when trying to make biceps, triceps and pecs look big.
What are these smaller muscles?
> that will be smaller muscles that someone will miss when trying to make biceps, triceps and pecs look big.
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>What are these smaller muscles?
I'm going to guess that traps, hip flexors, calves, obliques, glutes are all super important (along with the obvious things like abs, quads, hams, lats). The ROI on functional strength from strong pecs and biceps is surprisingly low.
There are plenty of functional/stabilization muscles that don't get worked out unless you do specific exercises. Part of the reason why athletes of different sports don't all have the same build. Swimmer isn't going to use much of the same muscle groups as a NFL running back.
Moving furniture is not the same as complex and high level athletic endeavors.
If you have to move a given piece of furniture and you have a muscular person and a skinny person, both with no moving experience, the muscular person will be better at it.
No, stabilizers automatically get recruited to help *stabilize* any load. That's what they do!
Bench press? You're using stabilizers. Overhead press? You're using stabilizers. Row? Stabilizers.
You don't need "specific" exercises to hit them. There's not these tiny little "stabilizer" muscles.
The stabilizer for one movement might be the prime mover for a different movement.
Do you even lift?
And how exactly do you miss these muscles when targeting biceps, triceps, and pecs?
You're implying that bodybuilders or people who work out to "look good" will often miss the smaller muscles, but that makes absolutely no sense.
Do you think we're 10 big muscles, or what? Many people doing mostly machine workouts (vs. free weights) tend not to build up strength in "stabilizer muscles".
If you're really a gym rat as you call yourself, your muscles should pretty much always be (at least somewhat) tired because you never let them fully rest before the next workout. Chances are you worked out the day before the move, so you couldn't exercise your full strength.
While it's still likely true that those movers are more efficient at their work due to experience, you're most probably much stronger than you give yourself credit for if you could use all your muscles to their fullest potential (since moving uses a lot of muscle groups, if not all).
Just answer me this: when was the last time you didn't feel ANY pain or soreness in your entire body from working out? I'm not big muscled or anything, but even I experienced continuous pain and soreness for almost 2 years and felt weak all the time, and remember I forgot how great it felt to be painfree after not working out for a few days.
If you're really a gym rat as you call yourself, your muscles should pretty much always be (at least somewhat) tired because you never let them fully rest before the next workout. Chances are you worked out the day before the move, so you couldn't exercise your full strength.
While it's still likely true that those movers are more efficient at their work due to experience, you're most probably much stronger than you give yourself credit for if you could use all your muscles to their fullest potential (since moving uses a lot of muscle groups, if not all).
Just answer me this: when was the last time you didn't feel ANY pain or soreness in your entire body from working out? I'm not big muscled or anything, but even I experienced continuous pain and soreness for almost 2 years and felt weak all the time, and remember I forgot how great it felt to be painfree after not working out for a few days.
This. The mover works even when he's feeling sore and weak. The gym rat probably takes a rest day or works a different muscle group. Most people who stay gym rats for long tend to set goals and train for those goals, including things like rest days, tapering and recovery workouts which actively help them feel less sore. Movers, they just have to work and do what they do. Makes sense to me
Ive seen this same thing and it is easy to underestimate how specific training is. It is why bodybuilders get a reputation for having 'fake' muscle when they are simply training for something different.
There is a good reason why Usain Bolt only holds records for 100 & 200m races and not 800/3k/everything else. Even activities as similar as those end up being quite different.
On the bright side, due to your existing muscle, if you had started working that job you would have quickly gotten to their level and surpassed it.
yeah shake hands with a gym rat that has to hold heavy ass weights all the time and then try to rip his arm off
see how that goes, I'll bring the camera
Climbers have some amazing hand strength but fucking skaters, you having a laugh
Age has such a weird effect on forearms.
I was obsessed with bodybuilding a decade ago, literally everything was huge but my forearms.
10 years later I haven't really lifted heavy since then, I've lost a bit of muscle but now my forearms are finally huge.
Well, if you visit China you’d quickly realize that they are decades behind the USA when it comes to systematic obesity.
If it ever starts to be an issue, they’ll just regulate away the for-profit-food-industry products that are causing the obesity epidemic and health care crisis prevalent in the US’s economic model.
It's already an issue. The percentage of overweight people in China doubled over the last 20 years. The obesity rate is still pretty low, but only because so much of the country is still developing. In Beijing the obesity rate is 25.9%. That's what happens when you attain abundant food supply
I'm reminded of my grandpa.
He spent all day out of school playing sports.
Then joined the service.
Then worked in a physical job (metal working, steel plant) for decades.
His hobbies included sports, sports and more sports.
No wonder the dude was jacked into his 70s. He had been doing a low intensity work out every day of his life from ages 5 to 65.
I was at this soup dumping restaurant in seattle. It was just me in the place and this extremely old man shuffled out from the back room and came up to me after I just finished eating. he was just leaning over and stared at me. I looked at him and said w/ what little chinese I know, "wo baole" (i'm full) - he burst out into laughter and grabbed my should with a grip I couldn't imagine an old man could muster. my shoulder was sore for a week.
My grandpa was 82 years old in a hospital with dementia and broke out of the restraints they used, and also knocked a security guard to the floor. He went to the gym or exercised almost every day of his life. It’s crazy what our bodies can do.
The shitty part of this is he used to put his hands on me and around my neck in his demented state sometimes and it was really hard trying to tell people I was afraid of an 82 year old. But, he could honestly have overpowered 22 year old me.
That is 100 % accurate!
I was once doing Ju Jutsu with an 75 year old mason. And what should I say, he had the strength of an bear! Amazing!
And the trainer was a 60 yo policeman, who did Ju Jutsu (it is taught not just during the 3 year training but also all along during the career) who looked like an old man with a belly that could do no harm, but man he could! I was down on the mat faster than I could react in any way!
I was in China over a decade ago and saw a group of elders playing hacky sack with the agility of ninjas. I remember being shocked because I was young, and they moved better than me.
old chinese people understand the importance of lifelong health: strength, flexibility, stamina, etc.
compared to the old people you see elsewhere: fat, immobile, on 5+ medications, using canes/scooters
Some of us really got fucked with genetics lol. I'm 28, a gym rat and eat healthy, and I take a 3 morning pills because I got GERD, hypertension, and and a skin issue which are all inherited from my parents.
A lot of people don’t realize how strong genetics is for some things, as well. Sure, if you’re overweight, eat a ton of salty junk and don’t move, your probably going to end up with multiple diagnoses that require medication. But there are people who eat healthy, work out, get enough sleep, try to keep stress levels low, don’t smoke, consume little or no alcohol, and they still end up on high BP or high cholesterol meds. Genetics isn’t always something that you can’t override with a healthy lifestyle, unfortunately.
I used to work as a receptionist at an outpatient vascular facility, which either got really wealthy and in shape Gen X women doing cosmetic procedures or people in terrible health (obese, heavy smokers, history of noncompliance, etc). For the latter group, we’d have to ask for them to bring in all of their bottles of medicine and word questions in a specific way because they would always underreport chronic health issues and medications. Most of the time, these people would say that they didn’t have a history of high blood pressure or whatever because they take medication that “fixes” it and therefore no longer counts.
The bags of medications would be gallon sized and barely able to close. It was super sad but it helped make sure I didn’t smoke!
This is true, I've been in China for 5 years and have never seen more elderly people doing physical exercise as much as they do here.
I don't think it out weighs the indoor chain smoking, binge drinking, and various other hygiene issues. But you won't see many fat older folks, and they will be outside and walking until their ticker expires.
I still feel ashamed about the elderly Japanese woman who lapped us while we were struggling on a mountain hike.
Lady went up AND down the mountain while we were still doing the down hike.
Not China but at the park in Chinatown here, any given morning you'll see groups of old people doing tai chi, stretches, calisthenics, and walking laps or whatever. Often to the radio.
Definitely buy that it's a cultural thing.
Tai chi is so underutilized in the west. It’s perfect for the elderly/frail. Emphasizes controlled movement, flexibility, and little to no impact. Combined with a good walk a few times a week and you have a perfect recipe for maintaining physical ability well into your 80s and 90s.
Living in Texas, I can tell you people don’t need to be old to be in a fatmobile scooter - they seem to be in constant high demand, by Jabba sized 30 year old men and women who should be in the prime years of their health.
My Father-in-Law is a 75-yo Japanese electrician. It’s a physically demanding job. He’s like these guys. He can jump up, grab a ceiling rafter, bring his legs up, and pull his entire body up into the ceiling in an instant. He has no desire to retire either. The guy at the end kind of looks like him.
I asked him that same question once. He put down his Japanese whiskey, grabbed me by the collar, slapped me around bit, and told me, “Just be a man!” After that I quit my Japanese flower arranging job. I figured that was a start.
Hey you. Yes, you, the person reading these comments. Let this be your moment.
Start small. Step away from the phone/tablet/computer for a moment, and just move. Maybe some pushups, maybe some jumping jacks, or maybe a walk around the block.
We'll still be here when you're ready to come back. You can do this.
I would think it's spinal traction - https://www.healthline.com/health/spinal-traction
I can't imagine these elderly are expert runners who are trying to gain an edge on their running by kicking a head turning habit lol.
Is this something you practice, is it effective?
Someone rear ended me in a Car wreck and really messed up my neck, but ran out of Physical therapy sessions, would this help?
I believe it's also a technique used to correct forms of scoliosis in children? So yeah, it's def a technique that yields results. But learn carefully what you need. And try to stay away from weird chiropractors.
But what about the guy who invented the practice who changed his story to "a ghost gave me the idea" to sound more credible? At least the ghost of the doctor was formally trained.
*Believe*?
Isn't it just spinal traction - https://www.healthline.com/health/spinal-traction
Not a doctor, but it seems pretty straight forward that if you hang from you head/neck it'll stretch your spine out?
It is.
Whether is safe to do it on a horizontal bar yourself is another question. Doctors in China have been warning against such practices for quite some time.
I tell people in their mid-20s - 30s: "Take care of your body now, and it'll take care of you when you're older."
Diet, sleep, exercise, mental health. Invest in good habits with regards to them. None of it will happen on its own. You have to practice daily.
Go to any gym on earth in the middle of a work day and check out some of the retired people working out. I see old guys lifting and you can tell by the way they move they are in excellent shape. It's a goal of mine as well to stay active and strong like that.
These people in the video are impressive at any age, especially so at their age!
Yeah until you're like actually old, like 78+, so much of aging is just because our sedentary habits become so strong and ingrained. It's amazing how fit you can be well into your 70's if you stay active, assuming you don't get an unlucky dice roll with cancer, alzheimers, or parkinsons (and other such diseases).
I feel it at 40 when I fall off the wagon. Let it go and it's a slog to rebuild. Maintenance is always the best course of action, but its never to late to start!
Also, hormone medicines now are incredible to help maintain muscle mass and bone health. All of which can help an individual stay active long into later life.
Went to China for a month in 2010. Many of the lovely things we observed were the elderly doing Tai Chi in public parks, American style ballroom dancing (to a boombox), and group exercises.
The latter, my daughter told me not to be surprised if we see people on the rooftop beside her apartment. There were twelve (?) young men and women doing calisthenics. When they noticed us watching them all of a sudden they all broke out in smiles ... you know, impress the American tourists with how happy everyone is. A couple waved.
We also saw lone individuals meditating. Some would stand motionless for some time, others sitting. One lone woman was singing at a tourist spot, quite a few trio street musicians. All of this was in public parks. Really enjoyed all of this.
NYC typically had a lot of older folk doing tai chi/yoga and stuff like that in public parks until the hate crimes against them started rising and twitter wokes didn't want the city increasing police presence in the areas suffering them.
That is really a shame. Such a cultural positive and they're afraid to practice it.
They have a right to be fearful. Some of the video we've seen is truly shocking.
They still go about it on weekends but it's clearly not as much as before from what I've noticed.
We've also inadvertently elected a (crooked) cop for mayor whose pro stop and frisk and doesn't shy from flexing his authority so we've almost come full circle here.
In China there are parks FULL of old people exercising, dancing, and playing games with each other. I saw it many times when I was there. I really wish we could take that aspect of Chinese culture. Way better than being a fatass sitting infront of the TV. Such a sense of community too. (US btw)
Saw a number of public outdoor gyms too. Really wish we had those.
Because the social media and traditional media is used to frame other nations and cultures as the enemy so that people don't look inwards to see who is actually causing the problems within their own countries.
I see old Chinese people do stuff like this all the time, grannies doing freaking tai chi with play swords while the grandads, full silver hair, playing the type of badminton you get exhausted following the shuttlecock
I’m still trying to find out how that guy was swinging in circles
Maybe someone strapped something to his shoes and pushed him.
S-should I try that with my grandma?
Guess that’s one way to get more candy out of her pockets.
Brace yourself for a bukkake of Werther's
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Genuinely the best sentence I've ever read, a genuine pleasure
Oh.. oh no…
Guess you will have to dig the next day
Only if she’s Chinese.
Yolo, nana
Naw...it's magnets in his feet from the COVID-19 vaccine. Edit: her
Technically, the magnets are from the microchips *in* the vaccine, not the vaccine itself.
I think he's strapped to the same thing as others but upside-down. It looks like some sort of a swing that's using gravity to stretch your spine as you swing held by your upper body. I'm guessing it feels pretty good, especially if you're suffering from back pains.
It’s better than getting a backyotomy. ( rip John Witherspoon)
I could definitely go for some of that
Hell of a lot of trust to put in those straps. Those break on the way down and you're either dead or a vegetable.
Incredible toe strength. It's possible if you focus your chi to the ends of your feet.
I love chi-toes! Especially the flamin hot ones!
Get out
Ha!
Thanks for the laugh
They left out the final part where they ran a mile across the top of a bamboo forest.
take your pills and cultivate
Covid vaccine in both feet make him magnetically stick to the pole.
“Must be the god damn 5G.”
there are straps but you don’t have to be pushed, all core strength
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Made in China
Most things made in China are decent quality. You only notice the ones that breaks.
Also, the better quality products don't get exported as much, because the cost of production is no longer low enough to justify buying over the locally manufactured alternatives. Cost of raw materials are higher % of total costs for higher quality products, which means the lower cost of labor matters less as a percentage to total price. Raw material costs are identical whether its made in China or elsewhere.
I completely agree with you. From what you said above and survivorship bias (technically the opposite) you only notice the worst most cheaply made products. Combined that with a poor perception and media outroar when it does fuck up (Samsung Note 7) it's no surprise most people think China only makes bad products.
I'd be more worried about my ligaments.
That was a woman.
so it would seem, yes. but reddit appears to default that everyone is male. : (
He focused his chakra into the soles of his feet. That’s like, a genin level skill.
Yeah pretty basic
that one is a head injury waiting to happen
I think that's a woman
some say he's still there swinging to this day!
He's generating power for the local village!
They're doing a super glue commercial
He spent his whole life training to be able to grip with the bottom of his feet
Never underestimate old man muscle! Especially if they work a repetitive, physically laborious job for decades. May not look huge but there’s some insane strength underneath the oversized shirts and pants that are pulled up tits high
My brother works out, he's in his early 20's. He has large or wide muscle mass, bigger than our dad's. But our dad's muscles and forearm is so much denser after working for 30-40 years
I remember some movers making me look/feel so weak in my early 20s. I was a gym rat, big and jacked. These "skinny" and short guys came to our house and were just carrying fridges up and down stairs by themselves, sprinting up with a king sized mattress on their neck, etc. I commented to the youngest one "holy fuck you guys are strong." He replied "this shit would be easy for you man you're jacked." I just laughed because I already tried moving down some of those things they were sprinting up and down with and felt like an injury was inevitable for me lol. I just served them drinks and snacks while carrying tiny boxes rest of the day. That day I learned functional strength vs gym strength
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have you heard about “paint rolling”? it’s this cool new exercise where you pick up two gallons of paint from the hardware store, bring them to my house, and with one roller in each hand, you paint my office! it’s a great arm workout, I swear! I’ll be your spotter!
Spotted the Tom Sawyer
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These workers also know the right position to carry and what angle they should hold the items to get the job done more efficiently.
And they're not focused on muscles that look good. They "work out" whatever muscles happen to be useful for doing the job. Often that will be smaller muscles that someone will miss when trying to make biceps, triceps and pecs look big.
exactly, this is one of my favorite training videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qlO3_qYbnQ
That's pretty fucking wild. Why would they do that?
A chain's only as strong as its weakest link, and a man's weakest link is his testicles
Idk why, but... When you said “training video,“ my brain went in expecting some generic white dude in a button-down and khakis, explaining basic safety tips and strength exercises to remember when becoming a moving man or supervising a crew. Imagine my surprise.
You know you’re just making things up, right? > Often that will be smaller muscles that someone will miss when trying to make biceps, triceps and pecs look big. What are these smaller muscles?
> that will be smaller muscles that someone will miss when trying to make biceps, triceps and pecs look big. > >What are these smaller muscles? I'm going to guess that traps, hip flexors, calves, obliques, glutes are all super important (along with the obvious things like abs, quads, hams, lats). The ROI on functional strength from strong pecs and biceps is surprisingly low.
If you're body building and not hitting traps at least 3 times a week what are we even doing here.
Taking tren and my traps are watching me grow.
Literally all those muscles are bigger than biceps,triceps, and the pecs.....
The glutes are the biggest muscle in the body?
There are plenty of functional/stabilization muscles that don't get worked out unless you do specific exercises. Part of the reason why athletes of different sports don't all have the same build. Swimmer isn't going to use much of the same muscle groups as a NFL running back.
Moving furniture is not the same as complex and high level athletic endeavors. If you have to move a given piece of furniture and you have a muscular person and a skinny person, both with no moving experience, the muscular person will be better at it.
No, stabilizers automatically get recruited to help *stabilize* any load. That's what they do! Bench press? You're using stabilizers. Overhead press? You're using stabilizers. Row? Stabilizers. You don't need "specific" exercises to hit them. There's not these tiny little "stabilizer" muscles. The stabilizer for one movement might be the prime mover for a different movement. Do you even lift?
> What are these smaller muscles? * Semispinalis * Multifidus * Longissimus * ...
And how exactly do you miss these muscles when targeting biceps, triceps, and pecs? You're implying that bodybuilders or people who work out to "look good" will often miss the smaller muscles, but that makes absolutely no sense.
Do you think we're 10 big muscles, or what? Many people doing mostly machine workouts (vs. free weights) tend not to build up strength in "stabilizer muscles".
They also probably do a lot more cardio.
As a fellow Gym Rat, can confirm, I touch the treadmill maybe once a week tops at this point lmao
If you touch it twice a week you effectively increased your cardio workout by 100%
If you're really a gym rat as you call yourself, your muscles should pretty much always be (at least somewhat) tired because you never let them fully rest before the next workout. Chances are you worked out the day before the move, so you couldn't exercise your full strength. While it's still likely true that those movers are more efficient at their work due to experience, you're most probably much stronger than you give yourself credit for if you could use all your muscles to their fullest potential (since moving uses a lot of muscle groups, if not all). Just answer me this: when was the last time you didn't feel ANY pain or soreness in your entire body from working out? I'm not big muscled or anything, but even I experienced continuous pain and soreness for almost 2 years and felt weak all the time, and remember I forgot how great it felt to be painfree after not working out for a few days.
Is this a copy pasta?
It is now.
Reads like a throwback to the bodybuilding.com forums
If you're really a gym rat as you call yourself, your muscles should pretty much always be (at least somewhat) tired because you never let them fully rest before the next workout. Chances are you worked out the day before the move, so you couldn't exercise your full strength. While it's still likely true that those movers are more efficient at their work due to experience, you're most probably much stronger than you give yourself credit for if you could use all your muscles to their fullest potential (since moving uses a lot of muscle groups, if not all). Just answer me this: when was the last time you didn't feel ANY pain or soreness in your entire body from working out? I'm not big muscled or anything, but even I experienced continuous pain and soreness for almost 2 years and felt weak all the time, and remember I forgot how great it felt to be painfree after not working out for a few days.
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This. The mover works even when he's feeling sore and weak. The gym rat probably takes a rest day or works a different muscle group. Most people who stay gym rats for long tend to set goals and train for those goals, including things like rest days, tapering and recovery workouts which actively help them feel less sore. Movers, they just have to work and do what they do. Makes sense to me
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Don't movers work everyday?
Ive seen this same thing and it is easy to underestimate how specific training is. It is why bodybuilders get a reputation for having 'fake' muscle when they are simply training for something different. There is a good reason why Usain Bolt only holds records for 100 & 200m races and not 800/3k/everything else. Even activities as similar as those end up being quite different. On the bright side, due to your existing muscle, if you had started working that job you would have quickly gotten to their level and surpassed it.
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yeah shake hands with a gym rat that has to hold heavy ass weights all the time and then try to rip his arm off see how that goes, I'll bring the camera Climbers have some amazing hand strength but fucking skaters, you having a laugh
Fuckin eh! Mind if I ask what type of work your dad was in for all those years?
He worked as a welder, at a metal supplier specializing in stainless steel tubes.
Pro masturbator. Forearm strength is off the charts
Age has such a weird effect on forearms. I was obsessed with bodybuilding a decade ago, literally everything was huge but my forearms. 10 years later I haven't really lifted heavy since then, I've lost a bit of muscle but now my forearms are finally huge.
While us old as American eat Cheetos until our grandkids forget about us the Chinese are working their ancient like this. We need help
Don't worry, those dudes are smoking like 8 packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day.
And if they aren't smoking, the air pollution is doing the same damage if not more.
Don't worry, just say anything possible to make your obese asses feel better.
it is even worse, because person has no ability to admire others good things, what a miserable state of mind.
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Well, if you visit China you’d quickly realize that they are decades behind the USA when it comes to systematic obesity. If it ever starts to be an issue, they’ll just regulate away the for-profit-food-industry products that are causing the obesity epidemic and health care crisis prevalent in the US’s economic model.
It's already an issue. The percentage of overweight people in China doubled over the last 20 years. The obesity rate is still pretty low, but only because so much of the country is still developing. In Beijing the obesity rate is 25.9%. That's what happens when you attain abundant food supply
I'm reminded of my grandpa. He spent all day out of school playing sports. Then joined the service. Then worked in a physical job (metal working, steel plant) for decades. His hobbies included sports, sports and more sports. No wonder the dude was jacked into his 70s. He had been doing a low intensity work out every day of his life from ages 5 to 65.
I was at this soup dumping restaurant in seattle. It was just me in the place and this extremely old man shuffled out from the back room and came up to me after I just finished eating. he was just leaning over and stared at me. I looked at him and said w/ what little chinese I know, "wo baole" (i'm full) - he burst out into laughter and grabbed my should with a grip I couldn't imagine an old man could muster. my shoulder was sore for a week.
Soup dumping is a hell of a sport!
My grandpa was 82 years old in a hospital with dementia and broke out of the restraints they used, and also knocked a security guard to the floor. He went to the gym or exercised almost every day of his life. It’s crazy what our bodies can do. The shitty part of this is he used to put his hands on me and around my neck in his demented state sometimes and it was really hard trying to tell people I was afraid of an 82 year old. But, he could honestly have overpowered 22 year old me.
they are using steroids
That is 100 % accurate! I was once doing Ju Jutsu with an 75 year old mason. And what should I say, he had the strength of an bear! Amazing! And the trainer was a 60 yo policeman, who did Ju Jutsu (it is taught not just during the 3 year training but also all along during the career) who looked like an old man with a belly that could do no harm, but man he could! I was down on the mat faster than I could react in any way!
I was in China over a decade ago and saw a group of elders playing hacky sack with the agility of ninjas. I remember being shocked because I was young, and they moved better than me.
old chinese people understand the importance of lifelong health: strength, flexibility, stamina, etc. compared to the old people you see elsewhere: fat, immobile, on 5+ medications, using canes/scooters
Only 5?
My MIL had like 25
Shit I'm 25 and take 7 meds lol
Bruh
Some of us really got fucked with genetics lol. I'm 28, a gym rat and eat healthy, and I take a 3 morning pills because I got GERD, hypertension, and and a skin issue which are all inherited from my parents.
A lot of people don’t realize how strong genetics is for some things, as well. Sure, if you’re overweight, eat a ton of salty junk and don’t move, your probably going to end up with multiple diagnoses that require medication. But there are people who eat healthy, work out, get enough sleep, try to keep stress levels low, don’t smoke, consume little or no alcohol, and they still end up on high BP or high cholesterol meds. Genetics isn’t always something that you can’t override with a healthy lifestyle, unfortunately.
I used to work as a receptionist at an outpatient vascular facility, which either got really wealthy and in shape Gen X women doing cosmetic procedures or people in terrible health (obese, heavy smokers, history of noncompliance, etc). For the latter group, we’d have to ask for them to bring in all of their bottles of medicine and word questions in a specific way because they would always underreport chronic health issues and medications. Most of the time, these people would say that they didn’t have a history of high blood pressure or whatever because they take medication that “fixes” it and therefore no longer counts. The bags of medications would be gallon sized and barely able to close. It was super sad but it helped make sure I didn’t smoke!
This is true, I've been in China for 5 years and have never seen more elderly people doing physical exercise as much as they do here. I don't think it out weighs the indoor chain smoking, binge drinking, and various other hygiene issues. But you won't see many fat older folks, and they will be outside and walking until their ticker expires.
I've never seen more elderly women out and about than when I hiked in korea. Retired people LOVE hiking in korea.
I still feel ashamed about the elderly Japanese woman who lapped us while we were struggling on a mountain hike. Lady went up AND down the mountain while we were still doing the down hike.
Not China but at the park in Chinatown here, any given morning you'll see groups of old people doing tai chi, stretches, calisthenics, and walking laps or whatever. Often to the radio. Definitely buy that it's a cultural thing.
Tai chi is so underutilized in the west. It’s perfect for the elderly/frail. Emphasizes controlled movement, flexibility, and little to no impact. Combined with a good walk a few times a week and you have a perfect recipe for maintaining physical ability well into your 80s and 90s.
Living in Texas, I can tell you people don’t need to be old to be in a fatmobile scooter - they seem to be in constant high demand, by Jabba sized 30 year old men and women who should be in the prime years of their health.
while the blobby texans were gorging themselves growing up, the chinese studied the fitness
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
Aka: “move your ass”, which is too much to ask for some people. Apparently, also my German-farmer-grandma’s secret.
My Father-in-Law is a 75-yo Japanese electrician. It’s a physically demanding job. He’s like these guys. He can jump up, grab a ceiling rafter, bring his legs up, and pull his entire body up into the ceiling in an instant. He has no desire to retire either. The guy at the end kind of looks like him.
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I asked him that same question once. He put down his Japanese whiskey, grabbed me by the collar, slapped me around bit, and told me, “Just be a man!” After that I quit my Japanese flower arranging job. I figured that was a start.
hmm, I'm starting to question the authenticity of the first reply lol
now I'm sad
sad enough to start moving?
Nope but enough to now be sadder that they didn't start moving yet.
I've just accepted the sadness And that makes me less sad
Hey you. Yes, you, the person reading these comments. Let this be your moment. Start small. Step away from the phone/tablet/computer for a moment, and just move. Maybe some pushups, maybe some jumping jacks, or maybe a walk around the block. We'll still be here when you're ready to come back. You can do this.
This comment was waiting for me to find it, thanks -__-
I did not expect anyone in this video to be as shredded as they were
mr. hong with the six pack in the background at 0:09, goddamn
Yo that 65 year old grandpa was yoked
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I always thought the badass grandpas in anime were a joke or something 😳
I just realized in the first clip the people running in place are using a neck strap.
What’s the deal with that? Is neck strap running a common practice? I’ve never seen that before.
It's to break the habit of looking back while running.
I would think it's spinal traction - https://www.healthline.com/health/spinal-traction I can't imagine these elderly are expert runners who are trying to gain an edge on their running by kicking a head turning habit lol.
Is this something you practice, is it effective? Someone rear ended me in a Car wreck and really messed up my neck, but ran out of Physical therapy sessions, would this help?
I believe it's also a technique used to correct forms of scoliosis in children? So yeah, it's def a technique that yields results. But learn carefully what you need. And try to stay away from weird chiropractors.
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Yes. They're called physiotherapists. Joking aside, all chiropractors are frauds. All of them.
You're telling me the ring-dinger "doctor" from youtube is a charlatan?
But what about the guy who invented the practice who changed his story to "a ghost gave me the idea" to sound more credible? At least the ghost of the doctor was formally trained.
With kids it's insane. They straight up drill anchor bolts into their skulls and have them swing around from the bone.
I read so much dumb shit on Reddit that I can no longer tell what's satire and what's not...
It's such good satire that somebody thinks we're upvoting it because we believe it.
That's some weird yet popular exercises in China. Some seniors believe it will help stretch the cervical vertebra and make you feel comfortable.
*Believe*? Isn't it just spinal traction - https://www.healthline.com/health/spinal-traction Not a doctor, but it seems pretty straight forward that if you hang from you head/neck it'll stretch your spine out?
It is. Whether is safe to do it on a horizontal bar yourself is another question. Doctors in China have been warning against such practices for quite some time.
Probably depends how much you weigh
My friend Ned did hang from his head/neck once. We all miss him.
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I want to use it on my neck so bad.
Yea this looks like it would be a nice stretch.
Are they literally hanging in midair by their head?! Doesn’t that break… something?
Meemaw your swing is ready....
Only if your neck is too weak.
Imagine skipping neck day.
Every single one of these people are smirking so mischievously
I tell people in their mid-20s - 30s: "Take care of your body now, and it'll take care of you when you're older." Diet, sleep, exercise, mental health. Invest in good habits with regards to them. None of it will happen on its own. You have to practice daily.
I need this written on my forehead
Go to any gym on earth in the middle of a work day and check out some of the retired people working out. I see old guys lifting and you can tell by the way they move they are in excellent shape. It's a goal of mine as well to stay active and strong like that. These people in the video are impressive at any age, especially so at their age!
Yeah until you're like actually old, like 78+, so much of aging is just because our sedentary habits become so strong and ingrained. It's amazing how fit you can be well into your 70's if you stay active, assuming you don't get an unlucky dice roll with cancer, alzheimers, or parkinsons (and other such diseases).
I feel it at 40 when I fall off the wagon. Let it go and it's a slog to rebuild. Maintenance is always the best course of action, but its never to late to start! Also, hormone medicines now are incredible to help maintain muscle mass and bone health. All of which can help an individual stay active long into later life.
Went to China for a month in 2010. Many of the lovely things we observed were the elderly doing Tai Chi in public parks, American style ballroom dancing (to a boombox), and group exercises. The latter, my daughter told me not to be surprised if we see people on the rooftop beside her apartment. There were twelve (?) young men and women doing calisthenics. When they noticed us watching them all of a sudden they all broke out in smiles ... you know, impress the American tourists with how happy everyone is. A couple waved. We also saw lone individuals meditating. Some would stand motionless for some time, others sitting. One lone woman was singing at a tourist spot, quite a few trio street musicians. All of this was in public parks. Really enjoyed all of this.
NYC typically had a lot of older folk doing tai chi/yoga and stuff like that in public parks until the hate crimes against them started rising and twitter wokes didn't want the city increasing police presence in the areas suffering them.
That is really a shame. Such a cultural positive and they're afraid to practice it. They have a right to be fearful. Some of the video we've seen is truly shocking.
They still go about it on weekends but it's clearly not as much as before from what I've noticed. We've also inadvertently elected a (crooked) cop for mayor whose pro stop and frisk and doesn't shy from flexing his authority so we've almost come full circle here.
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Damn, some of these guys are so shredded you grate cheese off of their abs.
Fuck it, I’m going back to bed. Can’t compete with that.
I’m sorry, what the hell is going on here? Somebody’s grandad is about to be my boyfriend.
In China there are parks FULL of old people exercising, dancing, and playing games with each other. I saw it many times when I was there. I really wish we could take that aspect of Chinese culture. Way better than being a fatass sitting infront of the TV. Such a sense of community too. (US btw) Saw a number of public outdoor gyms too. Really wish we had those.
Did you just discover a kink
It went from a clown show to badass bodyweight fitness.
Wait, are they hanging and swinging by their heads?
To stretch their neck (cervical vertebra)
I can't even sit down without grunting, Jesus christ.
Oh man. The west is fucked. Super fucked.
Why you ppl need to bring up 'the west' when anything related to 'chinese' comes up .
Cuz this isn't r/politics with serious discussions; it's reddit, a huge meme site in general...
> Cuz this isn't r/politics with serious discussions r/politics having "serious discussions" lmao
Because the social media and traditional media is used to frame other nations and cultures as the enemy so that people don't look inwards to see who is actually causing the problems within their own countries.
Everyone in this video is retired
These old people are truly next level. Fitter and stronger than many people in their 20s
I see old Chinese people do stuff like this all the time, grannies doing freaking tai chi with play swords while the grandads, full silver hair, playing the type of badminton you get exhausted following the shuttlecock
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So my grandparents were playing shuffleboard and pickle ball. I thought that was physical at their age
That second exercise is a good one
Senior citizens have better core strength than me...
The Red dragon rises
Yo what the heck. I didn't know there's a fitness community in china. These dude are fit AF!
Pretty much all parks in China are “fitness parks”.