Death at NYC's First Ironman

[mstrofbass]

I'd even go farther than that and speculate that most injuries occur with loads significantly below a work set, and most of those don't occur in the weight room. My guess is if you polled non-competitive lifters who have had back injuries during the time they have been lifting, the vast majority of those who have had injuries will incur them doing something completely unrelated to lifting itself, and at relatively trivial loads compared to their 1RM or 5RM.

I dare someone to do a comparison of back injuries between golf and weightlifting. DARE THEM!

[Kyle Aaron]

My guess is if you polled non-competitive lifters who have had back injuries during the time they have been lifting, the vast majority of those who have had injuries will incur them doing something completely unrelated to lifting itself, and at relatively trivial loads compared to their 1RM or 5RM.

Dan John reports that at one point he deadlifted 600 or so, but that some years later he did his back lifting... a typewriter.

That's the thing with back injuries. The event which occasioned the injury is not necessarily the event which caused the injury.

[Michael Wolf]

Gonna resurrect this old thread by dropping these two links:

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story...-attack-031713

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2...-marathon?lite

[dpinsen]

Don't most marathon runners (and Iron Man triathletes) know that guy who ran the first marathon, Pheidippides, dropped dead at the end of his run? And that's probably part of the attraction of it, that it tests the limits of human endurance in a potentially (if rarely) fatal sort of way.*

Another issue though is the wear-and-tear marathons cause. I follow a woman on Twitter who runs marathons. My guess is she's in her early 30s. And she's about to get a hip replaced.

*If memory serves, at least one of the marathon deaths in recent years wasn't from the exertion per se, but from water poisoning by a runner ignorant about that.

[curlrackhog]

Plus, there's this whole thing;

[allent]

I've been told that marathons increase cardiac cellular apoptosis, but a quick google search seems to indicate the opposite. I hate running, I hope it suffers cardiac cellular apoptosis.

[Mainstream]

Choking on cookies or peanut butter, drowning in soup, getting hit by buses, ...watch making a morality play out of everything....the poor guy died...at least he died doing something....plus half the time it is heat stroke, or severe dehydration, etc. that kills the poor fuckers..its not "cardio" per se...oh and that hot butt girl is a high jumper from greece not a sprinter....

[curlrackhog]

oh and that hot butt girl is a high jumper from greece not a sprinter....

And this changes the point of the side-by-side comparison how?

[Mainstream]

that they are unattractive...women, to have a normal hormonal response, well actually men too, need about 12 % bodyfat....but you are showing an exterme elite athlete in competition...I have seen hot marathon chicks...especially in the offseason....ones that arent anorexercisers...who eat a little rice and beans - who look pretty good...I definitely see hot chicks running around my town and they look like they are doing at least a couple of miles...not a marathon but distance runners nonetheless....

Sprinters actually start to look masculine..intense exercise masculinizes women ....or maybe its the roids...shit I dont know...what I do know is that the hottest chick athletes are pole jumpers (no pun intended)...high jumpers ( bow chika bow wow).....and ice skaters...followed by high divers....

I dont know what it is about high jumpers but the hottest collection of female athletes can be found there...maybe it is because women with prominent gluteus maximus somehow excel in high jumping or the activity of high jumping develops them in ways that make them hot or a collection of both....