At the end of the day most of the responses to why people don’t like to run come down to one thing in my eyes - people don’t run because they suck at it. There’s a good reason why people are transfixed in watching the Olympics every four years and why the most watched events are the running races. Because deep within us is the DNA that helped us become the apex predator of the animal kingdom, and all of it came because we can run. Way back when we were just figuring out how to get out of the trees we had a rival, Neanderthal man. Homo sapiens wasn’t as strong as Neanderthal, but we were smarter, dealt with heat better, and we could run far. Unlike our prey in the animal kingdom we don’t need to stop to cool ourselves down. We have this amazing mechanism of heat regulation achieved by sweating. Poor Neanderthal with their heavier structures and fast twitch fibers literally couldn’t stand the heat when they ran fast, leaving all the tasty antelope to us. And so, we eventually became more numerous and beat them out of the top spot. And all because we can run. If you’re reading this, then you know that exercise is the gift of life. Edward Stanley said, “Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” One of the biggest mistakes people make when looking at health, and particularly the best ways to prevent aging, is to just think about muscles. But there is more than one type of muscle and the skeletal muscle - those that you actually flex and extend when working with weights - represents only one type. read more... breakingmuscle/running/because-we-can-why-we-all-need-to-run
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:14:00 +0000
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