Just watched some basketball and parkour videos and I was wondering how their bodies can handle it
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Our bodies adapt to how we use them. They are resilient and amazing.
Joints are made up of bone, cartilage, and muscle. As long as we get used to new activities slowly and build up over time, bones get stronger, cartilage gets more resilient to load, and muscles get stronger. All of these protect us.
Joints wear over time due to age; this is normal. Being strong protects us from the negative effects of this.
Few pro athletes stay in the game til their thirties. For most their career, they still have growing bodies. Furthermore, they take vitamins, medications and know how to train to keep their bodies in peak form but even then, it doesn’t last forever.
The average career length of professional athletes are shockingly short. Sure there are exemptions to the rule, but very few manage to stay on top for more than a couple of years and what nobody sees are the pain they have to endure the rest of their lives.
So is the science behind this idea that gives us the ‘recommended’ doses of exercise to maximize longevity of the joints and other functions or are those things designed to keep us energized but sacrificing some longevity?
Lol. The fact that none of the top comments talk about drugs is a testament to how ignorant the people giving answers are. The answer you’re looking for is a cocktail of HGH, Test, and a mileu of other compounds.
To add on what some other people are saying, many professional athletes have adopted techniques which minimize the impact. Running is the best example. If you do it wrong (landing on your heels), then you’re going to destroy your knees and hips in no time. If you land on the balls of your feet with your knees slightly bent then your ankles act like a spring and absorb much of the impact. Of course damage will still be done over time, but not nearly as quickly.
Basically the way you exercise has a massive effect on how much and how quickly you’re damaging your body
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