I mean specifically for very young children such as toddlers. It seems that, as a rule of thumb, they are much more physically motivante than the average (say, 30 years old or so) adults, barring those who actually practice regular exercise. Some children seem like they can run, climb and jump with a consistent timing for longer than many adults.
Is it because our own disposition has been ruined by a generally sedentary lifestyle?
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I think it’s also worth mentioning that we accumulate injuries as we get older, and we take more time to “warm up.” Kids don’t need any warm up. They just go, and it’s pain free. This part alone keeps me from wanting to move quickly many times. I feel stuff and some old injury hurts. It takes like 20 min of warm up and then my accumulated injuries in my foot, heel, etc start to be less noticeable
When I started running every morning i began realizing i felt like i had more energy and stamina during the day. So if you find that you often feel groggy try walking for 30 minutes every morning and even that i bet will help!
Here’s a neat trick. You can easily convert their unlimited supply of kinetic energy into an unlimited supply of sound energy simply by saying “It is time to put your socks on now.”
Unlike adults, kids are able to use more of their aerobic metabolism, which allows them to be less tired from high-intensity exercise. Their muscles also recover faster, because their bodies don’t produce as much lactic acid as adults.
Less weight. I don’t mean that in a fat or skinny kind of way. They are smaller, generally not much fat on them, and the extra general boost that youth gives us. Then add on all the BS we’ve absorbed, on purpose or not.
We can lose all the weight we like, get healthy, and we’ll feel a massive improvement for it, but we’ll never feel like we did when we were kids.
Adults are more used to comfort. They usually have a home they pay for and food they buy to eat or at least the expectation that they should. Staying in their comfort zone is more natural. Kids, on the other hand, have no full comfort they have control over. Kids are psychologically anchored further in discomfort, which makes more discomfort easier to tolerate.
This is also why I think addicts are far more capable of amazing things to fuel their addiction. They live in hell and are always fighting out of it.
They…don’t? A kid isn’t going to want to run on a treadmill or get up at 6:30 every day for work any more than an adult does. Kids sleep a lot and then whine to be picked up after walking 1/8 the distance most adults are capable of walking. They don’t even have work or any responsibilities. What they do have is fun. Most adults have sadly forgotten how to have fun being active. The adults that find something fun to do for exercise stick with it just like kids do, on top of all their other activities. Adults have way more energy and stamina than kids, they just use it on things that aren’t enjoyable.
Our body weight is x^3 but our strength is somewhere over x^2. We physically have more ass but that ass doesn’t contain proportionality as much muscle. Also worth noting, damage is the result of the forces involved. More mass means more damage. Injury’s probably mirror cubed rule while recovery would be close to linear.
In addition what others have stated, the mitochondria in children’s cells are more in number and produce more energy than adults do. The aging process reduces the number of mitochondria over time.
I think you have a slightly skewed perception. Toddlers seem to have a lot of energy when they’re being active in the moment, but they can go from 100 to 0 in the blink of an eye. The tantrums thrown by an overtired toddler are nothing to laugh about.
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