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Originally Posted By desslok⏩
I don’t think so. One of the keys to longevity is calorie restriction. Which is why you usually see these frail old men and women that never worked out in their lives and eat like 1 bowl of soup all day, they live to like 110-115 etc.
I made a thread on that a while ago...and I agree. Their seems be to something there with being kinda small/skinny and not eating a lot that keeps these people mobile and functioning for a long time. it's almost like making the body process too much food/movement sorta fatigues the replication of cells. Just today I was hearing some dude from Taiwan talking about going back home to visit his mom who's turning 100....I bet she's like 5 foot 100lbs.
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Originally Posted By MikeLowrrrey⏩
Here we are:

This guy lived to 111

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Kowalski

https://naszesprawy.eu/wp-content/up...414_123916.jpg

man is probably 5'6 135 lbs
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you don't need a whole lot of exercise to live long. just don't be sedentary, do some resistance training 1-2x a week. the threshold isn't that high. also keep a healthy bodyweight and don't eat complete garbage and at copious amounts.
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I'd guess that for most once their pro athlete playings days are over, they stop exercising lots and stop eating well. Just thinking about it, many former pro athletes look overweight and relatively unhealthy.

I can remember reading about Japanese sumo wrestlers. While they are pro wrestlers they eat a strict diet, and exercise lots. Few pro sumo wrestlers have diabetes. Once their pro sumo days are over they tend to develop diabetes at a higher level than average. And diabetes type 2 tends to short a persons life span by about a decade I believe.
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Originally Posted By sooby⏩
you don't need a whole lot of exercise to live long. just don't be sedentary, do some resistance training 1-2x a week. the threshold isn't that high. also keep a healthy bodyweight and don't eat complete garbage and at copious amounts.
None of the oldest people to have lived ever did a single set of resistance exercise in a gym.

That's modern day cope.
post 1682040043 05-04-2023, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted By sooby⏩
you don't need a whole lot of exercise to live long. just don't be sedentary, do some resistance training 1-2x a week. the threshold isn't that high. also keep a healthy bodyweight and don't eat complete garbage and at copious amounts.
this may be right. for longevity cut your grass with a push mower...walk to the store...clean your house...take the stairs...normal movement stuff and maybe throw in a little resistance training once or twice a week to maintain muscle mass/joint health. eat food to live and not mostly for enjoyment. overall look might be something like a slim 155 lb man with a little muscle and flat stomach.
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Exercising and being fit makes you feel amazing while you’re living. Who wants to live long and not being able to enjoy life?
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Originally Posted By 401Delta⏩
None of the oldest people to have lived ever did a single set of resistance exercise in a gym.

That's modern day cope.
maybe not but i wouldn't be surprised if some of those people during their lifetime had to do a little more physically strenuous movement than people in the modern world...go to the gym a day or 2 would simply be artificially manufacturing some of that.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
maybe not but i wouldn't be surprised if some of those people during their lifetime had to do a little more physically strenuous movement than people in the modern world...go to the gym a day or 2 would simply be artificially manufacturing some of that.
No doubt.

Imagine not having a toilet.
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Originally Posted By Cass40⏩
Exercising and being fit makes you feel amazing while you’re living. Who wants to live long and not being able to enjoy life?
I wonder...does a person that exercises a lot and eats more to fuel their body feel much better than somebody who gets just moderate amounts of exercise, weighs say 150lbs with relatively low body fat and doesn't eat a lot?
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Originally Posted By Cass40⏩
Exercising and being fit makes you feel amazing while you’re living. Who wants to live long and not being able to enjoy life?
LOL and add to that the direction the world is going.


IDK that I would want to see the future as a young man let alone 100 years old.
The billionaire and the beggar both have 24 hours in a day.

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At least it will thunderstorm tonight, and we know how they feel about water. :)
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Originally Posted By 401Delta⏩
No doubt.

Imagine not having a toilet.
My moms family growing up lived out in the country in the 50s and had a outhouse. Her grandfather would do stuff like heat up bricks to put in the truck for heat in the winter...or kills chickens there for them to eat. If something is within 5 miles you walk. Stuff like that adds up to moving around more to get through life.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
I wonder...does a person that exercises a lot and eats more to fuel their body feel much better than somebody who gets just moderate amounts of exercise, weighs say 150lbs with relatively low body fat and doesn't eat a lot?
I am not sure but my coworkers are over 60 and all have terrible health and quality of life. Even if they live to be 90, they’ll be suffering almost every day. That’s not the life I want. I want to be fit and able to do exactly what I want without taking pills and without pain.

If I’m perfectly healthy, strong and fit, I’d rather croak at 70 than live in pain for decades.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
I wonder...does a person that exercises a lot and eats more to fuel their body feel much better than somebody who gets just moderate amounts of exercise, weighs say 150lbs with relatively low body fat and doesn't eat a lot?
Everyone's idea of feeling good is subjective.

For me feeling good physically is feeling tight and strong.

I'm sure those people feel good as well but I doubt they feel the same feeling of being as sturdy and tight.
The billionaire and the beggar both have 24 hours in a day.

That's why grandma's apple pie rocks and yours sucks.
Originally Posted By Dave22reborn
At least it will thunderstorm tonight, and we know how they feel about water. :)
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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
ALL the people who live to be 100+ have the least competitive mindset you would ever imagine.

Having a calm, secure psychology is the key to longevity.

AKA, not a pro athlete lol.
Lol probably this


a lot of pro athletes are just living for the here and now. They're lifemaxxing to fill the current potential and not worry about saving anything for the future

I know a guy who's a legit pro athlete and he said he doesn't want to live that long. Some probably don't want to watch themselves age
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
My moms family growing up lived out in the country in the 50s and had a outhouse. Her grandfather would do stuff like heat up bricks to put in the truck for heat in the winter...or kills chickens there for them to eat. If something is within 5 miles you walk. Stuff like that adds up to moving around more to get through life.
Aside from a working toilet and a gasoline powered lawnmower, I live like it's still the 1800's.
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Originally Posted By Cass40⏩
I am not sure but my coworkers are over 60 and all have terrible health and quality of life. Even if they live to be 90, they’ll be suffering almost every day. That’s not the life I want. I want to be fit and able to do exactly what I want without taking pills and without pain.

If I’m perfectly healthy, strong and fit, I’d rather croak at 70 than live in pain for decades.
They probably don't move around much, fat and stuff their face full of sweets and other crap all day. Perhaps they could make lifestyle changes that don't even include exercise as a stand-alone activity and feel just as good as you?
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
They probably don't move around much, fat and stuff their face full of sweets and other crap all day. Perhaps they could make lifestyle changes that don't even include exercise as a stand-alone activity and feel just as good as you?
Tbh I believe fitness people have it right. I believe preserving muscle is the key. We lose muscle when we get older and I think it really affects how someone ages. You don’t obviously need to be a power lifter or bodybuilder but you need some kind of resistance training.
Lifting weights really affects not only my strength but mobility and flexibility too. It’s just frikkin awesome for aging. But nobody listens..
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Originally Posted By MBisonSon⏩
Everyone's idea of feeling good is subjective.

For me feeling good physically is feeling tight and strong.

I'm sure those people feel good as well but I doubt they feel the same feeling of being as sturdy and tight.
well tight and strong can be different i guess. the dude that came to cut a tree down for me was like 5'7 145 lbs...he was all up in that tree pulling himself up and sliding himself out on branches. country boy...looked fit as a fiddle and wasn't the type to think about going to a gym.
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Have to figure that pro athletes most likely didnt have that great of diets.

The constant travel and moving around simply arent conducive to a consistent diet.

Even today with all sorts of nutritional knowledge and advancements, they will still end up eating out all the time even though they are trying to keep good with the diet. Look at baseball players. Constantly moving every couple days from hotel to hotel. That alone is unhealthy, then add weird hours and the actual playing the game into it all and its 9 months of the year just trying to do their best.

A regular person has all day to go to the store, prepare decent meals and eat right at normal times.

Thats not even mentioning the performance enhancing things athletes basically have to do anymore to keep their jobs.

All those little things are going to add up. Just like if you ignore little bits and bobs of vehicle maintenance. Eventually bigger problems are going to come up and some will be too late to fix.
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Originally Posted By Cass40⏩
Tbh I believe fitness people have it right. I believe preserving muscle is the key. We lose muscle when we get older and I think it really affects how someone ages. You don’t obviously need to be a power lifter or bodybuilder but you need some kind of resistance training.
Lifting weights really affects not only my strength but mobility and flexibility too. It’s just frikkin awesome for aging. But nobody listens..
What does it take though to preserve natural amounts of muscle from doing transitional human activities? i'm not talking about building muscle for aesthetics...I'm just talking about maintaining the natural amount of muscle. it can probably be done without ever buying a gym membership. walk around, cut the grass, do some push-ups and pull ups, work on a car, work in the yard, play a little basketball or something.
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Originally Posted By crupiea⏩
Have to figure that pro athletes most likely didnt have that great of diets.

The constant travel and moving around simply arent conducive to a consistent diet.

Even today with all sorts of nutritional knowledge and advancements, they will still end up eating out all the time even though they are trying to keep good with the diet. Look at baseball players. Constantly moving every couple days from hotel to hotel. That alone is unhealthy, then add weird hours and the actual playing the game into it all and its 9 months of the year just trying to do their best.

A regular person has all day to go to the store, prepare decent meals and eat right at normal times.

Thats not even mentioning the performance enhancing things athletes basically have to do anymore to keep their jobs.

All those little things are going to add up. Just like if you ignore little bits and bobs of vehicle maintenance. Eventually bigger problems are going to come up and some will be too late to fix.
I believe most of these pro sports teams and even college have people preparing meals for the athletes. The health of the players has benefits out on the field. I'd say they have more health advantages than disadvantages compared to most people.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
What does it take though to preserve natural amounts of muscle from doing transitional human activities? i'm not talking about building muscle for aesthetics...I'm just talking about maintaining the natural amount of muscle. it can probably be done without ever buying a gym membership. walk around, cut the grass, do some push-ups and pull ups, work on a car, work in the yard, play a little basketball or something.
"Push-ups" & "pull-ups" aren't just "natural human activities" that human beings just inherently do, and none of those borderline-anorexic 100+ motherfukers were regularly playing ball with their boys lmao
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Living to 100 is probably 70% genetics and 30% life habits. You can be as healthy as you want but if your genes are crap you're going to die of some illness and you didn't have a chance to stop it.
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Originally Posted By Strawng⏩
"Push-ups" & "pull-ups" aren't just "natural human activities" that human beings just inherently do, and none of those 100+ moherfukers were regularly playing ball with their boys lmao
As I mentioned before...people that are/were 100 years old spent much of their lives in a times where moving around was required as just a part of life. A person in 2023 doesn't need a work out routine in a gym to maintain natural muscle mass but they might have to just add in some form of movement so they aren't laying on the couch all day on the internet ordering doordash. Our lives nowadays can be as easy as we want them to be.
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Originally Posted By Mark604⏩
Living to 100 is probably 70% genetics and 30% life habits. You can be as healthy as you want but if your genes are crap you're going to die of some illness and you didn't have a chance to stop it.
After certain age, after 70 or 80, it’s probably genetics. All the 100 year olds have a different answer, some of them smoked cigarettes all their lives and ate whatever. Common thing I guess is that they don’t take life too seriously and maybe don’t have high cortisol levels.
Then there’s the blue zone people, certain areas where people live the longest. They usually do daily activities like gardening, maybe live in hills where they walk up and down every day, they have community, eat Mediterranean diet etc.
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Moderation is key


I think that's how some 100 year olds get away with smoking, drinking, and eating fat food


None of the old people are obesecels or addictcels
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honestly why would you want to live until 100?

At that age you become so frail and weak and can't even wipe your own ass. probably blind and deaf too.

the body is an organic thing that breaks down over time. at 100 your body will be shot and you'll probably be miserable.
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Originally Posted By mchabs⏩
honestly why would you want to live until 100?

At that age you become so frail and weak and can't even wipe your own ass. probably blind and deaf too.

the body is an organic thing that breaks down over time. at 100 your body will be shot and you'll probably be miserable.
I imagine that many people living to 100 stayed pretty active and spry until their 90s. being active and spry in the 90s and breaking down at 100+ probably beats breaking down in the 60s or 70s.
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