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Why do no pro athletes live to 100+ if exercise is good for you?

Saw a little video of a dude saying no pro athletes live to 100+. He mentioned dudes like Reggie Lewis, Wilt, Jesse Owens, Lou Gehrig and a bunch more...the epitome of fitness...people with single digit body fat and elite endurance.

Is to think exercising will help us live longer just coping to help us feel like we have some control?

Anecdotally I've had women in my family that never exercised a day who lived to 85+...a few that were 75+ lbs overweight.

Does peak fitness have nothing to do with whatever genes control for longevity?
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Low intensity exercise and s calorie deficit will extend your life to 100+, but it won't be a happy life.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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A lot of pro-athletes arent exactly making the best life choices when it comes to their health..

Look at more of the elite military units- those guys live well into their 90s. Had one dude in his 90s, former frogman, as my professor in my grad program- still running marathons and chit.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
Saw a little video of a dude saying no pro athletes live to 100+. He mentioned dudes like Reggie Lewis, Wilt, Jesse Owens, Lou Gehrig and a bunch more...the epitome of fitness...people with single digit body fat and elite endurance.

Is to think exercising will help us live longer just coping to help us feel like we have some control?

Anecdotally I've had women in my family that never exercised a day who lived to 85+...a few that were 75+ lbs overweight.

Does peak fitness have nothing to do with whatever genes control for longevity?
1 in 5,000 people live to 100.

Exercising is great for health, however when it comes to athletes there are other factors...

1. Drug use, whether a higher amount of recreational use or PEDs.
2. While exercise is good, pushing yourself to your absolute limits for years, facing numerous injuries and generally over-stressing your body, that can mitigate some of the benefits
3. Pro athletes generally do very well with life expectancy, minus outliers like boxing:https://wegrynenterprises.com/2022/0...ferent-sports/

Meanwhile, health/fitness guys like Jack LaLanne lived nearly 100 and was pretty damn active for almost all of those years, still doing pretty impressive stuff well into his 80s.

Your anecdote about a single woman who lived long doesn't hold up to the overall statistics.
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post 1682036013 05-04-2023, 12:16 PM
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Elite athletes are on the extreme end of fitness....imagine a Ferrari at red-line or a purpose built race car.....they take special parts, they're expensive to maintain and they break a lot, they get absolutely horrible gas mileage and usually don't last long or to high mileage.

...but GD is it fun.
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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.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Low intensity exercise and s calorie deficit will extend your life to 100+, but it won't be a happy life.
So basically don't become obese and walk around the block once in a while and you live as long as you're going to live.
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Originally Posted By JUSA⏩
1 in 5,000 people live to 100.

Exercising is great for health, however when it comes to athletes there are other factors...

1. Drug use, whether a higher amount of recreational use or PEDs.
2. While exercise is good, pushing yourself to your absolute limits for years, facing numerous injuries and generally over-stressing your body, that can mitigate some of the benefits
3. Pro athletes generally do very well with life expectancy, minus outliers like boxing:https://wegrynenterprises.com/2022/0...ferent-sports/

Meanwhile, health/fitness guys like Jack LaLanne lived nearly 100 and was pretty damn active for almost all of those years, still doing pretty impressive stuff well into his 80s.

Your anecdote about a single woman who lived long doesn't hold up to the overall statistics.
You think athletes in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s were on PEDs and recreational drugs?

For every Jack LaLanne there's plenty of people who never even considered exercising as a stand alone activity.
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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.
That's what I've noticed with people living to around 90 or longer now that I think about it. They were often people that were content, low drama, didn't really compare themselves to others, weren't constantly striving to be better than anyone...basically weren't part of the rat race.
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True oldcels drink coffee, alcohol, and dark chocolate. They also smoke moderately

It’s more about not eating so much, and living life slowly with a daily routine that extends life. High intensity athletes fizzle out and break down their bodies over time.

Nicotine keeps your mind sharp, alcohol and caffeine offer circulatory benefits
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What percent of humans live to be over 100? What percent of humans become pro athletes?
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Drugs, recreational and bike. Pro athletes have the genetics to be pro even if they’re doing mountains of Pepsi every night and getting drunk on the reg, plus probably being on jewc year round from their retarded sports doc
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Pro athletes are about the least healthy people out there. Its basically do WHATEVER it takes to make you elite at one thing for a limited amount of years at the cost of everything else.

Kind of like asking why race horses get put down at 3 or 4 years old.
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Originally Posted By redwine91⏩
True oldcels drink coffee, alcohol, and dark chocolate. They also smoke moderately

It’s more about not eating so much, and living life slowly with a daily routine that extends life. High intensity athletes fizzle out and break down their bodies over time.

Nicotine keeps your mind sharp, alcohol and caffeine offer circulatory benefits
Maybe...those oldcels also spent most of their life in a time where people ate and drank what they did with no worries...time moved much slower too without constant stimulation and chit to worry about or be outraged about online...no constant texts coming in. Much less micro stresses. Get your cup of coffee and maybe smoke a pipe on the front porch watching the birds and squirrels.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
You think athletes in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s were on PEDs and recreational drugs?

For every Jack LaLanne there's plenty of people who never even considered exercising as a stand alone activity.
was gonna mention Jack Lalanne.no drugs and alcohol,good diet, excercise and genetics are the only answers.anything else is cope.end of story
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You're conflating health with longevity.

Health in the overall sense is being strong, flexible, spry.

Nobody comes away from a retirement home thinking "boy those old people sure are healthy".
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Originally Posted By desslok⏩
Pro athletes are about the least healthy people out there. Its basically do WHATEVER it takes to make you elite at one thing for a limited amount of years at the cost of everything else.

Kind of like asking why race horses get put down at 3 or 4 years old.
Were athletes from a different time living extended lives though? Like prior to 1960 or whatever?

Perhaps elite athleticism and fitness doesn't do much for longevity because people all sorta level out at some point...be it in the 40s or 50s or 60s.
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Originally Posted By explosiveMidget⏩
Your lifestyle choices have no relation to how long ur going to live whatsoever and that's a hiroshima blackpill right there.

Most 100+ year olds are alcoholic smokers and people who've never even drank a cofee and eat healthy can die at 20.

It's all prearranged.
I'd like to somehow see research on stress or mental outlook having nothing or something to do with longevity. Can the state of our mind produce physical changes?
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
Were athletes from a different time living extended lives though? Like prior to 1960 or whatever?

Perhaps elite athleticism and fitness doesn't do much for longevity because people all sorta level out at some point...be it in the 40s or 50s or 60s.
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.
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Originally Posted By TugOfPeace⏩
Elite endurance isn't a good thing, it puts strain on the heart, not to mention many pro athletes take a lot of substances.

Single digit bodyfat is only an indicator of good health in my opinion if one does moderate cardio/deficits to get there.
It has nothing to do with elite endurance IMO.

How has no one mentioned that athletes just fall off? They stop working out then fall off. That's all it boils down to.
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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.
This is true.

Everytime I see them interviewing a 125+ year old broad she's always yapping about how she never ate more than one squirrel a day.
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“Jack LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at his home on January 23, 2011. He was 96. According to his family, he had been sick for a week, but refused to see a doctor. They added that he had been performing his daily workout routine the day before his death.”

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Here we are:

This guy lived to 111

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

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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
So basically don't become obese and walk around the block once in a while and you live as long as you're going to live.
More like maintain yourself at slightly above starvation levels, but yeah.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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