I figured a ton of cardio would be great for staying youthful but it seems like a disproportionate number of runners I see look old for their age. Most of them typically have fine lines or deep wrinkles and the men typically don’t have great heads of hair.
is running not net positive when comes solely to looks?
Tyler,
Great topic question but I've always thought it was the reverse. Runners, on average, look younger!
I figured a ton of cardio would be great for staying youthful but it seems like a disproportionate number of runners I see look old for their age. Most of them typically have fine lines or deep wrinkles and the men typically don’t have great heads of hair.
is running not net positive when comes solely to looks?
I figured a ton of cardio would be great for staying youthful but it seems like a disproportionate number of runners I see look old for their age. Most of them typically have fine lines or deep wrinkles and the men typically don’t have great heads of hair.
is running not net positive when comes solely to looks?
FWIW I'm 42 and look like Ritz but fatter. I had a full beard for a long time, but shaved it a couple years ago. Her father (about 50) said "Wow, FatSlowLurker, you look so young!" His daughter, who was about 7 years old at the time, replied, "I thought he was old like you daddy! He's not old, he just has gray hair!"
It definitely feels like too high a percentage of sub elite to elite distance runners have thinning hairlines/crowns. The front pack of marathon (or that BU 5k) have made me wonder if there could be a relationship between the two
Gonna make some people mad, but there's also the fact that running is self selective. If you're a fast runner you'll probably play your areas most popular sport (soccer, amer/aus football, hockey, etc) and only turn to running if that isn't working out. One reason why team sports don't work out besides coordination is the dynamics of a real (sorry xc) team sport. If you aren't a dominant personality type it's difficult. Dominant personality types are in part related to parents, and I bet Dad's with a sick head of hair are displaying a lot more... Chad-like? characteristics.
The fact that you don't understand the team dynamic of XC diminishes your other contributions here.
Also not wearing moisturizer during the cold weather months wreaks havoc on the skin. When you’re young you don’t think you need it-you think you’re immortal-but as you ripen you see the value. Many runners I know in their sixties and seventies, provided they hit the gym, look ten to fifteen years younger- from the neck down.
I have to put Vaseline or aquaphor on my face to run outside for most of the winter because i otherwise end up so flaky I’m at the verge of my face cracking.
As a masters runner, I think it is the opposite. My middle-aged peers are more likely to be paunchy or fat. I still run every day and people routinely think I am about 10 years younger than I am simply because I don't have the "middle aged fat look" that is normal for a society where the average person gains like 2 lbs a year for every year after age 25.
The average American will be obese by 2030. Obesity will be the norm in 7 years. Trust me, runners will look pretty good in that landscape.
I figured a ton of cardio would be great for staying youthful but it seems like a disproportionate number of runners I see look old for their age. Most of them typically have fine lines or deep wrinkles and the men typically don’t have great heads of hair.
is running not net positive when comes solely to looks?
Speak for yourself
You don't get much sun in the uk so we don't have that problem unless rain ages.
They probably go bald because they have the testosterone you are lacking. Either that or you are talking nonsense
Running decreases test. When you’re constantly running it’s obviously for a reason… you’re running away from predators. This generally means you aren’t much protection for offspring, so In turn your body produces less testosterone to make sure less women want to reproduce with you.
time dilation from moving fast. Truck drivers have it worse, most 40 year olds look about 80
Never heard of Time Dilation before, so I went to my good friend Wiki for info. It sounds as if a person would have to travel at the speed of light to notice a noticeable difference.
With current technology severely limiting the velocity of space travel, however, the differences experienced in practice are minuscule: after 6 months on the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting Earth at a speed of about 7,700 m/s, an astronaut would have aged about 0.005 seconds less than those on Earth.[10] The cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Sergei Avdeyev both experienced time dilation of about 20 milliseconds compared to time that passed on Earth.[11][12]
61 yr old runner here. I've been running since 1990 & look like hell. Decades of exposure to the sun, wind & all other weather elements has really destroyed my skin. People mistaken me for a 70 yr old all the time. In fact, on the dating app that I'm on, I get a lot of likes from 70+ women. Lol.
I have a lady friend who's in the same boat. She just turned 50. She's a life long marathon runner & loves being in the sun. She's often mistaken for being a 60+ yr old woman. Her face has aged dramatically & she looks pretty rough. This is the kind of woman that from behind looks 30 (nice, long beautiful hair...fit, trim, sexy body), but when she turns around - look out! 😯
Legendary runner "Raven" looks really beat up from over 4 decades of running. I don't know how he keeps going:
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