Humans are evolving to sit on desk for 8 hours a day alone with no social or sunlight interaction.
Humans are evolving to sit on desk for 8 hours a day alone with no social or sunlight interaction.
Hilarious, you say I know nothing and then accuse my friends of being obese and lazy. I just won this argument.
Friends, I don't care what you put on your feet (or don't), just do your best to stay off of hard surfaces when you're out there.
korviev wrote:
After seeing more than one friend get a stress fracture after switching to barefoot or those monkey vibram thingies, I gotta say BS on the barefoot running theory.
Runners get injured these days so frequently because we are running on asphalt most of the time.
Three out of six billion?
retarded quote of the day
99% of running shoes = garbage
Badly designed running shoes are the cause of almost all injuries in runners.
I have been running all my life and have never once been injured running barefoot.
this is effing ridiculous. The idea that early humans didn't suffer from injuries while running barefoot is moronic, and to blame "most running injuries" on shoes simply pretends that everyone has an ideally "designed" body for running and is equally stupid. As if all of those different running injuries in different parts of the body which different people suffer at different rates all have one source: shoes. Right...because no one ever got injured running until running shoes came along and a group of barefoot-running natives in Mexico/Kenya/wherever proves this unequivocally for the rest of the human population.
Spare me.
And the whole premise behind OP's question is shot in the ass when you realize that humans, from very early on in their development, have always lived in social groups. Slightly injured members would be cared for by the rest and would probably find other functions in the group. Once we started farming, the selective pressure against such running-injury-prone traits would likely have disappeared altogether.
J.R. wrote:
Badly designed running shoes are the cause of almost all injuries in runners.
I have been running all my life and have never once been injured running barefoot.
This has been your daily example of horrible logic.
Who gets lots of injuries? I don't.
Try listening to your body and training properly etc. You won't get injured.
I have never seen any training logs from our early ancestors to indicate that they were doing 100 miles a week barefoot with the singluar purpose of running faster than their fellow man but they may actually exist..
Although reports of a man carrying a stone tablet which had 4x1mile with 200m jog in 4:20 enscribed are unconfirmed it is not the first time such articles have been found. In 1625 many years before the 4 minute mile was broken someone found an enscription asking his fellow runners if his 4x800m with 400m walk would equate to a sub 4 minute mile? In my humble opinion this is clear evidence that Roger Bannister was not the first to break 4 minutes.
What selected pressure was responsible for designing the workings of an eye? While my understanding of evolution may be limited I just cant see how such a process could begin without the end goal in sight.
Our Ancestors wrote:
What selected pressure was responsible for designing the workings of an eye? While my understanding of evolution may be limited I just cant see how such a process could begin without the end goal in sight.
Here's a place to start. Be sure to watch the video.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/1/l_011_01.htmlWhat wellnow said. What your body screams the loudest and most often is when I step on a rock barefoot it hurts. This is closely followed by it takes a lot of padding to keep it from hurting and ice and snow are cold. Finally, if you keep listening you will hear I can run more with padded shoes on. All this screaming does not rule out strides on grass to work certain underworked muscles.
Well, there were injuries back then, the differnce is that when the early humans got injured they were gobbled up by a dinosaur and the rest just moved on, no Dr's records, now we go to a dr. and the injury is documented.
7a hudcx75 x 7se5 wrote:
What wellnow said. What your body screams the loudest and most often is when I step on a rock barefoot it hurts. This is closely followed by it takes a lot of padding to keep it from hurting and ice and snow are cold. Finally, if you keep listening you will hear I can run more with padded shoes on. All this screaming does not rule out strides on grass to work certain underworked muscles.
Actually, I don't agree with what you say. Barefoot running feels great. I hate lots of cushioning in a shoe, it slows you down, makes you land harder and it reduces foot proprioception. Look that one up.
Our Ancestors wrote:
What selected pressure was responsible for designing the workings of an eye? While my understanding of evolution may be limited I just cant see how such a process could begin without the end goal in sight.
for one: our eyes are on the front of our heads so we can see in 3-D as we run after our prey.
our prey, on the other hand, tends to have eyes on the sides of their heads so they can spot predators approaching.
t-rexxy wrote:
Well, there were injuries back then, the differnce is that when the early humans got injured they were gobbled up by a dinosaur and the rest just moved on, no Dr's records, now we go to a dr. and the injury is documented.
Ehh, well disregarding that dinosaurs and humans did not live at the same time, it is a very reasonable hypothesis that at some point in human history, humans were rewarded for running ability and penalized for being running-injury prone. But those hunter-gatherer days are long gone and it doesn't take long for those evolutionary "gains" to disappear once the selection pressure goes away. The genetic pool of good running was dirtied long long ago by non-running-yet-reproductive types. Farmers, for example. You guys who run well and injury free without shoes have probably retained a larger share of the hunter-gatherer genetics.
Our Ancestors wrote:
What selected pressure was responsible for designing the workings of an eye? While my understanding of evolution may be limited I just cant see how such a process could begin without the end goal in sight.
Hah! As if these feeble, sick and pain-ridden bodies today resemble an "end goal"!
Hmm. Obviously they had Doritos and hard paved roads thousands of years ago. So I don't know why people have so many injuries. But who says they didn't back in the day?
If humans evolved to eat, why is there so much diabetes?