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cyrex
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RBtrucking4 said:
In the technical sense, weightlifting CAN shave few years off your life. Let's explore this:
First, the statement just implies that your life may be shortened specifically due to weight lifting. It does not mention that this is the case for all, or what must occur to make this happen, only that it is even a slight possibility.
Next, let's discuss what might occur to cause weightlifting to be at fault for shortening one's life. Assume Big Rick is lifting and he is squatting his usual 600 lbs but happens to be a little sick to his stomach. He gets nauseous mid rep and passes out with 600 resting on his traps. He falls diagonally onto the squat rack with 600 lbs+ (inertia) of pressure on the back of his neck slamming into the side of the squat rack. Luckily for Big Rick, he happens to be unconcsious before his neck snaps. Now if Big Rick doesn't die instantly, I will bet that his lifespan was shaved off a bit due 100% to weight lifting.
Now back to reality, your friend made a generalized comment, P -> Q (P implies Q) Where P = "If one lifts weights frequently" then Q ="They will not live as long as if they did not lift weights frequently".
Your idiot friend probably heard something along the lines of lifting weights causing excess work for the heart and leap to the conclusion of that being bad for one's health. This MAY be the case for someone who has had one or two major MIs(heart attacks) and should put as little work on their heart in the first place, but these are exceptions to 'the average person'.
In short, your friend is a dumbshit.
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