Comments on: Are We built for long distance running? Another Point Of View.

By: Davy

Davy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:21:30 +0000

I believe that many runners fail to take proper steps to avoid injury. For instance, instead of working to that long-distance goal, they go from 1 to 10 miles in a week..
Even though, the human body has been built efficiently to running long distances, and it’s the way our race has been moving around since the beginning our existance.

By: Nocsaron

Nocsaron — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:33:25 +0000

I think that there are some many injuries because people try to start long distance running after sitting around all the time. you cant switch your lifestyle so completely and expect there not to be consequences.

By: Chantel

Chantel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:47:32 +0000

Clearly you missed the points made in the article, it is indeed a fact that human beings on a whole are bigger than they were several hundred years ago, not only based on fat content, but also with regard to height and overall muscle mass, due largely to improvements in food supply. It is very relevant, and the added weight gain by those in developed countries id equally relevant, as it represents the majority of those reading the article as well. As for the man vs horse, and the idea that man did indeed run down his prey till they fell from exhaustion is equally ridiculous. Great for well fed athletes today with nothing to do, but the predominantly sedentary lifestyle of most hunting tribes today make a strong case against it as common practice.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:31:27 +0000

This article has actually done nothing to convince me the persistence hunting theory is debunked. The fact that we are heavier isn’t really relevant –it would be like saying the increases in average body fat percentage in Americans is an indication that we are evolved to be sedentary. Clearly the factors influencing it are based in our lifestyle, not how we evolved.
And when you talk about your experience as a hunter, you assume that humans and their immediate evolutionary ancestors all had these same skills, when it’s unlikely humans would have been able to engage in these practices for probably less than 100,000 years or so. Put that in the timeframe of millions of years we evolved after diverging from our common ancestors with chimps and there is evidence for persistence hunting being a practical technique.
When arguing about something in an evolutionary time scale, you can’t bring up techniques that would only have been available within the past several millenia. It is also ridiculous to use weight gain (especially since most of the weight gain is from fat) as an indicator that we are built for sprinting.

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By: Peter

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