Rooning be like:>hol up lemme just make ur face saggy as shit while destroying ur knees >you’ll also have no muscle and look DYELIs there anything more retarded than running? Literally walking on an inclined treadmill mogs it
Yeah marathon fags are unhealthy as fuckStill moderate 20-40min cardio a few days per week is always good for you
Runners all deny this but I find it to be 100% true, then they all cope by saying "well we spend a lot of time under the sun" but so do cyclers and you dont see them with these ugly gaunt faces, and its not sun + really low bf either because surfers are the same yet aren't quite as haggard looking. There's something about the unique up and down motion of running that ages the face
>>76979240OK, long-distance runners look like shit but what are their stats longevity-wise?
>>76979308Id be surprised if theres good data on that. What are the parameters? Average lifespan of anyone who has ever run a marathon? Who has run 10+ marathons? Who had run a marathon within the last 10 years of their life?
>>76979240>Too much mouth breathing >Alot of unnecessary stress acquired during those long distances
>>76979306Runners have a much higher average age. Most endurance athletes peak in their 40s.
>>76979317Are you stupid? There are like a million articles that find distance running helps longevity.
>>76979308I wouldn't even want to live an extra 10 years (which isn't real ofcourse, they are all cortisol zombies) looking like a malnutritioned skeleton while having severe mental illness.
>>76979240STAY HARD
>>76979240I'm very new to working out, been a fat and lazy piece of shit my entire life. I work with a guy who runs like 30 miles a day and is several years younger than me and he looks twice my age and gangly. I don't understand the appeal of it but I've never run a consecutive mile in my entire life so what do I know.
>>76979240sun damage.
>>76979308>>76979317We do have stats on that and long distance runners live 10-20 years less than tye rest of the population. It was specifically about marathon runners (more than 1 hour per day), as apparantly they all have a full blow arterosclerosis.
>>76979240stress and impact - face literally drops down :D from all that thumping >>76980170>>fast edition>sprint, is by definition NOT rooning bot :D>but it's healthy lol - no, walking is: >>76980414>try walking mindfully, without slouching forward, without neck craning :D
Shitposting and schizoposting aside, there's an interesting phenomenon that's now being seriously looked into where ultra-runners appear to be notably more susceptible to colorectal cancer than the normal population.Some doctor in an oncology ward noticed they were getting a weird number of patients who were ultramarathon runners so they got approval for a study and the preliminary results came back showing a link. In the base population the risk is ~4% and in ultrarunners it appears to be ~15%.https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2025.43.16_suppl.3619This is all very new research. At the moment it seems to only be ultrarunners who are at risk. How mad is that though? That there is a specific risk of colon cancer that presents itself only if you regularly run ultras, but not if you're a normal runner or a marathon runner. It's just... weird.
A lot of runners are an older population. Especially when you get older, being too-low bodyfat can be detrimental to how your face looks. A degree of face fat makes you look youthful, and not having that can make you look gaunt and wrinkly and haggard (especially if you're an ex-fatty, which I imagine might be true of a lot of runners).On top of that, your skin is constantly being exposed to UV rays, wind, and all the other elements. All that adds up over timeI'm not shitting on running in general, but perhaps the marathon runners take it too far, literally and metaphorically
>>76980553Could it be something related to diet? Do marathon runners tend to have a different diet than the rest of the population?
>>76980637Consumption of carb gels, whopping great quantities of carbs in general (roughage from grains irritating bowel lining?), electrolytes...Haven't read the study - any idea what geographic area it covers?I have been a club athlete on and off for 40+ years and I don't recall hearing of anyone having bowel cancer recently. I know a few older athletes that have Parkinsons but I don't think they were heavy on marathon training.
>>76979240people who run like that genuinely hate themselves and you can see it on their faces
I think they just don't eat enough they are all skinny as fuck probably malnourished
If you send pulses through your heart to the point of stress, your body has to adapt to it. It will run out of the ability to adapt at some point. The metabolic shift toward burning carbs instead of fat burning helps drive this fibrosis. Most days you don’t want to eat high carbohydrates and calories. But there is always a flip side. You need some fuel to do the repairs. Eating a bunch of carbs and protein will fuel disease, but also do the necessary job of regenerating.If you eat less of it, and stay within healthy ranges there is no issues. If you spike your blood sugar and run repeatedly you are causing an inflammatory cascade that makes you old and stiff. It screws up other related systems. Powerlifting ain’t much better.Generally moderate aerobics is good.
>>76980715Just to add a bit of balance to the rest of the chat on here, our oldest members still training and competing are in their 80s. The club I was a member of as a kid had members turning up to functions / AGMs Christmas meals in their 90s so WW2 generation and subject to war and post-war rationing.My money is on diet.
>>76979404>>severe mental illness You're right, but the majority are using running to cope with mental illness, it's not really caused by running.
>>76979240Ok but what about all the special forces guys, they do looooads of running and they all look like chads.Explain that?
>>76980553>subjects aged 35-50 years who had completed at least two registered ultramarathons (50 km or longer) or five registered marathons (26.2 milesWtf 5 marathons is not extreme, I know hobby joggers that have done it. What is the cutoff for weekly hours jogging then?
>>76980553surely no selection bias here, all runners love a good colonoscopy
