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09-03-21 05:11 PM - Post#913080
If you were a skinny kid who lived 5k from school, and there were no buses or cars and you have to do it twice a day, you might end up running just to save some time. Or because you were procrastinating and had to be back. And humans have been competing athletically or dispatching messengers for as long as we have been around.
That's quite an "if" and a lot of "might."
I'm all for running as a sport. I logged plenty of miles on the cross country team as a kid, and kept my Runners World subscription for years. But for general health and physical development, it's no more logically useful than BJJ, javelin throwing, crawling OS style, rock climbing, or pure Arnold-style bodybuilding.
In fact, I think running and bodybuilding are remarkably similar. Their global popularity is largely due to the marketing efforts of Phil Knight and Nike, and Arnold and Joe Weider, respectively. They sold a lot of shoes and a lot of protein powder.
Virtually everyone who's not a competitive runner or bodybuilder would be better off just walking, sprinting occasionally, and doing basic, minimalist weight training. That's no slight on the skinny kids who want to run, or the oaks who want to pump up their biceps and stand onstage in a speedo. Much like with Dan's quadrants, it's just differentiating between what athletes and non-athletes need to do.
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