ChumpChange

I've heard about the peptide thing. But that involves drugs, not exercise. We were discussing strengthening using resistance training. And the jury is still out on the peptide thing. There are no controlled medical studies behind it. The stuff all comes from UGL in China. AFAIK, it's all bro-science.

Conjecture, fiction, etc.

Getting back to the idea of challenges and the OP, any physical challenges that put tendons at risk of tear or injury should be greatly avoided after the age of 45. Just common sense, like the not so clever idea of putting yourself in a dangerous situation like confronting gangs on an underground train late at night in order to challenge your own fears.

AFAIK tendons only weaken with age. They become more like jelly and lose elasticity. Not something buildable. In fact, surgical tendon repairs have a much lower probability of success after the age of 55 for the above reasons.

If you ever rode the subways in NYC in the seventies and eighties at night then a ride on the Manila underground at night would seem about as dangerous as wrestling a teddy bear.

Building up tendon? Really? 😂

Maybe they thought he has a mental illness and not worth robbing.

Mine doesn't. My large canon touches first and prevents that.

You have a flawed imagination.

You're right, I can't do just 2,3 or 4, but I've tried. I always seem to go to 10 every time, no matter what I do. Any suggestions?

Rotator cuffs are 4 small muscles that are attached to tendons which attach to humerus bone. The tendons often tear from overuse and/or age. Nothing to do with joints though. Pull-ups also don't really put much pressure on the shoulder joints. The greater risk is tearing a rotator cuff muscle at the tendon and/or injuring tendons in your forearm and around your elbows.

1984 George Orwell. Not fiction. Neither is Men In Black. At least the first 2! 😳

If you are in decent physical shape then you can probably do 2-3-4. And if you start to do them regularly, then you should be able to build up to 10 over time. But again, I don't see something like this as a challenge. That would be about setting strength goals.

Friends in Iran?

No, it's your right hand that's in control, and your left as an alternate, once your forearm muscles tighten up.

It's true. Those photos will draw more attention to the sex industry in Thailand than usual as a result of the number of eyeballs which that news story might draw in. But it's hard to even go on YouTube these days search for anything about Thailand without some video popping up showing you a street crawl filled with lots of girls and transsexuals from one of the red light districts in Thailand.

Your list of diagnostics indicators are simply normal for a healthy person who exercises regularly, who isn't obese, who doesn't eat lots of unhealthy processed food, and who doesn't drink or smoke. I'm not going to bother reading off mine, but I assure you that yours are not uncommon. The things you mention being a challenge are mainly to do with getting into better health. So that should be the challenge. 30 push ups is no big deal for me. And 50 push ups will be no big deal for someone else. But my point is that not being able to do 20-30 push ups might simply be a sign of bad health and not even considered a challenge. There shouldn't be a number on the pushups as the challenge because that number will be different for everyone. The challenge should just be to do what you need to do to get in better health. Another challenge could be trying to help other people or animals. Trying to give more than you take from this world. Trying to treat people better than you usually do. Try to reduce your damage to the environment. Challenges aren't just about doing things to overcome something physical and/or danger or fear. Anyway, yes, the subway prowl should be considered just a dumb idea and not a challenge. If it's really dangerous to do that then you could end up dead. So that is not a challenge. And if fear is meant to be the challenge then there are much safer ways to confront fear. Or if you want to know how fast you can run when being chased then go into the ocean and try to get out of the way of an incoming wave, instead of seeing what it's like to be chased by a bunch of desperate hoodlums down a subway car late at night in a shothole like Manila. That's hardly a measure of anything but stupidity.

Area 51. An Area For 69. 86 The Sweaty Orange Insurrectionist.

If somebody can't do 20-30 pushups after the age of 50 or 60 then they are on a slippery slope. Yes, to achieve that, resistance exercise needs to be a regular thing and heart health also plays a role. I normally exercise regularly, and rarely do push ups, but when traveling, without access to equipment, I often do 100 per day in sets of 4. It takes me around 15-20 minutes total to complete, with 3-4 minutes in between sets. Hardly a challenge. The idea of this thread is to discuss ways for people to challenge themselves. Walking up and down a subway train late at night in Manila hardly seems like a challenge to me either. Anyone can do that. It wouldn't bother me, but nor does it interest me. Some might be fearful, but anyone can still do it. So it's not really a way to see how strong you are. Then the push up thing. That shouldn't be viewed as a challenge either. That's an issue of health. If you can't do 20-30 pushups then you shouldn't be thinking about challenges. You should be thinking about what you can do now now to make yourself stronger and increase your chances of longevity. It's also not just a question of muscularity, but cardiovascular fitness. If you can't do those push up maybe you need to see a cardiologist and do an exercise stress test to see if you are at risk of a heart attack. Challenges to me are things like climbing a mountain, jumping into a cold plunge pool, trying to give up a bad habit, trying to be a better person, trying to do something you have always wanted to do, but have always put off. Who knows. It's up to you. But so far I've seen very few real challenges suggested here.

Half full, half empty. There is always one in the crowd who obviously feels that they won't feel complete unless they state the obviousness of the situation. That's obvious.

If this all really started over the refusal to pay a bar bill in a brothel, then all I can say is that type of a bad decision can never end well for the punter. The fact that things then turned into a melee of over the top violence is part and parcel for the location and how things got started. Cause and effect. You phuk around and find out. Seemingly things went way over the top and all the violence was uncalled for, but that's almost always the case in these unhinged situations. You don't find cool heads on Soi 6. Now it's come down to a possible murder and accountability. All over 2,000 Baht perhaps. What a pity.

How pedestrian. This can't be right. You mean as a first set warmup, right?

X10!

because it was interesting when it started and there was some meaningful dialogue, but now it's mainly just a bunch of halfwitted and childish personal attacks, no less than 50% of which are from you.

Sounds like the flatearthers, preppers, QAnon anti-vaxers, and reptilian eliters have now arrived.