ZenRaiden
One atom of me
I often watch nature documentaries.
They often say interesting things about animals.
One thing though is odd that we often talk about animals being stronger than humans.
And in some sense that is true. When they measured the strength of an ape either a chimp or a gorilla they came out with numbers like 5 to 7 times if not more strength compare to humans.
Whales migrate through oceans, they weight 30 or more tons and cover 1000s of miles over time.
The feats of animals comparably are to put it far greater than that of of humans.
There is however a theory floating around that humans are indeed weak, but in one aspect humans have consistently been better than any other animals, that is endurance.
We can cover greater distance in shorter amount of time than horses.
They have tested this and horses actually after certain time get outrunned by humans. The horses lose stamina over time, and even though horses do cover great deal of distance they cannot do what humans can do.
The ultra marathon runners can cover distances beyond 42 kilometers.
The fun thing is some ultra marathon runs are beyond 100 or even 200 kilometers.
That is one realization.
But I also went to the gym few times in my life.
What I noticed that being out of shape benching 40 kilo seemed a hard task, though I can easily do more, over all the best I can do like maybe few pushes and I collapse of exhaustion.
So when you go the gym you might think you are a weak being.
Here is the fun thing though, I went to the gym few times, and I loaded my weights to what seemed reasonable weight, enough to lift comfortably, but not too little to be bored.
Most people who go to gyms are aiming to get higher weights beyond their muscle capacity so they get good results and muscle burns and feel strong.
But I did not do that at all.
I just put mid weights. Comfortable weights and pulled and pushed them as much as seemed capable.
Then I went on and add up all the weights I pulled.
What I realized that as a human I did 40 tons worth of training.
But But I am human, I am supposed to be weak right????
How come I easily did 40 tons worth of weights in one session in the gym?
How come I am so strong?
And here is another thing. I spread the weights over various machines dumb bells etc.
It was not even hard. I was tired, but not dead tired. I was not collapsing or dying.
I was fine. And honestly if I told a rookie who never been in the gym they say you are lying!!!!
The fact is even people who workout would not believe me.
The best way to test is is trying it out yourself.
I guarantee you if you find your ZONE you will life tons of weights and you will feel fine.
Not only that this human strength break down effort and do it repeatedly is both the human strength mentally and physically.
We are actually for our size incredibly strong animals. But we often forget this, because both mentally and physically we chase efforts that our out side of our ZONE.
Bet that at jobs, be that at relationships, be that at sports, be that at any given activity, humans lost touch with their strength often, because we either rush, or push ourselves.
We are often performing outside our ZONE. And this is not the same as comfort zone. But it is ZONE of effort X optimal.
The more optimal we are in our effort the more we get out of it.
That is how we get things like wall of China, the Castles like St. Michel, or massive roads like the via Apia, or pyramids.
Humans are incredibly powerful beings actually.
But the less in touch we are with our ZONE of optimal performance, the weaker and the less growth we have as humans.
I can show you plenty people who go to the gym, and lift like 7 tons and they are done for the week.
You can sit there half asleep pulling weights and do 40 tons and maybe more, just it takes more time, and few more resting periods.
IF you do that you will eventually bulk up even more than dudes who deform their bodies, and have muscles out of alignment.
Same goes for mental effort. We are in stressful rushed world, and we push and push the envelope.
And we get bread crumbs of results actually. We feel like we are more productive, but we aren't.
They often say interesting things about animals.
One thing though is odd that we often talk about animals being stronger than humans.
And in some sense that is true. When they measured the strength of an ape either a chimp or a gorilla they came out with numbers like 5 to 7 times if not more strength compare to humans.
Whales migrate through oceans, they weight 30 or more tons and cover 1000s of miles over time.
The feats of animals comparably are to put it far greater than that of of humans.
There is however a theory floating around that humans are indeed weak, but in one aspect humans have consistently been better than any other animals, that is endurance.
We can cover greater distance in shorter amount of time than horses.
They have tested this and horses actually after certain time get outrunned by humans. The horses lose stamina over time, and even though horses do cover great deal of distance they cannot do what humans can do.
The ultra marathon runners can cover distances beyond 42 kilometers.
The fun thing is some ultra marathon runs are beyond 100 or even 200 kilometers.
That is one realization.
But I also went to the gym few times in my life.
What I noticed that being out of shape benching 40 kilo seemed a hard task, though I can easily do more, over all the best I can do like maybe few pushes and I collapse of exhaustion.
So when you go the gym you might think you are a weak being.
Here is the fun thing though, I went to the gym few times, and I loaded my weights to what seemed reasonable weight, enough to lift comfortably, but not too little to be bored.
Most people who go to gyms are aiming to get higher weights beyond their muscle capacity so they get good results and muscle burns and feel strong.
But I did not do that at all.
I just put mid weights. Comfortable weights and pulled and pushed them as much as seemed capable.
Then I went on and add up all the weights I pulled.
What I realized that as a human I did 40 tons worth of training.
But But I am human, I am supposed to be weak right????
How come I easily did 40 tons worth of weights in one session in the gym?
How come I am so strong?
And here is another thing. I spread the weights over various machines dumb bells etc.
It was not even hard. I was tired, but not dead tired. I was not collapsing or dying.
I was fine. And honestly if I told a rookie who never been in the gym they say you are lying!!!!
The fact is even people who workout would not believe me.
The best way to test is is trying it out yourself.
I guarantee you if you find your ZONE you will life tons of weights and you will feel fine.
Not only that this human strength break down effort and do it repeatedly is both the human strength mentally and physically.
We are actually for our size incredibly strong animals. But we often forget this, because both mentally and physically we chase efforts that our out side of our ZONE.
Bet that at jobs, be that at relationships, be that at sports, be that at any given activity, humans lost touch with their strength often, because we either rush, or push ourselves.
We are often performing outside our ZONE. And this is not the same as comfort zone. But it is ZONE of effort X optimal.
The more optimal we are in our effort the more we get out of it.
That is how we get things like wall of China, the Castles like St. Michel, or massive roads like the via Apia, or pyramids.
Humans are incredibly powerful beings actually.
But the less in touch we are with our ZONE of optimal performance, the weaker and the less growth we have as humans.
I can show you plenty people who go to the gym, and lift like 7 tons and they are done for the week.
You can sit there half asleep pulling weights and do 40 tons and maybe more, just it takes more time, and few more resting periods.
IF you do that you will eventually bulk up even more than dudes who deform their bodies, and have muscles out of alignment.
Same goes for mental effort. We are in stressful rushed world, and we push and push the envelope.
And we get bread crumbs of results actually. We feel like we are more productive, but we aren't.
