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External Since: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 62

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Andrzej Rosa <bakters.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> typed:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to misc.fitness.weights.]
> Dnia 2007-03-24 Achim Nolcken Lohse napisa³(a):
>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:49:01 -0600, Hobbes <khobman800.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Knee health in olympic
>>> weightlifters is very good and exceeds the general population
>>> according to a study done in the 70's.
>>
>> Well, that's a cheery thought. To think that a bunch of dedicated
>> athletes have better knees than the general population.
>
> It should be. They are competitive athletes, which means that they
> drive themselves to the limit of their capacity. Would you be
> surprised if you learned that F1 car has higher chance of failure than
> a passenger car? Would you say that engineers who built it had no
> idea about their job if you learned that an F1 cars actually break
> more
> often than the cheapest ones you could buy new?
>
>> Has it
>> occurred to you that people with bad knees probably never get into
>> weightlifting?
>
> I never met a single person with bad knees outside a gym.

Do you know any soccer players?

> It seems
> that *all* the people with bad knees get into some sort of
> weightlifting.
>
>> Or that those who injure themselves while trying it out
>> will probably stop pretty fast?
>
> No. They will just switch to benching and curling five times a week.
> It's obviously great for your knees.
>
>> A study in the 70's. I guess they figured - quit while you're ahead.
>> And after all that time, it's probably impossible to check how well
>> controlled the study was, let alone replicate it.
>>
>> I HAVE noticed quite a few world class lifters with pressure bandages
>> on their knees. I guess that's to remind them that there's no chance
>> of injury?
>
> You guessed wrong. Knee wraps are there in spite of higher injury
> risks they bring with themselves. They are there to win something.
> Lifters in general, and world class lifters in particular, really
> like to win.

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:49:18 -0400, JMW <jmwilliams RemoveThis @enforcergraphics.f2s.com> wrote:

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>> JMW <jmwilliams RemoveThis @enforcergraphics.f2s.com> wrote:
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>>
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>
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