[qprofyeh]

Sort of related, it always surprises me how little we teach our children about the importance of exercise (why we need muscles, how we move them to protect the joints) and nutrition (why we eat macronutrients, what vitamins and proteins do in our body).

[hutzlibu]

Most of school sports is pretty horrible and they barely teach you anything useful (in germany). But rather way too many dangerous exercises, like rolling over the head or standing on the head with little guidance, etc.

All the important bits, I learned somewhere else, mostly in martial arts.

How to savely fall. How to control your breathing to relax or engage. How to stand or sit for a longer time, but not getting uncomfortable. Being conscious of your body and listen to it.

[saiya-jin]

> like rolling over the head

I almost killed myself on high school gym classes on this, if you combine it with subtle lunge forward, and end up hitting your head&neck perpendicularly to the ground. Vertebras shifted in my neck, doctor said if 1cm more I would be dead on spot. Absolutely stupid and useless exercise for school gym classes, I am pretty sure it creates tons of issues with neck, head and back decades down the road.

But try to bring yoga (without the spiritual aspects, just workouts) into gym classes and in primitive societies like back home in eastern Europe, and religious fanatics with a lot of political power will go nuts and fight it like Satan's coming (and of course they won).

[snarkyturtle]

Hell, even sit-ups are largely useless. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/sit-ups-c...

[NovaDudely]

About the same in Australia - basically useless.

Learned all it years later.

[masfuerte]

And the UK. Is it good anywhere?

[orwin]

It really depends on your teachers tbh. I had loads of poorly formed sport teachers, 2 that were OK, one who was great (he was an ex-professional diver and I think that's why he was great.)

[darkclouds]

Nutrition or diet is very important if not the most important thing and then just do a couple hours of walking at a fast pace (3+mph). If you add in a gram of nicotinic acid aka vit b3 that gives you the sunburn effect, you can end up with a six pack, but your risk of oesteomalacia (putty bones) will increase with the nicotinic acid. I know I've done it in the past.

My idea of heaven is wake up, a blast in the car to the gym (which I used to have all to my self so could bang the tunes on nice and loud) , exercise to exhaustion one or two sets on each machine, then back home for a cooked breakfast.

So today, that would be living somewhere near the nordschleife, wake up, a lap around the nordschleife, then hit the gym then have breakfast. You'll be buzzing all day!

Problem is, as we age we need to get the body back to what it was like in our teens and twenties chemistry wise to enjoy that sort of adrenalin fuelled routine. I say the nordschleife because its a very long track 7-8mins to complete, most of the race tracks which we can drive our cars around (assuming they would be open first thing in the morning) are they are too short 2-3mins and don't have the same adrenalin inducing effect imo. Get that adrenalin pumping then hit the gym for a massive short but intense work out. Give it 6months and you will end up craving to run where you can then run for miles on the running machine with ease.

And here is is why I say you need to get the nutrition right, the number of military personnel with fubar knees is an embarrassment and disgrace to the so called medical experts. Alcohol will accelerate the decline in your knees and hips.

I havent tried injecting myself with an epi pen as a substitute for driving around a race track yet, but that might work as well!

And potassium is great for lowering blood pressure and slowing up a racing heart. If you present in A&E with a racing heart, they will inject a potassium solution into the vein on you left shoulder/chest which goes directly to the heart and that will slow up your heart rate and lower you blood pressure, but dont do this at home, just find a drink with potassium in, or some off the shelf medical lozenge with lots of potassium in.

[schnuri]

In Germany, it‘s a relevant part of elementary school.

[hutzlibu]

"why we need muscles, how we move them to protect the joints"

Then this changed, I learned 0 about it in school, except maybe a side note in biology much later on.

[schnuri]

Ok, this can also depend on the state or on the school. But in Berlin, they taught us this in PE