My friend told me...

[RBtrucking4]

My friend told me that weightlifting can shave a couple years off your life he says its bad for you i honestly dont believe it for a minute. Tell me is it true?

 

[cityhick]

Dude. That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.

 

[c00per]

Only if you drop the weight on your head.

AS long as your diet and workout routine are tight, you will likely outlive your friend. Tell your friend to come to EF and educate hiimself if he is going to give out advice like that.

 

[Lee]

Tell your friend you'll show him how lifting weights shortens youre life, then when you have his attention, slap him in the face with a 45 pound plate.

 

[DZLS]

you seem to hang out with a couple of morons...

first the creatine, and now this...?

i can't wait to hear his next epiphany...

 

[sublime35]

Tell your friend you'll show him how lifting weights shortens youre life, then when you have his attention, slap him in the face with a 45 pound plate.

LOL, holy shit I just just choked on my egg whites.

 

[*Bunny*]

My friend told me that weightlifting can shave a couple years off your life he says its bad for you i honestly dont believe it for a minute. Tell me is it true?

This type of ignorance from your friend is very evident in all realms of society, so he is not alone ... .

Ask him to give you specifics and cite some sources... what possible evidence can he give you to back up such a statement... Seriously, I'm dying to hear what he says.

Here's only ONE for ya ...

"Weight training increases strength and endurance; improves muscle fiber type distribution; reduces the number of motor units needed to do work; lowers catecholamine levels in the blood; reduces heart failure symptoms when doing the normal activities of daily living; increases NO (nitric oxide) production, which relaxes arteries; and increases bone density."

Title: The Effects of Resistance Exercise on Skeletal Muscle Abnormalities in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure
Author: Captain Major L. King, PhD, RN
Source: Prog Cardiovasc Nurs 16(4):142-151, 2001.

 

[mbcrump]

Your friend is an idiot... Humans are made with the ability to lift weights. In the stone age they were lifting stones to make wheels lol =)

 

[alex2678]

Your friend probably just doesn't want you to lift weights and get bigger than he is....Now do as your told and go drop that 45 pound plate on his head.

 

[RBtrucking4]

ya i was 99% sure it was bullshit just wanted to make sure.