Neoliberal Doing the Work for the Weekend Warrior Sports, Ranked: 1) ironman 2) ultramarathon 3) marathon 4) generic crossfit (with cool photos! of fun!) 5) spartan race (more photos!) 6) Appalachian Trail 7) mindfulness 8) grit / resilience 9) self care 10) social distancing
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One of the things they really like is any endurance activity that is essentially a "time potlatch," showing they have so much time they can waste 20-40 hours a week running and swimming at a moderate pace and still kill it at their 501c3 nonprofit gig
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The blue collar equivalent of this is dumping 100 hrs a week into poopsocking a video game, destroying the body from the comfort of one's cell. Video game training is perhaps the most intense discipline of all. Powerlifting is great because, unjuiced esp, you can only do so much
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The work of the time potlatchpic.twitter.com/nHjwxSKMaH
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Running is the greatest sport for these sort of Protestant work ethic masochists. It rewards free time, and anaerobic capacity basically scales arithmetically if you’re weird enough to put in the mileage. ** NB distance running. Sprinters wouldn’t be caught dead being that dumb
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Yeah, there's simply no way to train explosive activity or power activity or even hypertrophic activity (sans steroids) for hours on end , but the human body can run thousands of miles. Perfect for these cadaverous ascetics
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