So true! I began my jogging routine when I was still in high school in the mid-1970s. I typically ran on the side of the road and it was fairly common for concerned drivers to pull over and ask if I needed a ride!
+Travis Heinze Had some insane encounters with cops while in college. Sleeping in the parking lot at work or on campus. I once woke up with four cop cars boxing in my car. They told me to get out and completely searched my car. Took everything out even though it was raining and asked me a million question. Guilty till proven innocent I guess.
the hotels/motels gotta make money and the legal system is designed to kick down the unfortunate or adventure seekers. on a positive note there are a lot of businesses who are friendly and open to letting you stay a night in your car in their parking lot if you ask. people with RVs do it all the time. what really bugs me is the highway rest stops that say "no overnights".
when cost of living vs wage continues to leave millennials with only downsizing options and thus rv, tinyhomes, trailers, portable housing and shortterm rentals are popularized and considered a viable and common option for living
I think the lesson I took away from this is how even the most innocuous activity will get you suspicion and mistrust if it deviates from what people are used to. It would have been nice to get some global cultural views on jogging as opposed to pure US centric. I know for example in Japan Ambassador Caroline Kennedy jogs regularly and this got a lot of attention because it isn't as common a thing for people to do there, especially high profile political figures, as it is in the US.
My friend would still jog 7 months pregnant in Okinawa. Sometimes old japanese women would chase her to try to get her to stop running. But mostly, she got many incredulous compliments. In the Australian desert, about halfway between two cities I was pulled over by a cop while riding my bike. He was concerned I was one of those asian idiots who go to the desert with barely any water. Another friend here in CA runs with what looks like Bane's mask, one of those stupid high altitude "simulators." He gets lots of weird looks, and I wouldn't be surprised if cops follow him, too.
The cops had a good reason to do so, there are a lot of stupid people that go out for long bike rides and then collapse on the way back because they underestimated the heat and the amount of water they'd need.
Neal X Given the popularity of international sporting and fitness events, like the Olympics for one, I would venture to say that many people around the world no longer see running as odd and recognize its health benefits, although they may not participate in it. I don't think running is inherently weird, but I do think there are instance when running may be strange. For instance, if I see someone running in the summer or spring wearing shorts and running shoes, it's expected. But, if I see I someone running in jeans and a button-up, I do a double take because I view that less as an exercise and possibly more as them running to something (late) or from something (trouble) based solely on the clothing choice since that's difficult and uncomfortable to run in. Other factors might include the surrounding environment, like running in adverse weather conditions or in a business district as opposed to a jogging path, track, or less congested area.
In VA, it would be illegal to wear a mask like that in public other than for holiday, religious occasions, theatrical performance, medical requirement, or occupational safety. The law is an anti-KKK law.
+Joshua Willis We did actually. In fact humans beat even horses at long distance running. Humans are the BEST species at cross country. Dogs horses mules panthers, nobody stands a chance. Reason being only humans can regulate their temperature so well to not overheat from running.
***** Whether we can or cannot outrun horses does not negate the fact that our bodies evolved to do that. And there's no such thing as "devolution". Evolution doesn't work by your metrics of what you consider progress.
I believe with my whole heart that jogging is torture 😂 I’ve always hated it and see joggers as psychopaths because they are can endure such torture and fell happy about it
I started running in January of 1969 while in Vietnam. I was 21 years old then. Now it's 2017, I'm 70 years old and I'm still running. I'm not as fast as when I was younger but I'm still out there kicking up the dirt. I love running because it affects me physically, mentally and spiritually. I know that someday I may not be able to run. I just hope it's a long time from now.
In junior high school, I picked up jogging around the Central Park Reservoir(1 1/2 mile around) to lose weight almost every day. I was one of six joggers that jog regularly. Thanks to an older guy who taught me to breath properly and the importance of cool down, I jog for several years. This was in 1960. I Iost weight and increased my endurance, but was often made fun of.
I was running in the late 1950s, and I ran thousands of miles around around the streets of my hometown in the UK, and I NEVER saw another jogger! Indeed, the word "jogger" wasn't used to describe recreational running until the 1970s.
Not for those things either. Humans have these things called "vastly superior brains" and "opposable thumbs". They've never had to run after anything or away from much. See the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey for clarification.
strewf ummm yes they are. Rewind 1.8 million years ago - we were running. We were running to catch food to eat or away from things that wanted to kill and eat us. And we have been doing so for nearly all those 1.8 million years until agriculture started in 10000 BC. Then we started to become lazy, so that in the last century companies like Nike could come and take advantage of each humans _birthright_ to run. If you look at it on an evolutionary level we, humans, have been running for almost all of our existence - there has been only a 0.5% windows where we didn't need to run to survive. We _are_ built to run.
To paraphrase: "Credit for the invention of jogging goes to Iowan coach Bill Bowerman, who had the idea after travelling to New Zealand, and seeing people doing it there." Great history.
You missed an important part of running history. Women were not allowed to run. Much less participate in marathons. In 1967 Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to participate in a marathon and was face with physical attacks by officials and many others cursing her. Thankfully her husband was able to block them thus allowing her to finish the race
Listen no offense but everyone understands that if you were a woman or black you weren't allowed to do anything in the 60's. So let's stop trying to make people feel bad for stuff they weren't apart of
This isn't a running history class. The title is not when ''running was for men'', so NO, they didn't miss that because it is not related to the video. I agree with the guy that replied to you, you sound like you wanna make men feel bad; I am pretty sure women were cursing at her just as much as men.
anyway to this day it remains an appropriate social norm for each gender to remain in their own separate class. if men joined all women's sports today and started taking all of their championships and glory, I don't think officials would be too happy about that either. but I doubt they would physically assault them repeatedly. there are mechanisms in place for when people violate rules of an organized sport
not if you reduce how much calories you eat. I don't do any sports at all. I can eat about 1500 calories a day to maintain my weight. I am 180cm and I've been at 72-73kg for years. I know many people say something like: you can't lose weight if you don't exercise. That's not true. To regulate my weight I regulate my calorie intake. Simple as that.
It's still the same in my home country. There people will stare at you for jogging. Especially given that most people you pass by are already working their asses off doing hard menial labor even if you get up at like 5AM. It's starting to change a bit now that the country is more developed and the middle class is growing, but jogging (or cycling) on the roads is still looked at with a bit of disdain. They're associated with rich people who have nothing else to do.
I remember running becoming popular with the book, Aerobics, which you briefly mentioned. It was written by Kenneth Cooper. In South America, I understand that jogging is still called "Doing Cooper". Before that, I used to run before wrestling practice on the streets, and by a hospital. People stared right and left. Especially in winter.
Well I do cross country because in every other known sport I hurt myself. I mean how can you hurt yourself running right? Well long story short I broke my ankle on my first race of my first meet of track. I think I’m going to try something safer
James Fuller "Jim" Fixx (April 23, 1932 - July 20, 1984) was an American who authored the 1977 best-selling book "The Complete Book of Running". He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age. Enjoy your run!
See? Just because someone tried to make money out of something doesn't mean they're all evil. Without Nike and other sports companies, running might still be weird today.
BS, the article you highlighted says he QUIT the 3 to 4 packs a day when he started running. Why you make it sound like he smoked 3 -4 packs while being the only jogger out there?
Running is the most innate thing a human can do. To not run is to deny what the machine was built for. Everyone can run long distance you just have to practice a bit. Get outside and start persistence hunting. It'll make you a better person. It's who you are.
Hunting is unnecessary, therefore immoral to take the life of an unwilling conscious victim whom deserves autonomy and respect, for mere selfish pleasure.
nd4spd I mean that's not a very good argument. Just because something isn't necessary doesn't have anything to do with morality. Hunting for food is different than hunting for sport as well.
Interesting mention of "Aerobic's" by Dr. Ken Cooper. In the mid 60's Cooper was an internal medicine doctor in the USAF stationed @ Lackland AFB, home of the then largest AF hospital, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, aka 'Big Willy'. At the time the Air Forces fitness standard was based on how muscular the airman/officer was, ie how many push-ups, chin-ups, sit-ups etc they could do. Cooper had an idea than aerobic endurance was a better indicator of fitness than shear muscles. Using a large number of Air Force basic trainee's @ Lackland, he came up with a new standard of fitness-basicly, could the individual run a mile and a half in less than 15 minutes. He convinced the powers that be that this was relevant, published "Aerobic's" and then left the USAF and moved up IH 35 to Dallas and opened The Cooper Clinic doing high-end fitness physicals and training for those with money to burn. He left the treadmill he had done most of the study behind @ Big Willy. Years later, I worked in the ETT- Exercise Tolerance Training aka treadmill room. The old enormous treadmill was showing it's age. I occasionally referred to it as the 'steam-roller' because of it's enormous size of the rollers moving the belt. As years passed, Cooper's tester was wearing out and my bosses wanted a newer, more modern unit with all the bells & whistles. I researched 'the steamroller' and tried to convince them that it had some historical value. They didn't care. All used excess equipment was sent to nearby then Kelly AFB to be auctioned off. Someone probably bought this historical gem for 25 or 30 dollars.
It's so you can brag about it on facebook. Honestly sometimes i go on facebook and think people excercise just so they can post it on social media... Welp, atleast they do excercise.
Those were joggers. Track athletes were still very talented Like he said, it was still normal for athletes, military, etc. to run. The 4 minute mile had already been broken 10 years before the era he even talked about.
This is true. There's a video of a Passaic, 1978 Frank Zappa concert in which you can hear him mention jogging like it's another fad that will go away.
Great video! Does anyone know the story of the first marathon - why it is 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195 km)? I remember the story of Philippides running from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of of the battle at Marathon but I've always wondered if this is apocryphal or not.
+TheTwick marathons used to just roughly be 25 miles (the distance between Marathon and Athens) but would change slightly depending on the route available at the 1908 Olympic Games, the organisers decided they wanted the race to start outside Windsor Castle and finish outside the royal box in White City Stadium (following a lap of the track) the route chosen then came to 26 miles and 385 yards, which 13 years later was adopted as the official standard distance for a marathon by the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations)
+Karl Franks Thanks. I sometimes wondered if Phil's run was officially measured and that's what it came out to be. You're explanation makes perfect sense.
This video is a little deceiving because of the fact that running is literally the most natural movement human beings can perform, and is primarily the reason for humans evolving the way they have. I would do a little more research before chalking up the enterprise to American culture. Doesn't seem to do the title of the video justice. And while its true the practice was averse in populist sentiments for long periods of time, pinning the concept of the jogger or runner down in this way woefully underappreciates the complexity of the practice throughout millennia.
It never occurred to me that jogging or running for fun would once have been considered a strange or suspicious activity until I saw Back to the Future: Part III.
Jonathan S Gerard jk :P. There are obviously a lot of benefits to running. It's just not my kind of exercise, haha. Swimming and biking are so much sweeter.
+Mateo Sanchis most people do not run with perfect form. they run in the way that is most comfortable. but if you are wired to put uneven stress or move your body using less efficient muscles (and most people are) you will most likely injure yourself. running will never reallign the body. it's really the stressed muscles that get hurt, not your "skeleton." true that many people can handle the stress, but many cannot and should use caution running. there is a reason runners cross train. repeatative actions usually leads to injury or misalligning something. if you listen to your body and running works for you, good for you. for me it is too much repeatative high impact.
fuzzypandas89 Thanks! I have spent a lot of time around very athletic and very muscular people with good genetics, but horrifying injuries because they were never taught anywhere how to stabilize the spine, or strengthen the muscles that should stabilize the spine.
The history is repeating with parkour. The times I was harassed by police and security guards and just random people for climbing on walls and public architecture... In 50 years someone will make an eerily similar video on parkour. I'm sure of it.
+Raffboy Depends on how and where you jog. I love jogging because it's one of the few times where I don't have any technology beyond a GPS to track my distance and pace, so I love the feeling of being disconnected from the internet and my phone for an hour. I also personally prefer urban running, because you get to enjoy the sights and watch the people, but trail running in the right place can be lovely too.
It really depends, Jogging in the city is boring. Jogging on a trail or in the woods is by far better. You can hear every foot step as you push against the gravel, and every chirp of the nearby birds.
I never knew this. But this is how people see vegans, vegetarians, and environmentalists today. They're just "weird." even though we have the right idea.
+doodelay I mean a bit stuck up but very true. I mean eating a double big mac bacon cheese burger whilst driving a 1 mpg super truck across America to then set sail on your fuel drinking yacht, can never be sustainable
Reminds me of Mad Men where the neighbors would gossip about Helen Bishop taking long walks. But honestly I don't know how Dilaudid I'm especially the movie star and model looking people like Betty draper kept their sizes and figures
The weirdest thing about running now is that running around in circles looks more normal than running to get somewhere.
I used to run everywhere as a kid. I never walked when I had to get someplace or run an errand.
gubx42 Frfr lol
@@KilgoreTrout-vo7uy if I was going somewhere I was ruuuniiiing
“On your left”
Anyone know the reference?
@@elliotearles8302 captain america civil war... isn't it ?
When those guys broke out of prison they must have been hard as hell to catch.
I agree!!
I don't think anyone would have had any trouble catching Oscar Wilde.
FU 2
FU 2 The poor guy was in jail for getting laid
the Wheel of Pain worked out OK for Conan the Barbarian...
So true! I began my jogging routine when I was still in high school in the mid-1970s. I typically ran on the side of the road and it was fairly common for concerned drivers to pull over and ask if I needed a ride!
Atleast ppl were being helpful 🤩
It still happens in Slovakia😂 my brother in law regularly opens his car window and shouts at runners. We are not a very healthy lifestyle nation😅
That is a kind and warm gesture though!
What a time! Hope you live long and well to treasure such memories
People who are ahead of their time are always considered weird at first...
Like furries
goths were considered weirdos at their time, but now we have doomers
uh oh, simps
@@lachlanchester8142 no
@@anon2916 yes
When will sleeping in your car stop being suspicious? I get harassed by cops a lot for it.
+Travis Heinze Same here. I suppose that'll happen around the same time it stops being illegal to be homeless.
+Travis Heinze Had some insane encounters with cops while in college. Sleeping in the parking lot at work or on campus. I once woke up with four cop cars boxing in my car. They told me to get out and completely searched my car. Took everything out even though it was raining and asked me a million question. Guilty till proven innocent I guess.
the hotels/motels gotta make money and the legal system is designed to kick down the unfortunate or adventure seekers. on a positive note there are a lot of businesses who are friendly and open to letting you stay a night in your car in their parking lot if you ask. people with RVs do it all the time. what really bugs me is the highway rest stops that say "no overnights".
+Probably Shane Walmart seems to be cutting back on overnight sleeping more than ever too.
when cost of living vs wage continues to leave millennials with only downsizing options and thus rv, tinyhomes, trailers, portable housing and shortterm rentals are popularized and considered a viable and common option for living
I think the lesson I took away from this is how even the most innocuous activity will get you suspicion and mistrust if it deviates from what people are used to.
It would have been nice to get some global cultural views on jogging as opposed to pure US centric. I know for example in Japan Ambassador Caroline Kennedy jogs regularly and this got a lot of attention because it isn't as common a thing for people to do there, especially high profile political figures, as it is in the US.
My friend would still jog 7 months pregnant in Okinawa. Sometimes old japanese women would chase her to try to get her to stop running. But mostly, she got many incredulous compliments. In the Australian desert, about halfway between two cities I was pulled over by a cop while riding my bike. He was concerned I was one of those asian idiots who go to the desert with barely any water. Another friend here in CA runs with what looks like Bane's mask, one of those stupid high altitude "simulators." He gets lots of weird looks, and I wouldn't be surprised if cops follow him, too.
The cops had a good reason to do so, there are a lot of stupid people that go out for long bike rides and then collapse on the way back because they underestimated the heat and the amount of water they'd need.
Neal X Given the popularity of international sporting and fitness events, like the Olympics for one, I would venture to say that many people around the world no longer see running as odd and recognize its health benefits, although they may not participate in it.
I don't think running is inherently weird, but I do think there are instance when running may be strange.
For instance, if I see someone running in the summer or spring wearing shorts and running shoes, it's expected. But, if I see I someone running in jeans and a button-up, I do a double take because I view that less as an exercise and possibly more as them running to something (late) or from something (trouble) based solely on the clothing choice since that's difficult and uncomfortable to run in.
Other factors might include the surrounding environment, like running in adverse weather conditions or in a business district as opposed to a jogging path, track, or less congested area.
In VA, it would be illegal to wear a mask like that in public other than for holiday, religious occasions, theatrical performance, medical requirement, or occupational safety. The law is an anti-KKK law.
I like to walk backwards when I'm walking my dog sometimes. The looks I get are priceless.
Actually, Forest Gump made running popular.
+ben roman ayyyy
"RUN FORREST, RUN!!!"
+ben roman actually forest gump invented running
michael cook ???
michael papadopoulos it's science bro
That's odd considering humans evolved to be long distance runners.
+Joshua Willis We did actually. In fact humans beat even horses at long distance running. Humans are the BEST species at cross country. Dogs horses mules panthers, nobody stands a chance. Reason being only humans can regulate their temperature so well to not overheat from running.
MrThe1And0nly
He was joking m8.
systempatcher I'm not so sure about that.
***** Whether we can or cannot outrun horses does not negate the fact that our bodies evolved to do that.
And there's no such thing as "devolution". Evolution doesn't work by your metrics of what you consider progress.
***** By what works :)
It's a self replicating process. That's all you need to know to understand evolution and how it works.
How do you smoke 3-4 packs of cigs a day?? If you were awake, lets says 15 hours, thats like having a cig every 10 min!!
Yup!
Source: working with a friend who literally couldn't go 10 minutes without a smoking break
Babar Tahir I know I guy who used to smoke 5 but he stopped before he killed himself
I had a professor, that had to break lectures every hour for a smoke
joe joyce Intentionally or did the cigarettes do it?
thomase13 wtf...what kind of job did he have. I want to work someplace that will tolerate me doing half the work all day and still get paid.
And there was a prophet. And the name of him was Forrest... Forrest Gump (read with southern accent)
The entire state speaks with the same accent?
Denis Shamray I already have one so no need
My dad started jogging in the late 60's, still does to this day. even in sweden people turned their heads
Altered State of Mind - Last year, my grandmother started walking five miles a day. Now we don't know where the hell she is.
Also swedish
run for fun?!?
+Ali Jardz Health and feel-good? Your life...
for me, i like feeling like im dying while running. its quite nice actually, if youre dead inside.
disgusting; running is the worst.
***** As a person that's been runing for months...runners high does not happen for everyone...
+spartan1010101 just keep doing it a little longer, and you'll understand the runner's high
I love this video! "why don't you jog?" "um... it's literally torture..."
I don't get it. 😐
No just no
I believe with my whole heart that jogging is torture 😂 I’ve always hated it and see joggers as psychopaths because they are can endure such torture and fell happy about it
@@InBeMugaaglesicit gets better every run
Nah jogging is easy, running is hard
I started running in January of 1969 while in Vietnam. I was 21 years old then. Now it's 2017, I'm 70 years old and I'm still running. I'm not as fast as when I was younger but I'm still out there kicking up the dirt. I love running because it affects me physically, mentally and spiritually. I know that someday I may not be able to run. I just hope it's a long time from now.
Running is the most amazing hobby that I've ever tried and would be depressed if I didn't
If running became popular in the 70's, I'd guess the Rocky movies had some influence on that trend.
Movies mostly mirror trends rather than create them but good point
In junior high school, I picked up jogging around the Central Park Reservoir(1 1/2 mile around) to lose weight almost every day. I was one of six joggers that jog regularly. Thanks to an older guy who taught me to breath properly and the importance of cool down, I jog for several years. This was in 1960. I Iost weight and increased my endurance, but was often made fun of.
I was running in the late 1950s, and I ran thousands of miles around around the streets of my hometown in the UK, and I NEVER saw another jogger!
Indeed, the word "jogger" wasn't used to describe recreational running until the 1970s.
Anchorman joke makes so much more sense
+gotja "yogging"
humans were built to run
+FrozenEternity from monsters like you Shere Khan
+FrozenEternity after things, mostly food...also from things...not for fun.... you psychos.
Not for those things either. Humans have these things called "vastly superior brains" and "opposable thumbs". They've never had to run after anything or away from much. See the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey for clarification.
No, they weren't. Hence not doing it much before Nike Inc told them to.
strewf ummm yes they are. Rewind 1.8 million years ago - we were running. We were running to catch food to eat or away from things that wanted to kill and eat us. And we have been doing so for nearly all those 1.8 million years until agriculture started in 10000 BC. Then we started to become lazy, so that in the last century companies like Nike could come and take advantage of each humans _birthright_ to run. If you look at it on an evolutionary level we, humans, have been running for almost all of our existence - there has been only a 0.5% windows where we didn't need to run to survive.
We _are_ built to run.
This give some perspective to that episode of Mad Men
Jørgen Oktober Storm Nestande Thyrum cane here for this! “I see her outside....walking” “where is she walking to?”
It's still for weirdos, but now is like the norm.
hahaha, true
+SaintShinobi Well if it's normal, then by definition it isn't weird is it?
was about to say
linkshand Lol I ride a bike almost all days of week, I just don't feel superior for doing it, like the running weirdos.
Riding a bike is more fun, and depending on where you ride, you can get a good workout if you have to go uphill.
I think of some of my best poetry while running and do a lot of my praying while running. It also keeps my butt perky and my legs looking great.
Spain, 1988, sad little town, I remember people yelling at me and my group "1, 2, 1, 2" while we we're running, or even "hey, you forgot your pants".
+Mateo Sanchis Oh jeez lol.
And my personal favorite: "Jogging is the worst! I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?" - Anne Perkins.
To paraphrase: "Credit for the invention of jogging goes to Iowan coach Bill Bowerman, who had the idea after travelling to New Zealand, and seeing people doing it there." Great history.
Or you have asthma and can bike for hours but can't run for a minute.
You missed an important part of running history. Women were not allowed to run. Much less participate in marathons. In 1967 Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to participate in a marathon and was face with physical attacks by officials and many others cursing her. Thankfully her husband was able to block them thus allowing her to finish the race
Listen no offense but everyone understands that if you were a woman or black you weren't allowed to do anything in the 60's. So let's stop trying to make people feel bad for stuff they weren't apart of
This isn't a running history class. The title is not when ''running was for men'', so NO, they didn't miss that because it is not related to the video. I agree with the guy that replied to you, you sound like you wanna make men feel bad; I am pretty sure women were cursing at her just as much as men.
It's an important fact that I didn't know, and I'm glad I read it in the comments. She's not trying to make anybody feel bad, don't be so fragile.
Wow, thanks for the info. People sure had some weird hangups back in the days.
anyway to this day it remains an appropriate social norm for each gender to remain in their own separate class. if men joined all women's sports today and started taking all of their championships and glory, I don't think officials would be too happy about that either. but I doubt they would physically assault them repeatedly. there are mechanisms in place for when people violate rules of an organized sport
Joan Rivers once said, "The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."
I LOVE SO MUCH YOUR VIDEOS. YOU MAKE EVERYTHING INTERESTING AND FUN TO WATCH.
When did Cross Country and Track running get started, particularly in high schools?
Are you telling me that Ron Burgundy's joke about no knowing about jogging is actually completely historically accurate?
This is what's happening with meditation too!
Jokanaan yea cant wait til they have olympic meditation ya know?
@@1boyalotofvids you aren't very good with analogies, are you?
this explains so much. i read the book aerobics as a kid, and did not understand why it was so eager to explain everything. Clearly, I read it late.
Being weird makes you unique and stand out... being the norm in society and you will be ignored of existence on this planet....
+HOLLOW HILL
Everyone is weird it's just even weirder to take one step and show it.
Technocracy in private we are all weird.. in public most of us try to be the norm.... while some are weird in public and private
The video style is so good I had to rewind the video because I kept getting distracted by the visuals and the aesthetic.
1:25 that watch tan tho
Who said that people that run aren’t weirdos because last time I checked we all just silently judge them
Couch potato is good. Don't worry about running, just lay down and don't worry about anything. It'll be ok.
M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle You'll just get a little fatter
not if you reduce how much calories you eat. I don't do any sports at all. I can eat about 1500 calories a day to maintain my weight. I am 180cm and I've been at 72-73kg for years. I know many people say something like: you can't lose weight if you don't exercise. That's not true. To regulate my weight I regulate my calorie intake. Simple as that.
Such creatively done n some really good narration there
I busted out the running man while watching this video.
this was hilarious to many the way that the cutouts moved and the way they were narrated
I HATE running! After years of forced running in the military, they ruined it for me
no wonder everybody was flipping out at Forrest Gump when he was running back in the day
It's still the same in my home country. There people will stare at you for jogging. Especially given that most people you pass by are already working their asses off doing hard menial labor even if you get up at like 5AM. It's starting to change a bit now that the country is more developed and the middle class is growing, but jogging (or cycling) on the roads is still looked at with a bit of disdain. They're associated with rich people who have nothing else to do.
+Angreh Kittunz And which country are from..?
Wow, Vox's graphics have come on a long way
Meanwhile in Kenya...
I remember running becoming popular with the book, Aerobics, which you briefly mentioned. It was written by Kenneth Cooper. In South America, I understand that jogging is still called "Doing Cooper". Before that, I used to run before wrestling practice on the streets, and by a hospital. People stared right and left. Especially in winter.
Jogging or yogging might be a soft j
Vox needs to do an article on Jack LaLanne.
Still is.
MammaApa, are you Korean ? ?
Love the clever animation on this. 👏👏👏😎
So thats why most of the track team is composed of weirdos.
+matthew banuelos
I rewatched "Juno" just the other night, actually.
We're the people who are in shape, but hand-eye coordination is not really out thing.
Exactly, that's why we end up on the track and on the xc course, or just out on the streets for a run
nah, that's the cross country team actually
Well I do cross country because in every other known sport I hurt myself. I mean how can you hurt yourself running right? Well long story short I broke my ankle on my first race of my first meet of track. I think I’m going to try something safer
Thumb-upped for the video style!
i thought it was forrest gump who created the jogging trend
+caroline He was giphy.com/gifs/JjLylCKqqQs5q/html5
Gump had nothing to do with it. Running was very popular in the '70s and '80s. Gump was released in 1994.
the ad before the video was a commercial for running shoes
Real title: "When murica thinks being healthy is weird."
James Fuller "Jim" Fixx (April 23, 1932 - July 20, 1984) was an American who authored the 1977 best-selling book "The Complete Book of Running". He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age. Enjoy your run!
I love running my imagination.
See? Just because someone tried to make money out of something doesn't mean they're all evil. Without Nike and other sports companies, running might still be weird today.
BS, the article you highlighted says he QUIT the 3 to 4 packs a day when he started running. Why you make it sound like he smoked 3 -4 packs while being the only jogger out there?
Isn't it weird that I never liked running before, but now, I want be a runner?
Running is the most innate thing a human can do. To not run is to deny what the machine was built for. Everyone can run long distance you just have to practice a bit. Get outside and start persistence hunting. It'll make you a better person. It's who you are.
Darwin42 not when you have chronic back pain
Hunting is unnecessary, therefore immoral to take the life of an unwilling conscious victim whom deserves autonomy and respect, for mere selfish pleasure.
nd4spd I mean that's not a very good argument. Just because something isn't necessary doesn't have anything to do with morality. Hunting for food is different than hunting for sport as well.
What I stated was not an argument. It is an observable fact.
Darwin42, you're not a machine . .
I remember jogging back in the day when I was in my country, people would think I was getting chased or that I just got mugged
Exercise/running is STILL for weirdos, have you seen the average american? Most hardly even WALK
Worth also researching "Fell Running" in the UK.
Running is a pain but I love running!
Not a pain if you do it correctly.
Interesting mention of "Aerobic's" by Dr. Ken Cooper. In the mid 60's Cooper was an internal medicine doctor in the USAF stationed @ Lackland AFB, home of the then largest AF hospital, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, aka 'Big Willy'. At the time the Air Forces fitness standard was based on how muscular the airman/officer was, ie how many push-ups, chin-ups, sit-ups etc they could do. Cooper had an idea than aerobic endurance was a better indicator of fitness than shear muscles. Using a large number of Air Force basic trainee's @ Lackland, he came up with a new standard of fitness-basicly, could the individual run a mile and a half in less than 15 minutes. He convinced the powers that be that this was relevant, published "Aerobic's" and then left the USAF and moved up IH 35 to Dallas and opened The Cooper Clinic doing high-end fitness physicals and training for those with money to burn. He left the treadmill he had done most of the study behind @ Big Willy. Years later, I worked in the ETT- Exercise Tolerance Training aka treadmill room. The old enormous treadmill was showing it's age. I occasionally referred to it as the 'steam-roller' because of it's enormous size of the rollers moving the belt. As years passed, Cooper's tester was wearing out and my bosses wanted a newer, more modern unit with all the bells & whistles. I researched 'the steamroller' and tried to convince them that it had some historical value. They didn't care. All used excess equipment was sent to nearby then Kelly AFB to be auctioned off. Someone probably bought this historical gem for 25 or 30 dollars.
Running is STILL for weirdos.
+jackofallspades98 No, only out of shape people think that :)
Not running is for weirdos
Almost all REAL weirdo I know don't run at all.
sitting down on your ass all day is weird
It's so you can brag about it on facebook. Honestly sometimes i go on facebook and think people excercise just so they can post it on social media... Welp, atleast they do excercise.
Creative vid, thanks Vox!
Lol an 11 minute mile? The slowest I ran a mile was 7 minutes. I would be a track star back then
Those were joggers. Track athletes were still very talented Like he said, it was still normal for athletes, military, etc. to run. The 4 minute mile had already been broken 10 years before the era he even talked about.
The runner in question was smoking 3 or 4 packs of cigarettes a day (so 60-80 cigarettes). That wouldn't leave him much time for training!
he smoked 3-4 packs a day bud. Obv its harder to jog then
And this gets to the end point. "Don't smoke crack!"
being a swimmer, running is hell for me.
This is great. I'm glad my wolfpack is a bunch of weirdos. ;)
This is true. There's a video of a Passaic, 1978 Frank Zappa concert in which you can hear him mention jogging like it's another fad that will go away.
I could have ate those runners
+Starving Boy In Africa ... Eaten*
+Starving Boy In Africa chronic hunger is no excuse for poor grammar, young man.
+wafeman17 lol
Still hungry :(
What's a Buffet?
Great video! Does anyone know the story of the first marathon - why it is 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195 km)? I remember the story of Philippides running from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of of the battle at Marathon but I've always wondered if this is apocryphal or not.
+TheTwick marathons used to just roughly be 25 miles (the distance between Marathon and Athens) but would change slightly depending on the route available
at the 1908 Olympic Games, the organisers decided they wanted the race to start outside Windsor Castle and finish outside the royal box in White City Stadium (following a lap of the track)
the route chosen then came to 26 miles and 385 yards, which 13 years later was adopted as the official standard distance for a marathon by the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations)
+Karl Franks Thanks. I sometimes wondered if Phil's run was officially measured and that's what it came out to be. You're explanation makes perfect sense.
Do americans call nike 'nikey'
Yeah bud Canadians too eh
Jamez Gaming yepp.
Actually... yes
Because Nike is a Greek word, which means that the 'e' on the end is pronounced as a long vowel (Niekee) rather than (Niek).
welp they did make the brand
You know, it'd be great if your cards at the end had annotations so I could watch your video on soul patches.
This video is a little deceiving because of the fact that running is literally the most natural movement human beings can perform, and is primarily the reason for humans evolving the way they have. I would do a little more research before chalking up the enterprise to American culture. Doesn't seem to do the title of the video justice. And while its true the practice was averse in populist sentiments for long periods of time, pinning the concept of the jogger or runner down in this way woefully underappreciates the complexity of the practice throughout millennia.
It never occurred to me that jogging or running for fun would once have been considered a strange or suspicious activity until I saw Back to the Future: Part III.
I run 10km three times a week. It's a hell of a sport.
i run a 5k once a week usually at 10pm on Sundays and i hate it... i just do it because it keeps me at my fighting weight...
Nice visual concept for the video
Its still weird. Runners freak me out.
Probably because you don't know how to run
damn son
Jonathan S Gerard Yes
ok...
Jonathan S Gerard jk :P. There are obviously a lot of benefits to running. It's just not my kind of exercise, haha. Swimming and biking are so much sweeter.
have you got anything on rollerblading? as a quote would go "he was suspiciously rollerblading"
running: great for your heart. terrible for your skeleton.
Myth.
+Mateo Sanchis most people do not run with perfect form. they run in the way that is most comfortable. but if you are wired to put uneven stress or move your body using less efficient muscles (and most people are) you will most likely injure yourself. running will never reallign the body. it's really the stressed muscles that get hurt, not your "skeleton." true that many people can handle the stress, but many cannot and should use caution running. there is a reason runners cross train. repeatative actions usually leads to injury or misalligning something. if you listen to your body and running works for you, good for you. for me it is too much repeatative high impact.
+BachBeethovenBeatles well said
fuzzypandas89 Thanks! I have spent a lot of time around very athletic and very muscular people with good genetics, but horrifying injuries because they were never taught anywhere how to stabilize the spine, or strengthen the muscles that should stabilize the spine.
Haven't seen the documentary, but: it still is
The history is repeating with parkour. The times I was harassed by police and security guards and just random people for climbing on walls and public architecture... In 50 years someone will make an eerily similar video on parkour. I'm sure of it.
I'm just here for the Ron Burgundy "yogging" jokes...apparently you just run...for an extended period of time.
It's still for weirdos. It's just that weirdos are mainstream now.
Doesn't that mean they aren't weirdos?
+icappel that's weird though
Joshua Kleiner you are weird for talking to people over a small rectangle.
icappel no one shouldn't sacrifice their hobby just because it's "weird". Unless their hobby is to rape and kill and stuff like that
The fastest you’ll ever see me go is probably a speed walk 😆
Moar metric system jokes
2 15 second ads at the end of this video made my decision to never watch another vox video for as long as i live.
sprinting is fun but jogging is boring af
+Raffboy Indeed.
+Raffboy Depends on how and where you jog. I love jogging because it's one of the few times where I don't have any technology beyond a GPS to track my distance and pace, so I love the feeling of being disconnected from the internet and my phone for an hour. I also personally prefer urban running, because you get to enjoy the sights and watch the people, but trail running in the right place can be lovely too.
+Raffboy We'd be way more kickass if people had their 100m or 40-yard times on their cars instead of 26.2 or 13.1
It really depends, Jogging in the city is boring.
Jogging on a trail or in the woods is by far better. You can hear every foot step as you push against the gravel, and every chirp of the nearby birds.
So walk, or sit.
Hey TH-cam, what shoes do you jog in? I use Dunlop KT-26's. Cheap, ugly, but great running shoes.
I see your an Australian Bloke
How do you jog in such heat?
+Ixissimus
Naked of course.
New Balance Minimus
I love the heat.@@paxtonb7202
the reason the metric system is still alive in america is because practically every other nation uses it.
EquateX, generally Americans don't have the brains for it same for languages they barely speak English. . .
I enjoyed this high schooler’s history project
I never knew this. But this is how people see vegans, vegetarians, and environmentalists today. They're just "weird." even though we have the right idea.
Cool.
"The right idea" about veggies is debatable...
+M4TRIXed The right idea about animal rights is not debatable though
+M4TRIXed just because you don't have the will power to do it doesn't mean it's not right
+doodelay I mean a bit stuck up but very true. I mean eating a double big mac bacon cheese burger whilst driving a 1 mpg super truck across America to then set sail on your fuel drinking yacht, can never be sustainable
I'd say 'torture' is quite an accurate description of jogging.
I hate when people call themselves runners when they are just hobby joggers
Sorry to disappoint you, but a runner is someone who runs.
clray123 Yeah, but he's only a runner while he's running. Other times, he's a shopper or a still-stander... Chosen exercise shouldn't define you.
Hello fellow letsrunner
Reminds me of Mad Men where the neighbors would gossip about Helen Bishop taking long walks. But honestly I don't know how Dilaudid I'm especially the movie star and model looking people like Betty draper kept their sizes and figures