Multi-generational malnutrition. It's the answer to most human disorders. The purpose to life is habitat. Health is the number priority of all life, except humans. Please have interesting guests. You're in a slump of crappy guests.
Arnold is a boomer. I currently work at a high school, & the kids look physically soft, compared to when I was in school. They also have no fashion sense. They all wear sweat suits & pajamas. They look sloppy.
That’s not the problem, the problem is that you do nothing else with the other time. But you’re probably just going to respond with more excuses. Gym before work, walk after work, build stuff with your hands on weekends. Then you’ll be just fine.
@@robbylebotha on the contrary, I do all those things, plus stretchching whilst on calls, walk/chores involving moving at lunch. Swim in the morning, workout in the evening. Most people don't have this motivation, or care and accept their poor posture, flat feet, aches and pains caused by general laziness and put it down to "I'm getting old" I WAS one of those people until my late 20s and turned it around with small decisions like taking the stairs instead of the lift, 10-20min walks throughout the day, stretching, consistency with workout out, routine. Literally fitter and healthier than I was 20 years ago. Unfortunately the younger generation I work with, almost can't see the benefits of this behaviour and routine, it's shocking
When they look back at our processed food ingredients in 200 years, they're going to say "WTF were these people thinking?" I also agree with micro plastics in the water. I'd add in there prescription medications in the water as well. Birth control drugs is a big one. The whole CO2 and human caused warming is BS. The real problem is we're poisoning the water and trashing the place.
Try to get your kids to play team sports. Besides the regular physical activity of the sport itself, they are often required to lift weights as a team during the off-season. Both of my teenage sons are stronger than I was at their age. We're not slaves to this trend of having weak kids. And a bonus is it seems to keep them out of trouble, having coaches and a team to hold them accountable.
My father was no doubt physically fit at my age (21). But he says he was never as big as I am now. Combination of a healthy diet and weightlifiting plus cardio is excellent.
Yeah. I started training in MMA 19 years ago and played Varsity Basketball in highschool. Both require constant conditioning and diet. My 3 brothers didn't. Their immune systems are weaker. They all have weaker bones. Cardio isn't as good. Even their dental hygiene is worse. I don't eat too bad and I don't drink soda at all. Both of my sons play basketball and started boxing at 5. They love it! My friends' kids look less mentally sharp and not really coordinated. I'm just being brutally honest. It is what it is. Video games all day and eating bad will make you weak.
Ive been working blue collar jobs, i got moved to a office position because they really needed someone there and im the only one that qualified in the company at the time. And tbh I miss doing the grunt work. I was much happier when i was moving all day. Now i just sit on my ass and i frequently take "breaks" just to walk around for a minute. I hate it
I worked construction till I was 25. Then 15 years of sales. I did workout during that. At the age of 40 I went back to hard physical work. Lots of lifting, pushing, pulling and walking 5-8 miles a day. Retired from that at 60. When I see most men my age it’s a good thing I had hard work all those years. A body in motion stays in motion. Get enough sleep. Stay hydrated and eat meat 🥩💪
it just gets me increasingly fidgety and rather antsy when I’m confined onto a chair for extended periods of time. Thats why I had such a hard problem with school, to the point my bored mind would mutilate the pencil in front of me just for some physical activity.
You’ll be grateful once you reach retirement. Physical movement is a requirement and non negotiable, however blue collar jobs really best you up in excess of what you require physically. My father in law is facing a lot of physical challenges from a life of blue collar work.
@@shadow6543yeah good Point. I guess it’s a balance. I’m office based primarily - but now I do more excercise and feel a lot better for it. But can see how hard labour would be equally bad on the opposite scale
The worst form of punishment for kids: Before 2000: “You will not go play with friends outside!” After 2000: “I will take your phone and you go out to play!” That says a lot…
@colerainswaggify6387 not only about cell phones, the mass proliferation of streaming computer gaming and chatting rooms started before smart phones, followed by social networking like FB in early 2000’s…
@colerainswaggify6387 I was 15 in the year 2000. Almost everyone in my class had a cell phone. Nokia 3210 was super popular at the time. Many of us played snake in class. I live in Norway. I am so grateful that I was a teenager at that time. It must suck to be a teenager today. The poor teenagers and young adults today are zombies... so heavily programmed.
@colerainswaggify6387i had to have a phone by 2005 (i was 8-9) because i was never home. from school i went straight to the rec, we played basketball and walked around the street. caught lizards, stole mangoes. did lots of stuff so i needed a phone for emergencies. my mom didnt pick me up till 9pm everyday, i was like that literally my whole life till i graduated
I track risks at the national level and I am so concerned about obesity, depression, suicide, educational performance, religiosity, friendships, the decline in the social status of men and boys, and life expectancy. None of these have very healthy indicators. However, politicians, policymakers, and bureaucrats don’t care.
The problem is, is that we rely to much on bureaucrats to make these kinds of decisions for us when we should be the ones making them for ourselves on the local level. In fact, I would argue that bureaucrats are largely responsible for perpetuating it by lining their pockets with 3rd party interest's groups etc. However, we are the ones ultimately responsible for this decline and need to get back to personal accountability.
What exactly decline in the social status of men or boys are you talking about? Is it because you see girls and women more liberated and more as their equal nowadays?
All the kids that come to our ADHD clinic live a sedentry lifestyle consisting of tv, ipads, and gaming. Parents don't try getting them into any sort of sport or outdoor activities, instead they come to the clinic and demand a diagnosis and dexamphetamines. I wonder if we would see less kids being diagnosed if they had more physically active lifestyles.
I work with some boys age 11-12 who are quite intelligent, but have significant difficulty with attention and delaying gratification. Today I was chatting with them during a lull in class and they started telling me about their introduction to the game Fortnite. I was astonished to learn they had been playing since age 4 or 5, and when they first got into the game both of them had been so entranced that they had gone days without sleep. They described seasons of play in which they would play the game all day and all night with only short breaks, developing blisters, bruises, and cuts along the way from the controls. Meals were eaten with the game still in front of them. This was in the summer months, school was not in session. It took years for the parents to realize how strict they needed to be, to treat the game like a controlled substance. I asked why parents would not just let them play an hour a day then take it. They explained that the kids will hide the game under their mattress, or put a password on the game so only they can unlock it, or sneak out to play after parents fall asleep. Over the years eventually parents catch on and develop more structure. I was very shocked, but at the same time, I remember also being a kid hooked on books and then on games. But I was introduced to games at age 11, not at such a young age. I do wonder about the long term impact, especially for kids who already have other factors such asADHD. You couldn’t blame games for ADHD for me as a kid! My fixation was good ol books and I wasn’t into TV, so you couldn’t blame any of my symptoms on screens or technology. But man, this tech is awfully addictive.
Michael Phelps has talked about how the doctor told his mother how he should be on ADD medication as a kid; she refused and had him heavily involved in sports instead...
@Kleinage it's because those games and social media were designed to induce a serotonin response in the brain. After awhile those synapses are burned up they become basically drones with nothing that really excites them in life.
I'm 50 now but we were so active as kids. Because sitting around doing nothing at home was so boring as there was basically nothing to do. So we used to bike everywhere and didn't expect or even want our parents to drive us around. I'd bike 10km over steep hills to school and back everyday(volcanic area) from age 11 and never got the bus no matter how wet it was. And school bike sheds were absolutely huge and always full to the brim. We'd bike down to the pool, to the beach with a surfboard under the arm and go for a 3hr surf and bike home again. We'd bike across town to the tennis courts and play tennis etc etc. We'd spend all day skateboarding in and across town- probably a good 10 to 20kms. I have a photo with a couple of friends at age 13 or so before puberty and we were well muscled and ripped and had 6packs(well my friend did especially due to Greek ancestry and good ab insertions- my ab insertions suck). We had a couple of chubby kids and 1 fat kid in every class but the rest were skinny. Its not like we are genetically superior to kids today- but just because we were so active due to not staring at screens all day. And no parents having to drive us everywhere terrified about "safety" and "stranger danger"(that came a bit later) so we nearly all became extremely fit compared to a good proportion of kids today.
You should look up Epigenetics, we are in fact superior genetically to gen Z and Alpha. Spent most of my childhood walking up and down snowly hills to Snowboard, and wrestled all winters in the snow in school. Worked most of my early life with physically demanding forestry jobs until I injured my spine, now I can't even lift more then a few kilos, it is what it is, I had a great life and don't worry about some suffering now in those twilight hours.
Its not just that. Many kids nowdays are into sports and fitness yet still they will have lower testosterone due to pollution and plastics suppressing free t.
and also a huge steroid junkie that needed a quadruple bypass - oh how our boys today don't look like they did in the past when our boys had $1,000 per month test habit
I was a trash collector to pay the rent to get me through film school. I always felt happier at the end of each day doing that than being a student. Because I didn’t like students.
Hi Roger. Did your binman days include Task and Finish where you go home when you've completed your 'run' - your area of work? Best job in the world. One is out and about in the fresh air, getting decent exercise and hopefully getting finished and home nice and early.
My father passed away 13 years ago. The commentary in this video about the necessity of chewing hard food reminds of the excellent advice he gave me when I was a kid. Whenever I used to eat chicken on the bone, or a pork rib or beef rib, he would aways tell me to gnaw on the bone and crunch on the cartilage. I am 47 years of age, and unlike most of my peers, I have never had a cavity nor have I had to have my wisdom teeth pulled. Thank you, dad, for on top of being a mentor, moral exemplar and provider, for offering such sage advice which is now being confirmed by science.
I don't know if every highschool has senior pictures on their walls but where I live they do, and when you look at the young men from the 1950s and compare to the children of today you'll notice a significant difference.
I know ecactly what you mean!The color digital cameras have gone very far in tech these days. The photograms are so vibrant and crisp now that we don't develop film with yesterday's coffee grounds.
When I was A child we were not allowed to play inside the house it was common for mum to say go play outside and dont come back until lunchtime or dinner time, also we had to walk to school
Sadly the way the world is today most parents don't consider it safe to allow their children to walk to school yet the benefits of being outdoors and getting the exercise are valuable. Also in my generation we kids were much more savvy about the dangers I remember being taught the story or poem called The False Knight on the Road.@@Autodidactz
My parents would ring a bell outside the door when lunch and supper was ready if we weren't helping them make the meal. Of course we washed the dishes and did laundry and each of us had a list of jobs to do everyday including cleaning the house and feeding the dog, cats, sheep in the winter, and our burro.
A good majority of what corporate/establishment science and media tells you is "healthy and good for you" is the inverse of the truth. This can be a very difficult mindset to undo, especially if you live in the US, as the population has been marketed to/manipulated for decades in the name of profit.
Yep, everything’s been going downhill since the late 80 when the low fat, calorie counting and food pyramid emphasising eating mostly grains came out. And recently the zero sugar stuff has made things worse as it contains toxic sweeteners which have now found to be worse for health than sugar…
Artificial sweeteners are benign. No Calories, no problem. People who drink diet soda lose more weight than people who don't. Ya know whats worse than Artificial Sweetener? Red Meat and Alcohol.@sacrilegiousboi978
Same here man. Not huge but in great shape. Currently going through throat issues to where I can't eat much which sucks and hurts my gains but still go to gym 4 days a week as well as work a full-time job and have my own side business too. most kids want to be streamers or influencers now it's just so lame.
I'm 41. When I was a kid, I was always outside. When I was a teenager, I rode my bike every day in the summer about a mile to go fishing in the river. Hell I remember rollerblading around San Jose in the early 90s. Never a concern. Although I look back and that might have been a bad idea. I was pretty young😂 Cell phones and the internet changed everything. Now kids can sit at home and never be bored if they just keep scrolling. I catch myself doing it on the damn youtube shorts. You can scroll for hours and not realize how much time you wasted.
Very good, that’s strong 💪, I am not strong because my bench press max is only 100 kg = 220.462 lbs. My body weight is 71 kg = 156.528 lbs, 21 years old.
The very first nutrition book I read in my late teens, was by Dr. Weston Price, a dentist from Canada. He actually explored that theory many many many decades ago. He went to tribal, societies and found families that had siblings who went to live in more urban areas and compared their jaw structure and their teeth. And it is correct, the people who continued to eat their ethnic traditional diets had healthy teeth and more stronger jaws. The siblings who had gone to move to cities and more urban areas had messed up teeth and slightly smaller jaws. I do not follow his particular carnivore, heavy diet, I am a vegetarian however the principles are sound
Kids need to play outside. We all do, but kids especially. The sun, the fresh air and the movement is good for you. Unfortunately life in America is like moving from box to box. Socializing takes place in Walmart and we have horrendously bad parks. Nothing is walkable.
True, that's definitely an issue in the US, we have become too picky to eat food with bones. In countries like China they eat a ton of bone broth and rib meat and other food with bones in it, I wonder if they have more vitamin k2.
Arnold's jaw is a not a good example to compare people to. He has good bone structure, but arnold has admitted to using steroids. There are a lot of muscles in your neck, jaw and face. Steroids will increase the size of all those muscles, along with chewing all the food bodybuilders eat.
In addition he's of German ( in reality of Austrian) heritage. German jawline is very different from people of southern europe and eastern europe. Even basques who have the longest face of southern europe, their jawline is different from people of central europe
I’m a university teacher in Japan, originally from Canada. The boys here are often underweight, lacking muscle and good posture and without the energy to focus after lunch (from eating high fat high carb meals ). They often fall asleep at their desks. That’s also from the smartphone addiction of course. Thinking back to my uni days in the early and mid 90’s… I wasn’t aware of guys like this around me. The majority of young men were active, fit and had energy for school and work. Guys lifted weights and worked out at their sports etc. or Hiked and ran. My uni kids are even finding stairs difficult. Only a few appear to be aware of the importance of fitness. And when one reads about lacking of sex and dating in Japan, I think no wonder--the testosterone levels are low! Without adequate testosterone, of course men don’t have the drive to meet women, and nor would women find them attractive.
@@rey3472 doesn’t seem to get any media attention. Glad to hear at least one person out there understands this. Can’t have dating sex and procreation if the desire isn’t there.
I work as a driving instructor and no lie, I would say that 90% of my 17 year old students do not have the strength to release the handbrake/parking brake. It’s crazy to watch. It takes them a couple of lessons to build up ‘the strength’ to release it
@@southlondon86 I promise you I’m not, I wish I was! So many of them struggle to do it with one hand that they use both! It’s like the sword in the stone 🙈I have found myself having to explain which muscles I use to slightly lift the handbrake and push in the little button.
@@pursebey73watched mostly women (suspect many men today) a few decades ago using two hands to pull the handbrake up to the highest level their strength would go. They'd struggle to release it because you need to pull it up further to allow the rachet to retract. After a few months it would go slack and would literally be at 90 degrees to the floor when engaged because all you do is stretch the cable if you pull it up too far.
That’s not true…that’s IMPOSSIBLE!! My 7 year old daughter and I were standing in line at the shop today and there happened to be hand grips right there - she grabbed a 5kg one and squeezed it shut with one hand. Then again, I’m Gen X so I’m raising her on AC/DC, Metallica and stuff.
I worked at think tank after graduating college, and we were tasked with developing policy to reassert federal authority over physical education and to incorporate nutritional education into existing policy. I worked on the national defense aspect, as I had recently retired from the Army. One of my strongest points was the comparison between Gen X males and Millennial males. Gen X males had 20% greater bone density and 30% more muscle mass than Millennial males upon entering adulthood. It's a product of poor diet and a lack of engaging in strenuous physical activities as youths and adolescents. I saw the product in the Army. The recruits I started getting around 2008 were mostly worthless. They weak; physically, mentally, and emotionally. Have them do their job, they break. Counsel them for poor performance, they cry. Leave them alone to problem solve, nothing will be accomplished. We failed as society, and severely handicapped 2 generations. I will cost all of us.
I am an early, millennial, and I was quite weak during most of my childhood. Most kids were stronger than me during most of my childhood Perhaps it was because my autism made me an extremely picky eater causing me to only eat very small amounts. And food combined with physical exercise equals physical strength.
My family were kind of...anatomical freaks. My dad's lungs were ginormous, apparently. The doctor couldn't get over how big they were lmao he had asbestos in his lungs, which was what the appointment was about (he was born in 1941, dad was almost 60 when I was born, so..context). My brother had an xray due to a fall he had that *should* have theoretically broken his leg. But the doctor laughed and said he was fine, he had bones like a tree trunk. I'm the shortest in my family, I'm 5'9"..my brothers are 6'3" and 6'4". My eldest brother's sons are over that. My biological great grandfather was seven feet tall lol, he was a bit of a myth among family members on both sides, my dad was one of the last people to meet him. To this day, people see me and stare because I look like the bloody jolly green giant. Technically, I'm a young millennial...but my genes are *technically* gen X (again, I'm 30, but if my dad was alive, he'd be 83. My brothers are 40 and 51). The kids my age were so much smaller than me, shorter, and I've always been super athletic. My dad was a bodybuilder, he was a college football quarterback...but never attended college. He was brought in to play by the coach just because of how impressive he was. Dad played hockey, he was unbeatable in track, and survived unbelievable accidents. At 72, he fell off a 12 foot balcony onto concrete. Most people would have been really injured or even died..his knee was red, no bruises, no breaks, nothing. The man smoked a pack a day, never had cancer. He died at 76 from a heart virus. Most people who caught that virus died within a year of contracting it. He survived a DECADE with it. Physically? Older generations are much stronger.
I was wondering why anyone would see an individual at 5’ 9” and think giant but I see now you are a lady. I once dated a woman that was 6’ and EVERYWHERE we went people made comments about it.
But you also said your family were genetic freaks. You can't take what might be the best of our species and then hold them as an example as to why the older generation was stronger. You also go on to say that your nephews are taller than your brothers.
I'm a 24-year-old female, married, looking to start our family next year. And man, with all of this kind of great content I've consumed, my kids are gonna be barefoot, physically playing, NO phones, minimal screen time, whole food diet, gardening and hiking with me, the whole kit and kaboodle.
a contributing factor i think people often overlook is how hostile the outside world is to children the only place they can play or explore is a playground or a park, and that is only accessible via driving in a car. Kids today do not have neighborhoods to explore, vistas to hang out and socialize in, or even affordable "social entertainment" for their age groups. all of this I feel has resulted in kids that are, on average, weaker physically due to not working out regularly (thus turning to gym culture, which is an adult oriented space), and sadly as well, not developing their spatial awareness skills there are MILLIONS of kids that don't even know how to get to their house from school, or vice versa, because they never explore, they never travel on their own. Someone else ALWAYS shuttles them. Be it their parents, or public transportation.
We literally live in one of the safest times in human history. There was a greater chance of being the victim of a violent crime in the 70's than there is now. Which probably contributes to the current weakness, pressure makes diamonds.
I wish I knew this in high school. I’m 35 now. Obviously we were all taught to exercise. But it helps knowing there’s a ticking clock for building bones until you’re 25-30
Just basic manual labour from when young is enough to keep people fit, I know of ex marines who retire at 33 and then are finished with injuries to body and mind from overuse of BOTH ! Keep your life simple and survive, be boring and eat boring food, you will live a long boring life.
@@user-zu5do6ri6rI’ve never understood why people are so obsessed with living longer. I love my life and thoroughly enjoy it but if today or tomorrow it ends hey it is what it is and i lived it fully.
@@isabellaflorentina7574 Hindsight being 20/20 with long term concussion effects being better understood now I wouldn't have played football. I agree sports are important for physical and social development of children however its a risk/reward balance on what sport you pick.
@@huytruong7370 Brain damage, plenty of other sports people can do which will make them strong and not retarded by age 45. Specifically any of the old Olympic sports (not the new stupid shit like skateboarding).
Subbed. As someone that has never had their wisdom teeth out, and everytime I go to the dentist they are trying to make me, when I have no pain, I have perfectly naturally straight teeth, it shocks me how instead of resolving human issues naturally, we opt for surgical means....and usually in solving one problem we also address a raft of other issues.
They may be okay now, mine were but then they started getting swollen around the gums. Getting them removed was a great thing. But if you have no issues why would you?
I still have my wisdom teeth and every SINGLE dentist I've been to recommended me have oral surgery to get them taken out. I asked if there were cavities...NO. I asked if the gums were infected.... NO. I asked why get them removed then. They always say well it is the gold standard of care by the AdA. Ok??? I kept my wisdom teeth and I am in my early 60s. No issues.
No field work anymore. No going outside and lifting and climbing at a young age. Kids had to cut grass and bail hay all summer. They all stay inside now.
Well... as a millennial, sadly it's because of our generation. There's a huge divide. There's those of us who are "old school" and believe in discipline and old fashioned values. Doing things the hard way in order to get a desired outcome, and then there're others who are weak minded and act mainly on emotion. Technology has enabled everyone to get the high of doing difficult tasks without actually doing it. Now days we get a dopamine kick off being a "navy seal" by playing call of duty. Or being a NFL star by playing madden. Or swiping online because of a virtual match instead of actually meeting people face to face and courting over time. It's a "me me me now now now" generation, and we've allowed it to get this way. We want all the benefits of life without the consequences and responsibilities that come with what it takes to lose or acheive them. Parents don't parent anymore. And as a result, the family unit is broke and kids end up getting raised by society, thus causing them to be exposed to way too much, forcing them to grow up way too fast taking on adult thoughts and feelings without having the emotional capacity to process and withstand the pressure that comes with it. Kids don't act like kids anymore. They act way too grown and as a result, they don't know how to navigate through life and they don't respect their parents because most the time, the parents don't know how to relate. So they turn to technology and peers. (Same goes for us millennials) and the cycle of dopamine continues. Because like I've said countless times to adult acquaintances who still act like kids, "if your losing in actual reality, then virtual will do."
I'm old school raising our kids. We listen to our children, but they do have to follow the rules. If they are asked to pick up their toys, they will do it. We are reasonably, but at the end of the day, the parents. The eldest are 6 and 4 and so far don't care about video games at. I will ALWAYS encourage them to hang out and experience things in the real world over anything virtual, even though I spend way too much time on this rectangular box 😬 I became addicted to social media from day one since my parents moved constantly and all my friends were long distance. 2007. I dont know if there had been a single day I didn't sign into it before 2020 when I took my first social media break. Yep. They got us good. Not my kids. I'll drive them wherever they want to go to hang out in real life.
Agreed, increase sport and activity in school! But we can't outsource the health of children to schools, Australia had worsening obesity health issue. 🇦🇺
@@grantoaklands4724 No, you can’t outsource health of children to school, but having an exposure to all kinds of sports in school growing up, helps you to find one that you love and enjoy (or multiple if you are sporty as a kid like I was and my daughter is). Through intersports school programs, the children play a wide range of sports. My daughter played football (soccer), touch rugby, AFL (Aussie Rules) and gymnastics. She also developed a love of swimming and surfing because of a combination of being at the beach all the time and learning to swim properly in school. She is 12 years old and has been exposed to many sports through primary school. Placing importance on physical health at school makes a huge difference to loving being active, in my opinion.
@sharndawg007 , what a great outcome for you and your daughter. I have been training and coaching sport all my life at a decent level, and wish this was the answer, but children are generally increasingly less healthy and athletic. But it's also a mental health issue, I believe the majority are addicted to screens, live sedentary lives and often find sport underestimating in comparison to the constant dopamine hits from gaming and social media provide. PS: also an Aussie 🙂
@@grantoaklands4724 Sorry that hasn’t been your experience! But from what I see with the kids, they love playing sports (as well as being on their phones). I coach as well. Not saying it is the complete answer, but after living in Europe for 12 years and coming back home, the difference in children’s sporting abilities is vastly different. It helps to give children exposure to sports from a young age and as a part of their weekly school curriculum. Also, we all sit here on our devices on a social media platform ragging on kids who are on screens… kind of contradictory, isn’t it!
Sport in America it's all about winning which is not playing everyone on the bench. It will be the talented players who will played the most that can win the game for the team. The less talented players will sit on the bench and watch. Coaches have to deal with parents who feel their son or daughter is not being played enough. The parents see their son or daughter playing in professional sports one day.
“Is there any evidence that our kids are getting weaker” Millennial here. I spent quite some time being inactive and sitting at home, a while back. My gf at the time was a genZ and 11 years younger than me and to this day she can not push a lawnmower for more than 3 minutes without falling to the ground and losing consciousness. A kid I work with, also a gen Z, can not run a mile and a half in under 13 minutes yet, I who hasn’t run in YEARS and aged 35, did it it! This generation sad. Lucky for millennials we were so close to Gen X.
I see the same thing. I find it sad that we Gen Xers tell our high school stories of what was normal levels of strength and fitness to us back then ins seen as near olypian level feats by kids today. I'm near 50 now and have lost a good third of the peak strength I had years ago and I can absolutely outpower anyone in their teens to early 30's today with ease.
@@medraut6599 Because most of us were just big dumb farm kids who had other interests in life and could care less about competition. For us, developing raw brute strength was just a side effect of doing our daily work.
I lifted weights here and there growing up and throughout my teens. I quit for a couple years but picked it up again in my early 20s. I'm 45 this year and am in the best shape of my life. I have less joint pain now than I did in my 20s, I have more muscle and a good look to my physique. My posture is better after 23 years of consistent weight training- including learning what works best for MY body and what to avoid to keep injury free. I get more looks from pre-wall women, and more hate from post wall. lol. Keep going, it gets better!
I was an extremely active kid and strong as a horse. I'm a GenXer who idolized Arnold Schwarzenegger after seeing Conan. My parents got me a weight set when I was nine. I would often impress people with feats of strength. I'd be a lot worse off at fifty if it weren't for my hearty childhood.
The US DoD did a analysis of JFKSW and USNSW training (Greaan Beret and SEAL) going back to the Vietnam war. They saw that inspitenof the programs getting safer and designed to mitigate bone fratures and ligature tears, that mellinials and even worse, gen z was having more bone fractures and ligature tears. They surmised that the screen time ad lack of bone density building excercises were to blame.
What they failed to account for is hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome is severely under diagnosed and is estimated to be present in as many as 1/5,000. A major failure of the healthcare system globally for the most abandoned diagnosis in the history of medicine, EDS, as was the case for the 2nd most abandoned diagnosis, MS.
@@SideB1984 the point the stands... More injuries amongst the newer generations. Humans are getting weaker, or in the case of EDS, their genes are corrupted. We can look at diet, agrichemicals, petrochemicals, etc as a likely cause. And now that the letest "safe and effective" treatments are shown to actually be gene therapies gone wrong..... Just can t wait to see how the kids of the gene editied grow up.
@@jprp999 it certainly didnt. I was a highschool soccer banquet last night. This is in California where people generally eat better than in the South where I was born and raised. I was quiet shocked at how many people still were drinking soda. Usually you could look at a waistline and so "oh, of course they drink soda.". But i was really shocked at a few, maybe it was a special occaision for some.
I believe the nutrient density of our food today is so terrible that it’s not only Gen Z looking weaker but older generations are affected by it too. However, I’m a history fan and all the footage I’ve seen from WW1 and WW2, the men weren’t that big and muscular then. You can be smaller in size and still be strong. Most gym bro meatheads are not as strong as they look, and on top of it if they think they’re so big and strong and tough, why don’t any of them serve in the military? They just stand in front of mirrors taking pictures of themselves. They just pretend to be tough.
There's also a huge intake of sugar in America. Sugar is estrogenic. How? Excessive intake leads to insulin resistance which leads to excess adipose tissue (fat) when as we all know fat is estrogenic as they secrete estrogen leading is a huge drop in active testosterone. Many of the young men we see in clinic for a college physical are overweight if not obese. It's well over 7/10 men. This results in ED, gyno, and softer features during puberty at a very young age.
My friend and I are very similar in age and background. I have lived a fairly active life. She has lived a strenuous one. She ran marathons and always had jobs in fields where her coworkers were male. My bone structure is sound. She has had 5 orthopedic surgeries. Looks like there might be a sweet spot.
Marathons are pure nightmare fuel, everyone I’ve ever met that runs them hates running them but loves telling people they do it. Combine that with the possibility that her diet may have only been “healthy” by government standards which is actually horrendously bad.
This was actully really interesting... my girls are active pretty much every day of the week. I am a small woman, but my daughters are tall! They eat well and don't drink pop/ flavered sparkling water. They also love tough gum and have lovely jaws/ cheekbones ❤ I agree with this Doctor!
I can assure you as a generation Xer, that guys today would be made fun of for being so fragile and affeminate back in my day. It's disturbing to see now in my lifetime as a 50 year old, that guys take the weaker position whereas women have taken the lead role in everything. It's creepy.😮😮😮
Physical activity has drastically decreased and NOT just the current generation, this is the first generation where most of the parents and grandparents did not participate in strenuous activities and this has resulted in reduced physical parameters.
I can't entirely agree with the menstruation part. Even though I'm a guy, I can assure you that what you eat is how you will develop, especially as a teen. and our foods are filled with chemicals that make teen girls develop faster I would make the assumption that teen boys eating too much estrogen-filled foods will make a boy look more feminine. It's all about what you eat not energy or whatever the doctor said
Gen z is "weaker" because society has put way to much of a value on desk work. Society had complete devalued craftsmanship and trades work, which is almost always physical and hard. Society has instead of seeking quality and craft has shifted to cheap and quick.
These are cultural changes. In the ‘80s we maxed these physical fitness standardized tests( push-up, sit-up, pull ups and 1-2 mile run). Our curriculum was different. Very sport oriented. We had weight lifting, gymnastics, and everyone participated in sports. Today, people are more sedentary. The culture can change. This is a by product of technology. I raised my children in a sport and a martial art( yes, they change overtime). We spend a lot of time outdoors. This lifestyle is not promoted anymore. Not in school or the media. Makes you wonder…
well in my experience, they show up to work without having eaten breakfast, then while they're sitting in the truck they scarf down a couple of pop tarts, drink some NOS energy drink, then they do a manic little dance around the jobsite for half an hour or 45 minutes or so, crash and are mostly useless the rest of the day, unless we stop at a gas station and they get another energy drink and a slice of greasy pizza... so yeah, not exactly Mister Universe type of physique.
I'm 24, and it's common to see me without breakfast untill 12/2 pm. And you must be stupid to generalize like that, you'd be jealous of my work ethic. I work 40 hours a week, and workout at least 4 times. So the fact I haven't had breakfast only means that you can be jealous of my abs, and you should be cause you're old.
My 19 year old son soon to be 20 in june is 14 stone and 6ft and he does weights jaw exercise planks And is very physically fit he does not drink or smoke takes his health seriously he has been at the gym and e exercising with his own weights and gym equipment since he was 16
Yeah, it's stupid to put everyone in the same box because there are strong people and weaker people in all generations. It just depends on how they were raised, and what they were taught. I remember seeing the weak kids back in the 70s who watched the TV all day, just like those who spent their entire time on videogames today. Saying they are all the same is a gross generalisation.
As a member of Gen Z, I'm grateful I got plenty of exercise. I walked a mile to and from school, had P.E, and dog walks were my responsibility after school. I'm still active now- physical job, gym membership and a mostly good diet.
I remember being in grade school in the 1980s and about 3 or 4 kids were overweight. I later taught in the Boston Public School System for 8 years, ending in 2008. And in every classroom at least half the class, usually more, were overweight. I can only imagine it's worse today.
Animals are often stronger than humans, but they also don’t live nearly as long. Perhaps the opposite argument to that being living longer doesn’t necessarily mean living better.
I’m a 49 year old male in a company of 600 people and I am easily the fittest person in the company. However at school I was never above average so I have just maintained my fitness level it’s all the younger people who have become physically pathetic.
I've been playing the drums since I was young. When I hit high school... I played A LOT in a band. Like literally 30 hours/week. I wonder if my skeletal structure is much thicker due to "loading" than a non-drummer due to this? It's not unlike the tennis example he gave. Very interesting.
The larger unsolved problem is plastics and the heightened amount of oestrogen hormones in literally everything. Male growth (for example) is stunted -- everything from food, clothing, hair and skin products/body wash/shampoo, toothpaste, parfumes/deoderants, plastic bottles (no, the lack of BPA doesn't mean plastic is now safe), our *tap water*, even as far as vinyl flooring. We've introduced endocrine disrupting systems as a form of convenience to our daily lives, and are *conveniently* still actively minimizing the role it plays in public health.
Less processed food and active travel to incorporate exercise into your everyday routine (ditch the car at least some of the time). Not sure about weight bearing exercise (as it can be so boring for a lot of people) but this is a start
not sure about weight bearing exercises? Literally ALL the science says that not just for bones, but muscle, we should be weight training. You don't have to become a body builder, but weight training is incredibly important for so many reason, not just when you are old but throughout your life. If you take active transport and less processed food seriously you should be also weight training. It's that simple. Whether you will or not is another thing, but what you think about weight training being important is irrelevant...especially when we live in a world where we justify bad behaviours so readily discounting fact and research
Speaking of ditching the car, when school is done for the day there are cars lined up in the street waiting to pick up their kids. The school is 2 blocks down a side street.
Weightlifting / resistance training is paramount for longevity and overall health. The science is pretty clear on that one. Hit the gym, bud! You'll learn to love it.
I go to the supermarket on foot (15 min), walk home with the groceries, work in the garden with hand tools, cook and bake manually from scratch for five people, walk with our dogs, do the laundry by hand (our water is really hard and washing machines keep breaking down all the time, it's such a bother) etc. on daily basis. I just hope it's enough exercise for a fiftyish working mom, and I don't have to go to the gym, because I really don't have time for it.
The children of Gen X We have raised into young adults, mine are 20 and 26, strong good looking healthy adults who are ready for their first child and they refuse social media and media all together preferring the reruns of GenX and homeschooling their kids!
My own kids already have a family of their own and it's exactly what they're doing. I have 2 beautiful daughters who refused to be vapid and are teaching their kids the old school way. I'm very proud of them.
Tons of swimming and biking with no weight training causes weak femurs. During extended hard cardiovascular activity, we sweat out lots of calcium. Since biking and swimming involves no weight bearing on the femur, these essential bones get weak in the absence of weight training. So, adequate calcium and weight bearing are essential for good bone health.
So in theory, if you regenerated properly and could live for hundreds of years or even indefinitely, could you literally increase your bone mass and size by continually loading the body with heavy weight or even increased gravity? or would your bones become more dense rather than grow?
No recess, no mandatory gym class, no playing outside. It doesnt take a scientist to understand that if Humans, which are naturally pastoral domesticated mammals, dont get excercise and physical activity, their health will suffer.
It's because kids used to have more freedom... Now they child proof even the playgrounds in a way that it's not as enjoyable as it used to be, and kids aren't allowed to just ride their bikes around the neighborhood anymore. Disgusting
My husband works outside in the son all day doing hard physical work. He is the happiest, most cheerful guy. I think that hard work and sunshine has a lot to do with it. I try to go out and do yard work now just for the endorphins.
With a man working hard afterwards can feel good but it's mainly about the reasons why and if it is rewarding. Hard work that pays off makes men feel good and taking care of the ones we care about helps tremendously but if the hard work doesn't do anything for us we just whither.
I’m glad that as a millennial growing up in the 90s I was active and helped me overcome a difficult childhood. This made me a more resilient adult and if I sit for too long I get fidgety.
It goes back to the parents who are either too lazy or too busy and exhausted with other things to actually parent their children! Parents see phones as pacifiers for their adolescent children! Their children grow up addicted to them and become worse off and therefore society becomes worse off! As difficult as it may be, parents should parent their children! Either teach and enforce better decorum to children when it comes to devices or don’t bring them in the home at all!
I can tell you don't have kids (at least not children in the demographic we are referring to). Social interaction and planning, school homework and research, work schedules and contacts are all done using devices now. You cannot enforce decorum, of much significance even switching of the internet is of limited help. I wish it was not so.
If you're not discussing the Chemtrails and how they are depleting young men of testosterone and causing asthma and breathing issues among kids. Kids just don't have the energy and lung capacity to run around like we did when we were kids.
I was one of the last big kids in school swear to God I seen this go down I was in 6th grade and I seen all them high School chicks man and then when I got into high school they all gone
When it comes to being in the gym I am a millienial that is a long time natural lifter I noticed some other millienials when I was younger who used and abused anabolic steroids but the vast majority of lifters were natural these days I am seeing alot of the generation zoomers split just between two camps the horrible genetics natural guys and for the fit guys dead give away guys on steroids I would say in my 17 years in the gym I have seen the most 20 something year olds I have ever seen on steroids in other words this generation either lacks the natural genetics to build a good body or they are lazy and want a short cut to looking insane alot of them are going to regret it in 10 to 15 years majorly I am seeing it happen to people in my age group now 30 something year Olds
F**k, I wish I knew all this when I was a child. I would have done things differently, instead of spending most of the time playing videogames as a teenager. Fun fact is that before getting ny first playstation at the age of 6 I was playing more outside, running, riding the bycicle, etc. But then I remember that as soon as my cousin bought the ps1 he spent much more time gaming and since I was spending most of my time with him I started doing the same. So my ignorance on bone and muscle growth and on the importance of getting a decent look, combined with my scoliosis and kyphosis issues caused me to look like a physically weak man that spend most of his time indoor. Needless to say that look is very important in dating and the more your body resemble the one of a girl the more girls will not be attracted to you. Yoi can always improve your body and grow muscles but 1) lifting weight is not exactly good for me as my muscle are always too much contracted and need more stretching and 2) main physical improvements (especially affecting bones, height, etc.) are made before age of 25, while I am over 30. I honestly wish I could go back with my new knowledge and do things differently, althought an issue with my childhood was that my parents had lack of time, money and energy to take me places and make me do post school activities, so they were more than ok with me spending most of tbe time at home.
Lifting weights actually helps with flexibility. Ive lifted 10 years and stretch before every workout. You also need to do full range of motion. I am more flexible than most. Do something about your situation and start lifting those weights. You'll only regret not doing it sooner
Video games can be very useful tools. If you want to learn a language change the language of your favorite video game and turn it into the language you want to learn. Right now I'm playing Skyrim in Español and Mass Effect in Ittalian. I don't understand what they are saying but I know what they are supposed to be saying.
@@jrfw96 honestly I always heard the opposite, that gym makes you less flexible and more compact. I also have a friend with this situation, although I don't know if he does stretching exercises. And about me, for some reason when I was going to the gym I always had trouble sleeping. Sleeping that get better if I do stretching exercises and no weight lifting.
@@PhthaloGreenskin yes, as a teenager I incidentally got to improve my English knowledge by playing videogames. Gaming is not bad, the problem comes when as a teenager your main activity is gaming and you hang out rarely and barely exercise as I did when I was younger.
One of the few things I’m thankful for about covid is the ability to avoid the office and walk, hike, cycle and generally be so much fitter than I ever had the spare time or energy for in my white collar job as it used to be.
Team sports is still alive and well in my country for people of all ages. I think the biggest problem with our entire society (this also applies to you old bastards who think they're better than younger generations) is excessive consumption of digital media and the negative influences it can have on children who are left with it without adult supervision. I think if that is regulated better by individuals and parents everyone will live healthier, productive and more enjoyable lives
Most people in the past did not live in apartments and cities were not so cramped with dangerous roads and massive cars. It would be interesting to check rural and urban living impact to the health of kids.
The old timer phrenologists and studiers of the face, would have told you that in the common understanding, a large jaw on a man represents his hunger, his ambition, what he wants to consume from life. It's his nose and forehead that shows you his capability to achieve those things with force or intelligence.
Movement stimulates calcium production in the bones as well as maintains a healthy balance of osteoclasts & osteoblasts in the bones for proper repair and strengthening
I’m 50 and work a physically demanding job , I live the work I do and it has kept me in well above average shape however the young guys aren’t coming up and the ones who are have been a nightmare to train and are very physically and mentally weak
I thought jaw size was genetic. I’m 19 my jaw grew with full wisdom teeth when most people had to get them removed. I like doing physical work, yard work, even at my job I help with all lifting. You can’t generalize a whole generation. During the lockdowns I started distancing myself from technology and social media, I learned quickly it wasn’t the solution to all problems. But I do see a lot of young kids being raised by phones/tablets. Their parents just walk away and leave them to their devices. Addicted to a screen at 4-5 years old. I wonder how this will affect our future
thank god i learned about this stuff now as a 21 year old. im trying to make sure i dont end up like 90% of the old people i see complaining about their pain and health. i want to be climbing trees when im 90
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Multi-generational malnutrition. It's the answer to most human disorders.
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Arnold is a boomer. I currently work at a high school, & the kids look physically soft, compared to when I was in school. They also have no fashion sense. They all wear sweat suits & pajamas. They look sloppy.
Wait…they say we still build bone into our middle age and he stated we stop at 20??? Bs!
Bazzooa gum!! That’s good for the jaw! 😂
It's almost like we're not meant to be sat down a minimum of 8hrs a day during the day!
We also wasn't ment to work 12 hour night shifts either
Almost
I’m either laying down sleeping or sitting down watching movies.
That’s not the problem, the problem is that you do nothing else with the other time. But you’re probably just going to respond with more excuses.
Gym before work, walk after work, build stuff with your hands on weekends. Then you’ll be just fine.
@@robbylebotha on the contrary, I do all those things, plus stretchching whilst on calls, walk/chores involving moving at lunch. Swim in the morning, workout in the evening.
Most people don't have this motivation, or care and accept their poor posture, flat feet, aches and pains caused by general laziness and put it down to "I'm getting old"
I WAS one of those people until my late 20s and turned it around with small decisions like taking the stairs instead of the lift, 10-20min walks throughout the day, stretching, consistency with workout out, routine. Literally fitter and healthier than I was 20 years ago.
Unfortunately the younger generation I work with, almost can't see the benefits of this behaviour and routine, it's shocking
It's all the garbage in the food and water... pesticides, micro plastics, harmful chemicals. It's scary.
@colerainswaggify6387air is cleaner NOW, than in the 60s
In the US
And the opposite side also happens. People start doing exercises and go to steroids to get a better shape.
this is what it really is, theres hardly any nutrition in food anymore
When they look back at our processed food ingredients in 200 years, they're going to say "WTF were these people thinking?"
I also agree with micro plastics in the water. I'd add in there prescription medications in the water as well. Birth control drugs is a big one. The whole CO2 and human caused warming is BS. The real problem is we're poisoning the water and trashing the place.
Don't forget the injetions they put into children at birth.
Try to get your kids to play team sports. Besides the regular physical activity of the sport itself, they are often required to lift weights as a team during the off-season. Both of my teenage sons are stronger than I was at their age. We're not slaves to this trend of having weak kids.
And a bonus is it seems to keep them out of trouble, having coaches and a team to hold them accountable.
Yep. My two sons played waterpolo and basketball. Builds teamwork, confidence, strength and social interaction. Sports are a must imo.
And meanwhile your boys are, probably, abusing some women, somewhere, and you're helping them get away with it.
My father was no doubt physically fit at my age (21). But he says he was never as big as I am now. Combination of a healthy diet and weightlifiting plus cardio is excellent.
That's true and mma is making kids at 14 15 if we're placed in the 90s would be consistent the top fighters in the world. Fighting game has changed
Yeah. I started training in MMA 19 years ago and played Varsity Basketball in highschool. Both require constant conditioning and diet. My 3 brothers didn't. Their immune systems are weaker. They all have weaker bones. Cardio isn't as good. Even their dental hygiene is worse. I don't eat too bad and I don't drink soda at all. Both of my sons play basketball and started boxing at 5. They love it! My friends' kids look less mentally sharp and not really coordinated. I'm just being brutally honest. It is what it is. Video games all day and eating bad will make you weak.
Ive been working blue collar jobs, i got moved to a office position because they really needed someone there and im the only one that qualified in the company at the time. And tbh I miss doing the grunt work. I was much happier when i was moving all day. Now i just sit on my ass and i frequently take "breaks" just to walk around for a minute. I hate it
I worked construction till I was 25. Then 15 years of sales. I did workout during that.
At the age of 40 I went back to hard physical work. Lots of lifting, pushing, pulling and walking 5-8 miles a day.
Retired from that at 60. When I see most men my age it’s a good thing I had hard work all those years. A body in motion stays in motion.
Get enough sleep. Stay hydrated and eat meat 🥩💪
it just gets me increasingly fidgety and rather antsy when I’m confined onto a chair for extended periods of time. Thats why I had such a hard problem with school, to the point my bored mind would mutilate the pencil in front of me just for some physical activity.
And now you have to hit the gym to make up for your office job.
You’ll be grateful once you reach retirement. Physical movement is a requirement and non negotiable, however blue collar jobs really best you up in excess of what you require physically. My father in law is facing a lot of physical challenges from a life of blue collar work.
@@shadow6543yeah good
Point. I guess it’s a balance. I’m office based primarily - but now I do more excercise and feel a lot better for it. But can see how hard labour would be equally bad on the opposite scale
The worst form of punishment for kids:
Before 2000: “You will not go play with friends outside!”
After 2000: “I will take your phone and you go out to play!”
That says a lot…
@colerainswaggify6387 not only about cell phones, the mass proliferation of streaming computer gaming and chatting rooms started before smart phones, followed by social networking like FB in early 2000’s…
@colerainswaggify6387 I was 15 in the year 2000. Almost everyone in my class had a cell phone. Nokia 3210 was super popular at the time. Many of us played snake in class. I live in Norway. I am so grateful that I was a teenager at that time. It must suck to be a teenager today. The poor teenagers and young adults today are zombies... so heavily programmed.
@colerainswaggify6387i had to have a phone by 2005 (i was 8-9) because i was never home. from school i went straight to the rec, we played basketball and walked around the street. caught lizards, stole mangoes. did lots of stuff so i needed a phone for emergencies. my mom didnt pick me up till 9pm everyday, i was like that literally my whole life till i graduated
These days even 1 year old kids need videos to eat food. Very difficult for upcoming generations.
Where is there to play in this country, it's all soulless suburbs with parking lot surroundings, you have to drive everywhere.
Lifting phones doesn't build muscle 🙉
Absolutely
And game console controllers
Agreed 👍
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Or shirts
I track risks at the national level and I am so concerned about obesity, depression, suicide, educational performance, religiosity, friendships, the decline in the social status of men and boys, and life expectancy. None of these have very healthy indicators. However, politicians, policymakers, and bureaucrats don’t care.
The problem is, is that we rely to much on bureaucrats to make these kinds of decisions for us when we should be the ones making them for ourselves on the local level. In fact, I would argue that bureaucrats are largely responsible for perpetuating it by lining their pockets with 3rd party interest's groups etc. However, we are the ones ultimately responsible for this decline and need to get back to personal accountability.
To play devils advocate, It might not be that they don’t care but more they are creating it ?
What exactly decline in the social status of men or boys are you talking about? Is it because you see girls and women more liberated and more as their equal nowadays?
all you gotta do is make it about women and it'll be taken seriously
They don’t care nor should they , they are the last ones who we should be looking for to fix this problem
All the kids that come to our ADHD clinic live a sedentry lifestyle consisting of tv, ipads, and gaming. Parents don't try getting them into any sort of sport or outdoor activities, instead they come to the clinic and demand a diagnosis and dexamphetamines. I wonder if we would see less kids being diagnosed if they had more physically active lifestyles.
we would cycling everywhere keeps me from going crazy been doing it all my life I am 48
I work with some boys age 11-12 who are quite intelligent, but have significant difficulty with attention and delaying gratification. Today I was chatting with them during a lull in class and they started telling me about their introduction to the game Fortnite. I was astonished to learn they had been playing since age 4 or 5, and when they first got into the game both of them had been so entranced that they had gone days without sleep. They described seasons of play in which they would play the game all day and all night with only short breaks, developing blisters, bruises, and cuts along the way from the controls. Meals were eaten with the game still in front of them. This was in the summer months, school was not in session. It took years for the parents to realize how strict they needed to be, to treat the game like a controlled substance. I asked why parents would not just let them play an hour a day then take it. They explained that the kids will hide the game under their mattress, or put a password on the game so only they can unlock it, or sneak out to play after parents fall asleep. Over the years eventually parents catch on and develop more structure.
I was very shocked, but at the same time, I remember also being a kid hooked on books and then on games. But I was introduced to games at age 11, not at such a young age. I do wonder about the long term impact, especially for kids who already have other factors such asADHD. You couldn’t blame games for ADHD for me as a kid! My fixation was good ol books and I wasn’t into TV, so you couldn’t blame any of my symptoms on screens or technology.
But man, this tech is awfully addictive.
Michael Phelps has talked about how the doctor told his mother how he should be on ADD medication as a kid; she refused and had him heavily involved in sports instead...
Maybe less lazy parents
@Kleinage it's because those games and social media were designed to induce a serotonin response in the brain. After awhile those synapses are burned up they become basically drones with nothing that really excites them in life.
I'm 50 now but we were so active as kids. Because sitting around doing nothing at home was so boring as there was basically nothing to do. So we used to bike everywhere and didn't expect or even want our parents to drive us around. I'd bike 10km over steep hills to school and back everyday(volcanic area) from age 11 and never got the bus no matter how wet it was. And school bike sheds were absolutely huge and always full to the brim. We'd bike down to the pool, to the beach with a surfboard under the arm and go for a 3hr surf and bike home again. We'd bike across town to the tennis courts and play tennis etc etc. We'd spend all day skateboarding in and across town- probably a good 10 to 20kms. I have a photo with a couple of friends at age 13 or so before puberty and we were well muscled and ripped and had 6packs(well my friend did especially due to Greek ancestry and good ab insertions- my ab insertions suck). We had a couple of chubby kids and 1 fat kid in every class but the rest were skinny. Its not like we are genetically superior to kids today- but just because we were so active due to not staring at screens all day. And no parents having to drive us everywhere terrified about "safety" and "stranger danger"(that came a bit later) so we nearly all became extremely fit compared to a good proportion of kids today.
You should look up Epigenetics, we are in fact superior genetically to gen Z and Alpha.
Spent most of my childhood walking up and down snowly hills to Snowboard, and wrestled all winters in the snow in school.
Worked most of my early life with physically demanding forestry jobs until I injured my spine, now I can't even lift more then a few kilos, it is what it is, I had a great life and don't worry about some suffering now in those twilight hours.
All I like to do is watch movies.
Its not just that. Many kids nowdays are into sports and fitness yet still they will have lower testosterone due to pollution and plastics suppressing free t.
@@outlander234 plus forced vaccines 💉 possibly.
hey listen to the Dr again he said we are only here to eat and fuck…so why do you sit around??? Eat and fuck…just fulfill our destiny
I know it’s just a thumbnail, but Arnie is a boomer not gen X. Great interview by the way.
Good spot.
Who’s the gen z guy?
@@mecanuktutorials6476 actually no idea lol
and also a huge steroid junkie that needed a quadruple bypass - oh how our boys today don't look like they did in the past when our boys had $1,000 per month test habit
"To hell with your freedom!" - A.S.
I was a trash collector to pay the rent to get me through film school. I always felt happier at the end of each day doing that than being a student. Because I didn’t like students.
You're perfect men for this job
@@pio7763 wtf do u mean bro
Hi Roger. Did your binman days
include Task and Finish where you go home when you've completed your 'run' - your area of work?
Best job in the world.
One is out and about in the fresh air, getting decent exercise and hopefully getting finished and home nice and early.
@@alanmcbride6658 Is taking out the trash jobs actually good. I've heard good things so I'm considering getting it as a job.
thanks for cleaning our cities man. without you guys doing that work, we wouldn't be able to have cities. so thanks.
My father passed away 13 years ago. The commentary in this video about the necessity of chewing hard food reminds of the excellent advice he gave me when I was a kid. Whenever I used to eat chicken on the bone, or a pork rib or beef rib, he would aways tell me to gnaw on the bone and crunch on the cartilage. I am 47 years of age, and unlike most of my peers, I have never had a cavity nor have I had to have my wisdom teeth pulled. Thank you, dad, for on top of being a mentor, moral exemplar and provider, for offering such sage advice which is now being confirmed by science.
Actually im savage like that too n i dont have any hole in my teeth
I'll take "that never happened" for $200, Alex.
The fact you believe that's why you had strong jaw it's insane.
@@gigelbecali8072it's pretty basic fact you can Google, chewing hard foods builds and maintains bone and muscle mass in your jaws
Look it up. Whether he did it or not the science seems to be legit.@@gigelbecali8072
@@gigelbecali8072Lmfao bozo, literally dozens of studies on the topic just google it
I don't know if every highschool has senior pictures on their walls but where I live they do, and when you look at the young men from the 1950s and compare to the children of today you'll notice a significant difference.
Yeah the kids today are bigger faster stronger
High school baseball players throw 105 mph now
You mean fatter slower weaker?@@AKeyearea8
What's the difference?
I know ecactly what you mean!The color digital cameras have gone very far in tech these days. The photograms are so vibrant and crisp now that we don't develop film with yesterday's coffee grounds.
When I was A child we were not allowed to play inside the house it was common for mum to say go play outside and dont come back until lunchtime or dinner time, also we had to walk to school
My mother used to tell my father, when he'd ask where we were,
"It's ok.. they'll come home when they are hungry"
My Millennial walked to school, my Gen Z currently walks to school, I walked to school 🙄
Sadly the way the world is today most parents don't consider it safe to allow their children to walk to school yet the benefits of being outdoors and getting the exercise are valuable. Also in my generation we kids were much more savvy about the dangers I remember being taught the story or poem called The False Knight on the Road.@@Autodidactz
I’m 22 and even I was told this. Although I was raised by a grandparent.
My parents would ring a bell outside the door when lunch and supper was ready if we weren't helping them make the meal. Of course we washed the dishes and did laundry and each of us had a list of jobs to do everyday including cleaning the house and feeding the dog, cats, sheep in the winter, and our burro.
A good majority of what corporate/establishment science and media tells you is "healthy and good for you" is the inverse of the truth. This can be a very difficult mindset to undo, especially if you live in the US, as the population has been marketed to/manipulated for decades in the name of profit.
Yep, everything’s been going downhill since the late 80 when the low fat, calorie counting and food pyramid emphasising eating mostly grains came out. And recently the zero sugar stuff has made things worse as it contains toxic sweeteners which have now found to be worse for health than sugar…
Artificial sweeteners are benign. No Calories, no problem. People who drink diet soda lose more weight than people who don't. Ya know whats worse than Artificial Sweetener? Red Meat and Alcohol.@sacrilegiousboi978
Yet u all followed the govt narrative without question during the lockdowns and mandates
Currently 28, been lifting weights regularly for strength and bodybuilding purposes since 20. So thankful and hopefully I've built up enough bone 🙏🏽
Same here man. Not huge but in great shape. Currently going through throat issues to where I can't eat much which sucks and hurts my gains but still go to gym 4 days a week as well as work a full-time job and have my own side business too. most kids want to be streamers or influencers now it's just so lame.
@@nothanks5520It all comes back to the parents of how they raise their children.
try planking it works
@@nothanks5520u gotta keep stuff outta ur throat bro
Yes my bone is still strong🎉🎉🎉
Awesome interview, thanks very much. Your guest spoke so well and with such balance. Your questions were great too.
Thank you, Gus
I played outside, had chores, rode my bike to work, farmed, and am so fortunate my parents encouraged all that activity.
I'm 41. When I was a kid, I was always outside. When I was a teenager, I rode my bike every day in the summer about a mile to go fishing in the river. Hell I remember rollerblading around San Jose in the early 90s. Never a concern. Although I look back and that might have been a bad idea. I was pretty young😂
Cell phones and the internet changed everything. Now kids can sit at home and never be bored if they just keep scrolling. I catch myself doing it on the damn youtube shorts. You can scroll for hours and not realize how much time you wasted.
I lift, I’m stronger now than I was in my 20s, I’m 47 this year. I can bench press 2 x 50kg dumbbells for 8 reps (on a good day).
That is a very respectable weight. 👍🏻
Very good, that’s strong 💪, I am not strong because my bench press max is only 100 kg = 220.462 lbs. My body weight is 71 kg = 156.528 lbs, 21 years old.
@@jaketree9789 nice, keep it going!
Strong is relative, it is different for each person
The very first nutrition book I read in my late teens, was by Dr. Weston Price, a dentist from Canada. He actually explored that theory many many many decades ago. He went to tribal, societies and found families that had siblings who went to live in more urban areas and compared their jaw structure and their teeth. And it is correct, the people who continued to eat their ethnic traditional diets had healthy teeth and more stronger jaws. The siblings who had gone to move to cities and more urban areas had messed up teeth and slightly smaller jaws.
I do not follow his particular carnivore, heavy diet, I am a vegetarian however the principles are sound
Kids need to play outside. We all do, but kids especially. The sun, the fresh air and the movement is good for you. Unfortunately life in America is like moving from box to box. Socializing takes place in Walmart and we have horrendously bad parks. Nothing is walkable.
It is also nutrition like lack of vitamin K2 because we never cook with the bones in our modern diet
True, that's definitely an issue in the US, we have become too picky to eat food with bones. In countries like China they eat a ton of bone broth and rib meat and other food with bones in it, I wonder if they have more vitamin k2.
why cook with bones shouldnt dark leafy greens like kale and spinach contain loads of k2 ?
Vitamin K2, (menaquinone) found in dairy, fermented foods, and animal products. YOU GUYS ARE CLOWNS
I read that eggs also have k2
@@3pacz well, aside from the health benefits, it adds a lot of flavor to the food
Arnold's jaw is a not a good example to compare people to. He has good bone structure, but arnold has admitted to using steroids. There are a lot of muscles in your neck, jaw and face. Steroids will increase the size of all those muscles, along with chewing all the food bodybuilders eat.
You can’t one guy from the 70s and compare him to the worst of modern times.
He took a lot of HGH that's why his jaw grew.
@@drbulltrader9107 not true HGH was not used in his days only dbol test and nandrolone. Around dorian yates his time HGH became "it"
In addition he's of German ( in reality of Austrian) heritage. German jawline is very different from people of southern europe and eastern europe. Even basques who have the longest face of southern europe, their jawline is different from people of central europe
He's got excellent genetics but just being pedantic he is a boomer, not gen x
I’m a university teacher in Japan, originally from Canada. The boys here are often underweight, lacking muscle and good posture and without the energy to focus after lunch (from eating high fat high carb meals ). They often fall asleep at their desks. That’s also from the smartphone addiction of course.
Thinking back to my uni days in the early and mid 90’s… I wasn’t aware of guys like this around me. The majority of young men were active, fit and had energy for school and work. Guys lifted weights and worked out at their sports etc. or Hiked and ran.
My uni kids are even finding stairs difficult. Only a few appear to be aware of the importance of fitness.
And when one reads about lacking of sex and dating in Japan, I think no wonder--the testosterone levels are low! Without adequate testosterone, of course men don’t have the drive to meet women, and nor would women find them attractive.
Perennial issue in Japan. High T a rarity after WWII.
@@rey3472 doesn’t seem to get any media attention. Glad to hear at least one person out there understands this.
Can’t have dating sex and procreation if the desire isn’t there.
That means more Japanese women for old dudes
@@kevingonzalez3673 to support your point, I know a few older guys with attractive Japanese partners much younger than themselves.
@@kevingonzalez3673the old dudes aint any better lol
Less exercise, foods, hormone injections in meat. It’s all nasty.
Not just in meat..all highly processed "food", drinks, dairy, fast foods....
Don't forget pesticides and GMOs in veg and plants!
Don’t forget the atrazine in the water and the microplastics
meat is fine, but pushing that vegan nonsense is causing the most damage
lame excuse. liberally raised will always lose
I work as a driving instructor and no lie, I would say that 90% of my 17 year old students do not have the strength to release the handbrake/parking brake. It’s crazy to watch. It takes them a couple of lessons to build up ‘the strength’ to release it
Sir you must be exaggerating. How in the hell can anyone not release the handbrake?
@@southlondon86 if it's a mechanical parking brake pushed by your foot, then it's possible to be too weak to push it.
@@southlondon86 I promise you I’m not, I wish I was! So many of them struggle to do it with one hand that they use both! It’s like the sword in the stone 🙈I have found myself having to explain which muscles I use to slightly lift the handbrake and push in the little button.
@@pursebey73watched mostly women (suspect many men today) a few decades ago using two hands to pull the handbrake up to the highest level their strength would go. They'd struggle to release it because you need to pull it up further to allow the rachet to retract. After a few months it would go slack and would literally be at 90 degrees to the floor when engaged because all you do is stretch the cable if you pull it up too far.
That’s not true…that’s IMPOSSIBLE!!
My 7 year old daughter and I were standing in line at the shop today and there happened to be hand grips right there - she grabbed a 5kg one and squeezed it shut with one hand. Then again, I’m Gen X so I’m raising her on AC/DC, Metallica and stuff.
I worked at think tank after graduating college, and we were tasked with developing policy to reassert federal authority over physical education and to incorporate nutritional education into existing policy. I worked on the national defense aspect, as I had recently retired from the Army. One of my strongest points was the comparison between Gen X males and Millennial males. Gen X males had 20% greater bone density and 30% more muscle mass than Millennial males upon entering adulthood. It's a product of poor diet and a lack of engaging in strenuous physical activities as youths and adolescents. I saw the product in the Army. The recruits I started getting around 2008 were mostly worthless. They weak; physically, mentally, and emotionally. Have them do their job, they break. Counsel them for poor performance, they cry. Leave them alone to problem solve, nothing will be accomplished. We failed as society, and severely handicapped 2 generations. I will cost all of us.
I weap for the future cuz it was sorta bad in 2008 and it's soooo bad now
I am an early, millennial, and I was quite weak during most of my childhood. Most kids were stronger than me during most of my childhood Perhaps it was because my autism made me an extremely picky eater causing me to only eat very small amounts. And food combined with physical exercise equals physical strength.
My family were kind of...anatomical freaks. My dad's lungs were ginormous, apparently. The doctor couldn't get over how big they were lmao he had asbestos in his lungs, which was what the appointment was about (he was born in 1941, dad was almost 60 when I was born, so..context).
My brother had an xray due to a fall he had that *should* have theoretically broken his leg. But the doctor laughed and said he was fine, he had bones like a tree trunk. I'm the shortest in my family, I'm 5'9"..my brothers are 6'3" and 6'4". My eldest brother's sons are over that.
My biological great grandfather was seven feet tall lol, he was a bit of a myth among family members on both sides, my dad was one of the last people to meet him. To this day, people see me and stare because I look like the bloody jolly green giant. Technically, I'm a young millennial...but my genes are *technically* gen X (again, I'm 30, but if my dad was alive, he'd be 83. My brothers are 40 and 51). The kids my age were so much smaller than me, shorter, and I've always been super athletic. My dad was a bodybuilder, he was a college football quarterback...but never attended college. He was brought in to play by the coach just because of how impressive he was. Dad played hockey, he was unbeatable in track, and survived unbelievable accidents. At 72, he fell off a 12 foot balcony onto concrete. Most people would have been really injured or even died..his knee was red, no bruises, no breaks, nothing. The man smoked a pack a day, never had cancer. He died at 76 from a heart virus. Most people who caught that virus died within a year of contracting it. He survived a DECADE with it.
Physically? Older generations are much stronger.
Are you from Germany.
Awesome story.
I was wondering why anyone would see an individual at 5’ 9” and think giant but I see now you are a lady. I once dated a woman that was 6’ and EVERYWHERE we went people made comments about it.
But you also said your family were genetic freaks. You can't take what might be the best of our species and then hold them as an example as to why the older generation was stronger. You also go on to say that your nephews are taller than your brothers.
I'm a 24-year-old female, married, looking to start our family next year. And man, with all of this kind of great content I've consumed, my kids are gonna be barefoot, physically playing, NO phones, minimal screen time, whole food diet, gardening and hiking with me, the whole kit and kaboodle.
a contributing factor i think people often overlook is how hostile the outside world is to children
the only place they can play or explore is a playground or a park, and that is only accessible via driving in a car. Kids today do not have neighborhoods to explore, vistas to hang out and socialize in, or even affordable "social entertainment" for their age groups.
all of this I feel has resulted in kids that are, on average, weaker physically due to not working out regularly (thus turning to gym culture, which is an adult oriented space), and sadly as well, not developing their spatial awareness skills
there are MILLIONS of kids that don't even know how to get to their house from school, or vice versa, because they never explore, they never travel on their own. Someone else ALWAYS shuttles them. Be it their parents, or public transportation.
We literally live in one of the safest times in human history. There was a greater chance of being the victim of a violent crime in the 70's than there is now. Which probably contributes to the current weakness, pressure makes diamonds.
I wish I knew this in high school. I’m 35 now. Obviously we were all taught to exercise. But it helps knowing there’s a ticking clock for building bones until you’re 25-30
Just basic manual labour from when young is enough to keep people fit, I know of ex marines who retire at 33 and then are finished with injuries to body and mind from overuse of BOTH ! Keep your life simple and survive, be boring and eat boring food, you will live a long boring life.
What's the purpose of a long boring life?
@@user-zu5do6ri6r Go speak to a shrink
@@user-zu5do6ri6rI’ve never understood why people are so obsessed with living longer. I love my life and thoroughly enjoy it but if today or tomorrow it ends hey it is what it is and i lived it fully.
Our local high school doesn’t even have a football team anymore
Football too dangerous I want my bunny boys to be soft and cuddly for mama 🥰🥰 🍷
I know that is so weird. Football was EVERYTHING back in high school days. Now the kids don't want to attend practice. So weird.
@@isabellaflorentina7574 Hindsight being 20/20 with long term concussion effects being better understood now I wouldn't have played football. I agree sports are important for physical and social development of children however its a risk/reward balance on what sport you pick.
wow thats crazy... why did they shut it down??? no one wants to play football or something?
@@huytruong7370 Brain damage, plenty of other sports people can do which will make them strong and not retarded by age 45. Specifically any of the old Olympic sports (not the new stupid shit like skateboarding).
Subbed. As someone that has never had their wisdom teeth out, and everytime I go to the dentist they are trying to make me, when I have no pain, I have perfectly naturally straight teeth, it shocks me how instead of resolving human issues naturally, we opt for surgical means....and usually in solving one problem we also address a raft of other issues.
Don't let them wisdom teeth removal destroys the underlying bone that holds the teeth causing a more unattractive appearance and airway issues
Follow the money…
Same here. I have perfect natural teeth and my wisdom teeth are in and they wanted to remove them too. No. They obviously fit, so they can stay.
They may be okay now, mine were but then they started getting swollen around the gums. Getting them removed was a great thing. But if you have no issues why would you?
I still have my wisdom teeth and every SINGLE dentist I've been to recommended me have oral surgery to get them taken out. I asked if there were cavities...NO. I asked if the gums were infected.... NO. I asked why get them removed then. They always say well it is the gold standard of care by the AdA. Ok??? I kept my wisdom teeth and I am in my early 60s. No issues.
No field work anymore. No going outside and lifting and climbing at a young age. Kids had to cut grass and bail hay all summer. They all stay inside now.
Most boomers didn't do that either.
@@Peaches-i2i Yep. They made us Gen X kids do the shyte work for them. That's why half of us are pushing 50 and still strong as gorillas. 😋
@@Peaches-i2iright like why are they lying 😂.
This is a really good one. Thanks for bringing Dr. Lieberman on!
Well... as a millennial, sadly it's because of our generation. There's a huge divide. There's those of us who are "old school" and believe in discipline and old fashioned values. Doing things the hard way in order to get a desired outcome, and then there're others who are weak minded and act mainly on emotion. Technology has enabled everyone to get the high of doing difficult tasks without actually doing it. Now days we get a dopamine kick off being a "navy seal" by playing call of duty. Or being a NFL star by playing madden. Or swiping online because of a virtual match instead of actually meeting people face to face and courting over time. It's a "me me me now now now" generation, and we've allowed it to get this way. We want all the benefits of life without the consequences and responsibilities that come with what it takes to lose or acheive them. Parents don't parent anymore. And as a result, the family unit is broke and kids end up getting raised by society, thus causing them to be exposed to way too much, forcing them to grow up way too fast taking on adult thoughts and feelings without having the emotional capacity to process and withstand the pressure that comes with it. Kids don't act like kids anymore. They act way too grown and as a result, they don't know how to navigate through life and they don't respect their parents because most the time, the parents don't know how to relate. So they turn to technology and peers. (Same goes for us millennials) and the cycle of dopamine continues. Because like I've said countless times to adult acquaintances who still act like kids, "if your losing in actual reality, then virtual will do."
I hate video games for this reason
@@kathleenking47 me too.... took me a while to change my mentality and wake up.
I'm old school raising our kids. We listen to our children, but they do have to follow the rules. If they are asked to pick up their toys, they will do it. We are reasonably, but at the end of the day, the parents. The eldest are 6 and 4 and so far don't care about video games at. I will ALWAYS encourage them to hang out and experience things in the real world over anything virtual, even though I spend way too much time on this rectangular box 😬 I became addicted to social media from day one since my parents moved constantly and all my friends were long distance. 2007. I dont know if there had been a single day I didn't sign into it before 2020 when I took my first social media break. Yep. They got us good. Not my kids. I'll drive them wherever they want to go to hang out in real life.
@@t.8936 ABSOLUTELY AWESOME
Biggest "me Generation" was the boomers.
Here in Australia the children play a lot sport in school… make sport a focus in the school curriculum.
Agreed, increase sport and activity in school! But we can't outsource the health of children to schools, Australia had worsening obesity health issue. 🇦🇺
@@grantoaklands4724 No, you can’t outsource health of children to school, but having an exposure to all kinds of sports in school growing up, helps you to find one that you love and enjoy (or multiple if you are sporty as a kid like I was and my daughter is). Through intersports school programs, the children play a wide range of sports. My daughter played football (soccer), touch rugby, AFL (Aussie Rules) and gymnastics. She also developed a love of swimming and surfing because of a combination of being at the beach all the time and learning to swim properly in school. She is 12 years old and has been exposed to many sports through primary school. Placing importance on physical health at school makes a huge difference to loving being active, in my opinion.
@sharndawg007 , what a great outcome for you and your daughter. I have been training and coaching sport all my life at a decent level, and wish this was the answer, but children are generally increasingly less healthy and athletic. But it's also a mental health issue, I believe the majority are addicted to screens, live sedentary lives and often find sport underestimating in comparison to the constant dopamine hits from gaming and social media provide. PS: also an Aussie 🙂
@@grantoaklands4724 Sorry that hasn’t been your experience! But from what I see with the kids, they love playing sports (as well as being on their phones). I coach as well. Not saying it is the complete answer, but after living in Europe for 12 years and coming back home, the difference in children’s sporting abilities is vastly different. It helps to give children exposure to sports from a young age and as a part of their weekly school curriculum. Also, we all sit here on our devices on a social media platform ragging on kids who are on screens… kind of contradictory, isn’t it!
Sport in America it's all about winning which is not playing everyone on the bench. It will be the talented players who will played the most that can win the game for the team. The less talented players will sit on the bench and watch. Coaches have to deal with parents who feel their son or daughter is not being played enough. The parents see their son or daughter playing in professional sports one day.
“Is there any evidence that our kids are getting weaker”
Millennial here. I spent quite some time being inactive and sitting at home, a while back. My gf at the time was a genZ and 11 years younger than me and to this day she can not push a lawnmower for more than 3 minutes without falling to the ground and losing consciousness. A kid I work with, also a gen Z, can not run a mile and a half in under 13 minutes yet, I who hasn’t run in YEARS and aged 35, did it it! This generation sad. Lucky for millennials we were so close to Gen X.
when i was growing up people were in incredible shape not so much these days and yes i notice a difference.
I see the same thing. I find it sad that we Gen Xers tell our high school stories of what was normal levels of strength and fitness to us back then ins seen as near olypian level feats by kids today.
I'm near 50 now and have lost a good third of the peak strength I had years ago and I can absolutely outpower anyone in their teens to early 30's today with ease.
You should go the Olympics
@@russianbot4418 Bro if you're that strong why didn't you become an olympic weightlifter? I'm a millennial and have friends that bench 415 pounds.
@@medraut6599 Because most of us were just big dumb farm kids who had other interests in life and could care less about competition.
For us, developing raw brute strength was just a side effect of doing our daily work.
@@russianbot4418 What sort of things were high schoolers capable of back then in your experience?
I lifted weights here and there growing up and throughout my teens. I quit for a couple years but picked it up again in my early 20s. I'm 45 this year and am in the best shape of my life. I have less joint pain now than I did in my 20s, I have more muscle and a good look to my physique. My posture is better after 23 years of consistent weight training- including learning what works best for MY body and what to avoid to keep injury free. I get more looks from pre-wall women, and more hate from post wall. lol. Keep going, it gets better!
Thing that bugs me is that their unbothered by their weakness
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I was an extremely active kid and strong as a horse. I'm a GenXer who idolized Arnold Schwarzenegger after seeing Conan. My parents got me a weight set when I was nine. I would often impress people with feats of strength. I'd be a lot worse off at fifty if it weren't for my hearty childhood.
The US DoD did a analysis of JFKSW and USNSW training (Greaan Beret and SEAL) going back to the Vietnam war. They saw that inspitenof the programs getting safer and designed to mitigate bone fratures and ligature tears, that mellinials and even worse, gen z was having more bone fractures and ligature tears. They surmised that the screen time ad lack of bone density building excercises were to blame.
What they failed to account for is hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome is severely under diagnosed and is estimated to be present in as many as 1/5,000. A major failure of the healthcare system globally for the most abandoned diagnosis in the history of medicine, EDS, as was the case for the 2nd most abandoned diagnosis, MS.
@@SideB1984 the point the stands... More injuries amongst the newer generations. Humans are getting weaker, or in the case of EDS, their genes are corrupted. We can look at diet, agrichemicals, petrochemicals, etc as a likely cause. And now that the letest "safe and effective" treatments are shown to actually be gene therapies gone wrong..... Just can t wait to see how the kids of the gene editied grow up.
Swapping in Coke machines instead of milk in schools didn't help.......
@@jprp999 it certainly didnt. I was a highschool soccer banquet last night. This is in California where people generally eat better than in the South where I was born and raised. I was quiet shocked at how many people still were drinking soda. Usually you could look at a waistline and so "oh, of course they drink soda.". But i was really shocked at a few, maybe it was a special occaision for some.
I believe the nutrient density of our food today is so terrible that it’s not only Gen Z looking weaker but older generations are affected by it too. However, I’m a history fan and all the footage I’ve seen from WW1 and WW2, the men weren’t that big and muscular then. You can be smaller in size and still be strong. Most gym bro meatheads are not as strong as they look, and on top of it if they think they’re so big and strong and tough, why don’t any of them serve in the military? They just stand in front of mirrors taking pictures of themselves. They just pretend to be tough.
Those older generations had practical fitness and strength. Not the body builder type physique that steroids and gym lifting gives.
Who wants to fight so politicians can pad their portfolios?
When I was in late elementary I actually looked older than when I was in middle school. Activity changes your looks.
There's also a huge intake of sugar in America. Sugar is estrogenic. How? Excessive intake leads to insulin resistance which leads to excess adipose tissue (fat) when as we all know fat is estrogenic as they secrete estrogen leading is a huge drop in active testosterone. Many of the young men we see in clinic for a college physical are overweight if not obese. It's well over 7/10 men. This results in ED, gyno, and softer features during puberty at a very young age.
My friend and I are very similar in age and background. I have lived a fairly active life. She has lived a strenuous one. She ran marathons and always had jobs in fields where her coworkers were male.
My bone structure is sound. She has had 5 orthopedic surgeries. Looks like there might be a sweet spot.
Too much of anything is bad. Marathons are not good for anyone. Smashing your knees like that for a prolonged period.
Looks like XXs shouldn’t try to do jobs meant for XYs😂
Marathons are pure nightmare fuel, everyone I’ve ever met that runs them hates running them but loves telling people they do it. Combine that with the possibility that her diet may have only been “healthy” by government standards which is actually horrendously bad.
This was actully really interesting... my girls are active pretty much every day of the week. I am a small woman, but my daughters are tall! They eat well and don't drink pop/ flavered sparkling water. They also love tough gum and have lovely jaws/ cheekbones ❤ I agree with this Doctor!
I can assure you as a generation Xer, that guys today would be made fun of for being so fragile and affeminate back in my day. It's disturbing to see now in my lifetime as a 50 year old, that guys take the weaker position whereas women have taken the lead role in everything. It's creepy.😮😮😮
Physical activity has drastically decreased and NOT just the current generation, this is the first generation where most of the parents and grandparents did not participate in strenuous activities and this has resulted in reduced physical parameters.
I can't entirely agree with the menstruation part.
Even though I'm a guy, I can assure you that what you eat is how you will develop, especially as a teen. and our foods are filled with chemicals that make teen girls develop faster
I would make the assumption that teen boys eating too much estrogen-filled foods will make a boy look more feminine.
It's all about what you eat not energy or whatever the doctor said
Carrying around all those books in backpacks and have to walk back and forth to school actually was good for us.
Gen z is "weaker" because society has put way to much of a value on desk work. Society had complete devalued craftsmanship and trades work, which is almost always physical and hard. Society has instead of seeking quality and craft has shifted to cheap and quick.
I love my job, pushing/pulling heavy stuff, its like im getting paid to workout, stimulates my appetitte and i feel like a beast ready to go boom 24/7
I LOVE THIS!
Gen Z might be physically weaker BUT their sense of entitlement is through the roof. Gen Z is a generation of rude, spoiled brats.
They really are just averaging so badly. it sucks to watch and work with them
It is not just a gym. People living sedentary life. They don't move anymore. Phone addiction, food addiction, and car addiction are the main reasons.
the thumbnail is misleading Arnold is a Boomer not gen x
And also used Steroids lmfao
@@tredwayjack5189 and on top of that, he was extremely genetically gifted. Almost nobody can become like Arnold.
These are cultural changes. In the ‘80s we maxed these physical fitness standardized tests( push-up, sit-up, pull ups and 1-2 mile run). Our curriculum was different. Very sport oriented. We had weight lifting, gymnastics, and everyone participated in sports.
Today, people are more sedentary. The culture can change. This is a by product of technology. I raised my children in a sport and a martial art( yes, they change overtime). We spend a lot of time outdoors. This lifestyle is not promoted anymore. Not in school or the media. Makes you wonder…
well in my experience, they show up to work without having eaten breakfast, then while they're sitting in the truck they scarf down a couple of pop tarts, drink some NOS energy drink, then they do a manic little dance around the jobsite for half an hour or 45 minutes or so, crash and are mostly useless the rest of the day, unless we stop at a gas station and they get another energy drink and a slice of greasy pizza... so yeah, not exactly Mister Universe type of physique.
Nothing wrong with liquid death it's only mountain water not a energy drink
I'm 24, and it's common to see me without breakfast untill 12/2 pm. And you must be stupid to generalize like that, you'd be jealous of my work ethic. I work 40 hours a week, and workout at least 4 times. So the fact I haven't had breakfast only means that you can be jealous of my abs, and you should be cause you're old.
My 19 year old son soon to be 20 in june is 14 stone and 6ft and he does weights jaw exercise planks
And is very physically fit he does not drink or smoke takes his health seriously he has been at the gym and e exercising with his own weights and gym equipment since he was 16
Yeah, it's stupid to put everyone in the same box because there are strong people and weaker people in all generations. It just depends on how they were raised, and what they were taught. I remember seeing the weak kids back in the 70s who watched the TV all day, just like those who spent their entire time on videogames today. Saying they are all the same is a gross generalisation.
As a member of Gen Z, I'm grateful I got plenty of exercise. I walked a mile to and from school, had P.E, and dog walks were my responsibility after school.
I'm still active now- physical job, gym membership and a mostly good diet.
I remember being in grade school in the 1980s and about 3 or 4 kids were overweight. I later taught in the Boston Public School System for 8 years, ending in 2008. And in every classroom at least half the class, usually more, were overweight. I can only imagine it's worse today.
Animals are often stronger than humans, but they also don’t live nearly as long.
Perhaps the opposite argument to that being living longer doesn’t necessarily mean living better.
I’m a 49 year old male in a company of 600 people and I am easily the fittest person in the company. However at school I was never above average so I have just maintained my fitness level it’s all the younger people who have become physically pathetic.
I participated in and won a president’s physical fitness award. We sewed them on the arms of our jean jacket.
Eisenhower introduced it…
Me too! It was a fun challenge.
I've been playing the drums since I was young. When I hit high school... I played A LOT in a band. Like literally 30 hours/week. I wonder if my skeletal structure is much thicker due to "loading" than a non-drummer due to this? It's not unlike the tennis example he gave. Very interesting.
The larger unsolved problem is plastics and the heightened amount of oestrogen hormones in literally everything. Male growth (for example) is stunted -- everything from food, clothing, hair and skin products/body wash/shampoo, toothpaste, parfumes/deoderants, plastic bottles (no, the lack of BPA doesn't mean plastic is now safe), our *tap water*, even as far as vinyl flooring.
We've introduced endocrine disrupting systems as a form of convenience to our daily lives, and are *conveniently* still actively minimizing the role it plays in public health.
This, plus the idiot boxes in everyone's hand, lack of sunlight and nutrients in our diets. It's literally all just going to hell. All of it
Less processed food and active travel to incorporate exercise into your everyday routine (ditch the car at least some of the time). Not sure about weight bearing exercise (as it can be so boring for a lot of people) but this is a start
not sure about weight bearing exercises? Literally ALL the science says that not just for bones, but muscle, we should be weight training. You don't have to become a body builder, but weight training is incredibly important for so many reason, not just when you are old but throughout your life.
If you take active transport and less processed food seriously you should be also weight training. It's that simple. Whether you will or not is another thing, but what you think about weight training being important is irrelevant...especially when we live in a world where we justify bad behaviours so readily discounting fact and research
Muscle mass is one of the best predictors for longevity. It's absolutely essential to do weight training in the modern world.
Speaking of ditching the car, when school is done for the day there are cars lined up in the street waiting to pick up their kids. The school is 2 blocks down a side street.
Weightlifting / resistance training is paramount for longevity and overall health. The science is pretty clear on that one. Hit the gym, bud! You'll learn to love it.
I go to the supermarket on foot (15 min), walk home with the groceries, work in the garden with hand tools, cook and bake manually from scratch for five people, walk with our dogs, do the laundry by hand (our water is really hard and washing machines keep breaking down all the time, it's such a bother) etc. on daily basis. I just hope it's enough exercise for a fiftyish working mom, and I don't have to go to the gym, because I really don't have time for it.
All they do is glued to their phones on tiktok and video games
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@@southlondon86 Him, you and me 😄
Hmm I wonder what you’re using to type this right now
You watch anime and typed this on your phone 😂 the audacity
Ppl in the comments hating but it's true
The children of Gen X We have raised into young adults, mine are 20 and 26, strong good looking healthy adults who are ready for their first child and they refuse social media and media all together preferring the reruns of GenX and homeschooling their kids!
My own kids already have a family of their own and it's exactly what they're doing. I have 2 beautiful daughters who refused to be vapid and are teaching their kids the old school way. I'm very proud of them.
I think this guy just gave the meaning of life the most powerful way ever:
"Food in, babies out."
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Tons of swimming and biking with no weight training causes weak femurs. During extended hard cardiovascular activity, we sweat out lots of calcium. Since biking and swimming involves no weight bearing on the femur, these essential bones get weak in the absence of weight training. So, adequate calcium and weight bearing are essential for good bone health.
Arnold is actually a baby boomer, and not Gen X
So in theory, if you regenerated properly and could live for hundreds of years or even indefinitely, could you literally increase your bone mass and size by continually loading the body with heavy weight or even increased gravity? or would your bones become more dense rather than grow?
No recess, no mandatory gym class, no playing outside. It doesnt take a scientist to understand that if Humans, which are naturally pastoral domesticated mammals, dont get excercise and physical activity, their health will suffer.
It's because kids used to have more freedom... Now they child proof even the playgrounds in a way that it's not as enjoyable as it used to be, and kids aren't allowed to just ride their bikes around the neighborhood anymore. Disgusting
My husband works outside in the son all day doing hard physical work. He is the happiest, most cheerful guy. I think that hard work and sunshine has a lot to do with it. I try to go out and do yard work now just for the endorphins.
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With a man working hard afterwards can feel good but it's mainly about the reasons why and if it is rewarding. Hard work that pays off makes men feel good and taking care of the ones we care about helps tremendously but if the hard work doesn't do anything for us we just whither.
I’m glad that as a millennial growing up in the 90s I was active and helped me overcome a difficult childhood. This made me a more resilient adult and if I sit for too long I get fidgety.
It goes back to the parents who are either too lazy or too busy and exhausted with other things to actually parent their children! Parents see phones as pacifiers for their adolescent children! Their children grow up addicted to them and become worse off and therefore society becomes worse off! As difficult as it may be, parents should parent their children! Either teach and enforce better decorum to children when it comes to devices or don’t bring them in the home at all!
I can tell you don't have kids (at least not children in the demographic we are referring to). Social interaction and planning, school homework and research, work schedules and contacts are all done using devices now. You cannot enforce decorum, of much significance even switching of the internet is of limited help. I wish it was not so.
If you're not discussing the Chemtrails and how they are depleting young men of testosterone and causing asthma and breathing issues among kids. Kids just don't have the energy and lung capacity to run around like we did when we were kids.
60 years of women taking the pill put a lot oestrogen in the water. No need for chemtrails to explain this, even if they were a thing.
Kids these days are far more influenced to get in the gym from social media than ever before.
I was one of the last big kids in school swear to God I seen this go down I was in 6th grade and I seen all them high School chicks man and then when I got into high school they all gone
When it comes to being in the gym I am a millienial that is a long time natural lifter I noticed some other millienials when I was younger who used and abused anabolic steroids but the vast majority of lifters were natural these days I am seeing alot of the generation zoomers split just between two camps the horrible genetics natural guys and for the fit guys dead give away guys on steroids I would say in my 17 years in the gym I have seen the most 20 something year olds I have ever seen on steroids in other words this generation either lacks the natural genetics to build a good body or they are lazy and want a short cut to looking insane alot of them are going to regret it in 10 to 15 years majorly I am seeing it happen to people in my age group now 30 something year Olds
Arnold called the seventies as the “age of the half man”, woody Allen was the sex symbol. Fifty years later we’re basking in to the same.
F**k, I wish I knew all this when I was a child.
I would have done things differently, instead of spending most of the time playing videogames as a teenager.
Fun fact is that before getting ny first playstation at the age of 6 I was playing more outside, running, riding the bycicle, etc.
But then I remember that as soon as my cousin bought the ps1 he spent much more time gaming and since I was spending most of my time with him I started doing the same.
So my ignorance on bone and muscle growth and on the importance of getting a decent look, combined with my scoliosis and kyphosis issues caused me to look like a physically weak man that spend most of his time indoor. Needless to say that look is very important in dating and the more your body resemble the one of a girl the more girls will not be attracted to you.
Yoi can always improve your body and grow muscles but 1) lifting weight is not exactly good for me as my muscle are always too much contracted and need more stretching and 2) main physical improvements (especially affecting bones, height, etc.) are made before age of 25, while I am over 30.
I honestly wish I could go back with my new knowledge and do things differently, althought an issue with my childhood was that my parents had lack of time, money and energy to take me places and make me do post school activities, so they were more than ok with me spending most of tbe time at home.
Indeed brother, it’s all looks
Lifting weights actually helps with flexibility. Ive lifted 10 years and stretch before every workout. You also need to do full range of motion. I am more flexible than most. Do something about your situation and start lifting those weights. You'll only regret not doing it sooner
Video games can be very useful tools. If you want to learn a language change the language of your favorite video game and turn it into the language you want to learn. Right now I'm playing Skyrim in Español and Mass Effect in Ittalian. I don't understand what they are saying but I know what they are supposed to be saying.
@@jrfw96 honestly I always heard the opposite, that gym makes you less flexible and more compact. I also have a friend with this situation, although I don't know if he does stretching exercises.
And about me, for some reason when I was going to the gym I always had trouble sleeping. Sleeping that get better if I do stretching exercises and no weight lifting.
@@PhthaloGreenskin yes, as a teenager I incidentally got to improve my English knowledge by playing videogames.
Gaming is not bad, the problem comes when as a teenager your main activity is gaming and you hang out rarely and barely exercise as I did when I was younger.
One of the few things I’m thankful for about covid is the ability to avoid the office and walk, hike, cycle and generally be so much fitter than I ever had the spare time or energy for in my white collar job as it used to be.
Team sports is still alive and well in my country for people of all ages. I think the biggest problem with our entire society (this also applies to you old bastards who think they're better than younger generations) is excessive consumption of digital media and the negative influences it can have on children who are left with it without adult supervision. I think if that is regulated better by individuals and parents everyone will live healthier, productive and more enjoyable lives
Fully agree!! It's mind numbing
Most people in the past did not live in apartments and cities were not so cramped with dangerous roads and massive cars. It would be interesting to check rural and urban living impact to the health of kids.
Because it's all the " massive" cars fault. ..duh...😂😂😂
I'm weak but I try to be strong unfortunately working out doesn't solve emotional weakness 😂
The old timer phrenologists and studiers of the face, would have told you that in the common understanding, a large jaw on a man represents his hunger, his ambition, what he wants to consume from life. It's his nose and forehead that shows you his capability to achieve those things with force or intelligence.
Yep. Arnold is a boomer. I really don’t think eating all meat is what constitutes an omnivore. 😅
Hearing him say we can eat anything… just makes me almost believe we are parasites on this Earth.
Dude…. What are you talking about? Weight lifting is the most popular it’s ever been! 17 year olds are benching 225 like it’s just Tuesday!
Yes the guys just waffling, all my friends go gym
@@LondonMoneyCashEnterprisemaybe in London (where I want to live) but it's fucked here in the US
@@ladyluck92 yeah I heard Americans are fat idk why
Movement stimulates calcium production in the bones as well as maintains a healthy balance of osteoclasts & osteoblasts in the bones for proper repair and strengthening
I’m 50 and work a physically demanding job , I live the work I do and it has kept me in well above average shape however the young guys aren’t coming up and the ones who are have been a nightmare to train and are very physically and mentally weak
I thought jaw size was genetic. I’m 19 my jaw grew with full wisdom teeth when most people had to get them removed. I like doing physical work, yard work, even at my job I help with all lifting. You can’t generalize a whole generation. During the lockdowns I started distancing myself from technology and social media, I learned quickly it wasn’t the solution to all problems.
But I do see a lot of young kids being raised by phones/tablets. Their parents just walk away and leave them to their devices. Addicted to a screen at 4-5 years old. I wonder how this will affect our future
thank god i learned about this stuff now as a 21 year old. im trying to make sure i dont end up like 90% of the old people i see complaining about their pain and health. i want to be climbing trees when im 90
all rich people, once they get old, would spend their ENTIRE fortune to have good health. its worth more than money