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Was Our Parent's Generation More Fit Than Us?

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0:00 my mom till this day she's like 70 something she could probably do the splits and put her Palms on the ground like if she bent over like she's very very very L say it like that like that's crazy back that thing up like that I was by my lip I was like hey let me see [Laughter] [Music] again and welcome back to a to a guns out oh sh wa I don't have look at that dude that's that's not a that is not a gun that's a bazooka I think your arm is smaller than his forearms I think my body's smaller than his biceps that's two armories that's crazy that's just skin you can see like the station there wild ra C hey let's clap it up for jar

0:50 [Applause] guys question for you Joe was bringing this up as a topic earlier was a generation before us or our parents generation generally speaking do you feel like they were more fit than our generation generally speaking uh statistics would say yes yeah cuz they say we're the most obese right this this era I just saw this post right now and it's at La Sierra High School in the 1960s and it's has all these like guys working out like the high school kids and they used to rank them where like if you pass a certain level so when you start off you're like you're wearing white shorts shorts gold for Elites and then navy blue but to get the navy blue shorts you had to do 34 pull-ups and you have to carry someone 34 pull-ups damn yeah and you have to

1:41 carry someone 5 miles and only only 19 students were able to do it well that is Elite though if you're talking about Elite Fitness that's pretty this is four years after the uh implementation of the Presidential Fitness exam so that was actually standard um and you mean like Nationwide cuz you know when I was in High School right like I was like there's this whole PE like the the gym everything it seemed it like there was always dusty ass like showers no one used it and there's all this like gym equipment and I feel like I was like how come we don't get to use all this stuff but they used it in the past I'm assuming and when you see all these pictures of people in PE like in high school everyone was like actually participating so do you think something changed in in the history of like

2:31 mandatory uh like Athletics at school or whatever postmodernism sorry really well like 2020 they some straight up got rid of PE in some like yeah phobic and this and that it was a bunch of ████ um statistically yes this is the most out of shaped generation for sure yeah I you know you would see like those memes it like this is what people used to come to see at the circus right like like a I guess like a fat person like oh I've never seen one that fat before yeah and that person is smaller than the average person you see at the Walmart now what the heck wow it's like a guy that's like maybe like 230 or 250 and then at Walmart you see some pretty big people well you know manual Labor's down computer jobs are up uh cubicle life cubical life for sure like I said with with literally with PE even now even in schools that haven't gone the full

3:21 ████ blown like postmodern farli they still like if you want to participate in PE you can but if you also want to sit down we we'll try to grade you on something else we won't be so everybody's like offended and ████ and it's just my senior of high school I was able to opt out a PE to do bowling yeah see bowling it was worth it was teaml College had bowling class in college yeah it was just bowling like class so instead of doing PE you could get the same amount of credits and you just show up to the bowling alley like three times a week what's your best score at that time like 200 it was outside of of the high school yeah yeah wow cuz we're talking about I'm talking about late '90s early 2000s I'm not talking about like now I it was already PE was not taken seriously like no one was doing F we had a weight we had a weightlifting

4:11 class though that was pretty cool yeah but we call it Cardiology yeah I do think the discrepancy is bigger so I think we are the fittest we've ever been but also the fattest at the same time oh that's true there's more education yeah like old records if you look at old lifting records they're not nearly as high as we have now but then also we have the heaviest people we've also it's like Niche Sports Science like Niche Sports Science evolved right and but generally the population seems way less fit general population you can see with their eyes yeah is that just an America thing though no I heard the world is like obese UK is pretty wild man really meic oh ████ their food is so good that's probably why they and what's crazy is when I was just in Korea this year there's I would say if I had to choose

5:03 like um overweight versus like skinny or like underweight it's probably 6040 60 overweight in Korea Korea in Korea Kore the cheese yeah it's a cheese a lot of cor dos a lot of heavy you don't think it's a sliced pork belly wait so that that whole like corn dog thing craze you think that's really like that's the reason why it's 60% over I don't think it's 100% the reason I think it's the the other half is the Fried Chicken it's the Fried Chicken dude the fried chicken is too good but overall though Asians are becoming taller because they're eating more protein now they have access to more like Koreans I feel like are the tallest Asians right now yeah they pretty tall yeah cuz the average height was like 5'4 and then now everyone's like 5'8 and above except for

5:53 the Philippines don't they have the highest suicide rate right now Korea yeah they beat Japan yeah they're like we lost dude they're in the lead for loss they don't even have a force for that ████ they got them Bridges is that where they do mostly it's a lot it's a lot on the bridges damn man that's crazy this suddenly turned really really sad let's go back to the gym shorts and the colors and stuff like that yeah okay 34 P okay what is that like 16 or you're 14 to you're 14 to like 18 yeah they didn't have a very good standard of judging that stuff yeah yeah who came up with that number 34 yeah and also who's judging it oh those are like the Mark Walberg put my head I do 40 I was like 4 you got to carry someone for five miles what if your homie's 90 lb versus

6:45 your other homie who's 150 yeah is different I don't even think the average person can run 5 miles right now yeah hell no I can't Ryan can't and I'm oh wait yeah I can I can r eight and then I'm dead yeah 5 miles what was the uh the military standard like uh Fitness testing I don't know what their new one is cuz they got some crazy ass one now um but when I was in the Marine Corps standard was uh 3 Mile Run and then pull-ups and then so if you want to get perfect score and you want if to get promoted you want to get a perfect score a perfect score for the 3 Mile Run is 18 minute so 6 minute mile for three for 3 miles damn uh 20 pull-ups and and then 100 situps in 2 minutes and then generally like 20

7:35 pull-ups and 100 situps in 2 minutes no no no that's 20 pull-ups and then 100 sit-ups in 2 minutes and then you have like ████ PT studs like there's dudes that are doing 15 minute 3 miles ████ like there's some guys that are ████ insane do you just do the minimum you go 20 I'm done or do people go I could do 100 and it keep going some people do I mean you don't get any extra points but some people just on the day of their hype and they just want to see how much they can do but um straight to General cuz you did so many I like it when the Army has a pullup bar and then and then you can win like a hot dog yeah like a hat yeah he takes his thing off gives it to you but that was the joining the military was the first time where I was like oh ████ there's ████ levels to people's uh oh hell yeah dude like

8:25 either genetics or levels to people's ability cuz you know like when you're just in your high school or whatever like oh cool I think I'm like maybe average slightly above average and then you see dudes that are like maybe a little bit smaller than Jared and they like they're like a D1 former D1 athlete and they do a 15minute uh three mile and then they like oh it's probably too heavy for pull-ups and then they still smash the 20 pull-ups what the ████ you know you know what I found out you know how everyone has their like thing they're like oh man ████ dude this guy he could Sprint or like this guy they're really they're like made for swimming right I I finally found out what my thing was ████ let's hear it I'm a really good walker dude I could ████ walk like 30,000 steps like dude no I don't even steep I just walk I have the endurance to ████ walk all day long 30,000 steps 25,000 every ████ day that's my average that's crazy flip flops yep and

9:16 I'm in flipflops I don't get no ████ tendonitis none of that ████ do you do like do you do it like this old AG you know it dude you're ready dude you're ready for the rest of your life y I'm staring at people like they're about to steal ████ you know d i pace around like a pigeon man you go to some rooftops you pace around I walk start sweeping the leaves on the floor but it's it's one of those talents where it's just so it's like you're breathing so you never realize like it's right under your nose yeah dude my cardio in my days is getting 11k steps and I can hardly do that so thank you but you're probably like a buff guy on the incline doing that huh no oh never mind no it's just steps man I always see bodybuilder at the at the at the gym doing the incline

10:06 St oh the incline on the tread worse yeah it's actually worse for like glycogen res and stuff yeah people who do like any high intensity form of cardio for prep they're just dipping into their stored form of sugar glycogen so stored form of carbohydrates that could be for training your legs so they're just burning glycogen oh there oh there's different yeah they just burning glycogen like when now you're going have a s█████ leg session congratulations so now you're going to lose size during prep because you're so depleted it's dumb it's just stupid ████ idiot this ████ passed down from like Bros you know bro science three sets of 12 dude you learn that in SE Sun three sets of 12 I still do three sets of 12 I wish I could walk that much 30,000 is ridiculous that's insane let me see those ankles though put them up on the on the table see how thick them ankles are fear everyone that's a thick

10:56 ass calf boy I'm ashy cuz LA's dry I'm not used to this weather yeah those are those legs are meant for walking were all of your guys' parents like at least like defaultly fit my my parents were very active so maybe I got it from them like my mom uh she loves swimming so like when we used to go to the city pool she's like 30 laps before you play wow so I was like ████ so I'm always the only I'm like a ████ kid actually swimming like you know so grown-ups in the lap pool so it be 30 laps before you get to play and um like my mom till this day she's like 70 something she could probably do the splits and put her Palms on the ground like if she bent over like she's very very very say it like that like that's crazy back that thing up like that I was by my lip I was like hey let me see [Laughter]

11:46 again so when you're like when you look at pictures of your parents when they were like 2530 they were like pretty trim and today's standards they'd be anorexic W yeah same with my parents cuz my dad would be like like 15 50 you know and then I guess today's standards it' be like 150 what the ████ I think my mom when uh any photo of her like before I was born she was like under 100 lb I think my mom's under 100 right now yeah she was like like super skinny how much your mom weigh probably under 100 95 my mom weighs 90 lb dude 89 lb well back then Dad bought and Dad's strength was like buff yeah like when you had a big pop belly and you just ████ look like a construction worker yeah I the way my dad took off to Wisconsin he's an elite level Sprinter same with mine he must he must

12:36 have been something cross country Runner you go fast when you don't look back that's right 13year Marathon baby I don't think I could run a three ████ uh 18 minute three mile for the life of me oh hell no that's that's quick never I trained for it 18 minute 3 miles that's what he said that's that's the perfect that's that's if you want to get a score that's really hard you think you think it's you think it's longer now well for the mar 21 minutes even for the every branch has gotten softer yeah I don't know what the army or I could do I think I could do 30 minutes 30 minutes 3 miles when I was so that's a 6 minute mile right yeah for 3 miles when I was when I was in if you ran a 30 you might be on the verge of getting kicked out like they would they would like file you out because that's I think I could do 27

13:26 you could do 25 bro so you'll do 25 23 if my life online for sure I think I would say the average guy that I knew ran a 24 minute 3 Mile uh that would probably be like a c and then 21 minute would be like a b and then if you if you start getting into like uh under 19 that's like a and then 18 is like 8 plus that's that's what it was when I was in damn that's ████ honestly fast and you got to like raw dog it you can't like listen to you kind of got to Sprint a little bit but you're also like this is like you're sprinting your heart out you know you're not like jogging you're trying to get the best time cuz it's going to go on your record but you don't get tired and start walking in the middle you can not if not if you're trying to get prom that's 30 minutes that's 30 minute time did y'all do did y'all do the point system yeah so ours if you got perfect for all three that's 300 points under PT PF score damn damn

14:17 man that's hard let's look it up it's 18:30 for what now yeah so it's only 30 seconds longer yeah I guess so what the ████ they lowered the bar man every every every branch still that's still hard dude 30 seconds more damn they did get soft ████ probably probably CU recruitment's low yeah does that really make a huge difference what 30 seconds I'm sure there are guys missing it by like this much yeah yeah well if you missed that are you completely disqualified no they were still giv the points at 27 minutes and 30 seconds they're given 40 points still oh okay I think it's like um so did you guys cuz you said if they were getting a damn near 30 you would have kicked out yeah yeah they'll start like they let they're still giving people points at 2730 so cuz what what happens is like let's say um we're all the same rank right and

15:08 then there's a slot that opens up for sergeant or whatever so we all put in our packages this person went to this school this person is whatever this is our like our current performance then also your PT score is also included in that and then so they're going to look so if there's a tiebreaker they're going to look who's more fit yeah and then so I guess maybe the 30 seconds will help there cuz then cuz if no one's getting perfect score then like what's second best oh this guy's getting a perfect score now cuz it's now 1830 but what if like one is like a lot smarter well then there probably wouldn't be a tiebreaker need I don't know I just kind of think a smarter higher ranking guy is probably better than the guy that can run a little bit more well depends it depends on the job but you're also in the military so how much can you lead if you're tired in 5 minutes yeah that's true ultimately

15:59 you're trying to lead still yeah so you could be a whiz kid like there's ████ there's a guy that actually went to Caltech he has a um Dam we had a funny ass name for him he went to Caltech his his official name is he was a Corporal at the time Corporal Huntington he had a PhD W I think his name was rocks cuz he was dumb as rocks and he's ████ smart but he was just a ████ bag in the military cuz he just like had zero common sense um was the back of a formation all the time like if we need to move 5 miles that's the guy that's in the back that's like and then like and the Marine Corps is moving everywhere on foot why did he even join the military I think he wanted to get tougher or whatever but it was just like um I mean shout outs them for even joining but it was it it was definitely out of place and as smart as

16:50 he is if you can't lead then you your brain is useless that's damn ass real yeah just just just keep him at the basee doing drone strikes yeah he'll be doing drones he could be like tech support Dam right yeah if you joined NASA they probably would have been a utilize him way better but even I heard NASA dudes you got like Special Forces guys that can with stand like hella crazy physical ████ but that's astronauts ASA astronauts he's talking about janitorial NASA I see astronauts are Elite like the dude but that's like ████ Houston they're they're Houston right you call Houston we have a problem all those guys they don't look like they got good P scores no yeah those guys he needs to be on the ground not in that

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