Millennial men 20% weaker than their fathers
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...searchers-say/

Of course, this doesn't apply to Trump supporters. Even the white-collars among us regularly go to the gym before heading to our cushy office jobs.

i could bench my father when I was 21 and can still squat twice his weight.

proof plz. need pics.

meh I don't think it has much to do with the labor force. I think there are two greater factors. My observations as a genx, diet and exorcise has changed much and especially impacting adult development.

1. GMO's and all the fake food now. We didn't have this crud, not so much, where everything now is loaded with sugar etc. May as well be eating sawdust now. So, poor development as well as insufficient muscle maintenance. You add water to your vehicle and see how it runs too.

2. Though I had a computer, a C64 etc, most didn't. Best we had was dial-up BBS servers, not even really interlinked. We had no mobile computers either e.g. smartphones. Staying in all day was generally considered a bad thing, unless you were watching a game or something. No matter if in school or holding a desk job, people just got out and did stuff, regularly.

Agree. 2 major things, inactivity in the digital age. Lotta deep couch sittin and high media intake. Second, faggy diets and the demonization of meat, esp red meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeleton

'Ekso Bionics is currently developing and manufacturing intelligently powered exoskeleton bionic devices that can be strapped on as wearable robots to enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics. Various problems remain...'

I remember as a child thinking my dad was huge, he was 6'2 and a little overweight about 240lbs I'd guess looking at pictures. Then I grew up and my dad nicknamed me the beast because I just moved shit in the garage he'd never dream of lifting. I grew to 6'5 235 so in my case this story is just like the rest of the WP garbage.

edit: then again I also grew up with a stay at home mother who cooked real food every night for dinner and packed lunches with real food as well.

Tell us more about the real food? I would argue that as you go back to the 50's (millenial fathers) food gets worse by the year and people actually eat better now.

just search for: nutrient deficient foods
for starts.
Then you can maybe capture the magic of posting on something you know a little about rather than opinion just flying out of thin air ;)
results such as http://www.motherearthnews.com/natur...z13jjzmat.aspx
You just get fat w/o the nutrients as your body still craves them thus more and more food intake yet less and less health. You can pretty much blame the FDA, agricultural subsidy, ethanol production, or anything involving the fed govt where everything golden they touch turns to led.

As for the past, actually if you go back before electricity, most people heated their homes with wood. The remains made for very excellent nutrient rich fertilizer. Now they just dump human waste (people shit sort of like soylent green) onto farms then spray them with pesticides 1000x the dosage (and greater every year as GMO crops fail) just to maintain minimal production. Great famine coming.

drugs