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Springy poles and forehead straps: How to carry more than your own bodyweight

Springy poles and forehead straps: How to carry more than your own bodyweight

Some communities have developedopracowali techniques to help them carry heavier loads. Here's what we can learn from them.

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But even with this springysprężysty assistance, there can be little doubtnie ma wątpliwości that these farm workers are also just supremelynadzwyczajnie strong after years of carrying heavy loads.

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Many of us with jobs that don't involve so much fetchingprzynoszenie and carrying could also benefit from getting strongerstać się silniejszym, however. So, what does it take to build this kind of strengthzbudować tego rodzaju siłę?

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Perhaps the most obvious way of getting stronger and carry more is to build muscle. "Developing big muscles and stabilisingstabilizowanie those muscles," says Jeffrey Ackerman, an associate teaching professor in mechanical engineering who studies load carrying at the Colorado School of Mines. "Our bodies are adapted to carrying our own body mass, then when you add a lot of weightdodać dużo wagi, you really need to be doing strength training in a consistent way to grow your bigger load-carrying muscles, [such as your core and auxiliarypomocniczy muscles], that support the motion of your body while you're carrying things. The only way to train these muscles is through intensive and progressive strength trainingintensywny i progresywny trening siłowy."

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But jumping straight intoprzechodzenie od razu do lifting heavy weights is not recommended. Instead, experts recommend focusing on techniqueskupianie się na technice and starting with loads that can be comfortably lifted before progressivelystopniowo increasing the training.

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There are other ways, however, of increasing how much you can carry without having to spend hours at the gymspędzać godziny na siłowni. And, much like the farmers in Vietnam, some communities have developed techniques to help them shoulderdźwigać impressiveimponujące loadsdźwigać imponujące ciężary often over long distancesna długie dystanse.

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While researchers are still grapplingzmagać się with its biomechanical advantageszalety biomechaniczne, the act of carrying a heavy load like a sherpa essentially counts as a combination of weight training and cardio – both of which are important for carrying loads for long periods of time. "Many sherpas have been doing it for years and have built upzbudować, wzmocnić this endurancewytrzymałość cardio and core supporting muscle strengthsiła mięśni wspierających rdzeń," says Jeffrey Ackerman, an associate teaching professor in mechanical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

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Military load carryingnoszenie ładunków wojskowych also offers a fascinatingfascynujący lens intointeresująca perspektywa na our capability of holding extreme weight.

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While you may never have to carry a load across mountains like a sherpaszerpa or have the urgemieć ochotę to break world recordsbić rekordy świata like an Olympic weightlifter – perhaps the exceptional power of these people will inspire you to pick uppodnieść a dumbbell and see how much you can lift.

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Go onKontynuuj, you might surprisezaskoczyć yourself.

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