Then, in terms of recovery, all of those deep knee bends left everyone sore, but much more so among those eating meat. I want a doctor who can do a thousand deep knee bends! As you can see at 2:15 in my video. In most cases, the sedentary plant-eaters were physicians who sat on their butts all day. That’s wild! “Even the sedentary abstainers surpassed the exercising flesh-eaters” in performance. Even the sedentary vegetarians performed better than the meat-eating athletes they averaged 535 deep knee bends. How many deep knee bends can you do? One meat-eating athlete did more than 1,000, with the group as a whole averaging 383, but the plant-eating athletes creamed them, averaging 927. This included nine who exceeded an hour, four who exceeded two hours, and one participant who kept going for more than three hours. None of the meat-eating athletes hit half an hour, while nearly half of the plant-eaters did. Only two meat-eaters hit 15 minutes, while more than two-thirds of the meat- avoiders did. The meat-eater maximum time was only half the vegetarian average. Give it a try!) The vegetarians did about five times better.

“The experiment furnished a severe test of the claims of the flesh-abstainers.” And, “much to my surprise,” wrote the researcher, the results seemed to vindicate the vegetarians, suggesting that those eschewing meat “have far greater endurance than those who are accustomed to the ordinary American diet.”Īs you can see at 1:12 in my video, the first endurance test measured how many continuous minutes the participants could hold out their arms horizontally: “flesh-eaters” versus “flesh-abstainers.” The meat-eating Yale athletes were able to keep their arms extended for about ten minutes on average. The Yale study compared 49 people: meat-eating athletes (mostly Yale students), vegetarian athletes, and sedentary vegetarians. (I couldn’t find the primary source in English, though.) I did find a famous series of experiments at Yale, published more than a century ago, on “the influence of flesh eating on endurance,” which I discuss in my video The First Studies on Vegetarian Athletes. Their competitors were having to eat crow with their beef.” Then, a Belgian researcher put it to the test in 1904 and found that those eating more plant-based reportedly lifted a weight 80 percent more times.

A week later, he won the most prestigious hill-climbing race in England….Other members of the club also turned in remarkable performances. “In 1896, the aptly named James Parsley led the Vegetarian Cycling Club to easy victory over two regular clubs. Meat-eating athletes are put to the test against vegetarian athletes and even sedentary plant-eaters in feats of endurance.

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