Thank you! This is how I excelled in athletics. I'm pretty much the exact same size as the competitor and it's always been a great advantage for me. Just like weight gain shows faster on smaller frames, so too does muscle gain and weight loss. Pull-ups are easier for me than a lot of bulkier and taller folk.

Her small size is actually an advantage here. If she was bigger her endurance for all those hanging obstacles wouldn't have held up.

I watched the full thing — I know her reach is less (the commentators certainly make sure you understand her arms are short and stubby) — my point was that since her MASS was less, her body requires less force to move it equivalently to someone who is larger. It's an advantage to be smaller, when you're only using…

Seeing as the body mechanics of that wall obstacle look pretty much like a pommel horse lead up, she's a gymnast, and gymnasts are generally pint-sized with crazy strength to weight ratio versus larger frames, i'm gonna go with a yes.

"but her small size is an advantage rather than a disadvantage"

Strength-to-weight ratio is one thing there.

Size, especially height, is a disadvantage, actually. Short and compact is the ideal build. Building strength is easier for dudes, yes.

I can't watch the video in Europe and I'm not arguing that she's an absolute badass, because she is, but her small size is an advantage rather than a disadvantage. For things that require upper body strength, shorter limbs are much more efficient than long ones. Its mechanics. A tall, long-limbed person would need a…

My ultimate indulgence used to be a burger from In-N-Out supplemented with a lemonade and fries from Chik-fil-a. The two chains were kitty-corner from each other and on my way home from work when I lived in Arizona many years ago (and before I understood Dan Cathy's politics/religious beliefs).

Chipotle is absolutely fast food. There's no way in hell Chipotle doesn't count as fast food.

You see very few very fat women in portraiture of the time, and even Rubens women weren't as big as people think. The fluctuation between weights considered beautiful by European standards don't deviate all that much, and the trends were actually more about where that weight was distributed ( a trend for small breasts…

sneakers on the beach! That's more upsetting.

It's not some kind of crazy dogma. Empty calories are just calories that come from food that has no other discernible nutritional value. "Full" calories come from protein, healthy fats, and foods that are otherwise rich in vitamins and minerals.

You know, most people I've encountered feel this way too — that they "deserve" to pig out and thus eat more crap after working out. But I'm the opposite. When I've gotten a good run in, my endorphins are high and I feel healthy... thus, only want to eat healthy food. I'm less likely to just keep eating because I "feel…

Well, that's because nicotine and cigarettes are worse than weed.

Yes, because they're not both basically sodium lauryl sulfate with additives. Give me a break.

... What the everloving fuck? So we're supposed to use segregated soap?

As a general policy, I think there are (or should be) implied exceptions for anyone who does it for medical or personal (such as religious) reasons. If it's what works for you and helps you manage your pain I would never dream of discouraging or judging you for it. In my experience though, you're an exception, not…

Yep. And purposely dehydrating yourself will actually have the opposite effect—it will inhibit your body's natural detoxifying organs (the kidneys and liver) from being able to function properly, thus increasing the toxic load in your body. Science is hard. Magic is easy.

Same for Oregon. Portland is liberal*, but you get outside the metro areas and it gets real conservative real quick.