Which is worse for fitness: 3 weeks of bed rest or 30 years of aging? (SHOCKING answer...)

[harveyts]

I just recently spent nine days unconscious in the ICU, followed by seven days of bed rest in the PCU after a head injury. I couldn’t stand, find my noise with my figure, locate my mouth to drink water or hardly anything else. When I was released home, even walking to my apartment from the car would cause me to need to rest for an hour. I have been a runner almost all my life. I have run ultra-distance races; I had just run five miles the day before I hit my head. So imagine 12 days of not moving, and I couldn’t stand it. It was wild. I’m almost back to normal now and plan on my first training run tomorrow but fuck, man.

[lawrenceweinzimer]

Continuum on the theme, 'Never sit still.'
Thank you, Dr. Levine.

[chrisfell]

When I 13 I was in a coma for 5 weeks and for the next 3 weeks I hardly got out of bed. I was fit before my head injury and after was the best athlete in the whole school 3 years later and the following 2 years when I was 16+ that's athletics, rugby and cricket. I played virtually 7 days a week. The key is being very fit. If I had been older and not as fit at the time then I'm pretty sure I would dead or in a wheel chair!

[sherrilldean]

❤BED … 54 hours a week… love making 4 hours a week… the rest of the time in the week your body and mind should be moving … keeping productive and busy … even if my math is incorrect ❤

[fratusd]

Well I guess 6 weeks of the broken ankle isn't so great cuz I haven't been able to move

[RG-yzov]

So 5 55 year olds (%100 in this epidemiological study ) were in better shape cardiovascular wise in their mid 50's than they were mid 20's, Just because they bed rested 3 weeks in their mid 20's. All five must have lived the perfect way the following 30 years.