Bodybuilding in the Lunar Colony or Orbiting Space Station Considered
Humans seem to worship youth and they love to have a nice physique, and who can blame a human being for that.
After all, we know that humans have always worshiped the body, look at the ancient Romans and Greeks and all their cool statues for instance.
Yes, and while it is true that some of that has to do with pride and ego, a couple of attributes which can cause problems with the human psyche, the need to look good, and have a strong body lives on in our society.
Indeed, certainly it will for many decades to come.
And, we should also note humans will be living off the planet soon, that is to say they will be living in colonies on the Moon and Mars, as well as in orbiting space stations, space hotels, and satellite human habitats.
Now then, this could pose a problem because we know that athletes lose bone density in space, and there is not a lot of gravity holding them down.
Also consider if you will that on the Moon and Mars the gravity is 1/5 or one third that of Earth.
Keeping muscle mass will be a challenge.
Also using free weights won't do any good in zero gravity, and therefore we need a completely new set of designs for the workout equipment.
Perhaps those personal gyms, which use straps instead of weights might work.
Doing pull-ups and push-ups are not likely to do much good either, as a bodybuilder needs resistance during their workouts.
Not only is it important for humans to look good to feel good, but it's also important that they work out to increase their muscle mass and strength of their bones.
In fact, while the humans are busy working out, perhaps we can harness some of that human energy to run LED lights for the space station, or colony.
Why waste the energy? After all, if humans are going to work out, they are going to burn calories and eat food, and it takes time and energy to grow food, so it would be smart to give some of that back to help run the electricity needs of the space station, or colony.
NASA has all types of different workout equipment now in orbit to keep the astronauts healthy and strong.
Imagine in the future a colony of 100 people on the surface of Mars or a subsurface colony.
Not only will they wish to work out, they will probably wish to participate in sports.
If they don't work out, and the ever do come back to earth they certainly won't be very strong considering the gravity here is so much more.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
After all, we know that humans have always worshiped the body, look at the ancient Romans and Greeks and all their cool statues for instance.
Yes, and while it is true that some of that has to do with pride and ego, a couple of attributes which can cause problems with the human psyche, the need to look good, and have a strong body lives on in our society.
Indeed, certainly it will for many decades to come.
And, we should also note humans will be living off the planet soon, that is to say they will be living in colonies on the Moon and Mars, as well as in orbiting space stations, space hotels, and satellite human habitats.
Now then, this could pose a problem because we know that athletes lose bone density in space, and there is not a lot of gravity holding them down.
Also consider if you will that on the Moon and Mars the gravity is 1/5 or one third that of Earth.
Keeping muscle mass will be a challenge.
Also using free weights won't do any good in zero gravity, and therefore we need a completely new set of designs for the workout equipment.
Perhaps those personal gyms, which use straps instead of weights might work.
Doing pull-ups and push-ups are not likely to do much good either, as a bodybuilder needs resistance during their workouts.
Not only is it important for humans to look good to feel good, but it's also important that they work out to increase their muscle mass and strength of their bones.
In fact, while the humans are busy working out, perhaps we can harness some of that human energy to run LED lights for the space station, or colony.
Why waste the energy? After all, if humans are going to work out, they are going to burn calories and eat food, and it takes time and energy to grow food, so it would be smart to give some of that back to help run the electricity needs of the space station, or colony.
NASA has all types of different workout equipment now in orbit to keep the astronauts healthy and strong.
Imagine in the future a colony of 100 people on the surface of Mars or a subsurface colony.
Not only will they wish to work out, they will probably wish to participate in sports.
If they don't work out, and the ever do come back to earth they certainly won't be very strong considering the gravity here is so much more.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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