Which Sport Makes You Live the Longest – New Studies Reveal
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00:00 Intro
00:46 Do Athletes Live Shorter Than Regular People
03:17 Which Athletes Live the Longest
04:20 Which Athletes Live the Shortest
05:19 Women's Sports
06:22 Bodyweight, Height and Longevity
09:48 Socioeconomic Status
11:25 Takeaway
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Do Athletes Live Shorter Than Regular People
03:17 Which Athletes Live the Longest
04:20 Which Athletes Live the Shortest
05:19 Women’s Sports
06:22 Bodyweight, Height and Longevity
09:48 Socioeconomic Status
11:25 Takeaway
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I was reading concussions are common in volleyball and martial arts. Sumo is obviously being overweight. Running will starve off CVD, which men are more prone to. I wonder if for super longevity we may be best to limit excessive endurance sports – and look after CVD by other means – such as a good diet and moderate exercise with some HIIT and exercise snacks and sauna.
Cycling did not do as well as expected as they are usually very low fat. I wonder if this is the excessive strain of all the training at the rate they do it at – or all the supplements and drugs they unofficially take?
So, it seems that the best sports are those that do not have excessive physical impact and require precision and mobility.
Tennis !
Women results is interesting, albeit skewed by socioeconomic factor.
Pole Vaulting and Fencing are also associated with rich families i assume, translating into higher life expectancy
Would have guessed table tennis to be associated with lower life expectancy 😂
If mental gymnastics was an olympic sport, Siim would be a gold medalist by now! 😁🌟
We’ll be seeing Siim pole vaulting at the next Olympics now😆
Before even starting to watch this excellent video from Siim Land, I take the risk of a precocious answer 🌲
The best sports for longevity are → Nº1 Sleep Nº2 Swim Nº3 Walk in the mountain ( hiking not running )
Olympic athletes may, on average, live five years longer than non-athletes. However, I’m particularly interested in the cost-effectiveness of this lifestyle. While this isn’t necessarily specific to sports, it’s something I’ve been considering in the context of longevity more broadly. I’ll use this study as an example. These are elite athletes—the best of the best—who likely invest an immense amount of time and effort into training. If they spend more than five years of their lives in intensive training, the additional five years gained in life expectancy might actually result in a net loss. Basically, whenever there’s a study suggesting that activity X increases lifespan by some amount T, I’m also interested in knowing whether the time spent on the activity takes away more or less than T time from your life.
I reasoned that in order to maintain and reach the highest level of coordination, strength and mobility all at once, I would have to do gymnastics, so I started doing it, and now this study shows up
For athletes, most of their earnings come not from winnings, but from salaries and sponsor contracts. They make millions, often hundreds of millions. This is definitely a large factor, when comparing them to the “general population”.
golf and equestrian being there indicates clearing confounding by wealth related factors. still, gymnastics/pole vaulting where both fitness and strength are important being up there has some signal
The better question to ask and answer is what is the sweet spot of hours spent exercising. If you spend 10 years worth of life exercising, only to extend life by 5 year… well, that sucks. If we define life as 16 hours/day you’re awake. Quick rough math shows that exercising 1h/day will give you back 2h of life. And 2h/day exercising you’re even. But exercising 3h a day, you’re not gaining, you’re losing 1h of life for each session.
And all lives of centenaries I had chance to look at, confirm that maximum benefit is somewhere on a lower end of hours spent exercising. Both in terms of hours spent exercising and in terms of intensity of exercise,
the gymnastics floors and mats are padded but not nearly as padded as you might think. Many gymnasts end up retiring earlier than they’d like because of joint pain/injury like spinal fractures or torn ligaments in shoulders from the pressure on joints.
I think there is a pretty good chance that like half the sports on the list would have negative results, if you simply controlled for obesity and overweight. If you the also controlled for socio economic status, it would probably be even worse.
Good video, some random thoughts… This is just epidemiological data, which is subject to healthy user bias, one has to be super fit just to participate in pole vault or gymnastics. How much money one earns from a sport is not a good measure of socioeconomic status in this context, poor people do not participate in Fencing and Golf. The poor performance for volleyball is a legit odd finding, and worthy of further analysis, those that play volleyball tend to be tall, but not so tall that they should age so poorly, that rationale provided (they jump up and down a lot) makes little sense to me.
Siim your thumbnails started to look like anatoly’s photoshopped pictures 🙂
I’ve always been curious about which activities have the biggest impact on longevity. For me, it’s been about finding a balance staying active, eating simple with steak and eggs, and adding the right supplements to the mix. I found some great recommendations in a book called Secret Supplements that turn you into a Superhuman. One supplement that’s made a noticeable difference for me is magnesium it’s been great for recovery and overall well-being.