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>Let me ask a question. You need to test the fitness of a person. How do you do it? I would simply send him in the cage for a bit of MMA fighting. Fighting is a perfect test of all kinds of fitness because if you have a weakness in any of them your opponent will use it against you. Low on cardio? You will get tired out, and then easily finished. Weak upper body strength? The opponent will not have to care so much about defending himself. Poor balance (my bane) ? You will find yourself on your ass a lot. Poor flexibility? Your opponent will make moves that can only be countered by a head kick, but you can’t pull that off well. Actually your body is all right, but you get mentally easily scared? Will be used against you, too.
>Fighting is such a perfect test of fitness, if you think about it, it is almost in the definition. Fitness is an ability to overcome obstacles, and a human opponent is per definition the kind of an intelligent, flexible obstacle who is the hardest to overcome because he will screw with your weaknesses.
>The same way, the health and fitness of nations is tested by wars. Just about anything that is truly robust and healthy about a nation, can be used to gain an advantage, or just about any weakness can be exploited.
>Fighting is such a perfect test of fitness, if you think about it, it is almost in the definition. Fitness is an ability to overcome obstacles, and a human opponent is per definition the kind of an intelligent, flexible obstacle who is the hardest to overcome because he will screw with your weaknesses.
>The same way, the health and fitness of nations is tested by wars. Just about anything that is truly robust and healthy about a nation, can be used to gain an advantage, or just about any weakness can be exploited.
