Everytime I have to lift something heavy I get the opposite of this. Like some six five guys will say it's super heavy meanwhile I am five five and just threw a fucking 75 lbs piece of furniture over my shoulder like it was a particularly large cat. I don't know if it's my height, muscle density, or just the autism but it's rather amusing watching folks universally balk at the situation.
It's partially your height. Naturally lower center of gravity means naturally better stability, plus the less you have to lower yourself to get a lifting grip on something the less effort int takes to get the thing and yourself back up.
I got super into biking recently, having gotten back on my bike at the beginning of last season, starting out struggling to make it the quarter mile around the block (about half of which is uphill of course) and ended my first season with an 8 mile record. This season I'm already up to 12 miles as my furthest ride without a break (just yesterday I did 10 miles which included climbing over 250 feet of elevation)
Anyways point is, I decided last second to do a 5k on the 4 of July and upon returning home I told my neighbor who was outside about it. And he's fucking ripped with a 6 pack and he gave an awkward smile and said "I don't think I could even finish that" and it was really crazy reminder of how much some folks focus on strength and entirely ignore cardio
Even the kinds of cardio you can do vary considerably. I bike 50 miles a day (in summer, at least) and a few years ago I signed up for a spin class (stationary bikes) at my gym thinking I would have an easy time of it. Nope, that shit kicked my ass. I don't think I lasted even 10 minutes.
For 7 years after left my parents place my only form of transportation was a bike. I rode all through college and my first job.
Toward the end I could do 40-50 miles a day and not even think about it. I think my record was 75 miles in a day.
After a 20 year break I pulled my old bike out to ride 2 miles mostly downhill one evening. Holy shit I was sore. I could hardly move the pedals in my old cruising gear.
It's really incredible how biking works an entirely different set of muscles from walking or running.
Struggling to make it even a quarter of a mile was really disheartening, but now that I'm going 10 miles at a time I'm really starting to get into the fun stuff. There's a bike ride fundraiser on a few weeks that I'm planning on signing up for. 18 miles over a 5 hour period. I couldn't consider something like that last season but this season that's looking extremely doable
I used to do a lot of community folk dance (the median age was at least 70), and I dated a guy who was somewhat cocky about inviting me to his kickboxing class. I was down, but a little concerned about embarrassing myself, especially because it was at a very intimidating boxing gym.
I didn’t even break a sweat until 20 minutes in. It turns out, jumping up and down in place for ninety minutes several times a week is really good conditioning for basically any cardio.
I feel this. There's a spin class at my local gym populated almost entirely of older women. Aside from the seat leaving me feeling like I got pegged by the end, I absolutely could not keep up with these ladies.
50 miles? Wtf. That's 80km. Is that over an entire day or to work and back? I can do 40km on my spinning bike in a bit under 90 minutes, but then I can't do it again the next day. Let alone on the same day.