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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Sep 14, 2011 - 02:41pm PT
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slowed me down, but not out altogether. my own personal agendas, like climbing, seem to fall by the wayside.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Sep 14, 2011 - 02:41pm PT
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Funny, having kids seems to have had the opposite effect on me.
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Brian
climber
California
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Sep 14, 2011 - 03:47pm PT
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I'm sure it's a well-researched article, but I'd have to agree with Silver.
Post-kids I've tried to cut out the soloing, which has turned into moderating the soloing (as I still do easy stuff in the Sierra, etc.).
However, for general run-out, go-for-it stuff I'm better now than I've ever been (which isn't to say I'm as good as you, or your sister, or anyone else, just better than I've ever been).
If I could have the head I've got now with the body I had at 26... damn.
Cliche, I know.
Oh, well. Still having loads of fun climbing, both with and without my kids.
Brian
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 14, 2011 - 03:51pm PT
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The reason why so many climbers choose dogs over kids.
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Sagebrusher
Sport climber
Iowa
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Sep 14, 2011 - 03:53pm PT
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That must be why so many men are keen to leave as soon as the baby is born
:)
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Sep 14, 2011 - 03:58pm PT
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If I could have the head I've got now with the body I had at 26... damn
Ain't that the truth!
I don't think it's so much a testosterone decrease, just a realization that other people depend on you not doing stupid things and being incapacitated.
Probably one of the worst injuries I sustained was sledding in our backyard. The week of soft slushy snow we'd enjoyed had gotten hard and icy, but that didn't keep me from going over the jump with a sled. It was a winter olympics year after all. I came down hard on my tailbone, my back hurt for weeks, and I couldn't do a pain free situp for about a year.
Parenting is not a no contact sport!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Sep 14, 2011 - 05:10pm PT
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ah dunt buy it,
we dads just get sellective release of our test-os-touron urges.
i don't climb as often but when i get out i get shite done.
i never knew how to play barbies till i was a dad.
now i can have my kids rollin with giggles, and i always interject
little life lessons into our play.
but hell when i get out to climb im halfway up my first by sunrise and i skip breakfast lunch dinner and climb well into the clutches of starlight.
fatherhood has drug outta me a lot more resolve than i've ever needed on any damn mountain.
cheerio.
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harihari
Trad climber
Squampton
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Sep 14, 2011 - 05:25pm PT
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Testosterone is also positively correlated with the amount of *new* sexual partners a man has. Same old woman = lower testosterone. Biological, evoutionary done deed: we did not evolve to be monogamous. "We" includes women...in an ideal world, everybody would sleep around.
Read "Sex At Dawn" for the full scoop. The guy lusting after the WF MILFs is a lot more normal than the guy NOT lusting after the MILFs.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Sep 14, 2011 - 05:32pm PT
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Five kids, 52 years of age, horny as ever.
As far as doing manly things I suppose I do less of that. Perhaps that is due to the invention of Facebook and the plasma screen and Bluray and Netflix and...
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Sep 14, 2011 - 06:09pm PT
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Did my testosterone levels begin to lower after my first child, second, third or fourth?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 14, 2011 - 09:29pm PT
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It takes balls to have kids!
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Sep 14, 2011 - 09:34pm PT
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love the inevitable anecdotes, as if they mean anything
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 14, 2011 - 09:44pm PT
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hey there say, all....
judging by the way folks run these 'studies' by all the etcs involved, i'd think it may be wrong...
most likely it is due to certain menfolk, purposel being non-active, and doing a lot sofa-tv-time, and what not... there is a lot more involved in this, than they think...
also, any man, nearing 30, is when their body changes, as to aging... MOST men, have HAD kids by this age, and that most likely has also tainted their findings....
also--strees issues, if some men find themselves in fatherhhood too early, and such--stress, it doesn't do the body balance good, in any respects...
well, just chipping in, to taint the ol' survey study, a tad, in the opposite direction, i reckon, :))
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 14, 2011 - 09:46pm PT
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Redundant, fortmental.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Sep 14, 2011 - 10:07pm PT
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Fattard..I was envisioning twinky fluids on the windows..RJ
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Sep 14, 2011 - 10:33pm PT
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Cragman, would you really lead You Asked For It again?
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Sep 15, 2011 - 12:21am PT
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Conversley, loose your balls and you won't have kids.
What they really need to invent is climbers viagra, for us older dudes that can't get up it.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Sep 15, 2011 - 12:48am PT
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There are many ways one can lose his balls.......
(Wayne Burns;.....you the man......)...
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Sep 27, 2011 - 12:10pm PT
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In support of this theory, I did go out and buy a used minivan after my son was born.
'99 Sienna with two sliding doors and AC, a great ride btw
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 27, 2011 - 12:40pm PT
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For the record:
I was 29 years old and had 3 kids ranging in age from 4 to 7 years old when I started climbing. Big walls didn't enter my life until I was 33. I'm still guiding in the Sierra and I'm 2 years younger than Walter Bonatti.
Will admit though, testosterone level ain't what it used to be.
Horse pucky, indeed!
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