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"Wait, what? People thought lifting more than 5 pounds at a time caused muscle lock-up and paralysis? So what about all those farmer and longshoremen and, well, just about anyone with a job who routinely lifted way, way over 5 pounds at a time?"

They thought it would eventually if you kept at it, and there was plenty of reason to believe it.

Not only did people risk sprains and muscle tears, but people who did a lot of manual labor back then had a bad diet, lived in atrocious conditions, had no medical care at all, and tended to live into their 40's if they were lucky. Tobacco was considered healthy because people tended to not live long enough to get cancer, and if you were a farmer or a longshoreman, death by misfortune, trampled by animals or crushed under some crates was more likely than living to a ripe old age.

So looking at the thought of lifting more than 5 pounds as insane really ignores their reality. We know the idea to be wrong, but if you were observing things back then, you would likely come to the same conclusion.
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