So let’s say I had aqcuired a young tortoise, and wanted it to eventually be fast. Could I strap a weight on a rope to its shell and gradually increase the weight a few grams every week or month until I have the fastest tortoise in the world?
It would be stronger but I doubt that would correlate much with speed or endurance. I can squat almost double my bodyweight but my cooper test score is around 2500. A runner with way less leg strenght could easily outperform me.
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The turtle would get stronger, but strength wouldn’t necessarily have to translate to speed. It might go the same speed, just more easily 🤷♂️
Gotta tune your turtle for more horsepower, not more torque.
Exactly, instead of making it pull weights, make it run after a salad or something and gradually increase speed/distance.
Maybe a strawberry on a fishing pole strapped in front of it too then?
Do non-human animals get more physically fit from working out?
Not sure about reptiles but mammals for sure.
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This gives me ideas…
Tortoises go faster the hotter they are; comes from having a cold blooded metabolism. So to make it faster, acclimate it to hotter environments as well as putting it on a muscle building regime.
You know, there’s some good eatin on one of them things.
But, probably not.
Reptiles don’t pile on mass the way mammals do. The greatest limitation to tortoise speed isn’t muscle anyway. It’s bone structure and metabolism.
Strapping weight ain’t gonna get mr tarpin swole, he just gonna be tired.
Get it a Terrapin Stationary Bicycle for endurance training.
Just a healthy diet of jerry and the boys will do…turtle will be trucking right along
