So, fun fact, when you hit your bones harder than they're supposed to get hit but not quite hard enough for a real break, they develop tiny microfractures, which make them sore and weak for a while, but then if you let them heal properly the parts that used to be teeny tiny cracks grow back denser and harder. Kind of like how when you exercise, you tear up muscle fibres and then you grow back more of them.
There's lots of things in your body that are like that, because evolution works more towards efficiency than peak performance so the 'default' state is soft and slow and weak because that doesn't require as much food to maintain, but if you live the kind of life where you need to be able to lift heavy loads or run for hours on end or sometimes fight a tiger with a pointy stick then evolution is willing to let you burn more energy and nutrients in order to make that happen.
These Shaolin motherfuckers, they spend years just... hitting things. Over and over. Like, they start out punching sand, or padded wood or something, then they work up to bare wood, then stone and metal, over the course of literal years of just waking up and punching things every day. And that doesn't just make them strong, the way lifting weights or whatever would, it makes their bones ridiculously dense. Like, just carrying around their skeletons is wasting energy from an evolutionary standpoint, making them need more food than normal people just to walk around. But because their bones are ridiculously dense, because they've been almost shattered enough times, over and over for fucking years, they can hit things that would absolutely shatter the bones of any vaguely normal mammal, and make the rock break first.
Note that this is a carefully balanced process that they've figured out over like, thousands of years of trial and error. If you push too hard and actually break your bones, that generally leaves them weaker than they started, not stronger, so don't take this as advice to immediately start beating your head against a brick.
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