Yeah 20 years ago I ran a 18:15 5k when I was just running casually on a treadmill after lifting, could probably bench 200 and did one set of 8-10 pullups. I’d say I was in great shape at the time. I’m 35 pounds heavier now, can’t run for shit but can bench more. I for sure can’t do one set of ten pullups.
You sure about that? I can’t imagine anyone looks at me and thinks “that guys an athlete”
Suzzer’s dick has more than 6.6 lbs of muscle
My bench press is like 80 lbs and I could maybe do 5 pull ups.
The not normal part was 2 marathons and a half-ironman with almost no training.
Where do I get one of these scans? (minus the dick part, I’d like to leave some mystery around that)
Is this dunk tank or the thing that’s superior to dunk tank? I did get 191 lbs of lean body mass from a dunk tank once (at 245 lbs or so). I was pretty proud of that, but I’ve heard they’re not super accurate.
Far superior to tank.
Lots of places do it.
Here’s the first google hit I found:
Dexa scans machines are everywhere. Any place will do, mine was $100 for 2 scans, you can go to any place that bought a machine, you lie down on a table for 5 minutes while the thing scans you, and then they email you a pdf with all your stats. Super easy.
This will probably sound like a dick question, but I don’t mean it to be–I’m genuinely curious:
How much did this outcome change your original belief about how easy this was (6:10 is a very very bad mile time that lots of people can do) versus how much it changed your belief about your own level of fitness?
(I think a spur-of-the-moment sub 7:30 mile is a totally fine time for a fit person in their 40s. I think your original claim was outlandish.)
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Just for full disclosure of my own failure, I decided to test my pull-up estimate last night, and only managed one set of 10 and one set of 8, well short of my 2.5 sets I thought I could manage. For the record they were all full ROM with dead hang, no kip, and shoulders virtually touching the bar at the top.
So yeah quite a bit of work to put in to build up to 4x10 I would imagine, but doable. But also having to avoid overtraining and winding up getting sidelined by tendonitis, which is a thing for me.
I’m confident if I dedicated myself to it I could probably run a 5:30 or even better. I’d have to lose 40 pounds and, you know, run. Like five or six days a week. If I was 160 pounds I think I could have made a decent run at 6:10 off the couch.
I still think 6:10 is a very very bad mile time and an odd choice to include with an excellent pull up achievement and a pretty good bench.
Lol, lmao
As a former 4:35 miler, most guys (even smalls) cannot run 7:00, much less 6:00 “off the couch”
225 bench is way more attainable for most guys than 6:10 mile. The push-up challenge is insane.
Are the chips that difficult? The bench takes lots of training and many people have a history of benching.
When I focused on chinups i got to 3 sets of 6, and I was 255 pounds. Average guy is a lot lighter.
I reckon it would be doable with similar amount of effort for most people to bench 225
Chin up is underhand and easier. Pull up is overhand.
Also. I still tell this story. In my mid 20s I was running a lot. I went and did a 6 minute mile but it nearly killed me. Like I was coughing and wheezing for a few hours
As I’m dying on the couch I switched on the Olympics and the marathon was on. Just in time to hear the commentator
“Rounding the 10th mile, they are averaging about 4 and a half minutes per mile”
Always serves as a reminder of how far the average person is from the best in the world, across any endeavour, but especially sports.
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I love, love, love the suggestion that every olympic event should have a randomly-selected non-athlete participant just to emphasize exactly how good the olympic athletes are. Like, it’s one thing to see Usain Bolt crush a group of olympians, but it would be even better to then wait, wait, wait, and see a random accountant finishing the 100 meter dash like 20 seconds later.
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My first 100 meters yesterday was exactly six minute mile pace at 22 seconds and I was like oh shit this is not good I absolutely cannot do another 15 of these.
tbh I kind of knew I was in trouble when I lightly jogged 30 yards to my car after work yesterday.
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Ha.
Just thought of a fun question.
For how many seconds do you think each of us could keep up with world record marathon pace?
4:38 mile pace? Significant number of people literally couldn’t run that fast for any length of time. I think I could do it for at least 17 or 18 seconds.
That reminds me of one of the two state runner ups on my track and cross country team. This dude had like abysmal foot speed. I was much faster than him at short distances and I’m not a fast sprinter. His 800 meter time was half of his mile time. That’s just…how fast he could run. When he ran the mile he just went as fast as he could. Typing this it sounds made up, I know, but it’s true. He started out his freshman year as the worst 110 hurdler in the world and his junior year he was at the state meet for the two mile.
I imagine they probably take off faster than me too. So I might never catch them
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