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Originally Posted by NewChief
Yeah. My theory is that they don't care because you can be heavy and still rock it on a bike without trashing yourself like if you're heavy and running.
The pear shaped body is prevalent among cyclists here though.
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Have you ever noticed your friends who "run" half marathons and/or other running races that are physically in horrible shape....like overweight and fat? I have tons of them talking about some 5k or 10k race they did. It's a joke really.
My Olympic weightlifting coach would train 9x per week as frequency with those lifts is very important for neural adaptations. He was in his 40's and in great shape (sorry Marcellus, he never ran either.) He owned the gym where he trained and personal trained many clients. He prescribed heavy bench/deads/squats for everyone and never had them do steady state cardio and rarely would do some interval work with sprints with some of them. Just to prove to them that running is totally bogus if all you are counting is finishing, hence all the fat people finishing these races, he ran a half marathon without running at all for years prior and just continued to Olympic Lift. I don't remember his time but he ran/jogged the whole thing and said it was pretty easy.
It wasn't that he sees running/biking as worthless, just that it SHOULD NOT be a measure of fitness seeing all these fatties finishing these running and biking races.