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Originally Posted by lewdog
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.
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My wife and I both used to be runners. We do see some of the biggies that are "runners." That being said, I also have a bunch of friends who look fit as hell and are runners.
Another anecdote: a friend of ours was running 30 miles. Various people were going to run different sections with her. My wife NEVER runs anymore (other than sprints), so she was kind of worried about doing the distance run on her section (admittedly, it was only like 5 miles), especially because the people she was running it with are people who run quite a bit.
Long story short, my wife (who once again never runs besides sprints) completely toasted everyone and had to wait up for them to catch up the entire time.