The "average" person cannot walk a 15 min mile. The average is around 18 to 20 minutes.
The "average" person cannot walk a 15 min mile. The average is around 18 to 20 minutes.
Lou Ferrigno ran a mile around 6:00(I think) in the superstars competition in the '70's. He wasn't 300 pounds but he was close.
I am 6'2" currently 305lbs. I started training for a 5k a few months ago at 330lbs. I recently ran a mile in 9:56.
im pretty sure an NFL defensive end or Offensive tackle, 6'6+ and around 290 or 300 could push 6:00. those guys are all muscle and more all around athletic than you'd think
look up Tyron Smith from USC . the guys is 310 and not fat at all.
I was thinking about football linemen too, and that they might do ok, with all their training. But they are not really "all muscle" like you say, are they? The 300 pounders have a lot of fat, too.
I played a pick-up hoops game last year with Jermon Bushrod. He's listed at 315, and I didn't see an ounce of fat on the man. Tall, lean, muscular. I would have never guessed he was 315 though. And I have no idea how fast he could run a mile. I would bet with very little training though, he could break 6.
Ferrigno ran 2:21 in the 800 apparently
Sheriff Buford T. Pusser wrote:
I would put the starting point at 15 minutes, as an average person walks at 4 mph ... or 15 minutes a mile.
Sorry, the average person walks at like 2.0-3mph. I do 4mph when walking normally/briskly, and I honestly haven't meet anybody that walks faster. (And I'm not a race walker, just a garden variety, slow sub 17 minute 5k runner)
In regards to the 300 pounder, I say 20 minutes at best if you put some cookies at the finish line as a prize. Most would be like 23-25 minutes. You underestimate how slow fatties are. :(
OP, I was thinking about a garden-variety fat guy and not an athlete, btw.
football linemen wrote:
I was thinking about football linemen too, and that they might do ok, with all their training. But they are not really "all muscle" like you say, are they? The 300 pounders have a lot of fat, too.
all of them have some beef, but there are NFL linemen that you really couldnt call fat.
Well I ran a 4:40 at 150 lbs, so I imagine a 300 lb man could run something around 2:20.
Bingo! Right at the end of his last season at the Univ. of Colorado, OL Heath Irwin (6-6 295) ran the Boulder Road Runners 2-mile Turkey Trot in 12:21 or so (1995-96?), dropping many jaws in the process. The BRR club gave him a free singlet or shirt. This was, of course, at 5363' feet altitude, and a certified two miles. He played for the Detroit Lions but I don't think he stayed in the pros long.
football linemen wrote:
I was thinking about football linemen too, and that they might do ok, with all their training. But they are not really "all muscle" like you say, are they? The 300 pounders have a lot of fat, too.
It depends on how tall they are. Basketball star tall, probably pretty fast.
5' 10 = 8:15
My friend played D1 football. One of the training days was a mile run. He said several of the 270+ linemen came in under 8 minutes.
I think it's possible that the best 300 lbers could be in the 6:xx range.
I am 43 years old, currently weigh 136kgs (300 Pounds). I am six foot one and a bit (1.87 metres tall). Six months ago I weighed 145kgs (320 Pounds). I started walking in August last year after being unable to walk (other than very slowly with a serious limp due to a 4 year battle with an Achilles injury). I had 6 electro wave shock therapy treatments and three months rehab training / stretching. This helped me to become mobile again.
Last night I ran 1.6km (a mile) in a shade over 10 minutes on the treadmill as part of my training - 2.7kms in 20 minutes.
Warm up 6kms/h - 90 seconds. 10 minutes at 9kms/h, 5 minutes at 8kms/h then finish off at 6.5kms/h. I can part run / part walk 5kms in 37 minutes.
I can run at 10km/h for 5 minutes.
Since August last year, I have completed 34 - 5km Parkruns over a hilly course. My slowest time was 48 minutes (six months ago) and my best is 37 minutes.
I am sure that a younger, particularly a taller 300 pound person, will have no problem running a mile in 6 - 7 minutes with a bit of training.
I am aiming to run 5kms in 30 minutes, however I do not expect to weigh 300 pounds when I reach this goal.
I'm 300 lbs and I'm the same age and height, and built almost exactly the same as Charles Barkley. I've been running for years. Yesterday I ran 5 miles in 55 minutes. Last week I tried running a mile pretty fast (for me) and did it in 9 minutes.
I've never run an actual race at this size, but I've done a 23 minute 5k and a 4:30 marathon at 260 lbs.
I trained a football player/thrower to break 15:00 in the 3200 for ROTC. When we started he was 285. Of course, when he ran 14:50 he was down to 265.
I resemble that remark wrote:
I'm 300 lbs and I'm the same age and height, and built almost exactly the same as Charles Barkley. I've been running for years. Yesterday I ran 5 miles in 55 minutes. Last week I tried running a mile pretty fast (for me) and did it in 9 minutes.
I've never run an actual race at this size, but I've done a 23 minute 5k and a 4:30 marathon at 260 lbs.
A 9 minute mile and a 23 minute 5k? You must take a while to build up your momentum.
Guppy wrote:
Some guy on biggest loser ran a 3:40 marathon or something. He had lost a lot of weight, but he was still something like 270 and looked to be all flab and no muscle. That seemed pretty incredible to me.
NBC reported that he ran 3:53. The photos at the finish showed 5:53. The NBC crew gave him a ride to make sure he didn't miss the 6 hour cut off.
"We had stopped along the way to film at a water station and to make up for lost time our producers drove us only 3 miles up the road."
SMJO wrote:
A 9 minute mile and a 23 minute 5k? You must take a while to build up your momentum.
OK, reading comprehension is not your thing, so I'll be clearer:
I currently weigh 300 lbs. I have never run a race at 300 lbs. Last week, at 300 lbs, I ran a 9 minute mile but not in a race.
In the past I weighed 260 lbs. At that time, at 260 lbs and not at 300 lbs, I did run some races and ran a 23 minute 5k and a 4:30 marathon. But that was in the past when I weighed 260 lbs and not 300 lbs.
To reiterate, I ran a 9 minute mile last week at 300 lbs. At a different time, not during the same period or at the same weight as last week but at a lighter weight, I ran a 23 minute 5k and a 4:30 marathon.
Understand?