If you took a freak athlete like Julius Peppers in his prime (6'7 290 with very little fat) you could be looking at a sub 6 time. Or someone even taller and still in shape.
If you took a freak athlete like Julius Peppers in his prime (6'7 290 with very little fat) you could be looking at a sub 6 time. Or someone even taller and still in shape.
I teach a walk/jog class at a local community college (among other things). One of my current students is 6'9" 305 lbs. The other day I jogged three miles with him in about 25 minutes (8:20 pace). He was struggling, but I was very impressed.
FWIW, he is ex-Army.
Big Lou ran a 2:21 half mile? Wow. I couldn't find any video of this race but i did find the 1976 Superstars bike race. Lou led for three laps then faded on the final lap.
I am not sure if this helps..but I'm a big guy...6'5 270 lbs..I've been running less than a year and I hit a 7:49 last week. I'm sure it's possible for a 300lbs to do something better.
Joel James (6-10, 280) has run 5:56.
http://espn.go.com/blog/north-carolina-basketball/post/_/id/9952/pg-davis-is-uncs-fastest-miler
I ran a mile in 10:17 seconds at 300 pounds
How good is 6:30 for 6'1" 25% body.fat 32 years old 215lbs?
You're in idiot
o.O wrote:
It'd acutally not be hard at all for a 300 lb man to break 5 considering he could easily muster a better muscle/fat ratio.
There's a pretty well-known story that Steve Emtman who was all-everything with the Washington Huskies at something like 295 pounds ran a mile once in 5:17.
body biil der wrote:
It was Greg Kovaks
It was Kovacs, actually: 6-5, competed at 330#, 420# in the off-season.
Dead (heart) at age 44.
rnfndndndndn wrote:
How good is 6:30 for 6'1" 25% body.fat 32 years old 215lbs?
Not. I ran a half marathon at 6:31/mi at nearly 200 pounds. 5'11" with higher fat %.
Wilt Chamberlain was 300lbs at a point in his career with the Lakers. In HS he was listed at only 240lbs (not sure what year), but during this time he ran the 440 yards in 49.0 seconds and the 880 yards in 1:58.3.
Going with this information, I'm thinking he would have been a candidate for a pretty decent mile at 300lbs. I'll say perhaps even a sub-5.
Has anyone seen any of those videos of NFL linemen jumping out of the shallow end of the pool onto the deck?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXDSPbZ_OUw
I know it isn't apples to apples, but surely these guys could crack 7 with minimal training...
oh please wrote:
rnfndndndndn wrote:How good is 6:30 for 6'1" 25% body.fat 32 years old 215lbs?
Not. I ran a half marathon at 6:31/mi at nearly 200 pounds. 5'11" with higher fat %.
OK thanks.
their is a video that was on the forums like 2 months ago of a 270+ dude running a 6:10 mile after eating several burritos, he also does a 8:00 flat beer mile at 270 lbs as well.
their is a video that was on the forums like 2 months ago of a 270+ dude running a 6:10 mile after eating several burritos, he also does a 8:00 flat beer mile at 270 lbs as well.
In 1989 I ran the mile in 7minutes & 47seconds. I was 6'4 and weighed 320lbs!
I'm 300lb, 5'10" and play rugby. I ran 10 miles today, non stop only at a steady pace though. Ran it in 1hr 59 mins. That was on a treadmill though. According to the treadmill I burned about 2300 calories due to my weight
I am sure, when healthy, Yao Ming was a sub-6:30 miler from age 20 to age 30; 7'6" 310lbs.
I am 6'0, 275. I'm training for my 6th half this may and I've ran them anywhere between 9:50 and 10:20 pace. I've done 5k's in ~8' pace. Not blazing speeds by any means, but I'm not walking either.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these