Is Molly Huddle the ideal body type for a female 5K runner.

First off, kid, Molly Huddle is a girl. 105 lb high school sophomore boys are not healthy.

Second, I am only assuming you are a boy because this is LetsRun.

1/10. A point for saying you wouldn't get injured.

I'm female too, note the title of the thread.

androgynous wrote:

First off, kid, Molly Huddle is a girl. 105 lb high school sophomore boys are not healthy.

Second, I am only assuming you are a boy because this is LetsRun.

1/10. A point for saying you wouldn't get injured.

Just train the best you can and eat properly and your body will be the weight that is best for you.Trying to lose weight unnaturally is the worst way to increase performance and can lead to way more injury than being a little heavier than you'd like.Molly Huddle looks very unhealthy anyway.

Advise please :) wrote:

I'm the same height as her but 25 pounds, heavier I feel like if got down to that weight i would be able to glide efortlessly and wouldn't get injured as easily because I wold be light on my feet. I'm 10 grade so I don't think Im growing anymore, seems right around 105 would be a good weight for me.

Advice follows:

You are male: pimply-faced, gangly, dorky, nerdy.

You are a troll.

You live in your mom's basement.

You have never had a date in your life.

Advice = Stop pretending you are a girl, unless you are make a Bruce Jenner systems reboot.

How does she look unhealthy? Shes small but she has been performing very well for years, she looks strong to me, just tiny. https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRc21na__Tbimwc3qM3I7fkQkpBJHMC7qClK3Dpux6Z726x-5UtVQ

follow your own path wrote:

Just train the best you can and eat properly and your body will be the weight that is best for you.

Trying to lose weight unnaturally is the worst way to increase performance and can lead to way more injury than being a little heavier than you'd like.

Molly Huddle looks very unhealthy anyway.

Advise please :) wrote:

I'm the same height as her but 25 pounds, heavier I feel like if got down to that weight i would be able to glide efortlessly and wouldn't get injured as easily because I wold be light on my feet. I'm 10 grade so I don't think Im growing anymore, seems right around 105 would be a good weight for me.

The real answer here is....

you want your arms to and chest to be as small as possible without losing strength and explosiveness in your lower body....

How do you do that?

Up your mileage until the muscle (fat) melt off of your upper body. All the while, work on the explosiveness and strength in your legs by lifting, sprinting multiple times a week etc

Anyone who tells you that your 130 lbs you could beat a properly conditioned 105 lbs you is a liar.

FWIW, I know Molly ;) And she would include stay healthy! Not everyone should try and have the body type of a professional runner.

csadfasdfasdf wrote:

Anyone who tells you that your 130 lbs you could beat a properly conditioned 105 lbs you is a liar.

No, you just don't know what you are talking about. Runners vary in weight. Think Solinsky vs Ritz.

Focus on running and everything will fall in place. Do not try to be a clone of somebody else.

Advise please :) wrote:

I'm the same height as her but 25 pounds, heavier I feel like if got down to that weight i would be able to glide efortlessly and wouldn't get injured as easily because I wold be light on my feet. I'm 10 grade so I don't think Im growing anymore, seems right around 105 would be a good weight for me.

Yes will never be happy in life until you lose weight.

Advise please :) wrote:

I'm the same height as her but 25 pounds, heavier I feel like if got down to that weight i would be able to glide efortlessly and wouldn't get injured as easily because I wold be light on my feet. I'm 10 grade so I don't think Im growing anymore, seems right around 105 would be a good weight for me.

Here is Molly's bio on USATF

Molly Huddle

Event: 5,000m

Height: 5-4

Weight: 110

PR: 14:42.64 AR (2014)

Born: 08/31/1984

Current Residence: Providence, R.I

She could have lost 5 pounds since this filled out the bio form. When it comes to weight many factors are in play: bone structure, muscle mass, genetics, and the amount of fat you have on your body, etc. It hard to compare your body to someone else especially with someone older. At your age I still had some baby fat, I was thin, but as I got older I leaned out more.

The best thing to do is to find out your fat percentage and make sure it's in a healthy range. I know some girls that are very low in fat percentage and they are always injured with stress fractures. It's not worth it. Stay healthy.

There is a book called Eat Right For Your Type by Dr Peter Adamo. The way of eating is based on your blood type. The book will give you the foods that your body will excel with and foods that are not good for your body. I found this book to be really accurate and I have a blood type O.

The only real way to find out your ideal body for running is to be patient, train hard, train smart, and eat healthy. Your body will take care of the rest, barring some condition like hypothyroid. Trying to resist this generally leads to an extremely negative cycle of poor body image, undereating, overtraining, injury, and illness. Molly Huddle's body type may be ideal for a female distance runner, but that doesn't mean that forcing your body to be like Molly Huddle's will make you faster. You are not Molly Huddle.

I don't know anyone as fast as Molly Huddle who's that height and 130, but I do know women who have qualified for trials at about that height and weight. So until you're at least that fast I wouldn't even bother thinking about it (and even when you are that fast, it's not like it's worth thinking about anyways, since you can't force yourself to have a different body type).

... and know that the healthy leanness of elite runners is partly a result of their higher training loads. If you are running less, you can't expect to create the same results of leanness.

Genzebe Dibaba

Some might even say the ideal body type for a female PERIOD

what a beauty!

perfect body wrote:

Genzebe Dibaba

Some might even say the ideal body type for a female PERIOD

There has been some sound advice on this board, but something I always tell female athletes is weight loss should not be a goal for an otherwise healthy competitive runner. It will probably be an outcome of higher training loads, but you should not actively strive to lose a substantial amount of weight.

Huddle obviously has a great physique for running but I fear that in trying to have the physical stats of Huddle you could possibly subject yourself to disordered eating or the Female Athlete Triad.

As a college coach, some of the best female athletes I have worked with lost 10 to 15lbs. over the course of their 4 to 5 year career, but the best athletes do it slowly with gradually higher training volumes. Running is a long term commitment.

Big Sky wrote:

There has been some sound advice on this board, but something I always tell female athletes is weight loss should not be a goal for an otherwise healthy competitive runner. It will probably be an outcome of higher training loads, but you should not actively strive to lose a substantial amount of weight.

Thanks for that great advice.

csadfasdfasdf wrote:

The real answer here is....

you want your arms to and chest to be as small as possible without losing strength and explosiveness in your lower body....

How do you do that?

Up your mileage until the muscle (fat) melt off of your upper body. All the while, work on the explosiveness and strength in your legs by lifting, sprinting multiple times a week etc

Anyone who tells you that your 130 lbs you could beat a properly conditioned 105 lbs you is a liar.

FWIW, I know Molly ;) And she would include stay healthy! Not everyone should try and have the body type of a professional runner.

Screw that Jordan Hadley is faster than ever by becoming freakishly thin. Loosing weight is the answer.

Goldihger wrote:

Screw that Jordan Hadley is faster than ever by becoming freakishly thin. Loosing weight is the answer.

Not the only answer. Most females got three options: 1) Lose weight. 2) Keep some fat and stay healthy but accept not reaching your potential. 3) Quit running.