OK we got it you can do something. Literally who cares. Stop posting these things. Neither one is impressive.
I can’t actually do either at the moment. I’m hoping for sun 7 and 250+ by end of year.
my main question was what % of adults can do both. I’d say less than 0.1% of people.
I'd say more like less than 0.001% of people.
When I came out of college (played football) I went into competition BB & powerlifting. I could bench 325 clean but could barely run a 10 min mile. Lol
After about 10 yrs of this, I transitioned to running & shed 35 lbs! (200 to 165). It took me a few years to get to the point where I could break 7 in the mile. I was still lifting somewhat but not BB or powerlifting training. My bench was barely 225.
If there's a guy out there who can bench 250 and run a sub-7 - that would be hard to believe - and I would be suspicious that PEDs were involved. 😉
I can’t actually do either at the moment. I’m hoping for sun 7 and 250+ by end of year.
my main question was what % of adults can do both. I’d say less than 0.1% of people.
I'd say more like less than 0.001% of people.
When I came out of college (played football) I went into competition BB & powerlifting. I could bench 325 clean but could barely run a 10 min mile. Lol
After about 10 yrs of this, I transitioned to running & shed 35 lbs! (200 to 165). It took me a few years to get to the point where I could break 7 in the mile. I was still lifting somewhat but not BB or powerlifting training. My bench was barely 225.
If there's a guy out there who can bench 250 and run a sub-7 - that would be hard to believe - and I would be suspicious that PEDs were involved. 😉
Oh come on now. Joe Falcon could bench at about 250 and run a 3:49 mile. There are many of us who could have benched 250 and run sub 5 easily. For most of us if we were running close to 4 minutes we were probably benching no more than 200.
Yep, spent 4 years in the Navy. Also spent 4 years running the 100 and 200 and long jumping, footballer. Ah.....15 years playing city league flag football, was a Goshen Bomber.
Yep, big time coward when it comes to the 400m. Total wimp, scared to death.
Did you have to run as a fitness criteria for the Navy?
Nope, we had none of that at all. Boot camp was a joke,
I will admit I can no longer do this... am 45, run 4:49 for the Mile (outdoors), but can no longer bench more than 190lbs... in high school ran sub-9:00 3000m and benched 265lbs.
When I came out of college (played football) I went into competition BB & powerlifting. I could bench 325 clean but could barely run a 10 min mile. Lol
After about 10 yrs of this, I transitioned to running & shed 35 lbs! (200 to 165). It took me a few years to get to the point where I could break 7 in the mile. I was still lifting somewhat but not BB or powerlifting training. My bench was barely 225.
If there's a guy out there who can bench 250 and run a sub-7 - that would be hard to believe - and I would be suspicious that PEDs were involved. 😉
Oh come on now. Joe Falcon could bench at about 250 and run a 3:49 mile. There are many of us who could have benched 250 and run sub 5 easily. For most of us if we were running close to 4 minutes we were probably benching no more than 200.
I’m saying run sub 7 and bench 250 at the same time. I very highly doubt Joe falcon could have benched 250 while he was running 3:49.
also doubt there are “many” of us who could run sub 5 and bench 250, but maybe I’m wrong.
It's good fitness, for sure. I knew a few wrestlers that could do this. Probably with a 5:30 mile. At what height and weight are 7 and 250 equally difficult? 6ft 190 lbs? Idk. Definitely bigger than your typical runner.
My senior year of high school I wrestled and ran. I wrestled 119 and stayed pretty close to that during xc and track. I benched 255 and ran 4:20. I was not exceptional at my school in any way, shape, or form. I can’t get close to either of these today, but I’d imagine there are a ton of 18-25 year old guys that can get 250/7:00 easily. Whoever wrote this is probably 40 or older (like me) and can’t fathom how easy this is for some younger people.
There have probably been about 12 total months in my life in which I could do this, and the limiting factor for the rest of my life would have been the bench press. I don't I'll ever get back to that level of upper body strength.
According to medicalnewstoday.com (not sure if it's legit but it's the only website I could find with the data I was looking for), the top 1% of adults from age 17 to 61 AVERAGE a 6:55.40 mile.
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If you're talking a relatively normal sized, healthy adult male, who has no training history, running a sub-7 mile will be easier attained than a 250 bench.
That said, neither is anywhere close to impressive on their own, or as a combined achievement.
If you're talking a relatively normal sized, healthy adult male, who has no training history, running a sub-7 mile will be easier attained than a 250 bench.
That said, neither is anywhere close to impressive on their own, or as a combined achievement.
The proven fact that only 0.01% of adults can do it begs to differ :)
If you're talking a relatively normal sized, healthy adult male, who has no training history, running a sub-7 mile will be easier attained than a 250 bench.
That said, neither is anywhere close to impressive on their own, or as a combined achievement.
The proven fact that only 0.01% of adults can do it begs to differ :)
Rarity does not equal impressiveness.
This is the trap baseball broadcasts have fallen into now that we have easy access to the result of every pitch ever thrown in the past 75+ years. "OMG that is only the the third time in history a left-handed batter has grounded into a double play twice in the first game of a day-night doubleheader in April". It sounds impressive but it's just not because it's only an arbitrary set of criteria somebody came up with spur of the moment. "sub-7 mile and 250 bench" is not an official event people work towards excelling in. If it was, more people would do it, but it's not, so they don't.
You pieced together two sources of information that likely use small sample sizes of wide demographics and are thus unreliable and unscientific. Even still, as the above said, rare does not equal impressive.
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