dude who cares if u have 9% i prob have like 18% and i still beat some skinny guys. All you have to do is run, run and run. Run through the pain and overcome it it no matter how much it hurts, that will make u a btter distance runner.
dude who cares if u have 9% i prob have like 18% and i still beat some skinny guys. All you have to do is run, run and run. Run through the pain and overcome it it no matter how much it hurts, that will make u a btter distance runner.
use it or lose it.. wrote:
dude who cares if u have 9% i prob have like 18% and i still beat some skinny guys. All you have to do is run, run and run. Run through the pain and overcome it it no matter how much it hurts, that will make u a btter distance runner.
if you run, run and run...or even just run and run...you won't have 18% body fat.
bad teeth wrote:
running art,
dont have the book - Long Distance Runner's Guide to Training and Racing
would be interested to see the heights and weights and bf% of many elite runners. any chance of you posting a few?
I don't have the book anymore, I'm just recalling from memory. Back in high school I read the book cover to cover a few thousand times. Don't remember where I got the book (book was circa 1985, I was in HS in '92-96). Shorter was recorded at like 3%, while Rodgers was recorded at I think 6%, both weighed the same with Shorter being taller. Herb Lindsey was listed at 5'9', 150, Greg Meyer I believe was 5'8' 140?. Most of the 80s Americans in the list were close to 5-6% but there were a couple in the 7-10% range....Ortiz I think? That name rings a bell. Anyway, most of the guys listed and quoted in the book were American runners in the 1980s, your typical 2:10-15 runners that most runners wouldn't know today. There were some characters in that book, Bob Donker, Lee Fiddler....good names.
Lesson: Take a group of 50 runners who's marathon pr varies by 1% and their body fat, Vo2max, etc will vary by A LOT MORE. Which then should you concern yourself with? Just run baby.
Alan
maximize your results wrote:
It doesn't matter who you are or whatever your body type ....running fast is relative. But, if your body fat is a healthy 3-6%, you are on target to obtaining your best results running, however fast. There are many talented guys out there (5'6", 145lbs, running 1:09 half) that could eat better, train more appropriately (cardio and light core upper body toning) and get that body fat within this range that could take significant time off of PRs. Combigning the loss of useless weight (fat) and improved fitness, it's two fold.
This can all be done by eating healthy, appropriate amounts of food. The last thing you need to do is starve yourself which is what many young college athletes do. And then they get sick, hurt, and end up running worse in the end.
Good luck.
you idiot. what is "cardio and light core upper body toning" going to do for fat burning that 120 miles per week isn't already?