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rojo wrote:
It explain why Centro has gotten good recently
I hope this doesn't lead to eating disorders. I know weight and running is difficult for many to deal with - even men at times.
If you don't want it to lead to eating disorders then don't automatically make the connection between getting good & weight. Improving race times has a lot more to do with it than being bone thin.
+1
My favorite item of nonsense on this thread is your "gotten good recently" phrase. By that, do you mean, perhaps, "in the last seven years"? You know ...
2011 NCAA champ, WC bronze
2012 WIC finalist, OG 4th
2013 WC silver
2015 WC finalist
2016 WIC gold, OG gold
His 800 and 1500 PBs are from 2015. His mile PB is from 2014. And while it's true that he had a bad year in 2017, you seem surprised that he actually still is good at this. You use that phrase, "talent doesn't go away" a lot -- try it here.
Isn't that Jenna Prandini on the far right?
A lot of people (including me) look like that. They key is the bright sunlight that really make you look lean.
As a coach of a high school girls cross country and track team it really disappointed me to see this thread title and the associated picture.
When i was an athlete i dropped 14 lbs practically overnight and went from a 33 minute 10k to 30 minute 10k. Being thin makes you faster there is no getting away from it.
But strong thin is better than starving thin so train and eat well. Not train and don't eat.
Rojo has been making some heinous posts lately.
This Centro post is an abomination.
The Monaco/London comparison post that his wife called ridiculous is another.
The Purrier early celebration thread was troll bait to begin with, then he included an offhand remark about LeBron James suffering a heart attack later in the thread. What kind of sick mind sits around imagining LeBron having a heart attack?
This list doesn’t even include the non-running related political clickbait threads he starts.
4 week ban minimum.
And the ladies in the photo are Raevyn Rogers and Jenna Prandini.
The lean wolf leads the pack.
Big thanks to Rojo for completely ignoring the filter that was installed into his brain at birth on this post. For someone who has run a website for so long, it’s super disappointing that you feel the need to boost traffic with an obvious, worthless clickbait post like this.
Literally, it should have taken 30 seconds of critical thinking and common sense to figure out that this shot is dramatic due to lighting, the way he’s lifted, and the fact that yes, when you train that much, you become skinny. Wondering out loud if this could lead to an eating disorder is just as thick-headed.
I was directed to this post by one of my high schoolers who asked me the other day if he needs to become lighter to be faster. His first instinct was to eat less to improve his PR. (“Look at this pic, it explain(sic) why Centro has gotten good recently”!) I don’t think he was being particularly obtuse given the fact that the cofounder/owner of this site and a self-proclaimed expert posted this mess.
I hope you generate tons of traffic, but don’t forget, guys, there’s a real world out there too. Use your heads.
malmo wrote:
You're ready to race when the veins on your belly are sticking out.
Nothing new here Rojo. Move along.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong. I used to love it when people told me I looked super skinny. My mom was always trying to get me to gain weight.
I'm just saying that I totally believe he is super fit and ready to go and it's amazing how skinny an in fit pro can be. I also expressed remorse that some may think I'm now causing eating disorders. I think the tone of my post was misinterpreted.
CoachO wrote:
As a coach of a high school girls cross country and track team it really disappointed me to see this thread title and the associated picture.
So you just want me to ignore it?
In working on the week that was, I was considering saying that I thought another athlete was clearly heavier than they used to be. The rest of the staff told me flat out I can't say it as it isn't a man. I am following their advice. To me, I know it's a sensitive topic but to act like weight and distance running success/failure aren't correlated is like living in lala land.
Yes for women, it's a bigger issue. I even had a guy at Cornell with an issue. But what is the solution? We want to say men and women are equal and yet we can't be honest about weight. When a 231 pound man shows up to training camp 6 pounds overweight, it's national news. If something happens in women's running, you are viewed as a monster for pointing it out.
I know some women's college coaches tell me they never ever bring it up - they try to get the athletes to bring it up themesleves. They'll have 80 minute conversations where they try to get them to bring it up, "Is there anything else different this year than last?" "What else has changed?"
https://www.12up.com/posts/3675949-revealed-ezekiel-elliott-reported-to-training-camp-overweightLast week, Centro was washed up and on his way down. Now this bs.
rojo wrote:
CoachO wrote:
As a coach of a high school girls cross country and track team it really disappointed me to see this thread title and the associated picture.
So you just want me to ignore it?
In working on the week that was, I was considering saying that I thought another athlete was clearly heavier than they used to be. The rest of the staff told me flat out I can't say it as it isn't a man. I am following their advice. To me, I know it's a sensitive topic but to act like weight and distance running success/failure aren't correlated is like living in lala land.
Yes for women, it's a bigger issue. I even had a guy at Cornell with an issue. But what is the solution? We want to say men and women are equal and yet we can't be honest about weight. When a 231 pound man shows up to training camp 6 pounds overweight, it's national news. If something happens in women's running, you are viewed as a monster for pointing it out.
I know some women's college coaches tell me they never ever bring it up - they try to get the athletes to bring it up themesleves. They'll have 80 minute conversations where they try to get them to bring it up, "Is there anything else different this year than last?" "What else has changed?"
https://www.12up.com/posts/3675949-revealed-ezekiel-elliott-reported-to-training-camp-overweight
Clearly Rojo himself has a disordered eating mindset. Leave the discussion about weight and diet to trained professionals and stop obsessing over it. Let them eat cake, dude
rojo wrote:
malmo wrote:
You're ready to race when the veins on your belly are sticking out.
Nothing new here Rojo. Move along.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong. I used to love it when people told me I looked super skinny. My mom was always trying to get me to gain weight.
I'm just saying that I totally believe he is super fit and ready to go and it's amazing how skinny an in fit pro can be. I also expressed remorse that some may think I'm now causing eating disorders. I think the tone of my post was misinterpreted.
I didn't say you implied anything wrong. I just said that being skinny is a sign of being fit. He's fit. Nothing to report there.
Eating disorders are non-starter at the professional level. If you have an eating disorder (which is a severe mental illness btw) you won't be at the professional level.
At ease sailor.
Devil Dog wrote:
He can gain weight when he retires. First he needs to run 3:29
Those speedy guys running 3:29s in the 80s never looked like that.
rojo, he's been training hard in the sun. Ever notice how it makes you look even skinnier when you do that?
Rojo, if you notice, you’re the only one defending this picture. It’s not simply the photo that is in poor taste, it is the accompanying headline.
If you can’t see how those two together can act as promoting eating disorders, then I don’t know how to help you.
I agree. Also, Makhloufi is the same height, almost 20lbs heavier, and faster. Leaving the "are they or aren't they on something" discussion out of it as it's been talked about ad nauseam.
Sand Dunes wrote:
vivalarepublica wrote:
Good point.
Compared to what? I say push it to the limits. YOLO philosophy, live free or die mofos. I'd rather live life to its fullest than be a pansy. Oh wow running 100 miles a week might not be healthy? That's So shocking. So, I'd rather look aneroxic (or actually be aneroxic) than to look like the average American. What am I going do with my day if I don't run a lot? Be more productive with my time? Yeah right. I would just waste more time on the internet. Besides he looks perfectly healthy, it's because we live in such a gluttonous society is why you think he looks "too skinny". If we showed someone a photo of him to a person a hundred years ago they'd probably think he looks like a athletic young man.
Umm, by posting here, you are "just wasting time on the internet". You most certainly are not YOLO'ing it. Moran.