Runningart2004 wrote:
zxcvzxcv wrote:
Quarter-squatting supposedly 505 lbs:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFLedAjGhIB/Math is hard...
Reds are 25kg, Yellows 15kg, Greens at least 10kg, bar is 20kg....
....120kg....264lb....quarter squat....
Bumper plates make everyone look like Superman.
More importantly he is lifting. There's a method to the madness.
Alan
Disregard apparently I can't math lol
Alan
jamin wrote:
Supposed to be a skinny man's race. He has the physique of a middle-weight boxer or maybe even some of the leaner college running backs.
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/content/thumbnails/00359/35816-zoom.jpg
genetic lottery.
he's massively gifted as an athlete.
his muscles/heart/lungs are better than ours.
simple.
and probably some EPO too
jamin wrote:
Supposed to be a skinny man's race. He has the physique of a middle-weight boxer or maybe even some of the leaner college running backs.
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/content/thumbnails/00359/35816-zoom.jpg
I remember reading an interview where he mentions that he trains specifically for the 800m. Therefore, I'd expect his body to be more like a half miler, very lean and toned. I saw him a bit skinnier when he won the London Olympics after that he has become more lean/strong. He's also seen max out in the weight room. The only thing that raises my awareness is how he took a bunch of time off and started racing towards the end of track season. I know he has been training lowkey but without any racing it's hard to grasp the fact that he beat a bunch of sharp athletes. Of course, I can argue that his racing experience, tactics, and raw speed endurance helps him out.
He won some HOKAs,
Ran fourteen forty-one*,
Now with a stress fracture,
He’s all but done;
He can’t get a date,
Just a boy amongst men,
Some call him a loser,
But his name is Jamin;
He lives near Seattle,
Where Trumpsters are few,
He’s got poor hygiene,
Sorta smells like dog poo;
The guy is a dweeb,
Can’t make it with chicks,
Cause he’s really a drunk,
And secretly likes dicks.
*time likely run on short course
Runningart2004 wrote:
zxcvzxcv wrote:
Quarter-squatting supposedly 505 lbs:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFLedAjGhIB/Math is hard...
Reds are 25kg, Yellows 15kg, Greens at least 10kg, bar is 20kg....
....120kg....264lb....quarter squat....
Bumper plates make everyone look like Superman.
More importantly he is lifting. There's a method to the madness.
Alan
Counting is harder.
Reds x4. 100kg
Yellows x4. 60kg
Greens. x4. 40kg
Bar. x1. 20kg
Total. 220 kg
Or 485 lbs for us 'Mericans.
Uhmmm wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
Math is hard...
Reds are 25kg, Yellows 15kg, Greens at least 10kg, bar is 20kg....
....120kg....264lb....quarter squat....
Bumper plates make everyone look like Superman.
More importantly he is lifting. There's a method to the madness.
Alan
Counting is harder.
Reds x4. 100kg
Yellows x4. 60kg
Greens. x4. 40kg
Bar. x1. 20kg
Total. 220 kg
Or 485 lbs for us 'Mericans.
I know. See above. Forgot to double my total hehe.
I was using common core math....
Alan
It always surprises me to see Makhloufi running with the best 1500 runners in the world. He is almost as big as Brock Lesnar!
I get 220 kg if you're right on the plates. More importantly, I wasn't doing any math; I was reporting what they said on an older thread. I know that the inner plates say 25 kg, but I don't know for sure the other plates. Even quarter squats of 485 lbs is pretty big stuff for a 150 lb middle distance runner.
FFF wrote:
He's hardly larger than Herb Lindsay was back in the day, and Lindsay was carrying the weight much further with success.
He would run faster with less weight, though, Cheater Hassan proves that:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Sifan_Hassan_Beijing_2015.jpg
She has nice boobs!
Sometimes, I guess.
https://www.dyestat.com/members/images/93369/583735_full.jpg
he's an endomorph body type. possibly a mesomorph, but hard to tell because of the low body fat percentage from training.
Mahkaloufi has the same physique as Nick Symmonds.
I believe Mahk is on drugs though. Some sort of EPO micor dosing, or maybe something like SARMS.
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/nick-symmonds-201635
zxcvxcv wrote:
I get 220 kg if you're right on the plates. More importantly, I wasn't doing any math; I was reporting what they said on an older thread. I know that the inner plates say 25 kg, but I don't know for sure the other plates. Even quarter squats of 485 lbs is pretty big stuff for a 150 lb middle distance runner.
Standard Eleiko metric plates.
485 is basically 500lbs in internet discussions.
Agree, most couldn't even unrack it.
He's obviously trained to be very powerful in that short range of motion.
Alan
I'm much less powerful than him and I half squatted 170 kilos 35 times and could have done another ten. That was my 7th set, building up the weights gradually. No roids, no special training, just a gradual build up over 8 weeks.
Runners have no idea about lifting. Actually most of the guys in the gym have no idea either.
ShilohDoesntCare wrote:
BergLaufer wrote:
Doesn't look much different than Peter Snell. He's only around 5'9 and 15x pounds. So he's not that big. I think it has more to do with camera angles and the tights.
Definitely on the money although I think Mahkloufi has more muscle definition than Snell did.
Snell had bigger calves that's for sure.
slow twitcher wrote:
I'm much less powerful than him and I half squatted 170 kilos 35 times and could have done another ten. That was my 7th set, building up the weights gradually. No roids, no special training, just a gradual build up over 8 weeks.
Runners have no idea about lifting. Actually most of the guys in the gym have no idea either.
The only sport that fears the weight room...it's actually frustrating lol..
I’d argue lomong’s physique is more impressive for the distances he competes in
People said the same thing about Alan Webb. Webb stood 5’9” and weighed 145 pounds when he set the current American mile record. He wasn’t skinny fat like most runners. Taoufik is the same way except he is maybe 5 pounds heavier than Webb is at the same height. Both looked like they could have been decently competitive in other sports.
Once a doper,always a doper! :(
Juice Springsteen wrote:
What is he doing in the picture? Looks like he’s going in for a bro-hug to an invisible man.
He's being a sporting hero.
He's proof that injuries and not competing for years are no bar to the world championship podium. Like watching a movie or a play, it requires the active suspension of disbelief.
