Lifting weights is 10x easier than running.

Sham 69 wrote:

I'm trying to get back to my bench max of 150

🤣🤣🤣

Bro.

Seriously.

Bro. 🤣🤣🤣

Film Rep wrote:

Sham 69 wrote:

I'm trying to get back to my bench max of 150

🤣🤣🤣

Bro.

Seriously.

Bro. 🤣🤣🤣

Hey man he's only putting 1/10th his mental fortitude into that!

What's your bench?

All jokes aside, every competitive sport at the top level requires extreme amounts of mental fortitude

Maybe to be good at something, it can require relatively less, but to say that the world's best marathoner is a greater example of mental fortitude than the world's best olympic lifter is like comparing apples to oranges. Both are sugary but taste totally different.

Likewise, a marathoner will taste very differently from a power lifter.

Sham 69 wrote:

What's your bench?

Are you an Eagle Scout?

This is why Sham is a troll god. He’s right and bros are gonna freak.

Sham 69 wrote:

Bc Im a super senior, I don't run anymore.

Is that the new term for when you get held back? Maybe spend more time studying and less time on letsrun?

Lifting is easy for you because you are the equivalent of a hobby jogger running 10mpw at 12minute miles with a fuel belt.

what's a super senior. over 45?

ps - i believe you are laying around visualizing eating lots of lean meat. and await the footage of you running a 58 in the 400 with a bag over your head

Say that again when you lift to failure.

Appreciation?? wrote:

Likewise, a marathoner will taste very differently from a power lifter.

That almost sounds like cannibalism.

Appreciation?? wrote:

All jokes aside, every competitive sport at the top level requires extreme amounts of mental fortitude

Maybe to be good at something, it can require relatively less, but to say that the world's best marathoner is a greater example of mental fortitude than the world's best olympic lifter is like comparing apples to oranges. Both are sugary but taste totally different.

Likewise, a marathoner will taste very differently from a power lifter.

Dang, you eating people bro?

Johnny Max Bench wrote:

Lifting is easy for you because you are the equivalent of a hobby jogger running 10mpw at 12minute miles with a fuel belt.

^This is true

If lifting is so easy for you, you needs to TRY HARDER THAN LAST TIME!!!

huh??? wrote:

Johnny Max Bench wrote:

Lifting is easy for you because you are the equivalent of a hobby jogger running 10mpw at 12minute miles with a fuel belt.

^This is true

If lifting is so easy for you, you needs to TRY HARDER THAN LAST TIME!!!

Coach Greg, huh??? :D

This has to be a troll post. 2/10.

However, if you're curious, my take is that aerobic running is easier, whereas anaerobic running is harder, than weightlifting (if you're in shape, that is. I'd imagine any sort of running is tough coming from a sedentary lifestyle). I base this on my experience, of course. I ran competitively for about 7 years from middle school to my freshman year in college (bests of 4:16, 9:24, low-mid 15:00 for 5k cross country), and have been lifting weights since 2007. No weightlifting session comes close to a grinding 8x400m interval session, or a race, for that matter. But a steady 5-10 mile run isn't (wasn't) as hard (at least for me) as a typical session in the gym. This may be because I really get at it in the gym: always supersets and go almost to failure.

It’s easier mentally to wrap your head around 6 reps on the bench press followed by a rest before repeating whereas a steady 10 mile run.

Sham 69 wrote:

What's your bench?

Idk what my max is, but I’ve done 10x10 @155 with 75s rest. Look up ‘German Volume Training.’

You simply can’t compare running and lifting, especially if you are a bird-chested geek who can’t bench >150 lbs. What’s next, bragging about doing 1.5 miles in 12 minutes?

How about CrossFit where you do both. There’s CrossFit workouts that would make distance runners cry like little babies.

Heavy Weights + High Heart Rate = Suffering like you’ve never experienced before