Men's Health ranked the fittest men of all time...

Greg Lemond > Lance Armstrong

As you probably already surmise, Men's Health is not out to conduct science and educate the populace, but out to make money ruthlessly. Advertising; reinforce corporate media and mass culture status quo: muscles, machismo, celebrities,garbage cobtemporary fashion, meat eating, bimbos, sports. Pick up the mag for a quick solution! But Only if the workout sounds manly and fits into magazine page layouts. Try this workout! Insanity! Anarchy! Chaos! Green beret, cross fit, firefighter, actors for ancient Greek hoplite tv or movie shows. Have great sex eat this bla bla. Forget about science and learning. Just reset your brain and bust out the pocketbook and subordinate your attention to the almighty prevailing mass media. Fits in nicely with the yuppie job, social media account, car and apartment.

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Fittest Man of All Time wrote:

Discuss.

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First, it is fittest, not best athlete.
Second, who sells more magazines, Mark Wahlberg or Paavo Nurmi?
Third, I hate everything to do with crossfit, but lets face it, we runners are not really overall fit. We're just skinny endurance beasts with, usually, very little explosive strength and athleticism.

Fit for what? Fit for doing crossfit? Fit to play a 48min basketball game? Fit to do a decathlon at world class levels? Fit to swim various distances at fast paces?

This whole idea of 'fitness' is very unclear.

I'm sorry, but Ashton Eaton could destroy Froning in a strength endurance competition... as could Trey Hardee.

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Aliblabuia wrote:

First, it is fittest, not best athlete.
Second, who sells more magazines, Mark Wahlberg or Paavo Nurmi?
Third, I hate everything to do with crossfit, but lets face it, we runners are not really overall fit. We're just skinny endurance beasts with, usually, very little explosive strength and athleticism.

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Right, but surely you don't think Mark Wahlberg et al are fitter than Usain Bolt?

Were Cetewayo, Chaka and Mzilikazi on the list. What about Milo of Crotan?
Any Spartans?

the list is truly comical on so many levels, not the least of which some people on their died young, how fit were you if you don't live past 50?

I don't think you can come up with a criteria that gets you this list, like others have said, it's a cross section of people with name recognition thrown in with some good athletes, and the winner is the type of dude they promote.

No Mike Rossi? Damn!

While we're complaining please note that Dean Karnazes was # 96. Ahead of Edwin Moses and Cal Ripken, Jr.

Jim Ryun was not on the list. Neither was Geb. Carl Lewis was pretty high on the list which actually makes sense.

Accepting the source for what it is, the list does have some cool characters. Jim Brown, Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente, Bruce Lee.

Good to see Karl Malone on the list. Guy was a beast.

IT says Froning does 75 pull ups consecutively. I suspect those are actually kipping pull-ups which is not impressive.

Lot of celebrity crap on that list. There is also no mention of performance enhancing drugs as the key driver for many of these people.

Fittest guy who should be in top 5, if not #1, who would crush the Crossfit boy in everything is ex-Seal Jeffrey Goggins.

http://triathlete-europe.competitor.com/2010/05/14/david-goggins-toughest-athlete-planet

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Claire-ification wrote:

Fit for what? Fit for doing crossfit?

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Fittest Man of All Time wrote:

Usain Bolt #59, right behind a triathlete and uh Brad Pitt. And Hugh Jackman. And, wow, LL Cool J. The Rock. Daniel Craig. Distance running got Paavo Nurmi at #36, 33 ahead of Usain Bolt....

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Also, Rich Froning has a far superior PHYSIQUE than any of these wannabes.[/quote]

Umm... Ever heard of Jordan Hasay?

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Superb_Curves wrote:

As you probably already surmise, Men's Health is not out to conduct science and educate the populace, but out to make money ruthlessly. Advertising; reinforce corporate media and mass culture status quo: muscles, machismo, celebrities,garbage cobtemporary fashion, meat eating, bimbos, sports. Pick up the mag for a quick solution! But Only if the workout sounds manly and fits into magazine page layouts. Try this workout! Insanity! Anarchy! Chaos! Green beret, cross fit, firefighter, actors for ancient Greek hoplite tv or movie shows. Have great sex eat this bla bla. Forget about science and learning. Just reset your brain and bust out the pocketbook and subordinate your attention to the almighty prevailing mass media. Fits in nicely with the yuppie job, social media account, car and apartment.

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I thought the other my person dumb enough to believe this was Greg Lemond himself. Greg, is that you?

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Greg Lemond > Lance Armstrong

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Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

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Claire-ification wrote:

Fit for what? Fit for doing crossfit?

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Fit for whatever you throw at them. That's the beauty of CrossFit Elite training, that you're prepared for the unexpected.

Climb up a wall? Do a triathlon in the ocean with the bike portion uphill (!) in sand? Carry a 200 lbs Doberman on your back? You name it, we're ready.

You think Michael Jordan could excel at all that? No way, he would probably not even survive the first portion of the CrossFit Triathlon (*part of the CrossFit Games a couple of years back).

Also, Rich Froning has a far superior PHYSIQUE than any of these wannabes.

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