Is It Possible to Squat Your Mile Time

Interesting question. If it's been done, it would probably be someone around 5:59/559. That extra second costs you 40 lbs on the squat, so you'd have to just under an even minute.

This guys claims a 700 lb squat and a 4:15 mile. If true, I'm thinking there must have been more than a few years between those.

http://www.jtsstrength.com/articles/2014/04/12/5-questions-alex-viada/

Obviously Ryan Hall, bro.

the world record squat is around 1260.......so could they walk/jog a 13:00 mile?

probably but kinda funny that it's not a given.

This guy is full of crap. There is not a single result anywhere that would justify a 4:15 (or the 4:08 equivalent he claims).

Alex Vi-Nada wrote:

This guy is full of crap. There is not a single result anywhere that would justify a 4:15 (or the 4:08 equivalent he claims).

Agreed. But it wouldn't surprise me if he could bang out a 659 squat and a 6:59 mile.

Wonder why he made such a ridiculous claim? He could have said 5:15 and it still would have been pretty damn impressive for a powerlifter (his intended audience).

I know you could probably walk 13:00/mile, so lets amend it so that it has to be a run; no run-walk or cc shuffle. If you have two feet on the ground at the same time then the time doesn't count.

i dunno 13:00 is a pretty brisk walk, i feel like if you're built to squat 1260 pounds ,13:00 pace for a mile is not a given.

I vote the 1260 - 12:60 guys are in the club

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

Lets say you run a 5:00 then you would need to squat 500lbs. 4:30 = 430lbs. 8:50 = 850lbs. Has anyone ever been capable of squatting their current mile time? Is it even possible? Discus

It would make more sense if 5:00 = 500lbs, 4:45 = 475lbs, 4:30 = 450lbs, and 4:15 = 425lbs. Otherwise a one second jump between 4:59 and 5:00 would be the cause of a 40lbs jump in weight.

That being said, I don't think it's possible to do unless you've specifically trained for it for some amount of time. In other words, no 4:30 miler is going to be able to put 450lbs on his back and squat it.

I do think that with 2 years of devoted practice you could hit both a 5:00 mile and 500lb squat. I think hitting the squat will be much more difficult, though.

(500lb deadlift and 4:49 mile, albeit 30 years apart)

I used to squat 705, but couldn't run at the time.

The easiest for me might have been 6:59.

Now I run a lot faster and squat a lot less...

Jordan Troyan is close. Laugh all you want, but he's a 2x CrossFit Games competitor who can actually run pretty fast for a guy his size. I competed against him last month at Tough Mudder X, a 1-mile hybrid CrossFit/OCR race. Jordan got 9th overall and we talked between rounds. He ran a 4:56 mile the week before the competition and told me that his squat PR is 420 lbs. Funny enough, he said that one of his goals was to break 5:00 in the mile this year AND squat heavier than his mile time without the ":".

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjnKFbmB2Y5/?hl=en&taken-by=jtroyancf

https://games.crossfit.com/athlete/4895

Deadlift PR > mile PR might be a more doable strength/speed achievement. Jordan already beat that mark for deadlift (485 lbs), so that's still really impressive. I deadlifted 385 lbs last month (at 180 lbs) and I ran a 4:20 mile about a decade ago (when I was 160 lbs), so I'm pretty close to having a higher lifetime deadlift PR than lifetime mile PR. However, comparing lifetime PRs is flawed since lots of people get way stronger when they cut back on running and start lifting more. I'm in 4:40-4:45 mile shape right now, so I'd have to gain 60ish lbs on my deadlift to get there. No chance I'd ever get close on a squat, though.

Back to the initial question involving squat, not deadlift. I doubt there are more than a couple dozen people who can squat heavier than their current mile time, assuming the mile has to be faster than like 9:00 to eliminate a shuffle for the 900-lb+ power lifters.

The more I think about it, I think your strongman competitors would have the best shot. Some of their events are pretty aerobic in nature (bus pulling, atlas stones, carries, etc.) I think a guy like Brian Shaw who has a 1000 lb squat could pretty easily do a 9 min shuffle. Same for most of the top tier strongman guys.

I am sure Ronnie Coleman could do this. Deadlifted 800 lb as a bodybuilder, which is even more impressive considering that hes training for volume. Dont really know his squat or mile, but the guy could also do full splits at that size, the range of motion to jog a mile wouldnt be too high, and his endurance would be good for someone huge. If he couldnt do this in his prime, add 20 miles per week and he could.

Herb Elliott could've done this.

Yarly wrote:

I am sure Ronnie Coleman could do this. Deadlifted 800 lb as a bodybuilder, which is even more impressive considering that hes training for volume. Dont really know his squat or mile, but the guy could also do full splits at that size, the range of motion to jog a mile wouldnt be too high, and his endurance would be good for someone huge. If he couldnt do this in his prime, add 20 miles per week and he could.

He's had several back surgeries and he's no longer a roided up monster.

I cannot believe you guys - you call yourselves track athletes!

Get that silly crossfit moron out of there.

Decathletes man!!! I bet half the current world stage contenders could do this. Ashton Eaton runs a 4:40 ......

I bet some decathletes could do this. I was pretty mediocre at the Dec but ran 4:26 in a Dec when my max squat was about 400. It isn't hard for me to imagine a guy simultaneously more talented at those two particular skills than me. Shoot, I'm only 6-1, so just get a 6-4 guy with my exact build and endurance and he would be able to do it.

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I bet some decathletes could do this. I was pretty mediocre at the Dec but ran 4:26 in a Dec when my max squat was about 400. It isn't hard for me to imagine a guy simultaneously more talented at those two particular skills than me. Shoot, I'm only 6-1, so just get a 6-4 guy with my exact build and endurance and he would be able to do it.

I forgot to say "4:26 for the 1500." By my point remains that i was in the rough ballpark. A more talented individual I'm sure exists who could do this.

Ok, i couldnt find a squat for curtis beach, ashton eaton, or bruce jenner, but then I found that Bryan Clay claims a pretty high squat max:

http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=35311

I would call that the first semi confirmed example of somebody who can squat their mile time.

With a 1500m pr of 4:39, it safe to say that he was at least a 5:10 miler pretty much any time in his training. With a reported 580# squat, he has a good margin.