Take a look at this pic - It explain why Centro has gotten good recently

It's only because you have been conditioned to this overweight society is why you think he looks unhealthy. During the civil war the averaged male was 5'8 and weighed 143 ibs. Not much different from the average elite distance runner. Today the average elite marathon runner is 5'7 and 124 ibs. Besides the healthy range for BMI is 18.5-25 and for Centro his reported weight is 133 ibs at 5'9 which would put him at 19.6 on the BMI scale.

http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-soldiers

https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20813340/the-incredible-shrinking-marathoner/

Lydiard Cerutty wrote:

@lydutty wrote:

"No excess muscle or fat. Just really lean. This is the ideal male physique, you may not like it, but this is what optimal performance looks like. "

Not in the bedroom, where you'll be by yourself.

Endurance vs power, which one does a woman prefer? A guy who can last 2+ hours non-stop or a meat head who can't even last 5 minutes? Not only that Bill Rodgers looks 110% more healthy and natural in that photo than meat heads at the gym.

Women prefer a slow start ramping up into a good hard pounding, but not for 2+ hours. You'd know that if you'd ever been with one.

rojo wrote:

I saw some reference to Centro losing weight in the other thread about his DL win. I guess it's true. Take a look at this.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bla2NuLlNE7/?taken-by=mgcentro

My goodness he's thin. He really does look like "a skeleton with a condom pulled over your head" that Mark Wetmore talked about in Running With the Buffaloes.

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.

When went your website to be taken seriously, but one of the guys running it posts TMZ style threads on the boards ?

Does Centro have any TUE’s?

malmo wrote:

rojo wrote:

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.

I'm with Malmo and Rojo on this one - for the most part. This is just an end of season pic of some professional runners moving towards their peak. Now if this was a pic of a high school or college aged runner then it would be a different story.

So all the haters are jumping on Rojo because they or their athletes are taking what Rojo implied out of context. Their agenda seeming to be; sweep the discussion of weight and distance running back under the carpet where it belongs.

While Rojo probably bumbled the context of his post it is still a valuable public service announcement to all aspiring runners everywhere, male and female. Weight is something to have out in the light of day. HS and College coaches should be discussing it with their athletes on a regular basis. It's as much a part of the sport as is dynamic stretching.

If you're afraid of talking about weight, or are waiting for the issue of weight to reach the level of needing trained professionals, then you've failed the athlete. I know this is unfair but so is sweeping the issue under the rug.

Running, in general, will always have its fair share of hippos, wildebeests, and gazelles. At the competitive HS level they will mostly be wildebeests, and a few gazelles. At the collegiate level there will be some wildebeests but mostly gazelles. At the pro level they are all gazelles. There really is nothing wrong with this thinning of the heard all the way along the line. Where the problems start is when a coach tries to squeeze a hippo into a wildebeest or a wildebeest into a gazelle. This happens more often with women than men because of the lack of depth in women's sport - the temptation is too strong to leave any athlete behind.

So if you aren't supposed to get athletes to lose weight ("squeezing a hippo into a wildebeest") then what good does talking about weight with your athletes actually do?

You are supposed to get athletes to lose weight. You can't run your fastest if you are carrying additional pounds. No amount of healthy weight loss will magically transform an endomorph into an ectomorph so you do the best that you can do with what you've got and that has to be good enough. It's a tough sell but still better than the alternative. The beauty of HS and collegiate distance running is that it is, primarily, a team sport, so that a team of Mesomorphs can do pretty darn good and build great experiences in the sport but not likely to get to the next individual level.

obvious answer wrote:

Iughg wrote:

Why does that guy have a weird tan line around his stomach?

Tan line from his fanny pack.

No, no that's a tan line from his waist trainer.

No problem for testers to find a vein.

Is it literally me, or does the cute guy lifting Centro remind you of Jeremy Irons in Die Hard 3? He does look very Aryan. If they made this into a film he could play a German general and Centro can be a Jew in Auswitz. It is evan more ironic because Centrowitz sounds like a Polack name to me. I don't know who the 2 girls would be. Maybe Jeremy's mistresses.

Banana Bread wrote:

Is it literally me, or does the cute guy lifting Centro remind you of Jeremy Irons in Die Hard 3? He does look very Aryan. If they made this into a film he could play a German general and Centro can be a Jew in Auswitz. It is evan more ironic because Centrowitz sounds like a Polack name to me. I don't know who the 2 girls would be. Maybe Jeremy's mistresses.

he reminds me of the music artist "tom misch" but more athletic.

He's laughable wrote:

But that's ok, Centro prefers men and men like skinny men. SO he will be the winner at the local gentlemen's club.

LOL

@LydiardCerutty wrote:

Lydiard Cerutty wrote:

Endurance vs power, which one does a woman prefer? A guy who can last 2+ hours non-stop or a meat head who can't even last 5 minutes? Not only that Bill Rodgers looks 110% more healthy and natural in that photo than meat heads at the gym.

Women prefer a slow start ramping up into a good hard pounding, but not for 2+ hours. You'd know that if you'd ever been with one.

Seriously. No woman wants to get banged for two hours straight.

First, I'm not aneroxic. My BMI is 20 at 5'8 and 130 ibs. And, I eat over 3000 calories a day.

Second, I'm not addicted to the internet. I got nothing better to do with my time. So I spend it on the internet.

Third, what is crazy about the non-agression principle and self-ownership? I'm sorry wanting liberty and being free to do whatever you want as long as you don't violate the rights of others sounds crazy to you. I'm sorry I as Thomas Jefferson said, " I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." Also, as Thomas Jefferson said, "When injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty."

Fourth, I've always been crazy but:

Sand Man.

Well said.

We agree. On

Seriously. No woman wants to get banged for two hours straight.

Ask your wife when she gets home from "work"...

Lydiard Cerutty wrote:

Go to 4:50 in the YouTube video below for a picture of Bill Rodgers. No excess muscle or fat. Just really lean. This is the ideal male physique, you may not like it, but this is what optimal performance looks like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS9t5S4R7kw

The caption on that clip is wrong. Pfitz won the Trials marathon in '84 not '88.

r u kidding? wrote:

Seriously. No woman wants to get banged for two hours straight.

Ask your wife when she gets home from "work"...

another guy that's never been with a woman

These guys have no mass what so ever ! And the way his buddy is holding him makes for a gross pic. He might be 130 pounds right now soaking wet still

One of the reasons distant running doesn't appeal to the public. These guys in person are tiny and unhealthy looking . Unlike a 245 NFL linebacker with 5 % percent body fat

So he wasn't good when he won Olympic Gold 2 years ago!