4:17 miler quit competitive running after college and took up weights and saw better quality of life

lol

That's what I did. But I wasn't fast enough for a scholarship. So I just ran on a DIII team. I didn't quit because I was thinking well hell I've already committed might as well finish it out.

I'm speaking form experience. If you can't approach a 3:50 mile there is no benefit to run and compete.

4:17 isn't a respectable time.

rolling wrote:

I didn't quit because I was thinking well hell I've already committed might as well finish it out.

You didn't commit to anything. You could have quit any time. Why didn't you?

You be da man! ?

lrc_elitist_23 wrote:

4:17 isn't a respectable time.

Why not? ? How many people can run 4:17 let alone even run an all out mile?

4:17 is not respectable for a college athlete.

Now you have women wanting you who are only attracted to your physique. Means they are shallow and money spenders. Good going. I suggest you don't marry any of these women you are shagging. Your quality of life will go downhill fast. You would have ultimately found a better life partner with your former body...someone who liked you for your personality. Though, maybe you were always a douche and now just have a body to match.

rolling wrote:

That's what I did. But I wasn't fast enough for a scholarship. So I just ran on a DIII team. I didn't quit because I was thinking well hell I've already committed might as well finish it out.

I'm speaking form experience. If you can't approach a 3:50 mile there is no benefit to run and compete.

Right. It's fun when someone else tells me what I should and shouldn't care about.

I slept with good looking women when I was 6'0 140~. Bulked up to 155 and am still seeing the same success.

It's not the muscles, it's you being more confident. I never gave a F that I was on the thin side. As long as you're confident and not fat it's fine.

rolling wrote:

And I've been banging a lot of hot chicks.

For the record, how many hot chicks have you banged so far? ?

Dude on the internet saying he's having sex with hot women.

LOL

SomeoneWhoKnows wrote:

4:17 is not respectable for a college athlete.

Now you have women wanting you who are only attracted to your physique. Means they are shallow and money spenders. Good going. I suggest you don't marry any of these women you are shagging. Your quality of life will go downhill fast. You would have ultimately found a better life partner with your former body...someone who liked you for your personality. Though, maybe you were always a douche and now just have a body to match.

There's a lot of spin here. Unless you've actually cultivated a masculine physique post running so you can speak to the contrast, you have zero clue what you're talking about. It's night and day in terms of the partners you're able to attract when you look and carry yourself with a robust, masculine frame. It's not just a bimbos who want some meat head, we're talking intelligent, successful, beautiful women from good families. The underpinnings of attraction between men and women reward men who have markers of strength, it's simple biology.

Like the OP, I had a much harder time attracting women with a runners physique. The only girls who are into it are runner girls and at that point, you have to be one of the fastest guys on the team or whatever community to make up for the skinny factor. After picking up the weights, I was amazed how women responded. Women light up when you approach them and engage with them, especially if you can back up the appearance by being personable and charismatic.

Agreed. You and I have first hand experience. Its ridiculous to say that only shallow dumb women are only attracted to a masculine physique.

Joe Henderson was a 4:17 college miler and he was equally frustrated. That's so much of an in-between time, lots faster than most people ever get but not even fast enough to run in an elite women's race.

At any rate, he didn't take up weights, he just started running easy-ish every day with a race on most weekends. His quality of life went up, too, as he truly seemed to enjoy that for many years.

Sorry skinny young bucks! This is true. After I quit running competitively and put on 30 pounds, I got more attractive. Dad bod and a beard are getting more attention than 5% body fat ever did.

All this sex appeal stuff is true but it goes a lot further than that. I see people older people out running that are really messed up. One guy runs and runs and runs and his torso hunches over like the letter C. What if he had put some work into his thoracic spine like he did into all those AG awards?

This thread was hilarious on many levels..

5 10” and 160 is hardly a muscular frame.

You are still skinny op.

I could play the xylophone on your ribs.

Congrats you are no longer fast and skinny, now you are slow and skinny!

rolling wrote:

Clothes fit better, I don't look like a wimp. And I've been banging a lot of hot chicks. Women love it, they don't like dudes who are 5'10" 132 pounds soaking wet. You would not believe how much attention and attraction I get with an athletic body versus an underweight body. It's night and day and I've seen a quality of life improvement.

Unless you look legitimate sickly, in most instances, women appreciate confidence, charm and personality more than how much you can bench. Except the women on that show Love After Lockup.