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Quote from: Mutumbo000 on February 23, 2016, 07:09:39 am

Quote from: Coges on February 22, 2016, 10:39:18 pm

Further to the post above, and channeling my inner Viada I wonder how hard it would be to get the following at the same time:

2.5xbw deadlift
2xbw squat
Muscle Ups
15s handstand
Sub 12m 3k
<10% bf

Mind you I don't currently have any of these. Thinking that although some are competing the 3k is such a short distance that even doing longer runs (5-10k) wouldn't impact too much on recovery. Any upper body gymnastics like work is  unlikely to have any impact.

Most of those goals are all compatible and interlinked. The stronger your squat gets the stronger your deadlift gets. The leaner you get the more easy it is to do pull ups and chin ups, which should lead to being able to do muscle ups easier. Not sure about the handstand, but looking at gymnasts they all look lean.

As for the running goal I think it's definitely something that could be worked up to. The fittest AFL players can all run 3km under sub 10 minutes and 3km time trials are regular parts of their pre-season training. AFL guys are far from the biggest people around, but most of them weigh around their height in cm - 100 in kg (for example if they are 190cm tall they are usually around 90kg in bodyweight). Mind you I've never trained middle distance running so I don't know how you'd train for it, but if it was me I'd just go out and run a few 3kms once or twice a week and on another day run an 800m or  a 1500m at a faster pace and try and go a little harder/faster each week til you stall/build up endurance.

My mind went to AFL players initially too. Guys are super fit, decently sized although not sure on general strength levels.
I do know they do a lot of repeat sprints and 2 & 3k time trials.

Taking the gymnastics stuff out of the picture the remainder could be expected of a reasonably strong/fit person with some decent focus. I'm not planning on doing anything over middle distance running wise so if I can structure it right I should be ok.

^true, but they werent short sprints (~100-150m) however if i did short sprints (say <50m) i would def have some even more pronounced and crippling quad doms .. i know that with probability 1! To be honest i wouldnt call these sprints .. i was soo out of if that day, i could barely call it a sprint ..felt too slow/unaccalerated  to call it anything like a sprint.  But i'm still interested in hearing the explanation.