How can elite level athletes have so much excess fat?

bad diet/alcohol
its just like rugby players back in the day
most the big fellas drank the most piss so stayed portly

suno wrestlers aren't even fat, there's a famous one who's 11% bf and he looks just like that

It quite literally suits his position

they're definitely fat, so suggest otherwise is delusional

Yeah just like how this is fat

mirin core

golem get ye gone

goddamn you're an idiot

>Not OP but like how is it they can have the cardio/whatever to still be so active despite being so fat?
Offensive linemen only work on sprinting and gaining mass (plus football practice), they don't do cardio, except maybe in the offseason.
Imagine a 330 lbs 6'4 behemoth running a 5 seconds 40 yard dash coming at you.

don't you need to have cardio to sprint consistently?

say that to my face faggot

In gridiron it's more about recovery rate than aerobic capacity, you can have a great recovery rate and work capacity while at high bodyfat levels.

Cardio is between 70-85% of your maximum heart rate. Linemen train mostly at 95-100%, there are almost no cardio gains from that. Yes, your heart does get better at pumping blood but that's it.
I'm not an NFL coach, maybe they do some cardio coming off the post season until the beginning of the offseason, but almost all the work they do are very short sprints that have nothing to do with cardio.

For a tackle speed and mass are the most important things, so fat can be useful. Running backs for example are way leaner.

how does one get better recovery rates?

sumodb.sumogames.de/pics/1205.jpg

11% bodyfat

>11% bodyfat
top kek
>this is what lardasses tell to themselves

he's contractually obliged to be a 350 lb wall of mass

>links to images on an imageboard
>being delusional

you can tell he's a fat piece of shit just from how lazy he is

>elite level athletes

American """"football"""" is so disgusting now.

genetics.

you think just anyone without specific genetic predispositions can become world class professional athletes?

not even everyone has the mental capacity to earn more than $30k a year.

Because you don't understand football

tom platz of abs

Steroids increase rate of recovery by a huge margin.

Yes, they are far more athletic than any soccer player.

>in japan

How are you too stupid to understand they need to be fat, heavy, and strong to be linemen.

such a non cookie cutter physique, definitely mirin

>Cardio is between 70-85% of your maximum heart rate.

??? the word cardio means heart.

>Linemen train mostly at 95-100%, there are almost no cardio gains from that. Yes, your heart does get better at pumping blood but that's it.

"Heart gets better at pumping blood" is literally the definition of "cardio gains."

athleticism =! fitness

These guys are shredded compared to that obese mess in the OP

>american athletes

im pretty sure the fattest nfl player is stronger than 99% of Veeky Forums and quicker than 70% of Veeky Forums

golen get ye gone

GOLEM GET YE GONE

>elite athlete
>american "football"

Pick one

American sports are more Veeky Forums than European ones t b h

t. Eurofag

if by Veeky Forums you mean beta, fat and unathletic then yes, you're right.

The only american "sports" are american football and baseball. Both of which have shit tier athletes.

You are so unfit that they have individuals fill niche rolls. One person throws another person just has to run a few yards and a few others stop opposition, then the entire line up changes.

The only other "sport" to come out of the US is crossfit which is now dominated by the Scandinavians and is really. . Well.. not a sport.

Golem get ye gone

>american football
>shit tier athletes

lmao eurocuck please

Prove it.

>using greentext options correctly
>you

Choose one.

ha
hahaha
>handegg
>athletes
good one dude

Calvin Johnson would demolish any yurocuck divegrass fag in any reasonable measure if athleticism.

Linemen like every other position do cardio in offseason and during the season. I'm not sure about higher levels but every practice in junior leagues has cardio at the end to build up endurance. Players need to be able to keep up with 4 quarters of play and possibly go into overtime. If the linemen get too winded at the 4th quarter they start fucking up hard and can lose their team's lead. I've seen it tons of times where the really fat fuck o-lineman can't last the 4th and let in a sack that turns into a game winning play.

t.5 years of O-line

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f=ma

Their bodies are specialized for their position. It's not hard to figure out.

Just like in basketball, there are a ton of 7+ foot centers that couldn't run for shit and it worked just fine cause their job is to jog from basket to basket and essentially stand there.

Look at some baseball players. Fat pitchers, fat batters. They can get away with it because the focus of their job isn't to run fast or be particularly athletic.

None of this is rocket science.

jj watt is actually a powerful athlete though

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>"Heart gets better at pumping blood" is literally the definition of "cardio gains."
doesn't account for oxygen intake/breathing/lung capacity/pacing

Never get sick of that pic, sumos are fucking joocy man.

you're an idiot for thinking his body isn't exactly what his coaches/manager want it to be

they pay him $8 mil+ to look just like that

Not all olinemen are fat

huh? what about riggedhoop?

Fpbp

They don't need to be fat
>fat, heavy
No they don't
And you can be be strong and a lineman without being the above two.
Actually, yes
>350 lb wall of mass
>it is beneficial to have the excess weight to make you harder to push
You can do both of those without being a fatass

>dive grass
>"athletes"

Lol what do you mean "now"?

Tell me what has fundamentally changed in the last 20 years

How did you just completely forget omit or skip basketball?
An extremely athletic and demanding sport. Your post already proves you know nothing about American sports so please stop making a retard of yourself.

Your first 2 sentences are literally the dumbest thing I have read here for weeks. We are all dumber for reading your post. Please shut the fuck up immediately.

Who is this fat wank?

>Cookie cutters will dis this

>get fat tub of lard who is basically a human riot shield to run up a field once or twice
>"wow he's so athletic, fat haters BTFO"

why are people so stupid?

>I know nothing about football: the post

That fat tab of lard will run faster than you and absolutely wreck you in the weight room

golem get ye gone

Fucking hell.

ss + gomad?

If you have 300 pounds of muscle, 30 pounds of fat are still going to make you look fat.

Fucking asshole on this board doesn't understand that bf% describes a relationship between weight and fat, while looking fat / lean is about the total amount of fat you carry for your frame.

Bf% should be replaced with something that describes total fat.

>Landwhale detected

10k kcal + 6 hours of pushing 300lb+ dudes across the floor while holding squat

It's rugby with pussy pads and a huge amount of breaks

Don't forget constant change of lineup because it's asking too much of the athletes to be good at more than one thing.

It's a sport designed for people who lack the capacity to master the spectrum of athleticism and sports.

Elite Athlete coming through

wtf. he just died today.

kek

All people who seek or become superhumans shorten their lives tremendously.
That is the price they pay.
And one many would pay willingly.

Lol I'm not fat at all bro, imply whatever you want twink

sumo wrestlers are actually the strongest humans on the planet.

joke's on you.

You know nothing about the different speeds and size of impacts that occur in both sports, people would straight up die if gridiron didn't have pads. Not taking anything away from rugby but when idiots like you try to compare the two you sound retarded.
Then there's this faggot
"Spectrum of athleticism" lol look at any position that isn't on the line and tell me they aren't amazing athletes with great conditioning