Why would you ever specialise in long distance cardio over explosive/strength movements...

Why would you ever specialise in long distance cardio over explosive/strength movements? What benefit does having a good marathon time have on basketball, football, fighting or running away from danger? Everything in life requires max effort performance, not doing little effort over time. Also, you end up looking like shit compared to someone in strong or explosive sports.

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cardio it's more healthy though

wild pack of refugees won't gangbang your every orifice if you run faster than them

Real world doesn't have you carboloading and doing autistically long marathons either.

Intense cardio > autism

As someone who did the 800 and 1600 meter runs in high school track I can confirm that the 800 is way harder to run competitively. 1600 is easy win if you can keep up a good stamina and bring it home on the last 200 meters.

Would you say the 800 is the hardest track event?

Long distance cardio is max mental effort.

Low tier runner confirmed.

If it's easier then it's easier for everyone.

Once you run a mile against someone who can actually run you'll see how stupid you are.

>ran 800m
>got 2nd place one time
>tfw everyone cheering me on the final 200m stretch but couldn't catch up

The 800m is distance and a sprint all wrapped into one race

Distance cucks have no idea

No I think the hardest one would be 4x1. I suppose.
I remember I was coming down the last stretch in first place but the nignog I passed on the curve became fucking super charged and nearly beat me.

lol, if the police running after you, you can think about running faster while they catch yo skinny ass

>cardio
>not benefiting fighting

I bet you couldn't go 2 rounds with a novice 18 year old amateur boxer before gassing out and getting rekt

From someone who hates any form of running:

>Why would you ever specialise in long distance cardio over explosive/strength movements?

Why would you specialise in explosive/strength movements instead of long distance cardio?

>What effect does having a good marathon time have on basketball, football, fighting or running away from danger?

What effect does basketball or football have in anything? What good is a clean, a snatch, a bench press or a squat irl?

>Everything in life requires max effort performance, not doing little effort over time.

Life itself is literally low effort over 80 years. You can't work a day's shift in a few 10" bursts

>Also, you end up looking like shit compared to someone in strong or explosive sports.

>Implying 105+ PLers/Wlers look good

>meanwhile in the real world
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no way. Max effort is medium distance sprints-> 800m

800m is hell man. You think you can sprint at the end with mental fortitude but sometimes you are completely incapable.

>two laps
>distance

lmao

400 hurdles is easily the most difficult. Followed by 800m. I had mad respect for these guys in college. I was a sprinter. My meets consisted of playing frisbee for warmup and running for under 2 minutes over 3 events. I did the open 100, 200, and sprint relays. 4x4 and open 4 were the most taxing, yet all of it was in the preparation. Anything can happen in an event over 400m. It comes down to who has the intestinal fortitude and masochism to push themselves.

From veteran to recruit:

400 hurdles
800/ 4x800
1600m
Open 4/4x4

Were you balding in high school?

I also ran cross country in the off season. Shit was easy compared to running an 800m. The 800m will put fear into your bones

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TL:DW
You will never end up looking like Michael Johnson b/c you run 400m with your Crossfit crew in over a minute and running long distance isn't going to turn you into a skelly because you dont run 100+ mpw

Also remember that the top marathon runners can run each mile faster than most people (ie you) run one.

I always hated running the 800; felt awkward, was never sure when to full out sprint

I walk / run / sprint / run / walk
3-4 sets
4-5 times a week

Long distance gets you extra leanness and massive zero fucks to life

High intensity brings you sexy test and energetic well being

Now the downsides:
Long distance burns muscle, and destroys your anabolic pathways... you live on oxygen, so your nutrition can get into the Cinderella side, and start the no gluten no lactose vegan hell

High intensity makes you Shia, and you live on glucose. energy could turn into bad mood if you are pissed /surrounded by assholes, which by today's standards is pretty often. Easy to get into king size /binge /permabulk state

Balance is key

I was taught to accelerate at 75% on the curves, maintain on the straight aways by taking long bouncing strides, and reset the race in your mind and sprint a 200m at the end

look at this disgusting monkey wearing my country's colours

fuckin disgrace

>links a video of a trained professional boxer as a counter example
You're a retard

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In the modern world sprinting might seem useful, but otherwise you're wrong.

But yes ultra-marathon runners are nuts. It JUST's your body almost as much as strong-men.

fair enough, but if you can't run 5 miles without walking then you're not a real man

Deontay said in an interview, he never does roadwork, zero running. All explosive exercises

>For Wilder, the pool provides a low-impact medium for workouts, plus it adds crucial resistance during all of his movements. He wears a device called an Aquajogger, which keeps his head above water in enough depth so that his feet never touch the bottom. Then he jogs and sprints in place, or moves from side to side, while also working on boxing techniques; Wilder also swims traditional laps.

Deontay is also a shit boxer he fights mostly soup cans and just starts swinging wildly. His last fight he tried to start out actually boxing and was getting shit on so he went to what he does best, brawling and swinging wildly. He can't box for shit.

99% of skillful, successful boxers and brawlers do roadwork, and the ones that don't eventually get exposed for the frauds they are.

Stop posting. You were obviously an average middle distance runner.

Ultramarathon stuff is destructive to your body but I have as much respect for those guys as I do someone like Eddie Hall, that shit's the absolute limit of abusing your body.
When I did a marathon I genuinely felt like I was going to die, I can't imagine what it's like to do a hundred miles or more.

>What good is a clean, a snatch, a bench press or a squat irl?
work a physcial job then come back

its easy to say strength is useless if you lead the Veeky Forums lifestyle without the opportunity to actyally use any of it

>beats other boxers
>can't box for shit
if swinging widly wins him fights, its a good tactic

>beats other boxers that are clearly not competition
>wont fight anyone who is real competition and puts him at risk of losing his title

what wins him fights is his manager getting him easy targets

>dumb we wuz nigger comparing female steroid use to sprinting
Ooga booga bix noods. Keep running those marathons muhfugga. You'll be jacked in no time.

i usually do around 3 miles a day, i just like the way it makes me feel, nothing else.

Ultra fag here. Been out to 100mi. Its fucking brutal man and a complete mind game. By the time you're ready to run 100mi your mind is ready to hold your body together after it has given up.

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>only got into running my senior year of high school
>mediocre cross country runner, but it was fun
>track season comes
>lazy
>get signed up for steeplechase, 800m, and 1600m
>get my ass blasted by a bunch of serious runners
I remember feeling like I was going to die after the 800m, but apart from the fear and shame it was fun.

How much of a pussy are you when on a mere 50 mile course with a few thousand feet of elevation gain, on road bikes, someone who almost never goes to the gym can not only beat you, but be done, cleaned up, and on his 2nd or 3rd beer, before you even cross the finish line, and you go to the gym 3 or 4 days a week?

That's how retarded your bait thread is: no credibility. GB2 and lurk more.

Not bowing down to the superior 400m SPRINT.
Runfags (800and up) btfo. Also the 200 and 100 is for niggers

400m is a piece of piss compared to the 800/1500 retard. The thing is over in under 50 seconds. Fuck off

Hurdler here, can confirm.

Its only considered hard bc its full of athletes not good enough to cut it at the flat events.

Ok buddy, give it a go

Never had to and never will. I was talented enough at the real events to avoid sub par track events. I'm not saying its easy, just saying its not as hard. Its the steeplechase of the distance events. Full of runners who were pushed into that corner of competition by not being good enough.

Same here man.

Its not something I think anyone should realistically do. But suiciding your body for that prestige is kind of respectable.

>Why would you ever specialise in long distance cardio over explosive/strength movements?

You're a very boring, ugly, and depressed person that thinks long distance running is a real sport.

You will never be an elite athlete, so stop worrying about accidentally looking like one.

The guy on the right is still running an average of about 17-20 seconds per 100m. Likelihood is that OP can't even do that once.

Memes aside, Veeky Forums should be doing the 400. It's the most painful event for non-elite runners (every event is painful for elite runners) and I'm pretty sure the pain is why we lift.

Dude obviously pulled something in his leg off the start

>Implying strength is more useful than endurance in 8 hour construction work shifts
work a physcial job then come back
It's easy to say strength is more useful than endurance if you lead the Veeky Forums lifestyle without the opportunity to actually apply your broscience irl

>Also remember that the top marathon runners can run each mile faster than most people (ie you) run one.

This is depressingly true. I can clear a single mile in six minutes and most everyone I know is super impressed with that. But I remember watching the end of the marathon from the 2000 Olympics and the winner had an average mile time of something like 5m15s. I think about that when I run and remember how shitty I really am.

Yeah, when you can do that you can officially call your body strong.
Pic related, Joss Naylor on the left.

>fighting
>boxing
Pick one. In a real fight you want to deal max damage and get out ASAFP before his friends jump you.

>If it's easier then it's easier for everyone
Wasn't that his point?

The 400 hurdles is so technical. Especially when you're getting tired and you must change the amount of steps you take between the hurdles and change the leg you drive over the hurdle. Doing that during the second curve is a nightmare

Guys, an elite marathoner running close to WR pace is continuously running ~71 sec 400's
An average person could keep up to that for one lap and collapse briefly afterwards

It's fun. And running a marathon or training for it or staying fit for it over several years will not make you a hungry skeleton. Also it's so piss easy to do, everyone should be able to at least run a half marathon. If you can't do that, don't consider yourself fit.

How can it be an "easy win" if its easier for everyone retard? Or do you think they had out 1st place to everyone?

>long distance cardio over explosive/strength movements?
>basketball
Basketball is endurance. And if you ever get into a plane crash and are left stranded in the middle of no where it's endurance that will help you survive. Not very likely, but if I'm stuck on the plains of Africa I know as a human I only have a small fraction of the maximal strength of the animals on those plains. I do however have a brain and enormous amounts of stamina in comparison. Gotta use what evolution gave ya.

Same events I ran too. 800m was my favorite. It was hard but I sucked at sprints and longer distances so it was like the only one I was kinda good at.