Why do runners bodies look like shit?

You haven't felt envy until you've seen someone you know, around your age, do an 800 with lap times better than your best 400.

feel.

>posts old politicians going to mcdonalds

>dyel arms

Even you running fags know that sprinters are not the same thing.

>wonders why a runner isn't focusing on arms

you actually don't have to run that fast.

some of my friends run 40km at 15km/h, it's fast senpai.

>cardio aethstetics

Running is gay. We aren't in africa chasing down animals to hunt anymore.

So then what's the practical purpose for bench pressing 315?

Cause most people associate running with being healthy for whatever reason, so their sole source of exercise is running which shockingly is pretty shit for full-body hypertrophy.

Lack of muscle + a little body fat = skinnyfat

>anime

They have shredded calves though

>for whatever reason

Running is objectively better for overall health than lifting. Swimming even more so.

yeah but just how fucking slow do you have to be for that to happen?

refrigerator mode body, he looks like a crossfit chick

Who said it was running OR lifting?

No one. Obviously running is going to be better than lifting for CV development but many other things are better than long distance running.

Sick of this fucking meme that we were long distance marathon running subsistance hunters. We chased animals in bursts akin to interval training. Short, intense periods of activity follow by longer periods of walking and traversing terrain.
Sub saharans may be the exception but we haven't had anything in common with them for tens of thousands of years if not longer.
We moved north, we settled in europe, we evolved to hunt with tools and tactics and developed into animals best suited to interval activity.

The best way to develop CV is interval training.

>We chased animals in bursts akin to interval training

>implying humans can out sprint any kind of wild animal

Almost all surviving hunter gatherer groups use ambush tactics using weapons of various kinds, and all ancestral hominids also used tools to hunt. We didn't evolve to RUN to hunt, we evolved to manipulate our environment in order to make hunting easier, and our gait is actually optimised for WALKING over long distances (to cover ground in the search for new food sources - it requires something like 10km squared per individual for a hunter gatherer band to sustain itself.)

The endurance hunting thing is something that basically ONE tribe in Africa does as a quasi-religious event maybe once a year. Hunting like that is so energy inefficient that it would be impossible to sustain even individuals by doing it, let alone a tribe. You'd expend more energy running down an animal than you would get from eating the entire carcass yourself.

My best 400 at the time was around 61s. His total 800m time was 1:55~1:57. I don't think I would consider either of those slow.

he looks like shit whats your point

> You'd expend more energy running down an animal than you would get from eating the entire carcass yourself
horrible b8
A 400 pound animal has a lot of meat on it.

We'd typically have hurt them first with a trap or ambush and would then chase them at full whack, a very intense burst of activity, until we managed to corner them and finish them off or they bled out and died.

Like says the rest of the time we walked. Walked and walked and walked. Not ran.
Long distance running is something that we can do because we are so remarkably adaptable as a species but it is not something we are truly suited for as a primary means of doing anything.

Long periods spent running does cause joint and heart issues if done habitually.
Look at any almost any long distance professional and you will see someone gaunt and without physical strength; not traits that would increase the chances of mating.

>Has a different interpretation of fitness than you
>Doesn't train for aesthetic purposes
>Is insulted

Saved you the entire thread.

>on a manchurian scorpion smoking newspost

Kek you sound dyel af

epic :D

Sprinting isnt running now? I always thought sprinting is just running really fast but I guess you can make up your own definitions now.

I accept your apology

Why do powerlifter bodies look like shit?
Is it possible that people who train for a specific sport that doesn't involve looking good dont have the best bodies?

To look good

Up to a point, running marathons is bad for you, at that point you would be better off running and lifting.

No, but we can use thrown weapons. We just run to get close enough.

so if pressing 5pl8s will make me look like this, how much weight would I need to bench to actually look good?

Because without a diet anybody will look like shit.

Yes yes intervals is the way to go for CV. But endurance work can build a much greater work capacity, which will help you both with high volume in the gym and everyday activities.

Because running is for weak faggots. Since the daw of time, nature has rewarded the runners with a shit physique, and the hunters, the ones who face the problem are rewarded with a good physique. That simple. You also fuck up your knees running. Running is for people too lazy for sprinting/swimming,it is like the crossfit of non-lifting sports, for nu males and chicks

Please post your sick chiseled hunter physique mr strong tough guy
Also please include your nice healthy knees in the picture as well, I get hard just thinking about them

>get hard
Sorry, this body is for female pleasure only

that's still pretty fast

Both still look 20 times better than this Poor child.

>ITT: retards who think that neglecting cardio is a good thing, and that ALL running is for marathon training
You guys know there's a huge difference between running 10k's and marathons.
Fuck, even the cross country guys I knew in college said they'd never train for anything longer than a 10 mile race, because at that point your body will just look like shit.

The majority of "runners" are just jogginf a few miles, and their diets are shit

Cardio itself is better for you than strength training, but strength training builds skeletal muscle which increases basal metabolism and thus is much better for weight loss. Fat is the primary problem with most people's health, and thus on average the effects of strength training may be even more beneficial than improving cardiovascular fitness

The earliest form of hunting was simply chasing animals for miles until they passed out from heat exhaustion

No they don't, fatty. Female's generally prefer mild and cut bodies, not bulk-heads. And you'll be closer to reaching David-mode with pure cardio exercises than pure powerlifting.

15 km/h is my full sprint.

>tfw mile pr is 6:36

>tfw recently reached my goal of sub 25 5k
I know it isn't a big achievement, but considering I only go running every now and then I am happy.

Well Bill Clinton at least looks like shit because he has AIDS from raping thousands of child slaves that have been also molested by countless other politicians.

Well the guy you posted also looks like shit. Barely looks human.

this dyel is literally starving

>muh arms

lol we care about actuals fitness, not muh aesthetics or muh gainz

Nice!
I just started up again and I'm at 30.
I hope I can get down to 25 like you.

Even worse b8 m8. Though I'm not particularly ir8 because there's so much misinform8ion about this topic going around. Allow me to elucid8.

The average weight of the groups who practice persistance hunting is about 150lbs (which is incidentally the normal estimate for humans in the stone age.) They'll run a distance as long as a marathon or as short as a half marathon over a period of 2-5 hours, at speeds anywhere from 5 (a gentle jog) to 15 (a sub-4mm sprint) miles an hour. Let's assume they average about 6mph/10 minute mile, which over 5 hours is about 3000 calories worth of running.

This by the way assumes they're carrying nothing. No water, no food for themselves, nothing to carry their quarry back in, no weapons, nothing. Considering these hunts take place in 100 degree heat most of the time (as a ceremonial test of endurance) and you still have to stab or beat the fucking antelope to death and butcher it once you catch up, this is is unlikely.

It isn't.

>not bulk-heads
>bulk-heads
The fact that you use bulk heads makes my laugh.
>Caring what females get.
The fact that you care what they want instead of what you want make me laugh.

These guys are not particularly strong. They won't carry an awkward 400lb carcass 25 miles back home. They butcher it on the spot.

Modern cattle yield about 35% edible meat. Disregarding the fact that modern cattle have been bred for thousands of years to yield more meat, we'll assume our 400lb unspecified antelope creature is a corn-fed anachronism and yields the same. 400lbs yields 140lbs of mystery meat. That's about 100,000 calories cooked n' seasoned, 76,000 calories raw.

Hunting parties are generally 4 to 10 people. Let's say we've got 5. Each gets 28lbs of meat to haul back home over 25 miles. They have to move reasonably quickly so as to avoid attracting predators who want to steal that shit (not to mention other humans who'll be able to easily overpower their exhausted asses.) Which means they're probably going to be going at a fairly decent pace - let's say about 5mph/12 minute mile. That's 2400 calories over 5 hours each, plus an extra 900 each for carrying an extra 28lbs with them. So 3300 for each dude on the return trip.

So the total caloric cost to each of our 5 guys for this hunt is 6300 both ways if they catch something. That's 31500 in total, or basically half of all the meat they just managed to bore to death. (Not even bothering to factor in the hard work of actually butchering a 400lb antelope.)

Now consider the following: the human shoulder is practically purpose-built to throw heavy shit accurately over long distances. Most prey animals have shit endurance, and will only start running when a predator gets REALLY close. Now consider a spear can be thrown quite far on its own with practice - and even further with the help of a spear-thrower - at a total cost of about dick all calories. Also consider that it's quite easy for a group of people who know the land they're on to drive an animal into a trap.

Do you think hunter gatherers are more likely to spend time practicing their spear and trap game, or running gazelles to death?

sprinting is running your top speed, which the body can usually only maintain for sub 30 seconds, when somebody says running, they generally mean keeping a fast but steady pace for a long period of time

Heavy stress on knees, gravity constantly pulling down on steps, and increased sun damage

The smart hunter invents a trap.

Different people used different tools depending on their environment. Very rarely would they trek 25 miles to camp. 5 miles would have been going fairly far from camp for most people.

Also remember that most people lived in proximity to food and were much smaller and lighter than we are today. The average man was very slender and was about 120 pounds.

Specialists aside. Running is a fairly poor way to become healthy or physically fit. Usually people stress out their glycotic system and get a bunch of repeat trauma on their joints. Its the first thing people usually want to do and then they get hurt.

Then what is it? Flying? Dancing? Perhaps we can call it diving.

Sprinters have good physiques tbqh

> Roiders have the best physiques tbqh
Fixed that for you sir.

DYEL he may be, but he can run 200 miles non-stop. If Veeky Forums can't get behind that, we may as well all boogie mode and be done with it.

>Tfw Veeky Forums doesn't know who karnazes is
Idk why we worship powerlifters despite the fact that most look like fat pieces of shit, but hate runners because their bodies aren't aesthetic. It isn't about the aesthetic, they aren't bodybuilders, it is about impressive feats of endurance and speed, like powerlifting is about lifting up impressively heavy weights.

Because your runner guy looks no different than a poor African kid most people would rather not look like they've just gone through chemo

Also you fags keep bringing up powerlifters when literally they have no threads outside of their containment or being mocked.

Imagine lying to yourself like this all the time.