Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

More and more I’m seeing unfit ‘athletes’ attempting to compete in our sport. Our sport, if nothing else, requires fitness. Fitness is the bare minimum. Without fitness there is no performance. There is perhaps no worse sign of the degrading fitness level of competitors at the lower levels of our sport than the dreaded muffin top. You know what I’m talking about…when the belly fat, love hand
 
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lol!  I agree, if there is one thing I hate, its seeing “fat” people trying to compete in track.  I almost feel offended.

what if they are fat but fast?

impossible, I saw a guy trying to run the 100m and he was fat and very slow.  Why does it seem like they make all of the fat kids, or at least slow/nonathletic ones run the 5k lol…

Winnesota - 09 April 2008 03:42 PM

impossible, I saw a guy trying to run the 100m and he was fat and very slow.  Why does it seem like they make all of the fat kids, or at least slow/nonathletic ones run the 5k lol…

I think lax had a sprinter couple yrs ago that tip the scales at around 240lbs and probably had about 15% bf, he ran 6.3’s 55m. also whats ur def of fat, my bro doesnt have abs but hes pretty fast for being 200+?

My def. of fat is pretty strict.  I say fat is being relatively undefined especially in the abs, but throughout the whole body (probably 10%+ BF).  But in the muffin case I would say anything visible through or in this case outside the uniform lol

Winnesota - 09 April 2008 05:17 PM

My def. of fat is pretty strict.  I say fat is being relatively undefined especially in the abs, but throughout the whole body (probably 10%+ BF).  But in the muffin case I would say anything visible through or in this case outside the uniform lol

is this fat?

Is that the guy they had a couple years back who threw ~55 feet and ran a fast 55m?

Mike Young - 09 April 2008 05:22 PM

Is that the guy they had a couple years back who threw ~55 feet and ran a fast 55m?

My bro said he was a beast. Is he fat Mike?

That dudes huge I wouldn’t say he is fat

Winnesota - 09 April 2008 05:32 PM

That dudes huge I wouldn’t say he is fat

I heard some lil kid called him fat at a conference track meet “dad hes fat”.

I had a co captian last year when I was at the JC, she could throw the javelin 164’ 10” and she had a huge muffin top!  Our guy javelin thrower had a good muffin top comin out of his speed suit and he threw 224’!  So I would say… Throwers are the muffins in track and field… from what I’ve seen.  And some are really good like the kind I see.

Throwers are the exception to this rule. It really doesn’t bother me with most throwers.

It’s problematic when you see it on jumpers, sprinters and perhaps most of all distance runners. For goodness sakes, put down the damn chicken neck bone, stop eating the Crisco and bacon cookies, and quit using butter to brush your teeth.

Mike Young - 09 April 2008 07:56 PM

Throwers are the exception to this rule. It really doesn’t bother me with most throwers.

It’s problematic when you see it on jumpers, sprinters and perhaps most of all distance runners. For goodness sakes, put down the damn chicken neck bone, stop eating the Crisco and bacon cookies, and quit using butter to brush your teeth.

I really don’t understand how this can happen with collegiate athletes. It seems pretty ridiculous to me with the workload most are doing. Here I am, old, not a collegiate athlete, train 6 days a week but run a business everyday as well, have a wife and kid and I can maintain visible abs? For the most part I’ll eat healthy, but every week I eat an entire large pizza, drink a beer or two or six a day, eat some cake, cookies, or fries when I want. And I DO NOT have a fast metabolism.

How the hell do these kids have a muffin top with their workloads? 

The ones I see here in the south are pretty lean. There’s one or two female sprinters who have the muffin top and still insist on wearing the little outfit like the other girls do but the sprinters and jumpers are pretty lean. The distance guys look sick like anorexic girls.

I wouldn’t count throwers either but it irks me to see polevaulters with extreme lovehandles, and there are a lot of them.

And the guy from UW-Lax was not fat, he was solid. My guess is that he was 220 or so, he wasn’t that tall. Still looked massive out there amongst the sprinters.

Mike—for the most part I agree with you.  But “put down the damn chicken neck?“  Now you’re going too far!
Nobody should be asked to do that.