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04-23-2006, 01:38 PM
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How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of fat?
Im thinking an olympic athlete whoes let himself go over the last year but is prepared to do whatever the hell olympic athelets do to get in shape.
Let's say he competes in the 100m dash. 
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04-23-2006, 01:48 PM
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Re: How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of fat?
It would be better to use percent body fat.
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04-23-2006, 03:47 PM
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Re: How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of f
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How much muscle is the athlete willing to lose? Does the athlete use drugs? [/ QUOTE ] thats the main question, besides the drugs, if they have alot of muscle, muscle burns fat so the more muscle the more fat burn
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04-23-2006, 03:49 PM
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Re: How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of f
Howq big is the guy?
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04-23-2006, 04:32 PM
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Re: How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of f
I'd think about 2 pounds per week is attainable. So 5 months.
He'd probably have to do some other form of exercise than the 100 m dash though. I don't think that's a great fat burner. And burning fat by doing endurance sports may hurt his 100 m dash performance because he'll get more long muscle fibres and he needs short ones. I rode 75 miles on my bike today. I feel like I should have lost 10 pounds. But I haven't... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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04-23-2006, 05:15 PM
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Re: How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of f
If he's a large guy, lets say 260 lbs and needs to get down to 220lbs, I think strenous workouts could get his normal weight down in a month to 2 months. He could probably do it in 2 days if he goes to the extreme dehydration methods that boxers employ to a lesser degree.
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04-23-2006, 05:16 PM
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Re: How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of f
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if he's losing 2lbs a week, a LOT of that is gonna be muscle. [/ QUOTE ] Wrong. Some maybe muscle (if you dont know what youa re doing), but its very possible to lose 2lbs a week, and have it be 95%+ fat, sometimes even more if you are really overweight.
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04-23-2006, 05:38 PM
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Re: How quickly do you think an olympic athlete could drop 40 lbs of f
This is almost impossible to guess at unless you do it by body fat.
To go from 40% to 25% body fat - Probably 2 months To go from 25% to 8% body fat - Probably 4 months or longer. It's those last few pounds of fat that take the longest. The first example is much easier than the second.
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