Prop bet - 5 minute mile - Page 4

1C5 · #31 10-11-2007, 06:39 PM

And thinking about this more how f'n hard it was and how it felt (to me) like I was freaking sprinting the whole time, I don't think an average (anyone who is not a very good athlete) can do a sub 5 minute mile even with 7 months of training. They just won't have the physical ability to.

Question: in terms of bench pressing. What would a 5 minute mile=in bench press?

2nd way to ask the question: What % of people can run a 5 minute mile compared to what % can bench press x lbs?

My 1st guess would be 400 lbs. Maybe more, but not less.

Snafu'd · #32 10-11-2007, 06:55 PM

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And thinking about this more how f'n hard it was and how it felt (to me) like I was freaking sprinting the whole time, I don't think an average (anyone who is not a very good athlete) can do a sub 5 minute mile even with 7 months of training. They just won't have the physical ability to.

Question: in terms of bench pressing. What would a 5 minute mile=in bench press?

2nd way to ask the question: What % of people can run a 5 minute mile compared to what % can bench press x lbs?

My 1st guess would be 400 lbs. Maybe more, but not less.

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Umm, you lost me here. Are you saying that people who can run 5 min miles will be able to bench press an absurd amount?

swingdoc · #33 10-11-2007, 07:01 PM

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swingdoc I'd say you're wrong about comparing it to a 5k. But yeah 6min mile: anyone can train and do, 5min mile: really [censored] hard and most people would fail.

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Sorry, you lost me here. Did you mean my time estimate was off or that you can't approximate one from another?

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Umm, you lost me here. Are you saying that people who can run 5 min miles will be able to bench press an absurd amount?

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No. He's saying that the top whatever percentage of people could run a 5:00 mile if they trained regularly. ~Same percentage of people could bench 400lbs if they trained appropriately. I don't lift much at all, so I have no clue if this is accurate.

jogsxyz · #34 10-11-2007, 07:31 PM

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Not going to happen.

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Not impossible. Still, sight unseen I'm betting against him.

Hendricks433 · #35 10-11-2007, 07:37 PM

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Umm, you lost me here. Are you saying that people who can run 5 min miles will be able to bench press an absurd amount?

[/ QUOTE ] I think he means, what % of americans can run a 5 min mile, and what % can bench bress a certain weight that is equally as hard as a 5 min mile for running I guess.(his guess is 400lbs)

RarocASP · #36 10-11-2007, 09:28 PM

No way you can do this, good luck though.

Also, FWIW I think that middle school track data is from a single elite meet, not from everyone across the US.

Jon1000 · #37 10-11-2007, 09:31 PM

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That's pretty darn unusual unless you grew up in Kenya [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Here's a compilation of last spring'g best middle school track times:

http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndFiel...spx?DivID=4467
Only 5 kids in the country were 5:00 or below.

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Just to play devil's advocate, I knew of almost no good athletes before high school who ran rather than playing a ball sport. The only timed runs I can think of were for presidential fitness tests, and our gym teacher would just record our times and send us off to go play football. I don't think those things even ever got reported

jogsxyz · #38 10-11-2007, 10:41 PM

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That's pretty darn unusual unless you grew up in Kenya [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Here's a compilation of last spring'g best middle school track times:

http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndFiel...spx?DivID=4467
Only 5 kids in the country were 5:00 or below.

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I believe middle school is 7th thru 9th grades. These boys are 15 or younger.

I never ran distances of less than 8K. But I think but can't be sure I was able to run one mile in under 5 minutes when I was in my forties.
My best 10K time(over 40) was 36:18.
Best 10 mile time was 59:34.

Did run a 5:10 mile during a 5 mile race once.
Only it was a downhill mile. Think there was a
300 feet elevation drop.

Thremp · #39 10-11-2007, 10:49 PM

I think just about everyone cranking out sub 18 min 5k can grind a <5 min mile on occasion. But that is far different than the above case.

7 months is a good length of time, but I'd like to see some indication of running ability before this becomes possible much less at a very high altitude.

Jeff W · #40 10-12-2007, 01:58 AM

No chance you can run a 5 min mile 7 months from now.