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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Random Question. Friday, December 15, 2006 Random Question. If triathlons had a weight lifting component, who would win them? Okay, quadathlons. Run a marathon, swim a few miles, bike 120 miles, and then what's a fair comparison? Lift 10 tons of free weights, in whatever denomination you desire? So you'd need to do 5000 20 pound arm curls, or something like that. I suppose you'e need rules forcing a variety of weight lifting, or someone could just do a bunch of squats, using the same muscles they use for running and biking. Anyway, assuming some governing body worked out an equitable distribution of weight lifting requirements, and it was roughly as grueling as the other three legs of the event (not that they're actually balanced; the swimming takes a fraction the time of the running/biking) what sort of person would win? I can't see the pencil thin runner types managing the weight lifting, but those super skinny Kenyan types are mostly marathoners anyway; you need more muscle to have the endurance to finish a full triathlon in 8-9 hours. I can't see big muscular types doing it either; sure they'd blow through the weights in 1/10th the time, but weight lifting is a high energy, short time activity. You can't lift weights for an hour, not without lots of downtime between sets, and that hardly fits into a race. So... the muscular guys (and girls) would clean up on weights, and then get lapped during the marathon and bike and finish 3 hours behind. In other words, quadathlon winners would be... slightly more muscular triathletes. Well, that was a pointless little exercise in logic, wasn't it? Labels: fitness Posted by: Flux # 1:15 AM Comments: Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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