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u/taimychoo 9d ago
Carries two Maurten 160 gels on their long distance Sunday runs. SiS gels if they don't want to spend the extra $1 on Maurten.
Asics Novablast 5 or Adidas Pro 3 for long runs. Alphafly 3 for the 5k pace interval workouts. Wouldn't be caught dead wearing Hoka's, as they're for beginners
Strava workouts usually titled "Easy 32k at 4:20min/km pace. Thanks for the push [insert Strava buddy name here]!"
- Bonus points if they do a shirtless selfie afterwards
Wears a Coros Pace 3 or Garmin Forerunner 165
Wears a Solomon running belt
Owns a Bob & Brad massage gun, because the running influencer they religiously follow on YouTube (probably Ran To Japan) convinced them it's better than a Theragun for half the price
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u/240223e 9d ago
thats only the flashy type. the simple type wears nothing but shorts, tshirt and old running shoes and smokes a pack of cigarettes a day.
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u/BagNo4331 9d ago
Similar to hikers. One person who passes you climbing the hill has $12000 in ultralight gear on them. The other is wearing flip flops, smoking, and carrying a half full dasani bottle despite being like 8 miles from the last possible place to refill.
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u/TesticleMeElmo 9d ago
Guys get below 15% body fat and start acting like being asked to wear a shirt at any point between April and October is unreasonable and anyone who would expect a man to do that wants them to die of heat exhaustion.
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u/retsoPtiH 9d ago
all of this to run.. and just get back home
talk to me when you arrive on foot in a bordering country /s
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u/zephyr121 9d ago
I thought I was on r/runningcirclejerk at first lmao
Insanely accurate, coming from a former cross country runner
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u/mitchdwx 9d ago
Wakes up at some ungodly early hour every morning (around 4-5 am) and has finished their workout and morning routine while the rest of the world is still pressing snooze.
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u/Run_From_Epilepsy 8d ago
i cant say the same i run in the afternoon 99% of the time, even when my mileage was near 70 per week
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u/CPC1445 9d ago
If he's the second body type he's doing the cardio shtick as a giant way to cut. Once he reaches down to that desired body fat percentage, you won't see him running for awhile until after he's done bulking.
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u/md___2020 9d ago
Not necessarily true. The “hybrid athlete” bros can be super jacked and putting in 50+ miles per week (accomplished via the sauce).
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u/Plastic-ashtray 9d ago
The sauce as in steroids?
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u/SecretPantyWorshiper 9d ago
The hell is a hybrid athlete 😂
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u/FridayNightRamen 9d ago
Sounds funny, basically means somebody running on their rest days. Probably the best thing you can do for your health aside from eating healthy food.
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u/PeterNippelstein 9d ago
Ive got that body type and run but certainly not long distance, almost never more than 10k at a time. I do it to maintain cardiovascular health as well as for the myriad of other benefits running provides, both physically and mentally. It certainly does help to trim down excess body fat though, which is definitely a great bonus.
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u/Asiras 9d ago
It can also be a hybrid athlete, you can do both lifting and running if you eat enough.
I'm not quite as big as picture 2, but enough to speak from experience.
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u/JontyFox 9d ago
Why be great at one thing when you can be painfully mid at both amirite?
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u/FridayNightRamen 9d ago
Running doesn't kill your gains, you might not get your full potential (like a couple percent less) but who cares, if your are not running for Mr. Olympia. It's incrediblly healthy to do both.
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u/Top_Wrangler4251 9d ago
It's more like choosing to be mid at two things instead of mid at one thing. The average runner or lifter is nothing compared to an actual elite athlete.
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u/Raging-Badger 9d ago edited 9d ago
Bodybuilding/weightlifting - alternating eating disorders for looks, but it’s okay because you look healthy
Edit: sorry for the joke
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u/Squippyfood 9d ago
Alright lol let's walk it back. Yoyo dieting is bad but if you cut once, then slow bulk until a goal then you can look AND be healthy.
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u/Raging-Badger 9d ago
My bad, I was just joking. Back when I was in that crowd we’d joke about it being two extremes or nothing.
Wrestling dudes took it worse though, they’d go from dehydrating themselves for 4 days to make weight to smashing 8 burgers and 2 trays of lasagna per meal for the 12 hours before a match
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u/cmotdibbler 9d ago
During swim practice the wrestlers would run around the steamy bleachers in sweatsuits to make weight, some of them carrying spit bottles.
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u/PeterNippelstein 9d ago
Bodybuilding yes, weightlifting though is just an all around excellent form of exercise.
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u/Raging-Badger 9d ago
Weight lifting culture is full of toxicities. Of course it’s good exercise, that doesn’t mean the crowd around it can’t have bad habits.
Some pre-workouts contain several times the recommended “safe” amount of caffeine in just one scoop. I’ve known weightlifters who advocated for drinking preworkout multiple times a day
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u/PeterNippelstein 9d ago edited 9d ago
I mean I guess but just because you do strength training doesn't mean youre automarically part of that culture. There are people of all ages and fitness levels that use strength training to improve or maintain their physical fitness. To compare it to bodybuilding in terms of unhealthy eating disorders is just completely innacurate. Theres jackasses in every population of people no matter what the activity is, that doesn't mean it should discounted as unhealthy just because a loud minority goes about it in an unhealthy way. Thats all im saying.
I lift weights three days a week and my lifestyle isn't remotely similar to that of a gym rat bodybuilder. I dont even consume pre workout or supplements aside from fish oil and melatonin.
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u/Raging-Badger 9d ago
It was a joke man, I was condemning an entire category of exercise for real
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u/PeterNippelstein 9d ago
I think the joke would have been better if you just said bodybuilding, just a note.
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u/It_Slices_It_Dices 9d ago
Wears goodr sunglasses
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u/_-_happycamper_-_ 9d ago
goodr sunglasses and a ciele hat is basically everyone I see on trail were I live.
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u/barf_digestion 9d ago
my friend runs hella marathons with them and let me wear them once they’re pretty great honestly
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u/bvaesasts 9d ago
Pretty much all distance runners are the left build. Sprinters look like the right dude lol
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u/VultureSniper 9d ago edited 9d ago
Yeah there's a trend that sprinters are ripped while distance runners are bone-thin. It's because sprinters benefit from the increased strength and power that comes with bigger muscles. Sprinters have more fast-twitch fibers and distance runners have more slow-twitch fibers (fast-twitch fibers are larger).
Additionally, distance runners want to be as light as possible for better endurance, so they don't want to be very big.
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u/zephyr121 9d ago
There are a few distance runners who look like the left build with clothes on but are actually the right one. It’s baffling every time you see it.
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u/icyDinosaur 9d ago
The only guy in my secondary school class who had a sixpack was the one guy who did athletics. To be fair he hadn't specialised into a specific discipline at that point, so he just was all around fit, but he was clearly never the strongest guy we had, just the only one skinny enough that you could see his abs.
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u/SecretPantyWorshiper 9d ago
Yeah sprinters are built like fucking tanks lolm pretty crazy because you don't expect people that big to move that fast
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u/jessicat62993 9d ago
Don’t forget nipple band aids
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u/Throwawayaccount1170 9d ago
Not a long distance runner but the first time I pushed 10km as an amateur my nipples hurt so much. So that's just a clever thing to use
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u/SecretPantyWorshiper 9d ago
Lol what is that 😅
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u/TearOpenTheVault 9d ago
It’s just tape to cover up your nipples and stop them from chafing against your shirt. It’s a thing for guys because women are wearing bras that stop it from happening in the first place.
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u/jessicat62993 9d ago
I’ve seen cross country runners with bleeding nipples because the chafing was so bad!!!
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u/glytxh 9d ago
Some of us were just blessed with the rat gene and have an insane metabolism.
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u/gnlliestner 8d ago
I wished we could share our abilities. I have peasant body. Whatever goes it will be stored for the next famine
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u/PM_Mick 9d ago
How do you know someone is a runner?
They'll tell you.
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u/Own_Hurry_3091 8d ago
Look. We will tell you about it. I hope you have budgeted an hour to listen to us talk about shoes and another 45 minutes for our favorite races. We've run marathons and by golly the world deserves to hear about it.
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u/BarelyNSFW56 9d ago
Lol, nailed it! 😂 But where's the random ankle injury that comes outta nowhere?
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u/BillyBean11111 9d ago
i have never seen a real distance runner with big biceps, they usually look like weird freaks
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u/SquirrelBlind 9d ago
Never heard of the app on the left
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u/Ok_Replacement8176 8d ago
Athletic.net, it's a site mostly used for high school xc and track results
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u/CaptainoftheVessel 9d ago
Anyone know what kind of watch that is?
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u/Weary_Bother_5023 4d ago
yes, built only like the one with black shorts. why i stopped distance running. and it's freakin boring.
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u/Background-Way4722 9d ago
True, except i dont use a watch and use the adidas app.
I only run 10-20 kilometers every day tho so idk if i count.
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u/Averagebass 9d ago
They do not wear shirts no matter what. Most of it is to show off, some of it's chafing.
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