Comments on: Pole Vaulting for a Hot Body

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:01:41 +0000

I think the question is how much the training determines the body type and the body type determines who pursues the training. That is, can you take a 200 lb guy and distance run and diet him to look like a 120 lb runner? I doubt it. There is a great deal of selection that goes into top level athletes; folks with the right body type are the ones who succeed and continue with the activity. So there’s a selection bias to some degree: someone without the initial build to succeed at, say, pole vault probably won’t continue doing it. So the folks you see with a pole vaulters body, almost by definition, are the ones who started out with the right body type.

By: Hanuman

Hanuman — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:28:24 +0000

This article is so awesome/funny!

By: George

George — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:20:25 +0000

I like your way of thinking Lyle. It’s too often repeated that we should look toward those athletes we like the look of if we want to find out ‘how to train to look hot’.

Is this a case of correlation not causation?

But also, do you think that if someone was to replicate the training regime of one of these athletes in its entirety, AND create a diet that facilitated training and optimised recovery and performance, would that person then be likely to end up looking like an athlete? Despite not having favourable genetics…

Thanks for your continued time and writing.
George

By: Easyrhino

Easyrhino — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:35:21 +0000

for the pic:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801370.html

By: Rob Mitchell

Rob Mitchell — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:44:29 +0000

This is completely unrelated to the actual post, but, Wow! The girl in that pic is hot! I wish my school had pole vaulters.

And great article.

By: John Beckman

John Beckman — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:04:55 +0000

I found your website when writing an assignment when I was getting my Diploma of fitness, Really informative and I have gained alot from your articles so thank you for that!

People or coaches that doesn’t give their athletes the rest that they need for their specific sport clearly cannot understand the energy stystems. It should be obvious that a 100m sprinter needs 3-5min to get his/her creatine recovered to be able to preform good again. A world class 100m sprinter will only run a few 100m races in a session. I cannot see the point with completely depleating your creatine phosphate and not let it recover before the next run.