If you can't run 5k under 20 minutes YOU ARE NOT FIT
>>76684184eat shit and die? how about that fuckface?
>>76684195Butthurt powershitter
>>76684212>le durrrrnope
>>76684227Lose weight you disgusting fat fuck
>>76684184Best I've ever done was barely under 23, I am a pack or two a day chain smoker tho.
>>76684184True I'm fat and can do that
The average person age 25-50 can't run a 5k in 40 minutes...
Serious rooners have the most ghoulish, fragile and repulsive looking fizeeks. What are you trying to run away from?Hardmode: try to not reply with some variation of>reeeeee fatsos reeeeeeee everyone is fat reeeeeeeee look how fast I can run away and starve myself huh bet you don't feel so tough now
>>76684184This is laughably untrue. Anything near sub 20 is amazing for the average person.
>>76684184Wtf is 5k, 5000 miles?
>>76684184i dont really understand this long distance running thing. its not for your aesthetic, its not for your health, its not for hunting, its not really for anything other than saying you can run for a long time. but whats the point? its like getting really good at flipping a coin with your thumb, it provides no value to anything in your life.
>>7668433520 minute 5k is nowhere near ghoulish zeek territory.
>>76684434Yeah and why do hwite ppl climb mountains anyway?
>>76684335I'm running TO YOU! NO SURVIVORS!
>>76684267Impressive
>>76684434>5k>long distance
>>76684184And if you can't bench 3pl8 you're not a manIf we're going to do dick measuring you have to succeed at every metric
>>76684661If you're shorter than 6'5 you're not a man
>>76684184That's a 6 minute per mile pace, or better, which is at the fast range of a non-competitive runner. Most non-competitive runners average somewhere in the 8 minute range, while competitive runners hover around the 5 minute and under range.
let's make it sub 30 5k mkay?
>>76684184you meant sub 21
>>76684870>Most non-competitive runners average somewhere in the 8 minute rangeYeah that's peak normcore tempo. Pretty comfy ngl, and your non-rooner friends can train up to it reasonably quickly if you get them into rooning.
I started running last month, is it possible to get to sub-20 min by June 2026?I'm not fat but I am 37
Shit
>>76684332That's meDidn't realize how much damage sitting at a desk for 7 years until I tried to run a mile one day because I never got fatWorking down to <30m now
>>76684992how about telling us your time first, you old fart you
>>76684992Pretty tough goal but certainly possible. Focus on hard intervals like 1km repeats (ideally at 4:00/km or faster), add easy mileage to the point you dont overtrain.
>>76685159I can't run a straight 5k yetThis week I "ran" 3km but I had to slow down twice to walk a little bit twice. My pace was 8:35/km according to Google Fit. I don't have a smart watch so that's from my pocket phone. So I'd be solidly over 40 mins if I did a 5k with walking pauses.
i dont want to go to /roon/ but how do i even start running?is it pointless to try to just run like half a mile to start and then work up from there?never been a runner
>>76685177I would go to a track and do run/walk intervals. Jog a lap, nice and easy then walk a lap. Something like that. Even shorter running interval if youwant. You don't need to do a hard continuous effort your first time.
>>76685177just start with jogging little distances and going further slowly over time, don't bother with caring about time and shit like that, running is retarded and not even good for you, gives you big eyebags too. its a mental illness, you would be healthier boxing. unless you want to sprint.
>>76684992Possible? Sure. Probably? Not so much.If you treat it like a race you can plan and train for each pace you're going to run for that distance. Basically something like a start pace, sustain pace, and kicker/finish pace. You've got 8 months to train, and if you did serious interval work to blow up your cardio / stamina, you could probably pull it off, but it won't be easy for you.
>>76685170I started running in April, and my first 5k's were around 35 mins, currently at 27:40, and running 1hr 10k every other week. The fastest way to improve your times is to do fast intervals. Start slow, then greatly increase your tempo, and return to slow-medium tempo. I also ran a lot in the forest (before an eagle chased me off twice), which had these great uphill routes, and I'm talking big, big elevation, jogging slowly up those seemed to help me improve a decent amount.
>>76685177This.>>76685188Go to a track and walk every straight section, then jog around the corners at a pace that's comfy for you. Start with a total of 20-30 minutes total time, and slowly increase the distance of your jogging sections until you can comfortably run around the whole track. Once there, just expand time / distance / pace slowly and to what's comfy for you.
My cardio standard is being able to run exactly fast and far enough to mog my friends.
>>76685170What's your current weight/age/race/dick size
>>76685188>>76685191>>76685217thanks, anonsin the past ive absolutely hated running on a track, feels like a hamster wheelmight try to find some paths that i can do something similar on in nature
>>76684184Did it the first time when I was 13 years old where I just fucked around on the treadmill one day. Also did it 2 years ago too. That's the only times I ever went for achieving sub 20 minutes, running isn't my thing.
do people really track their mile and shit? i just pirate some album and prance around as long as that album is. Trying to only breath out my nose. I just listened to flac or whatever it lossless audio i pirated of the deftones and there were about 2 or maybe 3 good songs.
>>76685344>deftones>2 or maybe 3 good songsanon that is their entire discography
>>76685344At this point I'm so familiar with most of the possible routes near my house that I can track my mileage without any device.
>>76684184If you can't run 10k under 40 minutes YOU ARE NOT FITftfy
>>76684184I just saw the best times at my uni and they are easily under 15mins 5k. BROS HOW DO I COMPETE?
>>76685361i meant the new album idek or care to argue im just saying thats what i listened to
>>76685604you don'tthese people were built to run, they probably weigh like 120lbs and have been training consistently since elementary schooltry to run 400m in under 1 minute 30s and then think about maintaining that for 12 laps. That would get you to a 18 minute 5k.Or just try doing a 3 minute 800m and tell me how you feel.
>>76684332"person"The average healthy young man could without training for itRunning is easy especially if you lift
>>76685633>try to run 400m in under 1 minute 30s and then think about maintaining that for 12 lapsok I did that what's next?
>>76684434It’s how I cope.
>>76685638>Running is easy especially if you lift
>>76684184I prefer swimming. Why are you so butthurt? Who made you the arbiter of fitness?Can you swim? Can you bench 2 plates and above? Can you fight?
>>76685604Be black
>>76685604>>76685975Be white.
>1/2/3/4>5k under 20 minutes>10 pull-upswhat are the other minimum requirements to be considered fit?
>>76686342RFK’s 50 pull-ups / 100 pushups in 10 minutes. With proper form and controlled reps it’s a very good challenge, I needed the full allotted time.>>76684184Nah it means you dedicate too much time to cardio and are small. My best was 20:30 on 10 miles a week and some HIIT at 180lbs. Since this is primarily a lifting board a 5k over 25mins is embarrassing for lifters, and over 30mins is embarrassing for the average person
>>76684434there are some hikes that you can't go on without a prerequisite amount of endurance
anons i tried for it today and had to bail halfway through… i’m marathon training and i just hit my mileage peak (75km/wk). got cocky and tried for the sub-20 5k about 12 hours after my most recent long run. my legs didn’t have it in them…how long after my marathon should i wait to try for a 5k PB?
>>76685650I didn't know you were this fastdon't ask me bro, you're the wizardthought you were one of the guys who never ran before
>>76685766It literally is. I just went and did hill sprints recently. ez. Did a jog with someone a while back. ez. I couldn't do it all day but I can definitely do it. Lifting gives you the basics for all that.
>>76686381>RFK’s 50 pull-ups / 100 pushups in 10 minutes. With proper form and controlled reps it’s a very good challenge, I needed the full allotted time.Nah that sounds useless and potentially counterproductive. I think the ones he listed pretty much cover it.
>>76684184What about sub 25 and 1/2/3/4?
>>76686410you will get better advice in the general>>76686590
>>76686381what's 180lbs in kg? I did this training run on the weekend at ~79kg
>>76684184I can run a train on your mom tho, no cap frfr on god
>>76686790too slow and easymy dad still runs 24 in park runs and he's nearly 70
sub 20 5k is pretty overkill on the fitness scale for normies. Personally, this is how i judge people on their fitness:>sub 30 5k run>45m-1h 20k bike>able to touch both hands behind back and alternate (shoulder mobility)>bench 30-40lbs over your bodyweightIf you can do all these, youre "fit", once you start doing more youre entering athlete level and so on. Funny thing is, 90-95% of normies can not do 2/4ths of the things i mentioned. You'd be looked at as a god by these people if you can just do all these (which can take up to 3-6 months of training if you start from nothing)
>>76687327"Normies" or the average person is a fat slob and shouldn't be used as a reference point to any ideal fitness standard. The low standards you wrote down would rather determine whether someone is paraplegic or not.
>>76687357youre so out of touch and retarded, you have no idea what youre talking about
>>76687363Keep lowering the bar for yourself, fatass. Fucking "sub 30min 5k" and "touching hands behind the back" lmfao. Congratulations on not being a quadriplegic vegetable, I guess.
>>76687378You are so fucking retarded, you didnt even understand what my post was about and just started attacking me by attributing these basic ass ENTRY fitness standards to the person writing it.Never reply to me again and get your brain checked by an MRI, youre missing half of your grey matter
>>76687382You wouldn't be such a fragile bitch if you actually had some real standards, fucking seething crybaby. Go impress your lardass friends who "see you as a god" with these garbage tier stats of yours.
>>76684184i cant run 5k at all
>>76684195If you can't eat shit and live, you are not fit
>>76684992Possible? If you have a good personal chemist like professional athletes do.
>>76685170Run slower
>>76684184That's like a 95th percentile 5k time?
>>76685177run40minutes.com
>>76687327I like how what's effectively a 2pl8 bench for the average man is grouped with shit like 30 minute 5k or touching your hands behind your back.
>>76687872I think he's referring to this stretch which to be fair not many people can do.
>>76685191I recall seeing some study that suggested 6mi per week is the peak for rooming gainz. Any more than that started to degrade performance/health/happiness or someshit like that
>>766879962 5ks? That doesn't sound right.
>>76687911everyone knows what that means retard
>>76686963Sub 6:30 mile for 10k at 180lbs is above average for a non-competitive runner.
Like it or not, it's all down to genes.I started running regularly, every 2nd to 3rd day back in late December 2024.Fast forward to now and I can run 12km at 5min/km pace, certainly I can go longer.But faster? Difficult, my best 5km time is still about 23 minutes.You see YT videos telling how awesome zone 2 training is.The problem is that I have no zone 2 except while I am walking fast.Some people can get below 20 minutes after 1 month of training.
What exactly is your training progression / routine from when you started till now? I'm curious about something
>>76684184but im wheel chair bound
>>76689798meant for>>76689152
>>76689152It's really not hard if you're not a fat as fuck "man".
Do daily 5ks at near race pace then400800120016001200800400Up and down the ladder boy race pace for those. Then mix in some hills. Take some time off and get new shoes if you get shin splints.Also 5ks are typically done on trails or on streets with hills. Our cross country course for instance had a trail hill so steep you basically had to climb up it lol>t. Superstar high school jv runner 4 years country 4 years 1600 winter/spring track
Shin splints are common so do these walks for a little bit if you feel them developing. Do toes in as well. New shoes really help the most though.
Raise your kids in a rich town and make them do track/cross country. Retards and niggers play football. Future co founders of Facebook run track in hs like my nigger Hughes who despite going to the elite private school across town still got his shit pushed in by p Shaw. Suck my dick Hughes you literal faggot.
>>76689798>>76689805Either tempo runs (according to HR) or short intervals at close to max HR (with tempo warm up and tempo cool down).Either way no run above 12 km at once so far.Averaging around 120km distance a month, so far around 1100km since.
>>76690133I thought JV was the failures and V was the superstars
>>76684184The day I see someone with an impressive physique who runs a 20min 5k I will start taking you seriously. Everyone I’ve seen who runs sub 20 min 5k’s I could literally snap their forearm like a twig
