Post: #51

You must be a genetic freak and train at excruciatingly high levels. I have a couple friends who made the olympic trials and have met a few who made the games (not friends of mine) They are freaks.

Look at usain bolt, he does not have the sprinter profile but murdered the competition. His reaction out of the block wasn't good but he gets halfway down the track and it's lights out.

Lebron James is a freak of nature. Kevin durant as well who can't seem to put on lbs but doesn't need to due to significantly different wing span.

Lance Armstrong's resting heart rate was in the THIRTIES. Even after training for 2+ hours caridovascular, it's tough to get much below the high 40's.

The appollo and phelps fall into the same categories of freaks.

Stack all this up and combine with giving up 90% of your life and you can make it to the games. But anyone touting this "start from scratch and make it" without the right genetics, you've got no shot. The games are for freaks who trained, hard.

Hardwork only beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Those athletes have both.

You would have more sex training yourself for "the game" since that would mean gaming 6hours plus a day every day for a decade+

Post: #52

(08-04-2012 01:20 PM)Hades Wrote:  I think you guys greatly overestimate the technical difficulty of the snatch. I personally find no technical difficulty snatching whatsoever. Learned it in the gym by watching my friends, practicing it, then checking form on youtube.

How much can you snatch? What's your bodyweight? I'll wager you're not even top 1,000 in your weight class.

What you're missing is that you're not elite.

You're like the guy who "day trades" stocks. You look at P/E or some other metric without realizing that trading is something you had better spend thousand of hours learning.

You might even make a few good trades. Then you tell everyone your stock picks and share your "system."

Six months later, we never hear you talk about the market, as you got your ass handed to you.

(I've seen that happen to a lot of my guy friends.)

Your mentality is ultimately a manifestation of the hater's mentality.

A hater sees someone successful and instead of seeing hard work, sees something easily attainable.

But maybe I'm wrong and you're snatching elite numbers.

Are you?

Post: #53

I'm definitely not snatching elite numbers. Right now lower intermediate.
This last spring I clocked in at 217 pounds bodyweight (I'm still kind of skinny fat) and could do a 200 pound snatch. Clean and press probably around 250# but I never really trained over 220#. These were generally 2 sets of 3 reps.
I was comfortably deadlifting 2 sets and 5-8 reps anywhere from 300 to 400 pounds depending on the day. Never seriously pushed the heavy weights, since I don't want to snap my shit up.

I don't own a barbell but by this winter I hope to be hitting better, possibly upper intermediate numbers. I plan to lift weights and make gains for many years. I don't care if I never get good at it. Don't get me wrong, I see successful people and am sure they did hard work. There's no bullshit about it.

On the technical side though I learned to do the oly lifts in about two days and didn't find it mechanically complex. Now master the oly lifts at an elite level, and snatch like double bodyweight, no, but I can still do them and they look OK to me.

Post: #54

Mikecf, you ever served?

Post: #55

(08-06-2012 03:51 PM)WestCoast Wrote:  You must be a genetic freak and train at excruciatingly high levels. I have a couple friends who made the olympic trials and have met a few who made the games (not friends of mine) They are freaks.

Look at usain bolt, he does not have the sprinter profile but murdered the competition. His reaction out of the block wasn't good but he gets halfway down the track and it's lights out.

Lebron James is a freak of nature. Kevin durant as well who can't seem to put on lbs but doesn't need to due to significantly different wing span.

Lance Armstrong's resting heart rate was in the THIRTIES. Even after training for 2+ hours caridovascular, it's tough to get much below the high 40's.

The appollo and phelps fall into the same categories of freaks.

Stack all this up and combine with giving up 90% of your life and you can make it to the games. But anyone touting this "start from scratch and make it" without the right genetics, you've got no shot. The games are for freaks who trained, hard.

Hardwork only beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Those athletes have both.

You would have more sex training yourself for "the game" since that would mean gaming 6hours plus a day every day for a decade+

I wonder if there are any 'freaks' of game - I mean guys that exist that bat incredible averages without having other advantages like fame, looks, money, height etc.

We could even have a game Olympics! "Same Day Lays - class: brunettes" or "As many day game non-flaky phone numbers as you can - in 1/2/4/8 hours"

Post: #56

I'm pretty sure Hades said that it wasn't "easily attainable". He said that with consistent effort, you could do it inside of 4 years. That might be optimistic, but I don't see how that mentality is any different from any other skill you could possibly learn. He didn't say that he did it, but he did cite examples of people who didn't eat, breathe, and sleep the Olympics or have ridiculous freak genetics and still managed to get in there. The guy who wrote the thread said he wanted to just "get in the Olympics", he didn't say anything about destroying the competition, getting gold medals, or being the very best athlete in the entire place.

If you're just going into the Olympics to get laid, why not spend the time you would have been training for the Olympics to learn game instead? If you want to be famous, the fastest way to do that is to become a criminal who does something so horrible he gets sensationalized in the news for at least a week.

Post: #57

(08-01-2012 12:09 PM)Safado Wrote:  I just read this article about all of the debauchery that goes on at the Olympic village and it got me thinking about how to get a piece of that action in 2016.

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/...n-magazine

Just how hard would it be to compete in the Olympics? 4 years is enough time to become a citizen of a less competative country and train for that event. If you move to a country that doesn't have a lot of competition for a sport you're good at then you might have a chance at competing.
Which country would you play for and which sport would you play?

You not only have to beat out your new countrymen, you also still have to qualify as one of the best in the world against the rest of the world.

Every country doesn't just automatically get to put people in whatever ever they want.

Post: #58

For the people saying it can be done, go do it already and shut the fuck up about it until its done.

Post: #59

(08-06-2012 07:52 PM)snoop Wrote:  For the people saying it can be done, go do it already and shut the fuck up about it until its done.

You just won a gold medal for ending threads.

Post: #60

If there was an event for Internet tough guy, he'd probably qualify. Not sure about medal though, that act is not really at Olympic level

Post: #61

(08-06-2012 08:34 PM)OldRich Wrote:  If there was an event for Internet tough guy, he'd probably qualify. Not sure about medal though, that act is not really at Olympic level

His response was the right one.

If you're telling people you can do something, well then, shut the fuck up and do it.

Post: #62

(08-06-2012 08:34 PM)OldRich Wrote:  If there was an event for Internet tough guy, he'd probably qualify. Not sure about medal though, that act is not really at Olympic level

If you honestly think you can make the Olympics that easily you are a fool to not do it.

Any foolish child can talk about doing things, men accomplish them.

Which one are you?

Post: #63

It is not easy, I don't think anyone here said that. You're putting words in my mouth now.

Why do people buy lottery tickets if they knew they have 1 in a million chance to win? because it is possible and because people have hopes and dream.

If you have a passion for the sport and train your asses off knowing that it's extremely hard but you do it anyway because you have that passion. One in a million is still a chance, you do it because you want to.

Though you're probably an idiot if you train for 4 years to get some ass.

Post: #64

If anyone has any rugby experience..Sevens is gonna be a new sport for the 2016 games.
You got 4 years to train..Yea USA is gonna lose..But players are scarce

Post: #65

Don't know that the US will get to send a team. How many people play any sort of Rugby in the States, let alone Sevens? Not every country gets to send a team in each team sport.

For those considering. Being very fast is more important in Sevens than in regular Rugby. Sevens players tend to be somewhat less bulky, faster and more agile than regular Rugby players. Actually I find it more interesting to watch than regular 15 man Rugby.

Post: #66

I had a racist boss that denied me access to the Marine Corps Shooting Team. I had scored remarkably high on the pistol range, and almost as well with the rifle. I was automatically "in" for division matches, and the coaches were confident I'd make the shooting team. From there you have a shot to the Olympics.

A friend had done 5 yrs. on the team, and I could hold my own against him on the pistol. Oh well. Such is life.

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/offduty/...ps-070512/

Post: #67

(08-07-2012 11:22 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:  I had a racist boss that denied me access to the Marine Corps Shooting Team. I had scored remarkably high on the pistol range, and almost as well with the rifle. I was automatically "in" for division matches, and the coaches were confident I'd make the shooting team. From there you have a shot to the Olympics.

A friend had done 5 yrs. on the team, and I could hold my own against him on the pistol. Oh well. Such is life.

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/offduty/...ps-070512/

Racist? I thought you were blonde?

Post: #68

(08-07-2012 11:28 AM)Moma Wrote:  

(08-07-2012 11:22 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:  I had a racist boss that denied me access to the Marine Corps Shooting Team. I had scored remarkably high on the pistol range, and almost as well with the rifle. I was automatically "in" for division matches, and the coaches were confident I'd make the shooting team. From there you have a shot to the Olympics.

A friend had done 5 yrs. on the team, and I could hold my own against him on the pistol. Oh well. Such is life.

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/offduty/...ps-070512/

Racist? I thought you were blonde?

He was black.

Post: #69

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-f...--oly.html

Seven Cameroonian athletes have gone missing from their delegation in London. Five boxers, a swimmer and a soccer player are gone. The reason? Officials expect they are staying in Europe to look for jobs.