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He weighs 350lb -- but Jacob Seilheimer is running the Boston marathon this weekend

Posted by simon on 4/11/2007

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The guy is ENORMOUS. But he decided he had enough. At 438lb he started training to run the Boston marathon -- for charity. Of course, he can't qualify for the actual race, so he'll do his run behind the official starters. See mro of his hilarious training videos at www.whatwouldjacobdo.com In Jacob's own words: ' Forrest Gump Once Said... "And for no particular reason I started running..." Well that's not me. I'm no Forrest Gump. I hate running. My name is Jacob and I'm running the Boston Marathon. And to answer your obvious question, no this is NOT a joke. I have my reasons for running. To give you a glimpse into my life, let me ask you if you've had any of the following happen to you: * Have you ever had little kids point at you and laugh while you're walking down the street? * Watched a TV News Report on obesity and wonder if it is your Fat Ass that they're showing from the neck down? * Have to weigh yourself on a commerical-grade scale at the local meat-packing plant? * Worry about if the chair you're sitting in is going to collapse at a restaurant? * Watch in disgust when skinny girls like Tyra Banks strap on the ol' fat suit for an afternoon and then break down in tears because they "know what it's like"? * Drinking your misery away at the bar because love obviously isn't finding you tonight or any night for that matter? I want to welcome you to my life on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and thrice on Sunday. But that was yesterday. And today is a new day. Today is my day to shine. I'm drawing a line in the dirt and taking a stand. Stop by as I'll be posting a new training video each week (assuming I don't die first)... '

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Body Composition Analysis (Why I hate this crap!)

Posted by gditsch on 3/6/2007 on gditsch's blog

I made a post on slowtwitch about this yesterday because there was a thread discussing the validity of a Tanita scale. In respect of time, I decided to just paste what I wrote there. There is a lot that can be said about this topic and my recent hydrostatic weighing results, hopefully we can discuss that through the comments.

It is also interesting that this came up just one day after my post Originally published at gary's fitness blog (view original)

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The Enemy Sucks Today

Posted by brad on 2/19/2007 on brad's blog

When I was in college, I weighed about 165 (I’m 6’1”). I was always a skinny guy until around age 28. At one point, I peaked out in the 235 range and was referred to as FOB (“fat older Brad.”) I looked like a bowling pin and didn’t like it very much (although Amy would say things like “I love you no matter what.”) So I started running. Marathons. I’ve done eight of them and am on a quest to do one in every state by the time I turn 50.

For the Chicago Marathon, which I did in 4:05 in 2003, I got down to 192 pounds. That felt great and about right for me. My weight has fluctuated plenty since then although it usually levels out around 205.