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I am slightly bamboozled as to how divers have such cut physiques when all they do is walk up a ladder and dive in the water. Granted they probably train for hours and us has an element of gymnastics, but it not like swimming 1500 meters.
Maybe I've answered my own question.
When you're hitting the water at 35mph, the last thing you want to be is a soft bodied desk jockey 😉
unfortunately, a good belly flap doesn't get ye many points.
What about F1 drivers? Ripped as **** and all they do is pop out for a bit of a spin; it's just not fair.
I imagine if Daniel Ricciardo drove off the 10m board we'd have the ultimate human specimen.
What about those track cyclists, why do they have to have such big legs,it's only going round in circles.
my daughter dived for a while at a local club. The kids in the more advanced classes are incredible, it's a very gymnastic based activity and if she'd continued the coaches said that she'd be doing at least 2:1, even 3:1 dryland activities vs actual diving.
Huge amounts of strength, flexibility and conditioning.
Also in learning how to somersault, etc. into foam pits, etc., a belly flop is shrugged off; do that from even a 1m board and it hurts. Plus you can do lots more without losing time to swimming to the edge, climbing out, climbing the ladder again, etc.
My son dives. He trains about 16 hours a week, half the time is in the pool, half in dryland. But for a lot of the last year and a half he hasn't been in the pool due to the restrictions, he's just below the Elite level so wasn't given dispensation, so he's done lots of home workouts. That's bulked him up a bit. He was mostly a platform diver and I saw him faceplant once from 10m doing 3½ somersaults, it was a new dive. How he managed to ever attempt that dive again is beyond my comprehension. Puts falling off my bike into some kind of perspective. Unfortunately he was away from the pool for so long he's kind of lost the nerve to do platform so he's focussing on 3m springboard for now.
Like more than 90% of the athletes in the Olympics, they will do extensive strength and conditioning and have very good nutrition plans.
Before 2012 there was a pasty, skinny with a belly specimen parading around with all the Olympic kit in our hotel in Greece. He even had an Olympic tattoo.
God knows what his sport was.
Before 2012 there was a pasty, skinny with a belly specimen parading around with all the Olympic kit in our hotel in Greece. He even had an Olympic tattoo.
God knows what his sport was.
He was one of the blokes in blue blazers who compete at Dodge the Javalin
@zippykona one of the jockeys?
The commentators were harping on about some jockeys the other day, saying how durable he was making his 8th Olympics. Er no shit, he's not the one doing the running and jumping is he?!
Like more than 90% of the athletes in the Olympics, they will do extensive strength and conditioning and have very good nutrition plans.
But that programme will be directed to developing the optimum physique for the athlete's discipline. It explains how divers get that physique, now why it is the optimum physique for diving.
For the 10m diving I would have thought you need a lot of core strength and upper body strength to move in a slow and measured way into a handstand on the edge of the platform and then launch off and get sufficient height and distance from the platform.
If I needed to parade my almost-naked body daily, I’d make sure I looked good in trunks. But I don’t, so I don’t.
f I needed to parade my almost-naked body daily, I’d make sure I looked good in trunks.
Probably a big element of truth in that. All part of the sport to look as good as possible.
Clearly need a lot of strength and agility but that could be achieved without needing 1% body fat levels or whatever they have. Still, they do look very good don't they!
If I needed to parade my almost-naked body daily, I’d make sure I looked good in trunks. But I don’t, so I don’t.
Unfortunately there is a huge amount of body-shaming and pressure to look good at the highest levels of the sport, according to a friend who competed for GB at 2012.
It's sad. Some of the conditioning and nutrition is beneficial, but a lot of swimmers and divers have an unhealthy relationship with food because of the pressure to look good in trunks.
If you’re wondering why the divers are so fit and toned then you clearly haven’t given gymnastics a go. That stuff is stupidly difficult and requires a ridiculous level of core strength and flexibility, not to mention skill and tons of practice.
"Why are divers so ripped?"
"Is it because it's incredibly demanding and they have to be in good condition?"
" Nah mate it's cause they wear Speedos! Pass me a beer and the Doritos."
I'm surprised the target shooters look fit.
It's basically darts.
Didn’t you see all of the marking? You’ve got difficulty level, execution and then marks out of 10 for how good they look in budgie smugglers.
What about those track cyclists, why do they have to have such big legs,it’s only going round in circles.
I was quite surprised at how big their upper bodies were! they are very muscular which i would of thought would be a disadvantage but it seems not
Try doing a handstand and hold it
Try piking up into a headstand
Might give you a smidge of a clue why they have the physique they have .....
The Olympic organisers have distributed 160k condoms to the Olympic village. In previous editions of the games they have had to place emergency orders of thousands of extra condoms due to running out. The village is basically a massive shag Fest. Worth getting ripped for.
What about F1 drivers? Ripped as **** and all they do is pop out for a bit of a spin
I wonder what the testing regime for HGH and test is like in F1...
The Olympic organisers have distributed 160k condoms to the Olympic village. In previous editions of the games they have had to place emergency orders of thousands of extra condoms due to running out. The village is basically a massive shag Fest. Worth getting ripped for.
Yes, Covid has really put the mockers the usual post event shenanigans.
You can just see it now can't you.....all of the ripped swimmers, runners etc, beautiful toned gymnasts etc.....in walks the tubby blokes that do the shooting.....
No one thinks, 'why are those gymnasts ripped?'. Divers are doing the same tumbling, control, balance etc and for the same reasons need to be ripped. They need to be pretty powerful to get the tumbles and twists done!
IMO, they all seem to have the same well-toned physique- I don't see anything very divers.
Oh, we're using modern English now?
Clearly need a lot of strength and agility but that could be achieved without needing 1% body fat levels or whatever they have.
So you've got Mr A with 4% body fat and Mr B with 8%. Both train just as hard and have just as much skill.
Which one do you think can add an extra twist mid air and win the Olympics due to their increaced ability to manipulate their angular momentum?
Pretty sure it's not vanity 😂
Fatties make a bigger splash