Was Bob Kennedy skinny-fat?

He is softer now.

And yet on his worst day, he still ran faster and achieve more than you.

Achieve more than who? Based on what?

more than who? wrote:

Achieve more than who? Based on what?

I am going to take a shot in the dark and say Bob Kennedy has achieved more than the poster "coffeeisgoodforyou" and you "more than who?"

If you disagree, please identify yourself for a public fact check. If not, hide in your mom's basement while you yell at her to bring you some meatloaf.

Totally BRAH. His entire career was a waste b/c he wasn't

RIPPED

AND

SHREDDED.

coffeeisgoodforyou wrote:

Bob Kennedy had a soft body.

Pix? 'cause my best guess is that Kennedy's body fat in, say, 1990 was around 6%. Skinny? yes. Fat? hmmm.

just Epo fat

Kim Mcd wrote:

just Epo fat

Kim,

You writing style is indicative of someone sucking on a big fatty and trying to text at the same time. Good multitasking!

He never appeared that muscular but was lean at his peak. He was on hormone therapy though, which takes the luster off what he achieved.

If there's skinny-fat and fat-but-fit, there must also be fat-but-fat and skinny-fit. I'd say Kennedy was skinny-fit.

Absolutely. When our team hosted him on a recruiting visit I couldn't believe he won Kinney Nationals. At the time I thought there was no way this guy was going to be a great runner with man-boobs. If I was smarter I would have pegged him as a rare talent to be able to excel at that level running 35 miles a week and with that physique.

He obviously was gifted with a rare cardiovascular genetics (if there is such a thing) along with his competitive mindset. And he had a good lower body/torso ratio in his favor.

I bet he weighed more in high school then he did when he was at his peak at age 26. I heard from Indiana teammates that his freshman year he came in with a spare tire and couldn't break 60 minutes for a hilly 15k tempo course but in 6 weeks knocked 13 minutes off that.

Super talent and super competitor. At his peak he was a little under 140 but skinny-fat. But that guy was a machine but mostly due to his ability to push himself to the absolute limit.

I first watched him race at the old IPI meet where he led from the gun, got passed by Steve Holman with 150 to go and came back to win. I was in the NCAA Cross Race his freshman year where as a freshman he got dropped from the leaders in the last half mile and came back to win.

He was not a 1500 runner but he mainly focused on that early in college and I watched him beat better milers by starting an all out kick with 500 to go.

But the race I knew Kennedy was rare was the 1991 Indoor mile in Indianapolis. Neck and neck the last 2 laps and beat the world class older foreigners.

And yes he was skinny-fat.

WTF is skinny-fat?

Bobo K was not that fast. Look at Solinsky. Solinsky is also taller too.

It's like he made a deal with the devil and the terms were "OK, you will be World Class, but you won't look like an athlete."

Jonathan Edwards was his Brother-In-Lack-Of-Arms:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/olympics/17742608

Rip,

If you consider Jonathon Edwards WR, TJ , non athletic looking, just consider on the distaff side WR, TJ, Inessa Kravets (Ukraine) 50' 10" as a non candidate for athletic world class status.

Rip Van Shreddett wrote:

It's like he made a deal with the devil and the terms were "OK, you will be World Class, but you won't look like an athlete."

Jonathan Edwards was his Brother-In-Lack-Of-Arms:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/olympics/17742608

I think that the gold standard for great male athletes that don't look like athletes is Larry Bird. On the female side, perhaps Joan Benoit/Samuelson(sp?)

That was a good read, George!

I coached at a nearby high school when BK was in high school. During the indoor season of his senior year he looked very soft and even pudgy. His hips and butt were actually appearing wide for a runner. I made a comment to a fellow coach that it was likely that he had seen his best days in high school, although I was referring primarily as a miler only. I could not have been more wrong and my friends do not let me forget it to this day, and rightfully so. I was not wishing him bad and am very proud to have been wrong, but the young man did not look the part of a world class runner at that point in his life. However, he has always been an incredible competitor even beyond his apparent physical limitations. The guy was as tough and nasty as they come from the first time he stepped onto a starting line until he hung them up.

Hormone therapy cheat!