Comments on: Average Athlete vs Olympic Athlete

By: backyard ni donglloyd

backyard ni donglloyd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:22 +0000

Olympic athlete is quite fortunate than average athlete..but average athlete soon becomes olympic athlete

By: Can You Be An Olympian? | Team Cross Runs

Can You Be An Olympian? | Team Cross Runs — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:28:03 +0000

[...] Two average guys, Dennis and Christian decided as part of the 5 in 5 Challenge that they would see how they fared against Olympic athletes in 5 different events. You can read more about it at the 5in5.com blog. [...]

By: cesimpson › High Volume Deadlifts

cesimpson › High Volume Deadlifts — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:07:55 +0000

[...] I saw this video today. It’s hilarious. Christian and Dennis, two regular athletes, compete in five Olympic events and compare their performance to actual Olympians. You’ll love it. [...]

By: Newley Purnell / What I’ve Been Reading

Newley Purnell / What I’ve Been Reading — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:38:01 +0000

[...] “Average Athlete vs Olympic Athlete” [...]

By: Average Athlete vs. Olympic Athlete

Average Athlete vs. Olympic Athlete — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:59:20 +0000

[...] and Dennis at 5-in-5 recently spent a day trying to see how well they could do at five Olympic events. When they were finished, they compared their results to those of Olympic athletes. Here’s [...]

By: Average Athlete vs Olympic Athlete - My Habari

Average Athlete vs Olympic Athlete - My Habari — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:00:28 +0000

[...] Athlete vs Olympic Athlete 200815August Christian Bovine : “Dennis Crowley and I spent all day doing 5 different Olympic Events: 100m freestyle, 100m dash, [...]

By: Geoffrey Richard » Average Athlete vs Olympic Athlete

Geoffrey Richard » Average Athlete vs Olympic Athlete — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:27:17 +0000

[...] From Xtian : “Dennis Crowley and I spent all day doing 5 different Olympic Events: 100m freestyle, 100m dash, 110m hurdles, long jump and the rings (in gymnastics) and compared ourselves to Olympic athletes. This was to see just how amazing these athletes are in comparison to average Joes and as an excuse to do Olympic events all day.” « D’oh! var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-449814-2″); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); add_openid_to_comment_form() [...]

By: Trainharder.com » Blog Archive » Average Athlete VS Olympic Athlete

Trainharder.com » Blog Archive » Average Athlete VS Olympic Athlete — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:27:11 +0000

[...] What happens when the average Jo tries to compete with the Olympic athlete? Two average but quite fit men try five separate Olympic events: 100m freestyle swim, 100 yard dash, 110 yard hurdles, long jump and rings. Watch the hilarious video and see how they stack up – http://5-in-5.com/2008/07/31/average-athlete-vs-olympic-athlete/ [...]

By: ken

ken — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:22:34 +0000

Dens, very funny. Nice job.
BTW, you can definitely do the muscle up – you just need a bit of technique.

By: David Bamford

David Bamford — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:26:25 +0000

Not since George Plimpton joined the Detroit Lions for a play as guest quarterback was the uber-amateur athlete presented in such an entertaining way.

Kudos for guts and glory and the “human hurtle”.

By: par3182

par3182 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:21:59 +0000

what was the official olympic height for the hurdles? other than ridiculously high

well done on completing the events – i hurt myself just watching…

By: erin

erin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:25:14 +0000

You guys rock. The hurdles always scared the shit out of me in high school track. You should do a winter version too–ice dancing and skeet shooting :)

By: xtine

xtine — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:45:11 +0000

Hi There,

I’ve been working on a project this summer that actually employs people to do what you did in this project! I’d love to have you share these videos on my site – where users can vote on the Gold winner for each of fifteen categories (including the Freestyle Swim and Hurdles). The rules are simple – anyone can sign up to be an Olympian and the instructions are available through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk website (mturk.com).

To participate, you’d have to sign up to be a member of the Amazon “Mechanical Turk” workforce. There you can submit your videos to the appropriate HITs (tasks). Also, you’d have to add one slide to your video where you show us the country you represent and number through a downloaded PDF file that you print and tape to the performer (or just flash it at the beginning of the video).

Best,
x

By: Christian Bovine

Christian Bovine — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:52:10 +0000

100 meter Freestyle:
Christian’s Time = 1:18:10
Dennis = DQ for touching bottom of pool, thats illegal
Olympic Winner = 47:52

Long Jump
Christian = 14.1 Feet (4.3 meters)
Dennis = 13.7 Feet (4.17 meters)
Olympian = 8.95 meters

By: Luuk

Luuk — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:42:42 +0000

Swim times, please! The comparison would be great. About the longjump: the world record is about 8,95 meters. “Dennis and himself” jumped about 13 feet, which is 4,26 meters. Not halfway there yet … these athletes are amazing.

Great idea to do the rings, that is absolutely the most incredible event in sports. The amount of muscle power needed is beyond any normal human being, and it has to be combined with great skill and control.

Final conclusion: we all run, and so the 100 m dash went actually pretty well. All the other events require skills no one usually trains. Apart from the rings, my guess is that each event can be learned up to decent level within four years.

Olympic level is another story .. should’ve started at age 8!