yeah. carrying dead weight is really really hard. should be a blowout

I'd be interested if it was like an olympic 400m runner carrying the concrete. That would be pretty damn close I think I still like the fat guy though

I think the race gets close if skinny guy carries 60lbs, not 160. This will be a blowout unless fatty injures himself somehow.

Skinny has no chance. His legs and back are usually used to bearing 155lbs, fatty's legs and back are accustomed to bearing twice that. I don't think cardiovascular fitness is going to come in to this at all as neither will be running very far.

3-2 odds sounds ******ed. I'd want something like 10-1 before I considered backing skinny, or a vast drop in the weight he has to carry.

Yeah this is pretty much a lock for the fat guy. All he has to do is keep jogging at a slow pace to match the skinny guy with concrete and then put on a burst at the end (which he should be able to do easily if he used to play sport - esp one like football.)

This is so ridiculous. Skinny guy has a week to train? I think that would be best spent trying to find a way in which to eliminate the effects of the bags bouncing around like mother****ers, which they will definitely do. Tight strapping might work, but that would be fairly uncomfortable and might restrict breathing which would be a problem for a smoker.

Man skinny guy is going to lose this so badly.

Another vote for complete blowout. 160 lbs is ridiculous.

I also thought they'd both be wearing it and that it'd be close at first, fwiw. I was leaning on fat guy then too.

Regular guy will weigh 320 lbs with the concrete strapped to him.

Fat guy weighs 330 lbs.

The kicker is that Fat Guys is used to being fat and is used to carrying that weight around. Regular guy is not. PLUS regular guy smokes.

Very little chance that Regular guy takes this down.

Fat guy FTW.

FYP

No way an Olympic runner could do it carrying the concrete. He just doesn't have enough muscle mass and 160 lbs is just too much weight for someone that light to overcome. I think if it was Shawn Merriman with 160 lbs of concrete vs. the Fat Guy it would be somewhat close. Otherwise its a blowout.

If they were both wearing it, I would still be betting HEAVILY on the fat guy. This is is so much less a percentage of his bodyweight its ridiculous.



FWIW- About a year ago I was training to become a firefighter. One of the tests was to walk up and down 5 (or maybe 10, I don't completely remember) flights of stairs in a specified amount of time (I think it was 3 minutes) in full firefighter gear, which weighs about 50 lbs. I was in peak physical condition at the time: 6 ft, 185 lbs, benching 215, squatting 300, running 6:30 miles and the first time I tried walking up and down that many flights of stairs with 50 lbs I thought I was going to die. It was absurd how much harder it was than I had expected. No way the skinny guy will be able to even move that well with 160 lbs on his back.

FATTY FTW!!!!!!!

fat guy by a fat margin

OP,

OOT needs to see skinny dude's epic fail on Youtube.

Like everyone else said, the fat guy for sure. I think for safety, and possibly to make this slightly possible for the skinny guy to win, the concrete should be substituted with a 160 person on his back. That might be possible and won't crush the guy's internal organs.

i don't think it's right for you guys to take advantage of ******ed people.

Bet on the fat guy. Skinny guy is going to try to buy out of the bet as soon as the concrete gets hung onto him.

Has skinny guy started training yet? I'd be curious to know how it's going.

Poor skinny guy.

If he tries to pick up a single 80lb bag of concrete off the ground and carry it across the room, he will quickly learn he has no chance whatsoever.

Seriously though, it's VERY likely skinny guy is going to get hurt badly. This is not a good idea.

OP, PLEASE just make sure it is videotaped

There are different kind of fat guys. A healthy fat guy he has no chance against. The kind that has all his weight in his legs and stuff. A fat fat guy who is just all blubber, I would say the skinny guy has a chance against, but I wouldn't call him a favorite.

+1

+1

Hey, guys, who do you think can carry 320ish pounds better, a guy who does it all day every day or a guy who's never done it before?

Fat guy to win
-1500

Skinny to not finish race
+400

Skinny to get injured
even

Skinny to require ambulance
+800

skinny dude has no idea how hard this will be imo. obviously its a bit different and the balance is nowhere near the same, but this would be hella hard even with a squat bar with a plate on each side (just 135#). fat guy all da way.

Since they're they're both going to be 320 lbs total, the bet is basically does a 160 pound guy have more muscle that a 320 lb guy.

The odds should be based on the chances that fatty dies at the race * the chance that skinny actually finishes. It should be like 100:1.

fyp

Don't know if this was the genesis of the bet, but the idea that 160 lb guy + 160 lb of concrete = 320ish lb guy is just totally lol. It's like the opposite of the equally ******ed notion that if a 160 lb guy does a pushup, it's the equivalent of benching 160.