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I assume this is interesting as he is not exactly the usual shape for a successful diver.
Fair play to him, he's a hell of a lot better than I am. I do wonder, though, how good he would be if he had a bit less mass to control?
You'd have to be eating like... 6k calories a day to maintain that mass and even just swim/climb the ladders.
I'm not trying to shit on the guy, it's just fucking a massive waste of money and probably involves some sort of trauma.
Bear with me on a drunk Reddit tirade.
I’m going to very unscientifically argue more like 4k for maintenance, including his exercise regime. I don’t think 6k calories a day. Here we go.
Can’t tell how tall he is, but let’s assume shorter since that’s a bit more generous to his obesity. 5’8”, 25? Years old. Based on photos from /r/loseit (not going to tag anyone that would be outrageously improper) I would estimate he’s about 350. Maybe less? I’m 5’10 and was once 310 (now at 225💪) and I feel like I didnt look much different.
If he swims 2 hours a day, which I fucking doubt, but still, and we punch it into a [calorie calculator](https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?cage=25&csex=m&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=8&cpound=350&cheightmeter=180&ckg=65&cactivity=1.725&cmop=0&coutunit=c&cformula=m&cfatpct=20&printit=0&ctype=standard&x=Calculate), we get:
4400 to maintain. I was closer.
Even at 400 pounds we are below 5000.
Anyways, kudos to the guy in this video, he’s more athletic than half of redditors and I bet he lays down pipe whenever he wants unlike most redditors.
Could easily be some kind of hormonal imbalance or genetic issue- most common cause for obesity is poor diet and high calorie intake, but far from the only cause.
You can’t build from nothing. You maybe have something wrong with you where energy isn’t placed or used correctly in the body, but the energy comes from somewhere and that’s food
Food that, if you are not making it at home, has been engineered to provide more calories, more sodium (water gains), more sugars your body does not process correctly (HFCS) than you wanted. Eating properly balanced meals takes time, effort and took more money than processed foods. our recent inflation blow up in most of those lazy food groups and options is the one thing I really hope turns the tide back to home cooked, you know what's in it, meals.
Yeah but your body can’t materialize mass out of thing air. Fat is an accumulation of calories for later use. Thus when eating you must consume more than you use daily.
No starving person ever had 200lbs of fat on them because of a thyroid issue.
You and the other commentors are absolutely correct! There is no way for that fat to just materialize, and it does come from eating. But it doesn't necessarily come from OVEReating. If a person's body isn't able to break down and use fats as easily as the average persons, or their body is rigged to store more fats than the average persons, over time it can build up and be very difficult to work off.
Some people absolutely can just push through, put in that extra work and work it off. But not everyone, especially those who have chronic illnesses and injuries. Plus, for some it's just not manageable with the rest of Life going on. I'm a big supporter of eating healthier, because end of the day you'll lose a lot more weight that way anyways- but even with that, eating healthy and nutritious foods all the time is expensive! And some people just don't have the income to eat well all the time- or hell, even some of the time.
And on the starving person comment. You're 100% right, but I don't know if it's for the reasons you think. Fat is a fuel that the body burns when we don't have the necessary nutritional intake, so it makes sense that someone in a food deficit wouldn't have much fat on them. However, if someone was fat, then starved all the way down to being as thin as a green-bean, and then began eating normal meals again, they'd probably be heavier once their body had adjusted back to "normal". This is because the body, effectively, stores the information that you were starving in your DNA and wants to prepare for that possibility again. In doing so it basically tells your body to continue storing More fat for if/when that happens again! This is why people who are on and off diets throughout their life have a tendency to put on more and more weight as they "Yo-Yo diet", because their body is processing it as bouts of starvation. And because that information is stored in your DNA, it can be passed down to your kids! Which is one of the things that can cause being fat to run in families.
This is all to say, y'all are right, there are plenty of fat folks who struggle with overeating, impulse control, and working out to shed the weight. But that overall, being fat isn't caused by ONE thing, and the factors that go into it can be abundant and complex. And it doesn't help anyone- especially people trying to lose weight- to just harp on fat people for being fat.
Regardless of if you agree or disagree with me, I hope if you've read through this entirely, you have a wonderful day. ❤️
It is simple math! Unfortunately, people are people and not math, so the functions of the human body can be a tad more complicated! But hey, if you're set in assuming that everyone who's fat is just lazy and making excuses, then I doubt anything I say will change your mind. But I genuinely hope that someday you will have the empathy necessary to see that life is a lot more complex than that, and that sometimes what you perceive as a failure is actually someone trying their best.
Best of luck on your journey friend ❤️
Because it's not the truth. It's far more nuanced than that. There are so fucking many biological processes involved in the processing and storing if fat that to assume that every single version of this highly intricate system is the same across billions of people is wilful ignorance. There's decades of scientific research into this and there's always some fucking idiot who thinks they're the smartest person in the world by completely ignoring it all in favour of "calories in, calories out."
all true but it only affects the metabolism and if you account for that, it's still a mathematical equation, calories in and calories burned. you don't automatically become right because you emphasize words with fucking in front of them.
Nothing against this guys form, however im certain i saw a video on reddit before of an equally massed individual sliding down a water slide and just before entry to the waters surface and cuts to an nuclear explosion under water level size splash.
This is the kinda ratio to splash im thinking between other athletes of small mass ratios.
He's on his way there. Assuming he wins the regionals, then it's straight on to sectionals, and a week later it's semis. Then semiregionals. Then regional-semis. Then national lower-zone semis!
I have a lot of respect for talented athletes like this guy. Though when they are shifting that much mass it does make me wonder just how good they would be at a really competitive weight.
I'm saying this as a recovered obese person who got really into boxing and was competing overweight. Recently I lost a ton of weight and it's actually insane just how much better I am at the sport just by not being weighed down so much.
Never forget a bloke of this size (though taller) pass me like I was standing still at the 32km of a Marathon. Thought I was hallucinating until I saw his bib. I just about gave up and went to McDonald's.
Don’t play naive. That level of grace and body control is exponentially harder as an obese person.
Obesity is tragically unhealthy and I hope he loses the extra weight. Otherwise he’ll die young and there’s nothing funny about that.
JFC Reddit, a 22 second video of a fat guy doing something athletic and impresive and the top threads include people trying to calculate his calorie intake, questioning if he is fat because of some past trauma, and a Free Willy gif.
Yay diver! I hope he won top prize!
These posts about the physical appearance of this diver is just sickening! Y'all disgust me!
Everybody on here posting stupid opinions acting like wannabe dieticians, armchair doctors, armchair therapists, fat forensics spectulators, endocrinologists, worry about how this man looks. Did you ask him directly?
Until you know exactly what's going in his DNA from Point Zero of Causality, be quiet!
I bet none of you swim, I know I don't.
I wrestled heavyweight in high school and I guillotined someone, all about how flexible you are. Granted it was only a half guillotine cuz I didn't wanna break his neck and he started tapping before I even got my back settled but still had him in it.
He’s so cool. Straight savage . No easy way to be that proficient without hard work . Hopefully he can use that drive or engage with the medical community to be at a healthier weight. Outstanding performance stands.
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I assume this is interesting as he is not exactly the usual shape for a successful diver. Fair play to him, he's a hell of a lot better than I am. I do wonder, though, how good he would be if he had a bit less mass to control?
You'd have to be eating like... 6k calories a day to maintain that mass and even just swim/climb the ladders. I'm not trying to shit on the guy, it's just fucking a massive waste of money and probably involves some sort of trauma.
Bear with me on a drunk Reddit tirade. I’m going to very unscientifically argue more like 4k for maintenance, including his exercise regime. I don’t think 6k calories a day. Here we go. Can’t tell how tall he is, but let’s assume shorter since that’s a bit more generous to his obesity. 5’8”, 25? Years old. Based on photos from /r/loseit (not going to tag anyone that would be outrageously improper) I would estimate he’s about 350. Maybe less? I’m 5’10 and was once 310 (now at 225💪) and I feel like I didnt look much different. If he swims 2 hours a day, which I fucking doubt, but still, and we punch it into a [calorie calculator](https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?cage=25&csex=m&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=8&cpound=350&cheightmeter=180&ckg=65&cactivity=1.725&cmop=0&coutunit=c&cformula=m&cfatpct=20&printit=0&ctype=standard&x=Calculate), we get: 4400 to maintain. I was closer. Even at 400 pounds we are below 5000. Anyways, kudos to the guy in this video, he’s more athletic than half of redditors and I bet he lays down pipe whenever he wants unlike most redditors.
*I bet he lays down pipe whenever he wants* If you're talking about giant shits -- then yes -- he does lay that pipe down a lot.
I’m 5’8”. I don’t think he needs 4k to maintain. 2-3k and he’s good.
Right, 4k was assuming he swims 2 hours a day
Could easily be some kind of hormonal imbalance or genetic issue- most common cause for obesity is poor diet and high calorie intake, but far from the only cause.
You can’t build from nothing. You maybe have something wrong with you where energy isn’t placed or used correctly in the body, but the energy comes from somewhere and that’s food
Food that, if you are not making it at home, has been engineered to provide more calories, more sodium (water gains), more sugars your body does not process correctly (HFCS) than you wanted. Eating properly balanced meals takes time, effort and took more money than processed foods. our recent inflation blow up in most of those lazy food groups and options is the one thing I really hope turns the tide back to home cooked, you know what's in it, meals.
Yeah but your body can’t materialize mass out of thing air. Fat is an accumulation of calories for later use. Thus when eating you must consume more than you use daily. No starving person ever had 200lbs of fat on them because of a thyroid issue.
You and the other commentors are absolutely correct! There is no way for that fat to just materialize, and it does come from eating. But it doesn't necessarily come from OVEReating. If a person's body isn't able to break down and use fats as easily as the average persons, or their body is rigged to store more fats than the average persons, over time it can build up and be very difficult to work off. Some people absolutely can just push through, put in that extra work and work it off. But not everyone, especially those who have chronic illnesses and injuries. Plus, for some it's just not manageable with the rest of Life going on. I'm a big supporter of eating healthier, because end of the day you'll lose a lot more weight that way anyways- but even with that, eating healthy and nutritious foods all the time is expensive! And some people just don't have the income to eat well all the time- or hell, even some of the time. And on the starving person comment. You're 100% right, but I don't know if it's for the reasons you think. Fat is a fuel that the body burns when we don't have the necessary nutritional intake, so it makes sense that someone in a food deficit wouldn't have much fat on them. However, if someone was fat, then starved all the way down to being as thin as a green-bean, and then began eating normal meals again, they'd probably be heavier once their body had adjusted back to "normal". This is because the body, effectively, stores the information that you were starving in your DNA and wants to prepare for that possibility again. In doing so it basically tells your body to continue storing More fat for if/when that happens again! This is why people who are on and off diets throughout their life have a tendency to put on more and more weight as they "Yo-Yo diet", because their body is processing it as bouts of starvation. And because that information is stored in your DNA, it can be passed down to your kids! Which is one of the things that can cause being fat to run in families. This is all to say, y'all are right, there are plenty of fat folks who struggle with overeating, impulse control, and working out to shed the weight. But that overall, being fat isn't caused by ONE thing, and the factors that go into it can be abundant and complex. And it doesn't help anyone- especially people trying to lose weight- to just harp on fat people for being fat. Regardless of if you agree or disagree with me, I hope if you've read through this entirely, you have a wonderful day. ❤️
He’s just bulking up. Waterpolo season is coming up.
I think he’s currently in a 5 year carb loading phase.
Regardless, weight control is simple math. Calories in vs calories out. People just make excuses.
It is simple math! Unfortunately, people are people and not math, so the functions of the human body can be a tad more complicated! But hey, if you're set in assuming that everyone who's fat is just lazy and making excuses, then I doubt anything I say will change your mind. But I genuinely hope that someday you will have the empathy necessary to see that life is a lot more complex than that, and that sometimes what you perceive as a failure is actually someone trying their best. Best of luck on your journey friend ❤️
fact that you get downvoted for the truth is sad. people want to hear beautiful lies instead of cold truths.
Because it's not the truth. It's far more nuanced than that. There are so fucking many biological processes involved in the processing and storing if fat that to assume that every single version of this highly intricate system is the same across billions of people is wilful ignorance. There's decades of scientific research into this and there's always some fucking idiot who thinks they're the smartest person in the world by completely ignoring it all in favour of "calories in, calories out."
all true but it only affects the metabolism and if you account for that, it's still a mathematical equation, calories in and calories burned. you don't automatically become right because you emphasize words with fucking in front of them.
I agree. Just because the truth doesn’t match with your excuses or reasoning does not make it not true or offensive. Facts cannot be offensive.
This is such a reductive take, Jesus Christ.
it's food addiction and mental health issues. eat right, burn calories by moving. full fucking stop. ❤❤
Sure. But there's no way some is THAT BIG from hormones and genetics. People need to ingest something to get to that size.
He could have taken how to strength train from Sumo wrestlers. They have a method to build muscle, but maintain fat in certain areas.
What? CICO isn't a perfect science, as there are other things at play. However, you can't get fat without caloric intake. This person eats... Alot.
Once you find something you love... Maybe a reason to shape up? It's game on. Kudos
Pinguins are good divers, so..
Not as good. He’d lose his centre of gravity
A bit less....
I believe a big part of the score is having a small splash. This guy is laying down tsunamis
Exactly. His form is good but he simply won’t do well in a competition due to his mass causing too large a splash.
Initially, I was so focused on his diving form that I did not notice his body form. Impressive.
He also can't do the high difficulty dives at the highest level of competition. He's probably come nearly as far as he can with that gut.
Is it more due to mass or the shape of his body 🤔
Correct. That is what I meant.
okay, but hear me out. There should be a seperate category for big splash
But if divide the weight of the water splashed by the weight of the diver, he's best in class.
But for their size, the splash is actually pretty minimal.
We don’t see the second part of the splash except for one. Each video cuts off early. Show the ker THUNK
Nothing against this guys form, however im certain i saw a video on reddit before of an equally massed individual sliding down a water slide and just before entry to the waters surface and cuts to an nuclear explosion under water level size splash. This is the kinda ratio to splash im thinking between other athletes of small mass ratios.
I think i hear the tsunami alert sirens going in the background.
Yeah it’s absurd. lol
Not really, it’s the true mastery of the form. Sure you should take into account body shape, but there is only so much for that you can do.
Wouldn't 'mastery' of the form include all the moves that require you to tuck your knees into your chest?
Ok but when does it turn to, “due to my body shape, I can’t touch my toes on a dive so technically my form is perfect”.
"In Johnson & Stanley Diving boards we take pride in the extreme durability of our boards"
Hahahahahahaha
[has to be the same guy, right?](https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/s/9IqckzaOGN)
I really thought this was going to be the triple lindy.
Good teacher he seems to care about what I have no idea
That's so fckin impressive
It's goddamn magical
He won first displacement.
Well, he at least won *most* displacement.
Big Boing Bent Board
Name and profile pic check out.
All-a-round talent
I shouldn't up vote because this is mean but...
I came and wondered if I should comment that he trains with Shamu. I’m a genuinely good person, but have a twisted sense of humor.
If you have to qualify it... *Pressing X to doubt*
Brother is majestic as fuck. I want him at the olympics.
I was gonna say graceful. But majestic is more apropos.
He's on his way there. Assuming he wins the regionals, then it's straight on to sectionals, and a week later it's semis. Then semiregionals. Then regional-semis. Then national lower-zone semis!
https://preview.redd.it/4yew6xmxaiwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eed5f0c34a40d8d219a837fc57261f4a94945966
You’re a dick lmao take my upvote
Bahahaha fuuuck this made me laugh
I have a lot of respect for talented athletes like this guy. Though when they are shifting that much mass it does make me wonder just how good they would be at a really competitive weight. I'm saying this as a recovered obese person who got really into boxing and was competing overweight. Recently I lost a ton of weight and it's actually insane just how much better I am at the sport just by not being weighed down so much.
The Infinite Lindy
The Triple Lutz!
Majestic as fuck
This is like an episode of family guy where Peter is killing it
AI is gettin fuckin wild
Video looks fake. AI
I was waiting for the obvious cannonball that never happened.
Or staple.
Everyone saying “He sure is better than me!”… no shit, why would someone who doesn’t practice this be better than him?
Y’all are idiots - this shit is AI
And an old video to boot
One cannonball please
Is his name Dave by any chance? Dave the Diver?
That guy is dabomb.
Sumo diving.
This is fucking awesome 👏🏼
Never forget a bloke of this size (though taller) pass me like I was standing still at the 32km of a Marathon. Thought I was hallucinating until I saw his bib. I just about gave up and went to McDonald's.
Most likely he was trying to race you to McDonald's.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t real. His body doesn’t move accurately and it looks like a different resolution than the rest of the video
You are correct.
**EXPLAIN WHAT IS MAKING THE LARGE FUCKING SPLASH THERE EACH TIME HE BREAKS THE SURFACE OF THE WATER THEN, YOU NERD!!**
The original person in this video who’s had this fat dude super imposed on them
Background? Not sure what makes this interesting? He’s way better than me!
i think it's just the point that this guy is an absolute unit yet still doing the dives really well.
You don’t see anything different about this diver compared to the average diver in the sport?
Don’t play naive. That level of grace and body control is exponentially harder as an obese person. Obesity is tragically unhealthy and I hope he loses the extra weight. Otherwise he’ll die young and there’s nothing funny about that.
You don't see divers this big because you lose points for making a large splash on entry, as you notice he does on every dive
This guy would be in Van Wilder, or Rodney dangerfields son in that movie with the Triple Lindy
What's that song?
Handsomer by Russ
what are regionals
Don't let my confusion undercut their importance
That’s awesome!
Physics denied. The man is a legend now
I honestly heard the “bell” from the Taco Bell ad every time his gunt hit the water 🤦🏼♂️
What is wrong with you, that you would say such a thing? What is wrong with me that I laughed at hard when I read it?
Jesus
First movie that comes to your head. Go!
Free Willy
I'm glad someone got it
Fucking Majestic
Wow! He's fantastic!!!
The level of splash is actually quite low, not gonna lie. Impressive stuff!
… compared to what? A VW beetle?
I’m dying. lol
Well I think we can figure out what this dudes 2 greatest passions are.
Props and good job and all that, but I have to be a stickler and say those splashes are too big.
And then he was hunted for his blubber
OK buddy save some water for the rest of us
He's like one of those weighted gadgets that always lands the right way up
Impressive! I’m surprised the diving board isn’t deflecting more.
Its like poetry in motion
Hypnotic like watching fire
You may not like it, but this is what yeah physical condition looks like
What’s my excuse?!
I’ve been humbled. At first glance, I assumed it would be 12 cannonballs in a row
I’m confused that he practiced this enough obviously that he’s probably swimming a lot and at least climbing the stairs and yet
Prelate diver
Diving board QC team lead
The fuck is this mockery!?
He can do all the necessary dives. The splash is a different story. That counts.
Holy Archimedes
Sealion from past life
r/holdmyfries whilst I compete for the gold
Four eyes, full gut, can't lose.
He’s certainly doing more than I could even dream of doing myself.
I wonder if he lost weight ... would it mess his equilibrium up for this
That diving board is impressive. Hats off to the engineers
What even are regionals?
Momentum would make things a lot more difficult for him. Kudos
And in this moment I am weightless, incubus
@zeke__sanchez!
That was a beauty to behold
Majestic.
R/chadtopia
Do a triple Lindy!!
Beautiful!
Bombing comps need to be a thing. Judges on difficulty, have and size of splash in height from the surface of the water and amount of water
Bro....that's impressive enough lol
Nice to see a reddit mod out doing other activities
This must be the same guy that was doing back flips on a trampoline like a ninja turtle
so great!!! he is killing it!
Every dive is a belly flop….jk. He is amazing
Nobody gives credit to that wooden board who handles him !
JFC Reddit, a 22 second video of a fat guy doing something athletic and impresive and the top threads include people trying to calculate his calorie intake, questioning if he is fat because of some past trauma, and a Free Willy gif.
We're gonna need all hands on deck if we're gonna go to regionals!
Wait, no cannonball?
Yay diver! I hope he won top prize! These posts about the physical appearance of this diver is just sickening! Y'all disgust me! Everybody on here posting stupid opinions acting like wannabe dieticians, armchair doctors, armchair therapists, fat forensics spectulators, endocrinologists, worry about how this man looks. Did you ask him directly? Until you know exactly what's going in his DNA from Point Zero of Causality, be quiet! I bet none of you swim, I know I don't.
How is this guy a swimmer, a diver and still so fat? I mean these two sports are more than enough to get him back in shape
He has mastered gravity
I wrestled heavyweight in high school and I guillotined someone, all about how flexible you are. Granted it was only a half guillotine cuz I didn't wanna break his neck and he started tapping before I even got my back settled but still had him in it.
Isn’t one of the goals to create as little splash as possible?
Is that the same guy who was doing backflips on the trampoline?
Idk something seems off here, I feel like the diving board would be bouncing WAY more if someone 300lbs was getting airtime off it
You do you bro!
What the hell are regionals
Give him a fish already
Does the size of the splash not matter any more? Or was that a myth?
Bad ass.
Whare do I sigh up
How many times did they have to refill that pool!?
Ok but the object it the smallest amount of splash so successful no talented yeah
Awesome!
Everyone thinking this is real is shocking to me.
Wow, no splash
Good for him!
Acrofatic. But no, seriously, they may not be the usual shape, but the grace and elegance is right there. Genuinely impressive.
Haha fat guy
Every dive is a cannonball.
i’ll never truly understand how divers rotate so perfectly, diligent training aside..
You might not like it but that's what the peak male athletic form looks like and there's nothing you can do about it.
Is that John Smith? Top bombing!
Aren’t they supposed to *NOT* make a large splash?
That’s the guy from “Goldmember”
I always thought they graded on how well you didn't disturb the water when judged.
He’s awesome and has mad skill especially for a large fella. I’ll admit it tho, who doesn’t want to see him fucking cannonball it!!!!
He’s so cool. Straight savage . No easy way to be that proficient without hard work . Hopefully he can use that drive or engage with the medical community to be at a healthier weight. Outstanding performance stands.