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Topic: Decathlon Records For Each Events
Posted: May 09, 2020
What are the world records for each event in the decathlon?

I know Ashton Eaton holds the 400m world record: 45.00 seconds.
Topic: High carb versus low carb (and more)?
Posted: Aug 09, 2019
The official IAAF guidelines are 8- 12g/kg/day for somebody who competes at least at national level.

If we take the middle road, i.e 10g/kg/day, that is 800g carbs for a 80kg athlete.

For protein is 2g/kg/day

For fat is 0.5- 1g/kg/day.

I have a javelin thrower friend who is about 100kg and eats between 1000- 2000g of carbs per day.

Do you pay attention to yoru salt intake? Since athletes lose tons of sodium-chloride and other electrolytes through sweating, atheltes need to consume more salt.

What about daily water intake?

What are your daily macros?

What is your experience? What works for you?
Do you think it is possible to achieve 7000- 7500 points in a decathlon without doing heavy deadlifts, snatches, cleans, squats, bench presses.

By heavy I mean 3-5 sets of 3- 5 reps at 85- 95%.

There are many coaches that claim a decathlete must:
- deadlift at least 2.5- 3 times his bodyweight,
- squat 2- 2.5 times his BW,
- bench 1.5- 2 times his BW,
- Clean 1.5- 2 his BW

Do you think it is mandatory to achieve these numbers to be able to score 7000- 7500 points?

I read about Craig Pickering he wrote on a forum that he progressed from 12.0 to 11.0 in one year on 100m with zero weight training, do you believe that?

Soem coaches claim you cant achieve 7000 without lifting heavy weights... Cedric Dubler did 8000+ without the classical lifts of snatch, clean, jerk, deadlift...

Ashton Eaton in one of his video showed his weight trainign session. Now, do you really think that that weight program made him do 9000+ points?: https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=poUEHuxo0w4

There was another white sprinte rwho claimed he did not do weight snad run low 10s on 100m decades ago, I forgot his name...

I mean, who knows...
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Another topic: Timing of weights

Some say on ehsould do weights right after the track session, others say to do it right before the track session to use/benefit from the post-activation potentiation effects of the weight lifting...

Some say to lift weight separately in the AM and do track kin PM, other say do the opposite.

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