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Was Wilt the most athletic human being ever?
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It's possible, I'd put Bo Jackson up there because the pure power and speed hasn't really had a rival since he came through. shyt LeBron, Calvin Johnson, Bryan Clay and Ashton Eaton (decathletes), and Jim Thorpe are worth mentioning too. Most great athletes are average/above average in height, but Wilt was everything he was while being tall as shyt which makes it more impressive imo. The coordination and functional strength is really impressive.
There are some historical figures (like hundreds to thousands of years old) who are straight freaks but it's almost impossible to know how much of that is talked up. Like that "*Insert person* was as strong as ten men!
" kinda talk 
There are some historical figures (like hundreds to thousands of years old) who are straight freaks but it's almost impossible to know how much of that is talked up. Like that "*Insert person* was as strong as ten men!
" kinda talk Who are some of these historical figures you talk about bruh?It's possible, I'd put Bo Jackson up there because the pure power and speed hasn't really had a rival since he came through. shyt LeBron, Calvin Johnson, Bryan Clay and Ashton Eaton (decathletes), and Jim Thorpe are worth mentioning too. Most great athletes are average/above average in height, but Wilt was everything he was while being tall as shyt which makes it more impressive imo. The coordination and functional strength is really impressive.
There are some historical figures (like hundreds to thousands of years old) who are straight freaks but it's almost impossible to know how much of that is talked up. Like that "*Insert person* was as strong as ten men!
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Alexander the Great comes to mind
Not that he's the most athletic, but apparently Abraham Lincoln was incredibly strong and almost never lost a wrestling match (iirc he's still in the Illinois state record book for only losing once in ~300 matches). His friends have said that he’s the strongest person they’ve ever seen and when it came to cutting wood/chopping trees he could do the work of several men.
A lot of Han-era Chinese warriors are revered as god like in strength and ability. For example the warrior Lu Bu was able to either kill, severely wound, or otherwise fight to a stalemate with any individual that challenged him to a duel. He was the best horseback rider and archer of his time. Sources are fuzzy since this happened ~1,800 years ago and the most well-known source (Romance of The Three Kingdoms) is romanticized and biased.
A number of Roman gladiators (in the same vein as Lu Bu) were regarded as unnaturally powerful/strong. However you define athleticism, fighting is really physically demanding and to be able to survive in a sport where you were more than likely gonna get killed before you saw 10 fights takes as much athleticism as it does skill
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I guess my point was that the evidence as far as talking about people that lived hundreds of years ago (or 100+) starts to become more anecdotal whereas now it’s easy to measure any physical attribute you want
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I'm liking these Wilt/Bill threads lately 
Growing up, I always held those guys to an exalted level and hated the "they played against mailmen" argument
Growing up, I always held those guys to an exalted level and hated the "they played against mailmen" argument
breh im high af too and somebody mentioned jim thorpe... it would be crazy to see footage of him because he basically took football to another level for his time. i also thought of bo jackson and serena for athletic women?
Not that he's the most athletic, but apparently Abraham Lincoln was incredibly strong and almost never lost a wrestling match (iirc he's still in the Illinois state record book for only losing once in ~300 matches). His friends have said that he’s the strongest person they’ve ever seen and when it came to cutting wood/chopping trees he could do the work of several men.
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Think that athletes are only in US sports, brehs 
Y’all ain’t even mentioned multi-marathon runners, triathletes, distance bike riders, etc
Y’all ain’t even mentioned multi-marathon runners, triathletes, distance bike riders, etc
Despite being a decathlete myself, I take Wilt. At 7'2" with long arms dude was lifting so much in the weight room he had Arnold shook and refusing to lift with him anymore. Arnold said the stuff the strongest guys HIS gyms would struggle to do, Wilt would just bust out reps like they were nothing. Maybe the strongest player to ever play in the NBA. When guys would fight, he'd pick each of them up in one arm casually, 220+ a piece, and sit them down 
dislocated a dude's shoulder on a block
Then you have to consider his vertical was easily over 40", and he had the fluidity, coordination, and functional athleticism to jump that high from any scenario. A lot of guys can jump high(not at his size tho), but they need so much buildup to actually do it. He could go off two legs with not much movement to block a shot or dunk it, and could come in off one from a full sprint.
Speaking of sprints, dude was maybe the fastest player in the league too at that time(most players then testify to it). He ran 49 flat in the 440 yards(longer than 400m) in high school on shytty tracks with shytty spikes or probably no spikes and probably no blocks. I bet today, not even counting modern training just tech advancements, a HIGH SCHOOL Wilt runs 47-mid/high in the 400m which is really fast for anyone let alone a guy 7'2". We don't even know what he could've done in his athletic prime.
Wilt was not just tall af with long ass arms, dude was as strong as anyone, as fast as anyone, and could leap as high as anyone at the same time all with fluidity and totally functional athleticism. His coordination was absurd, dude dominated any other sport he played, and his conditioning was crazy too. Competition may have been lower in the 60s, pacing was much higher. They were sprinting up and down every play, and Wilt still averaged over 48mpg one season
Imagine him with modern training techniques
After Wilt, I've got Ashton Eaton(world record holder in the decathlon, obvious), and LeBron for similar reasons to Wilt really.
dislocated a dude's shoulder on a block Then you have to consider his vertical was easily over 40", and he had the fluidity, coordination, and functional athleticism to jump that high from any scenario. A lot of guys can jump high(not at his size tho), but they need so much buildup to actually do it. He could go off two legs with not much movement to block a shot or dunk it, and could come in off one from a full sprint.
Speaking of sprints, dude was maybe the fastest player in the league too at that time(most players then testify to it). He ran 49 flat in the 440 yards(longer than 400m) in high school on shytty tracks with shytty spikes or probably no spikes and probably no blocks. I bet today, not even counting modern training just tech advancements, a HIGH SCHOOL Wilt runs 47-mid/high in the 400m which is really fast for anyone let alone a guy 7'2". We don't even know what he could've done in his athletic prime.
Wilt was not just tall af with long ass arms, dude was as strong as anyone, as fast as anyone, and could leap as high as anyone at the same time all with fluidity and totally functional athleticism. His coordination was absurd, dude dominated any other sport he played, and his conditioning was crazy too. Competition may have been lower in the 60s, pacing was much higher. They were sprinting up and down every play, and Wilt still averaged over 48mpg one season
Imagine him with modern training techniques
After Wilt, I've got Ashton Eaton(world record holder in the decathlon, obvious), and LeBron for similar reasons to Wilt really.
