Mark Zuckerberg completes extreme fitness challenge in 9kg vest

theguardian.com:

You’ve got the billions, you’ve got the global brand domination – what comes next? An extreme fitness regime, of course.

Mark Zuckerberg has raised internet eyebrows after revealing he has taken part in an intensive challenge in which he ran a mile, completed 100 pull-ups, 200 press-ups and 300 squats, before running a further mile, all while wearing a 9kg weighted vest.

The Facebook founder, in a post on his own page, said he had completed the “Murph challenge” in 39 minutes 58 seconds, a time that one user said would put him in the top 1% of those who completed the event, which is named in memory of a US navy seal who was killed in Afghanistan. Complimented on his pull-ups, the multi-billionaire (£93bn or so at present), said: “The last mile run when your legs are torched from the squats and your heart rate is pegged is pretty brutal too.”

It’s not the first time Zuckerberg, 39, has boasted of his athletic achievements; recent posts celebrated the medals he won in his first jiu jitsu tournament (gold and silver) and a sub-20 minute 5K. (“I actually stopped running for a while and got stronger from [mixed martial arts]. Then I ran for about a month before this race and realised I was faster than before,” Zuckerberg told an impressed commenter.)

Gone are the days when tech bros were characterised by shapeless T-shirts, junk food physiques and the pallor of too many hours spent behind a screen. As demonstrated by Jeff Bezos’s physical transformation several years ago, from nondescript balding books bloke to ultra-hench Vin Diesel parody, billionaires these days are buff.

The Amazon founder, now 59, enlisted Tom Cruise’s trainer to transform his physique, reportedly working out daily with low-impact, high-resistance exercises