Hi, I'm a 15 year old sophmore wondering if I should train for the 2015 season . I can run a low 49 sec 400 a 10.9 100 and a 4:04 1500 and I've went 21'9 in the long jump. But the other six events I'm unsure off. I think I have good muscle mass to so the throwing events mediocre considering I can bench 220 at 160 pounds but the high jump pole vault and hurdles I draw a blank on. Would it be worth it?
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Hyperleo7 wrote:
Hi, I'm a 15 year old sophmore wondering if I should train for the 2015 season . I can run a low 49 sec 400 a 10.9 100 and a 4:04 1500 and I've went 21'9 in the long jump. But the other six events I'm unsure off. I think I have good muscle mass to so the throwing events mediocre considering I can bench 220 at 160 pounds but the high jump pole vault and hurdles I draw a blank on. Would it be worth it?
"I've went" (I have went) - Really? Please study more.
Hyperleo7 wrote:
I can bench 220 at 160 pounds
If you are going to lie, then at least make it impressive. I was benching 235 as a 145 lb XC runner in high school. You would probably suck at the throwing events.
Maybe, if you put the work in. It's an awful lot of work though.
If you can't hurdle don't bother trying to become a decathlete
Biggest factor is speed, explosiveness, strength...
Endurance is last.
9/10 events build on the three factors mentioned.
Along with agility, flexibility, aggressiveness, competitiveness and other factors.
Or throw or pole vault or recover or handle the pressure or maintain some kind of social life and other commitments during all that training and competition?
Even runners have to respect the work that decathletes have to do to reach a decent level.
OP is trolling.
I could believe that there are probably one or two 15 year olds with the potential to do any of those three if they choose to train for that event, but I don't believe that they could actually achieve all three, they would have to choose 2 of the three I think to focus on, but then would fail to achieve the third.
OP, post your results and you'll get legitimate advice. I suspect if you were legitimate though, you would already know the answer to your question, which would be: try the hurdles out and that will tell you if you have what it takes or not.
The three toughest technique wise
Discus
Hurdles
Pole vault
Then probably javelin
Others may have different opinions
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