Can anyone train hard enough to eventually run an 11 second 100m?

No

No.

Yes. Lots of people can do.

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I have ran 11 something with a flying start, a lot of people could. Nick Symmonds 12.3 FAT is worth 11 something flying. If Nick and I can do it, anyone can.

Hell no...

Back when I taught some personal training courses (to prepare people to take certification exams), I had a group of guys around the NFL Combine time talking big. These were pretty young guys (mid 20s for the most part) who were reasonably fit. I stated that I thought the combine was a waste of time. Showed them a couple papers showing a poor correlation between combine results and actual on field performance (as measured by Pro Bowl selections and some other factors). The only correlation was in RBs on the 40 yard dash.

I pointed out that even that seems an odd test---how often does a play ever run 40 yards in a straight line in a game?

I also pulled up some combine stats and I cannot recall the exact times, but Brady and Manning ran 5.3 and 4.8, respectively. They all laughed at how slow they were and that they could run faster. I called bullshit. So a couple of days later I measured off 40 yards and hand timed them. Even with hand timing---that produces faster times---only one person ran faster than Brady's electronic time.

“if a guy with world class ability can do it, anyone can do it”

Hilarious

o 4 sure! wrote:

Yes. Lots of people can do.

"Lots" is far from "anyone". Also few women can break 11. the 100 has only been broken just under 900 times in history by women (some women obviously ran multiples). Even assuming a small number of women who never ran track could do it, that still leaves about 3.5 billion women.

Bad Wigins wrote:

I have ran 11 something with a flying start, a lot of people could. Nick Symmonds 12.3 FAT is worth 11 something flying. If Nick and I can do it, anyone can.

You ran 11 "something"--that could be a long way from 11.00.

I played rugby in college two years ago and at the peak of my fitness I could run a 4.97 40y but only just barely break 15s in the 100. I am partially trained but with more training, I’m not sure I would EVER break 13, let alone 11, the speed isn’t there. It is the same for most people.

As dumb a question as I've read here.

Yes, just as anyone can run a sub 10 or a sub 9 second 100 m. There are no limits.

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The majority of NFL players cannot sprint sub-11 FAT 100m.

Many high school meets are won in over 11 seconds. All high school girls’ meets are won in over 11 seconds other than once or twice in history. These are athletes in their primes who are training for the event. Most people would run in a range of 14-20 seconds if properly trained.

Olympic Decathlon 100m:

19 of the 32 ran under 11 seconds. Maybe if those other 13 had trained harder...

1 4 Damian Warner Canada 10.30 1023 ODB

2 4 Ashton Eaton United States 10.46 985

3 4 Zach Ziemek United States 10.71 926

4 3 Rico Freimuth Germany 10.73 922

5 2 Larbi Bourrada Algeria 10.75 917 SB

6 2 Luiz Alberto de Araújo Brazil 10.77 912 SB

7 3 Oleksiy Kasyanov Ukraine 10.78 910 SB

7 4 Kai Kazmirek Germany 10.78 910

9 4 Yordanis García Cuba 10.81 903

9 2 Kévin Mayer France 10.81 903 PB

11 3 Karl Robert Saluri Estonia 10.82 901

12 3 Mihail Dudaš Serbia 10.83 899

12 4 Lindon Victor Grenada 10.83 899

14 4 Dominik Distelberger Austria 10.84 897

15 3 Cedric Dubler Australia 10.86 892

16 3 Arthur Abele Germany 10.87 890

16 2 Eelco Sintnicolaas Netherlands 10.87 890 SB

18 3 Paweł Wiesiołek Poland 10.88 888

19 1 Kurt Felix Grenada 10.93 876 SB

20 2 Jeremy Taiwo United States 11.01 858

21 1 Pieter Braun Netherlands 11.03 854 SB

22 3 Akihiko Nakamura Japan 11.04 852

23 2 Adam Helcelet Czech Republic 11.06 847

24 2 Willem Coertzen South Africa 11.12 834

25 3 Jiří Sýkora Czech Republic 11.15 827

26 1 Maicel Uibo Estonia 11.16 825

27 1 Bastien Auzeil France 11.17 823

28 1 Leonel Suárez Cuba 11.21 814 SB

29 1 Thomas Van der Plaetsen Belgium 11.24 808

30 2 Leonid Andreev Uzbekistan 11.29 797

31 1 Keisuke Ushiro Japan 11.30 795 SB

32 1 Pau Tonnesen Spain 11.32 791 SB

They're OLYMPIC DECATHLETES. They are not "anyone." Hello?

Several people have already run below 10 seconds, so clearly there are people who can run below 11 seconds.

Hey What wrote:

They're OLYMPIC DECATHLETES. They are not "anyone." Hello?

It depends who you ask.

If you asked the average 11 year old on quora they will tell you “well I can run 10.3 and all I do is play video games all day so I think the average adult should be around 7 seconds.”

However if you ask me, a person who is in touch with reality and doesn’t feel the need to lie on the internet I think most people should feel bloody good about themselves if they are hitting a time anywhere between 13 and 15 seconds, this would probably be faster than a good 90% of the population.

Sub 11 is out of reach for all but a few.

Sub 13 requires a bit of physical gift for men and exceptional gift for women. This would take a lot of training and not everyone could do this.

Sub 15 is attainable for most men and maybe about half of women with training. This time is typical for fit people who have played a fair amount of sports in their life and have been competitive in some way at some thing for at least a couple of years.

Sub 17 is attainable for most women with training and expected of most men without training. This time is typical for people who have never had a weight problem.

Anywhere between 18-30 seconds would be average - considering overweight is average.