It would not surprise me at all that Williamson could run sub60. I’m well under 60, but if I were to challenge a decent sportsball athlete to race, I would like it to further than quarter!
In basketball, you're running up and down the court almost continuously for minutes at a time, and often doing up and back sprints of varying lengths for much more than a minute, so most basketball players in the NBA should be conditioned for this. Only his unusual athletic ability would allow Zion to do this at that weight, however.
It’s funny how the majority hobby jogger letsrun community finds it hard to believe that a tall athlete who played basketball all of their life can run a sub 60 second 400m.
Yup, not that difficult. Within like a month of track practice (first time ever in track) at 14yo I ran 59s.
I have no doubt Zion can break 60 in the 400. He's a special talent; I hope he can stay healthy and showcase those talents.
And it should also be clear that to say he can break 60 for 400 doesn't mean he could have done so at any point since he became a household name in the hoops world before or during the beginning of his collegiate career (or pro career). It's saying he can do so NOW after losing weight and a hell of a lot of rehab and training that he hadn't ever committed to doing in the past. I think, from what I've read, he's like I gotta take this $h!t seriously if I want to guard against injuries and have a great career and be on a good team that's gonna win something. Team around him now, by the way, is much better than it was before he got hurt. Pelicans could be good.
Really curious about what the rest of the workout was, how many 400s, how much rest. Not at all surprising that such a freak athlete could break 60 even at his size, but it would be extremely impressive if he was running similar splits for multiple reps
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In basketball, you're running up and down the court almost continuously for minutes at a time, and often doing up and back sprints of varying lengths for much more than a minute, so most basketball players in the NBA should be conditioned for this. Only his unusual athletic ability would allow Zion to do this at that weight, however.
Completely disagree with this. As someone who has a fair amount of experience with hooping and running, plus as someone who has legitimate speed (not as much now, but I broke 21 over 200 on my "youth"), the energy systems and running involved in basketball (even serious full court) compared to ANY kind of serious track running (even a 100) are pretty much COMPLETELY different. If you're training to be a serious baller, moving over to the track to run a respecable 400, let alone high level (even for size) just ISN'T going to happen. That's especially true for someone of Zions size. 35/40 inch verts have NOTHING to do with reaching and maintaining velocity on a track in any real sense. MAYBE it translates to block/acceleration abolity.....but that isn't an absolute, direct, certainty either.
Smaller guys might be able to pull it off, like a Curry or something...but even that might be iffy. They'd be DISASTERS after the 250 mark, even at peak basketball fitness. UNLESS they are actually doing some track training in TANDEM with their hoops work. Which NBA guys (or any other strictly basketball guys) would NOT be doing. 400m/track training has virtually no carryover to court success....unless, of course, you're 30/40 lbs overweight.
We would do 200s at mile pace during the winter for 800s with 30 seconds rest in between an do 12 of them or so. Wasn't a hard workout but got your legs moving a little bit faster after base in the summer/fall during the winter. In the spring wed start slowly working the same workout down to 25-26 and then when were were peaking wed shoot for 23-24 with 3 minutes rest or so and do 6 of them and that was a pretty tough workout.
Doesn't surprise me that 800 guys were doing something easy like this to just keep the legs moving and not have to recover much from it.
In college we had a massive thrower, NFL lineman sized. Somewhere around 300lbs, definitely not all muscle but still a tremendously strong guy. He jumped in a 200 with the 800 guys for fun and kept up for a 29. Terrifying. Anyway, a leaner guy like this who actually runs for his sport could definitely do a sub 60.
In basketball, you're running up and down the court almost continuously for minutes at a time, and often doing up and back sprints of varying lengths for much more than a minute, so most basketball players in the NBA should be conditioned for this. Only his unusual athletic ability would allow Zion to do this at that weight, however.
Many people don't really have a conception of how physically demanding it is to play defense in basketball at a very high competitive level. It is nothing like playing defense in a pick-up game at the playground.
In basketball, you're running up and down the court almost continuously for minutes at a time, and often doing up and back sprints of varying lengths for much more than a minute, so most basketball players in the NBA should be conditioned for this. Only his unusual athletic ability would allow Zion to do this at that weight, however.
Completely disagree with this. As someone who has a fair amount of experience with hooping and running, plus as someone who has legitimate speed (not as much now, but I broke 21 over 200 on my "youth"), the energy systems and running involved in basketball (even serious full court) compared to ANY kind of serious track running (even a 100) are pretty much COMPLETELY different. If you're training to be a serious baller, moving over to the track to run a respecable 400, let alone high level (even for size) just ISN'T going to happen. That's especially true for someone of Zions size. 35/40 inch verts have NOTHING to do with reaching and maintaining velocity on a track in any real sense. MAYBE it translates to block/acceleration abolity.....but that isn't an absolute, direct, certainty either.
Smaller guys might be able to pull it off, like a Curry or something...but even that might be iffy. They'd be DISASTERS after the 250 mark, even at peak basketball fitness. UNLESS they are actually doing some track training in TANDEM with their hoops work. Which NBA guys (or any other strictly basketball guys) would NOT be doing. 400m/track training has virtually no carryover to court success....unless, of course, you're 30/40 lbs overweight.
Unless you played D1 basketball, you have no experience playing basketball at that level. "Serious full court" isn't remotely the same as the physical demands required to play at that level.
In basketball, you're running up and down the court almost continuously for minutes at a time, and often doing up and back sprints of varying lengths for much more than a minute, so most basketball players in the NBA should be conditioned for this. Only his unusual athletic ability would allow Zion to do this at that weight, however.
Many people don't really have a conception of how physically demanding it is to play defense in basketball at a very high competitive level. It is nothing like playing defense in a pick-up game at the playground.
It's "physically demanding" to dead lift 600lbs. Doing so doesn't translate to an immediate sub 60 400m run. And, similarly, deadlifting 600lbs doesn't translate to being capable of defending NBA level talent on the court....or even college level talent.