The photo is from NACAC U23 this past weekend where she won the 100 and 200.
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It's not clear to me that, for her, losing bodyfat would be necessary/beneficial. Maybe; but some sprinters lose power when they get too lean. Renate Stecher did okay without being shredded.
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Her body will change, it is inevitable. It doesn't only happen to precocious distance runners. She is the real deal but she lacks fluidity. Very strained form and poor block clearance. It will be interesting to see her progression. Keep doing what you're doing and let maturing take its course? Change things hoping to consistently get under :11? Does the NIL help or hinder the progression? Good luck to her and her coach.
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lease wrote:
It's not clear to me that, for her, losing bodyfat would be necessary/beneficial. Maybe; but some sprinters lose power when they get too lean. Renate Stecher did okay without being shredded.
She’s still only 17 years old. As bloviating said, her body will change. Her technique will also get better. There’s no reason for her to hurry things along and try to get leaner. I expect big things from her over the next 4-8 years.
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Why are we commenting on a high school girl’s muscles? Y’all are weird
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13579 wrote:
She’s still only 17 years old. As bloviating said, her body will change. Her technique will also get better. There’s no reason for her to hurry things along and try to get leaner. I expect big things from her over the next 4-8 years.
I’ve been around long enough to know you don’t expect big things from sprinters with no melanin.
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Yonosee wrote:
Link takes me to a Shopify page. Anywhere else to see?
Thing that strikes me about mbp, other than her skin color ofc, is that she’s not super lean like professionals. Nor should she be at this age, but that’s a couple tenths right there so I’d say this girls upside is legit Olympic/WC medal potential.
I love that MBP isn't a skinny waif and appears to eat healthy and is strong. She's going to go very far.
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wdude wrote:
Reminds me of the build/physique of Dafne Schippers.. whatever happened to her?
She's not Ivan Drago/Schippers.
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lease wrote:
RichardRider wrote:
If you renember Koch...You are in denial. Take a closer look at FloJo and get back to us. She was the answer to the GDR machine and answer she did.
Point taken, but IMO FJ's hip flexor development was not as impressive.
Of course, both FJ and MK were "better bodies through chemistry"--I suspect that MBP is comparatively clean, which I find even more impressive.
MB-P is about 6 years ahead of a normal hs athlete in training, weights. Another 5 and she will possibly be considering "take it or you wont make it". I hope not but I was a Houlihan fan along with many others. My jaded perspective is guilty until proven innocent.
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Well, MBP, congrats! You know you’ve made it when ignorant strangers on LetsRun begin commenting on your body and speculating about drug use.
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Watcher of the meets wrote:
13579 wrote:
She’s still only 17 years old. As bloviating said, her body will change. Her technique will also get better. There’s no reason for her to hurry things along and try to get leaner. I expect big things from her over the next 4-8 years.
I’ve been around long enough to know you don’t expect big things from sprinters with no melanin.
Big things like being World champions or Olympic medalists and having run some of the fastest times in history over 200m?
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Gary Shmurda wrote:
Why are we commenting on a high school girl’s muscles? Y’all are weird
She's an elite athlete, this is a forum where people discuss the performances of elite athletes, it's no more weird than commenting on the body/musculature of any other elite athlete.
It would be pretty dull if all we were allowed to say about her was "whoa, she's fast!"
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400 hurdler potential.
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zeropercent wrote:
Gary Shmurda wrote:
Why are we commenting on a high school girl’s muscles? Y’all are weird
She's an elite athlete, this is a forum where people discuss the performances of elite athletes, it's no more weird than commenting on the body/musculature of any other elite athlete.
It would be pretty dull if all we were allowed to say about her was "whoa, she's fast!"
For sure dude
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zeropercent wrote:
Gary Shmurda wrote:
Why are we commenting on a high school girl’s muscles? Y’all are weird
She's an elite athlete, this is a forum where people discuss the performances of elite athletes, it's no more weird than commenting on the body/musculature of any other elite athlete.
It would be pretty dull if all we were allowed to say about her was "whoa, she's fast!"
Whoa, she’s fast.
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Gary Shmurda wrote:
Why are we commenting on a high school girl’s muscles? Y’all are weird
Would you rather we commented on her hair and lip gloss?
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007run wrote:
I love that MBP isn't a skinny waif and appears to eat healthy and is strong. She's going to go very far.
That’s a strange thing to “love” and offensive to skinny waifs with talent, but I assume you were just trying to virtue signal.
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What elite sprinter is skinny? I don't get why somebody is happy to have another sprinter who isn't skinny.
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bah. wrote:
Gary Shmurda wrote:
Why are we commenting on a high school girl’s muscles? Y’all are weird
Would you rather we commented on her hair and lip gloss?
I think it’s weird because she is a child. Just a highschool athlete. She has grown men starting threads about her on the internet and talking about her muscles and her body. Is that not strange?
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