Allyson Felix can catch a bullet in her teeth and can crack walnuts with her butt cheeks. She can also do 50 one-armed fingertip pushups with either hand and can sing from her diaphragm in three octaves. Oh, and she has X-ray vision.
Allyson Felix can catch a bullet in her teeth and can crack walnuts with her butt cheeks. She can also do 50 one-armed fingertip pushups with either hand and can sing from her diaphragm in three octaves. Oh, and she has X-ray vision.
I'm not positive about this, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people on these forums that don't know how to deadlift properly.
o.O wrote:
I'm not positive about this, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people on these forums that don't know how to deadlift properly.
I certainly don't. Don't know how to do squats properly either. I'll stick to my dumbell lunges, for which I've recieved many compliments for my impeccable form.
Deadlifting 2x bodyweight is indicative of very good overall functional strength. Some of you on this message board have no clue what it means to be functionally strong and fit across different modalities. In Felix's case, the deadlift strength translates into the body's ability to generate maximal force for the ballistic nature of sprinting. Another thing to keep in mind is that, according to an interview I read given by her former coach, she deadlifts in sets. This means that her power output from a volume standpoint is even more impressive.
Leg Press: Depends on which type of sled. Depends on how deep she goes. 245dl and 700 leg press aren't very comparable so my guess is that the 700 was using less than ideal form or inadequate machine...still not all that.
Deadlift: 245 is nothing. Even for a female.
I've DL'ed 315 three times. So maybe 340-350 for one.
I've Leg Pressed 720 using an older Cybex 45 degree sled, knees to chest.
She's a sprinter. So yes she's going to have strong legs, much stronger than most male distance runners.
Most college football players will press up twice that, 1000-1500.
You wanna see a Leg Press?
Light Weight....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpfaz1IbiZg
Alan
What's your basis for saying her purported DL weight is nothing? Compared to who? And what's the point of posting your lifts? Are you comparing a 125-130 lb woman to you? Are you comparing Felix's performance to college football players? What kind of analysis is this? This thread has revealed some of the most specious conclusions I've ever seen on this message board.
Well, these standards: http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/DeadliftStandards.html would say she's somewhere between advanced and elite based on her body weight. So it is a good lift but not out of this world.
stronger than you wrote:
What's your basis for saying her purported DL weight is nothing? Compared to who? And what's the point of posting your lifts? Are you comparing a 125-130 lb woman to you? Are you comparing Felix's performance to college football players? What kind of analysis is this? This thread has revealed some of the most specious conclusions I've ever seen on this message board.
I'm basically making the opposite point that that the OP is saying. The OP is saying "No way in hell does a 19yr old woman deadlift 245lb". His assumption is that a 245lb deadlift is somehow an astronomical number.
245 deadlift is two plates, plus a 10 on each side. Given her weight and given that she's a sprinter and going to have a very strong posterior chain it would actually be surprising to me if she DIDN'T deadlift 245.
My conclusion is that most distance runners do not know what a good lift or a bad lift is. They do not know what is strong and what is not. The OP was surprised that Felix was that strong. I say "it's nothing", because it should be expected. Now if it says, Felix deadlifted 500lbs, then that wouldn't be expected.
Alan