sprinters are just better athletes
sprinters are just better athletes
Dear 99ninety:
The "old" trope that sprinters are lazy is a little tired. As a coach who trains sprinters you MUST know that in order to be a national-level or world-class sprinter takes on average 5 - 7 years of dedicated work. The physical demands and stresses on the CNS and musculature is incredibly taxing.
The forces expressed just coming out of the blocks is two to three times body-weight. The forces exerted in "full flight" are 8-10 times body-weight. Running by comparison is 6 - 8 times body-weight.
This is the reason why sprinters can suffer catastrophic hamstring tears. Can you say the same for distance runners?
Sprinting is the equivalent of "maxing out" in the gym vs the "circuit-training" of running.
Runfastrunfar wrote:
Dear 99ninety:
The "old" trope that sprinters are lazy is a little tired. As a coach who trains sprinters you MUST know that in order to be a national-level or world-class sprinter takes on average 5 - 7 years of dedicated work. The physical demands and stresses on the CNS and musculature is incredibly taxing.
The forces expressed just coming out of the blocks is two to three times body-weight. The forces exerted in "full flight" are 8-10 times body-weight. Running by comparison is 6 - 8 times body-weight.
This is the reason why sprinters can suffer catastrophic hamstring tears. Can you say the same for distance runners?
Sprinting is the equivalent of "maxing out" in the gym vs the "circuit-training" of running.
Chris Solinsky can say it.
If you coached high school track & field, with your poor attitude toward sprinters I assume you were not a good coach.
"Sprinter are born with speed." What a foolish statement. No one is born sprinting sub-9.75 100 meters. Sprinting fast is a combination of neuromuscular coordination and brute strength. One could say all the high school boys who fail to race sub-5 for 1600m are lazy.
Sprinters are the backbone of a track & field team. In my opinion, any head NCAA D1 track & field coach who gives a full athletic grant to a male distance runner who cannot run a sub-52 400m is a foolish coach. In my opinion, any one who can run sub-52 400m is not just a distance runner.
Going of my personal experiences as a varsity high school distance runner, I can tell you that distance runners not only are better, but they work harder.
Once when the entire track team did hills, distance ran TO the hills (while the sprinters/jumpers/throwers drove), did more sets of hills, ran in between the hills (the sprinters walked), and ran BACK to school, while everyone else drove. We also have a workout every single day. One day when we had 8x600m repeats, plus warm up, cool down, and bodyweight strength after, we got back to learn that the sprinters did 4x200! That's it! Just 4 200m sprints. Ridiculous.
Sprinters are also lazy, eat a ton of junk food, and tbh aren't even that good. A sprinters warm up is literally opening a bag of doritos and jogging a lap; distance warm up is 10 min run, full set of dynamics, and strides. There were a few girls who were exceptionally good but the distance crew could outsprint most of them, and they were supposed to be distance runners. Honestly if you put the entire distance team in place of the sprinters, we would still win our meets.
Hate to break it to you.
**supposed to be sprinters, excuse me
Distance is better wrote:
Going of my personal experiences as a varsity high school distance runner, I can tell you that distance runners not only are better, but they work harder.
Once when the entire track team did hills, distance ran TO the hills (while the sprinters/jumpers/throwers drove), did more sets of hills, ran in between the hills (the sprinters walked), and ran BACK to school, while everyone else drove. We also have a workout every single day. One day when we had 8x600m repeats, plus warm up, cool down, and bodyweight strength after, we got back to learn that the sprinters did 4x200! That's it! Just 4 200m sprints. Ridiculous.
Sprinters are also lazy, eat a ton of junk food, and tbh aren't even that good. A sprinters warm up is literally opening a bag of doritos and jogging a lap; distance warm up is 10 min run, full set of dynamics, and strides. There were a few girls who were exceptionally good but the distance crew could outsprint most of them, and they were supposed to be distance runners. Honestly if you put the entire distance team in place of the sprinters, we would still win our meets.
Hate to break it to you.
so this one single experience from your lousy team accounts for the entire country? No times provided? you can't seriously believe that any given distance team could replace the sprinters. Thanks for sharing your workout/sob story but that proved absolutely nothing.
A team of sprinters would beat a team of distance runners in...
soccer
football
basketball
baseball
You really don't see that?
Fair Hooker wrote:
The thing with sprinters is most of them can fo do other things like football, basketball, baseball, soccer. What can skinny little distance runners do besides run?
Finish a four year degree.
School name or gtfo.
Fair Hooker wrote:
The thing with sprinters is most of them can fo do other things like football, basketball, baseball, soccer. What can skinny little distance runners do besides run?
Triathlon, swimming, cycling, XC skiing, race walking.
I was somewhat surprised, but the distance runners at my school consistently beat the sprinters in ultimate frisbee.
Fair Hooker wrote:
A team of sprinters would beat a team of distance runners in...
soccer
football
basketball
baseball
You really don't see that?
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99ninety wrote:
Meanwhile those "skinny" runners are still going... In their 30's, 40's 50's, 60's
Some are, but many are not. They put on weight, start sustaining chronic injuries or are too vain to run slower times compared to their glory days of yesteryear 😄
Not really.
Distance boys are better.
qqqq wrote:
sprinters are just better athletes
Woah wrong.
You can't classify an entire group.
I've met good sprinters and good distance runners.
But what I do know is that my sprinter friends all know that distance has way tougher workouts.
And weather a person is good at sports or not DEPENDS ON THE PERSON. I think it's dumb that you get on here and just say "sprinters are just better athletes".
I'm guessing you're a sprinter.🙄
I know some pretty old coaches that are PRing all the time, actually.
Sprinters are cool, distance guys are cool. It’s fun to be friends with people instead of hating them based off which event their gifted in
Soccer players can run distance but distance runners can’t play soccer if they didn’t play it growing up.
Distance running doesn’t translate to any skill and the endurance doesn’t help with anything.
Not even distance swimming.
I was a varsity middle linebacker and halfback until 10th grade. My biggest team rival in the 400/800 was our starting kick returner and a starting receiver. Distance runners can have wheels too. You gotta remember that the best distance runners are also some of the best sprinters.
I probably could have been a D2-D3 tier linebacker if I kept the weight on and stuck with it.
I do have more of a snell type build, so definitely more massive than most distance guys, but I have enough raw speed/power that I’m usually one of the better players in pickup games whether it be soccer, basketball, or football.