6.97 in the 60 meter dash at 6'0 and 208 LBS. Hand timed. Personal Record!

Wrong video.

Here's the 60 video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddRaAbunKCs

Wrong times.

Timed you at : 7.87/7.82/7.85.

You're not fast, You're not running a 4.19 40, that would be a combine record by .8 of a second. Here is the record breaking 4.27 for reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKDzFfpg68c

Just timed your "4.19" 40 -

Timed it three times to average as hand times are never perfect:

5.11, 5.08, 5.15. So you're a 5.1 guy - I predicted this exact time after your "10 yard" and broad jump videos.

Time to come back to reality

Dude, you need to run on one leg only (blindfolded would help, too). This is crap training, and you know it.

FFS, wtf Matt? The best was the equivalent bench press.

What do you hope to achieve with this?

Why don’t you sign up for the Titan games?

Best part about this is the song. Also, why is most of the video blank/black? Is it a BLM protest?

You've never explained why you rock back and forth, either. Sometimes you actually address questions. Rarely, but it has happened. The "rocking" start isn't one of those time, though.

Very little of what you do makes any sense, but that one perhaps makes the least sense of all.

Matt, you look about as fast as me. My 100 PR is 14.5

60ydObserver wrote:

Best part about this is the song. Also, why is most of the video blank/black? Is it a BLM protest?

That is Matt's PR for length of black screen. It's quite an achievement.

People say that the all-black-screen video is impossible, but those people have never met Matt "PR" London.

Your sprinting is better than your timekeeping. That's the most positive thing I can muster.

You don't need to show the watch in your video - all it proves is the duration between starting and stopping the watch. I could start and stop a watch whilst sat here at my desk, then post up a photo of it - it doesn't validate a claim that I ran a 9.40 for the 100m.

It's great you're enjoying your training and you're clearly much healthier than most men your age - take that as a win and stop making up bogus claims. It just devalues what you have achieved.

If he could do a 40 on one leg in 8 seconds, surely he could do a 4.0 sec 40 in 4 seconds.

Mr. Pedantic wrote:

You've never explained why you rock back and forth, either. Sometimes you actually address questions. Rarely, but it has happened. The "rocking" start isn't one of those time, though.

Very little of what you do makes any sense, but that one perhaps makes the least sense of all.

Looks like Edwards's start back in the 95

Too bad you weren't doing this 15 years ago.

That 40 is flying, congrautlations.

Also just a heads up: you cannot target fat. Do more cardio, drop 15 lbs overall, and your power to weight ratio will improve while your 40 time drops.

donkey doug wrote:

That 40 is flying, congrautlations.

Also just a heads up: you cannot target fat. Do more cardio, drop 15 lbs overall, and your power to weight ratio will improve while your 40 time drops.

I can't do any cardio right now because it would be counter productive. I don't want my body to adapt to being a distance runner again. So I don't want to accumulate any lactic acid at all by doing distance running or slow running. Everything I need to be doing right now has to be fast and explosive as possible. I'm not running anything over 60 right now.

Now that I got my 60 PR i'll test the 100 here in the next month to see where i'm at in that. My best hand timed in the 100 was 11.32 from 2013. I should be able to go under that easily. When I ran that 11.32 hand time I was only really running around 7.2-7.3 in the 60.

Yeah losing 15 lbs would lower my time in this by alot. Right now i'm just trying to be as fast as a decathlete would be seeing that i'm still about 15 lbs heavier than the average decathlete for 6'0 tall.

Most decathletes are between 172-195 at all heights. Hardee was 210 at 6'5 tall. So 208 at only 6'0 tall is alot of weight.

On a side note I'll have to retest my broad jump today to see where i'm at in it. I'm guessing I should be able to do 9 feet 1 or 9 feet 2 based on the new power to weight ratio.

matt_london_413 wrote:

On a side note I'll have to retest my broad jump today to see where i'm at in it. I'm guessing I should be able to do 9 feet 1 or 9 feet 2 based on the new power to weight ratio.

I'll predict 8'8 low to 8'10 high for your broad jump.

What are you smoking?

You start moving at slightly before the 0:06 mark of the video. I'll be generous and give you 0:06 exactly.

Assuming your water bottles are correct, your torso gets through the 60m mark midway through the 0:13 mark.

If you want to do this a more accurate way, there are watches + apps that will record your exact start and photo finish.

https://appmaker.se/home/sprinttimer/

Swim Bike Run wrote:

Wrong times.

Timed you at : 7.87/7.82/7.85.

You're not fast, You're not running a 4.19 40, that would be a combine record by .8 of a second. Here is the record breaking 4.27 for reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKDzFfpg68c

I got 7.35 by timing the point where my right foot leaves the ground. You're timing it on the rock back motion.

On my next 60meter dash time trial in two weeks i'll get a video out of blocks. I have some. That way there's no rocking back motion and everything will be from the point going forward.

I won't be able to hand time myself on it though because I can't hold a stop watch from the block position but i'll run 2 to 3 of them and they should all be within .10 of each other since I take a long rest in between each one. So i'll see what this looks like on video. Also i'm hoping that I at least see some type of benefit from starting out of blocks instead of always starting from a standing position.

I read somewhere that there's a .30 of a second benefit from starting in blocks on average. Hopefully I can see some type of benefit like that.

This week the focus is on 10s and 20s and getting stronger at the gym. Just did 435 yesterday for 2 on paused hack squats at 6'0 and 211. Haven't hit that weight for 2 in a month but did it at a slightly heavier bodyweight.

The workout yesterday went really good. Got everything done. Did tons of sets of 5s at the end of the main sets of 2s. The 5s always seem to get me stronger