Sprinters are a joke

Yes.

Well, correct. Most people feel this way. Its why I cant stand watching sprints. Once it comes on i turn the channel.

You are comparing little distance runners to this...

.....ya gotta be kidding.

Are you stronger per your body weight than Ryan Crouser? If no, you have to go on (15 to 30) mile runs to be an elite athlete. Since sprinters can weight lift per their body weight more than Ryan Crouser, sprinters are allowed to do Feed the Cats training. If you cannot beat sprinters in the weight room, you cannot consider sprinters a joke.

Everybody would be a sprinter if they could!

Same, what can a 10 second race prove? Absolutely nothing, half of the guys could have a bad day, bad start or something. I like to see proof, lap after lap going strong and finishing strong, that is a winner in my book.

Got one for you.

Dog running at all of you.

7 seconds away.

Fence is 60 m away.

Vaya con Dios.

Just saying.

Dog doesn't care about whose sport is better.

Absolutely, i dont lift weights but i do pull ups and pushups once a week. I can do 11 pullups and 30 pushups which shot putters probably cant do. Running i dont need to comment on, as I can run for hour and a half without stopping and a shot putter can run for like what, 5 minutes?

Nice cherry picking, if all sprinting is being able to run fast for a short time i dont want any part of it. Where are the sacrifices, where is the struggle, where is the heroes journey?

So you really don't get this....

There are thousands of very fast sprinters with twig arms and twig legs, like De Grasse, Jeremy Wariner, Steve Gardiner

Nigel Amos could run a 45 flat 400, I doubt he could deadlift or squat more per lb than a shot putter. I'd be surprised if he lifts at all.

Main thing in sprinting is to be able to move your arms and legs back and forth real fast. That's what all the drills they do are about, training their movements

fisky

elaborate please

Do sprinters have two brain cells to rub together?

I'd rather be a pro Cornhole player vs sprinter

At least most sprinters give it their all every time they run, unlike longer distances runners who agree to run “tactical” and not put forth their best effort every time they step on the track.

could you imagine if sprinters started doing tactical 12 second 100 meter dashes? Sport would be dead immediately. Sprinting keeps this sport somewhat alive. No one wants to watch people give 80% effort for 15+ minutes.

This is the truth that many people can’t handle. Almost no one naturally becomes a distance runner. People do distance because they aren’t fast or athletic enough. Or they are washed and want to just run to stay in shape/for fun.

What can a 10 second race prove?

Worlds Fastest Human~

NCAA 100m Champion

Olympic 100m Champion

New world record~

World 100m Champion

When ya suck at football, baseball, basketball, can't long jump or throw anything, can't high jump orpole vault.......ok okdistance runner.

What you did, OP, was probably metabolically tough for you. What the sprinters did was probably neurologically tough for them, taxing the Central Nervous System, and something that is very, very often neglected in the training of mid-distance and long-distance runners.

Not true, ever since i started training years ago i noticed the difference between hard work that distance runners do and mediocore work that sprinters do.

i only wanted to be a sprinter when i was a kid that didn't know anything about the sport.

As I grew and saw the clear picture, man i dont wanna be part of the posers(sprinters) crew even if it could get me more recognition.

Walking around track shirtless, doing 60m sprints, resting for 4 minutes, i mean come on man whats the pride in that?