i seem to have wider than average hips for a guy and i'm wondering how big of a disadvantage it is
i seem to have wider than average hips for a guy and i'm wondering how big of a disadvantage it is
wide hips wrote:
i seem to have wider than average hips for a guy and i'm wondering how big of a disadvantage it is
Didn't Pre have some pretty wide hips?
I don't think it's something you should really worry about. It's definitely not as big of a burden for guys as it is for girls where wide-hipped elite women are rare (except in the 800).
wide hips wrote:
i seem to have wider than average hips for a guy and i'm wondering how big of a disadvantage it is
Running is not your strong suit. Perhaps you should consider a career in child bearing?
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go to a doctor to make sure you don't have male and female parts!
Glencoe had wide hips and ran well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencoe_I
The feet tend to land one in front of the other during running. The more that the leg has to be brought "in" to the centerline, to achieve this, the more energy that's lost. (And also the more torque that's inflicted on the knee and hip.) The top runners (and racewalkers) tend to have narrow hips as a result.
Those who hit a ball a long way, on the other hand, tend to have a large hip-to-shoulder ratio. (Not talking about added fat here, but skeletal ratios.) That's not a particular problem for golfers--they rarely run during a match--but it can be a problem for baseball players, whom Bud Winter characterized as the most atrocious runners of any sport.
Among women, at least, the widest (skeletal) shoulder-to-hip ratio is that of gymnasts.
Moosehead wrote:
[quote]wide hips wrote:
i seem to have wider than average hips for a guy and i'm wondering how big of a disadvantage it is
Running is not your strong suit. Perhaps you should consider a career in child bearing?
That is so funny. I don't think I ever heard of a male saying their "hips are large". I am sure there are men with large hips but I never, until that post, ever hear a man concerned about wide hips.
Just curious but does the OP use the word "lovely" too?
no relation to sebastian wrote:
Glencoe had wide hips and ran well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencoe_I
Is he responsible for siring all you Brits funny teeth?
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Mary Cain?
For some treason Villanova runner Don Paige popped into my mind but I do not have any evidence he was indeed wide hipped. I think the term "boxy thru the hips" is what I remember someone saying about him.
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I have a mental image of him running on the MSG track with a black watchband on his right hand that got loose from the free loop that bounced in perfect time with each footfall passing by me when I was one of the timers and took and called the official splits.
things I learn because I post on LetsRun # 342887
Did you know that tuck the end of the band in thingie on a watchband is called a free loop? I had to look it up.
Wow this thread is old. I would actually be interested to know what the most efficient hip-to-shoulder ratio is for both male and female runners. I just googled “hip to shoulder ratio†and one of the results was “Tony the Tiger and our Sexual Obsession with Torso Ratios.†Anyone else like to weigh in?
sushi657 wrote:
Wow this thread is old. I would actually be interested to know what the most efficient hip-to-shoulder ratio is for both male and female runners. I just googled “hip to shoulder ratio†and one of the results was “Tony the Tiger and our Sexual Obsession with Torso Ratios.†Anyone else like to weigh in?
I doubt you will find any thing telated to best runner ratio buit you might want to look at this site with definitions of various body shapes.
http://www.calculator.net/body-type-calculator.html?bustsize=39&bustsizeunit=inch&waistsize=26&waistsizeunit=inch&hipsize=37&hipsizeunit=inch&x=98&y=6how are your wide hips going g
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