ASBEL KIPROP - "THE SKELETON RUNNER

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

kiprop looks a bit more muscular now and we saw him doing drills, beginner style, just in the last couple offseasons, so he added some strength work.

But my own comment belies what I just said. Oops.

You can still see every bone in his body. Dude is a freak, but you kind of have to be if you're going to run that fast.

Also, I didn't notice this thread was from 2009 at first and wondered why people were talking about Webb on the first page.

Socklessrunner wrote:

picture of jordan hasay up there, she would have gotten the two mile record had she not worn socks with her victories..

even more than all that hair?

I'm jealous... Muskrat love......

Kiprop with bunjee towing apparatus, plyometric hurdles, and towing a tire in the rain. If those tires were sleds with weights on them, the whole video could pass for Jamaica.

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

People wanting to run faster would do well to emulate some of this. But if think this is the only kind of thing involved, you should go to Iten and see what they have for sale in the pharmacies (how many people in the mountains of Kenya do you think have a legitimate need to be buying EPO in their local pharmacy, and yes, I've been there and I've seen it).

When I watched the replay of his Monaco race, I was shocked at how emaciated he looked. With his sunken eyes and protruding cheeks bones, I have never seem him look so gaunt. Can't remember El G or Bernie ever looking anything like this. If this what it takes to break the WC at 1500m, and be clean (not saying he is, but testing is magnitudes better now than 10-15 years ago when those two were running fast.) I guess we all need to start dieting. The NOP gang (Cam, Centro, Hassay) along with Jager and Simpson all seem to me to be thinner and more cut this year. Any thoughts on this?

Kiprop Fan wrote:

When I watched the replay of his Monaco race, I was shocked at how emaciated he looked. With his sunken eyes and protruding cheeks bones, I have never seem him look so gaunt. Can't remember El G or Bernie ever looking anything like this. If this what it takes to break the WC at 1500m, and be clean (not saying he is, but testing is magnitudes better now than 10-15 years ago when those two were running fast.) I guess we all need to start dieting. The NOP gang (Cam, Centro, Hassay) along with Jager and Simpson all seem to me to be thinner and more cut this year. Any thoughts on this?

I hope this is mischief and you're not for real. Kiprop has a freakish build - you can't diet your way to legs that long or calves that slim.

As ever (along with requisite opportunity, preparation, motivation etc) the key to being the best in track and field is in choosing your parents wisely.

Zlatan wrote:

This is him running yesterday

http://i.imgur.com/WccHzxm.jpg

The guy is a mutant

His schlong is thicker than his calf.

No mischief intended. What I was trying to say is that even an extremely naturally thin runner like Kiprop apparently through training or perhaps diet (as do the US runners I mentioned) realize there are gains to made from controlled weight loss.