Ridiculous sprint workout for NFL receivers.....

All the NFL "stats" are grossly exaggerated, from the heights, body weights, bench presses, squats, 40s, etc., etc.

Depending on the recovery times, a workout such as the one described could be tough for an elite 400 runner.

If the workouts are in yards, maybe.

If they are in meters, I doubt it, especially for the 200s.

yea, most NFL workout stories are fish-tales...

has anyone seen Vernon davis? dude is massive... no way hes got a sub 50 400m in him, especially after something else..

on a related, humorous note, i recall an NCAA broadcaster claiming Adrian Peterson could leg press something like 1200 lbs with ONE LEG. After a semi-respected TV personality said that on national TV, I stopped believing any of the workout warrior tales..

no way can they run 6x200 in less than 22 seconds.

coach wrote:

no way can they run 6x200 in less than 22 seconds.

10X100 in 12 and 6X200 in 22 don't add up. That's two very different performance levels.

Clinton Portis if I remember it correctly was on his 4x400 team in college. I wouldn't say it is that much of a stretch for all the athletes they are very fast.

Many recievers run track in college and are fairly fast.

The 100s are likely just warm-ups and so the real workout is 6x200 and 2x400. Times are surely "approximate".

Alan

Coach D wrote:

coach wrote:

no way can they run 6x200 in less than 22 seconds.

10X100 in 12 and 6X200 in 22 don't add up. That's two very different performance levels.

Obviously the 100's were the warmup.

sdfa wrote:

All the NFL "stats" are grossly exaggerated, from the heights, body weights, bench presses, squats, 40s, etc., etc.

Depending on the recovery times, a workout such as the one described could be tough for an elite 400 runner.

Many wide receivers can be elite 400 runners! Napolean Kaufmann was cal state champ in 400 and then later became a Raider. Jashua Anderson broke the high school record in 300 hurdles and plays for Washington. And there was that guy from Torrance, CA who won the state 300 hurdles last year and plays for Cal. He only went out for track one season and became state champ!

Robert Smith - Ohio State (Vikings) has the regional records in Ohio:

21.00 for 200m

46.70 for 400m

Unfortunately, he had to run against the state record holder (criminal) Chris Nelloms in each event so did not win state.

Teddy Ginn seemed to have a little speed in high school.

"As a junior, he became the national champion in the 110 high hurdles and recorded the best time in the nation as a senior when he won the state title for the second consecutive year. As a senior in High School, he ran 7.44 in the 55 meter high hurdles, 7.98 in the 60 meter high hurdles, 13.26 (+2.8 wind rating) and 13.40 (-1.2 wind rating) in the 110 meter high hurdles, 21.16 in the 200 meter dash (+0.0 wind rating), 46.57 in the 400 meter dash, and 36.73 in the 300 meter intermediate hurdles. He has been timed at 10.5 seconds in the 100 meter dash and 4.31 seconds in the 40 yard dash."

http://tedginnsr.com/tedjunior/ted_ginn_jr_bio.html

NFL athletes are fast.

Plus they take drugs.

Bob Hayes

Homer Jones

Renaldo Nehemiah

Treadmillionaire wrote:

NFL athletes are fast.

The guys in the article are not. Someone write to the author.

I was in Gainesville for a National AAU meet in 1994 and the Florida football team was running repeat 400s before the meet started. I had one of the first races of the day so at like 7 am sat there and watched from the stands. And as a runner, I naturally started clicking my watch to check their splits and I was pretty impressed that the leaders were consistently running mid to lower 60s and I'm not talking about just a few repeats with long rest. Even the big guys, like LBs, TEs and even some lineman were hitting mid to upper 70s. Nothing that a good runner couldn't easily do, but still impressive for football players early in the morning in the Florida heat on a random summer Saturday.

look guys...no one said there were't footballers that are fast...why the hell are people listing football players that ran track in HS/college?

the OP is citing an article that claims specific individuals, including vernon davis

this guy:

http://tcarther.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/t1_davis1.jpg

ran some completely unrealistic sets.

the workout in the OP would give All-American 400m and 800m runners fits. there is just no way a dude who's 6-3, 250 can do that..

honsetly, i doubt those guys could even run the 100m repeats in under 12 seconds. that workout is far from a warm-up.

And they did it in pads too!

Treadmillionaire wrote:

NFL athletes are fast.

Plus they take drugs.

Yeah, pot and cocaine.

stranded traveler wrote:

The guys in the article are not. Someone write to the author.

Vernon Davis is a freak of nature. He has some of the best combine numbers in the history of the draft. It hasn't translated to success on the NFL field (he is a great blocking TE though). If you watch highlights of his from college you will see how great of an athlete he is.

I have no doubt he could do a workout like this, even at his size.