How did I lose so much speed?

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12 years ago 09/06/2013 7:57pm EDT

In middle school I played 2 years of football, but in HS shifted my interest solely to basketball. WHen I was a frosh, I ran 1 season of track (very unseriously) and had an electronic, officially-timed PR of 12.03 out of starting blocks. I could grab the rim with my whole hand at 5'7" as well. After thousands of hours of basketball, I got slower and slower, and graduation came. For the past 3 years I have ran distance (Avg. ~50-70 mpw) and have really developed a passion for it. The main downside is that my pure speed has gotten slower yet, and I now at age 20 probably couldn't break 15 for 100m.

I am not on a college team, just a hobby jogger who wins a few races here and there on the local scene. Even so, I really would like to be able to improve, and don't think I can until I get the wheels turning again.

Iwould really like to be able to get SOME of my speed and power back without giving up distance running. Advice? Please...

11 years ago 09/06/2013 10:50pm EDT

re: slowpoke$#!+

Basically, Basketball is a slow twitch sport. Now, some idiots will scream that its fast twitch and parts of it are, but mostly it will cause slow twitch development.

What happened is you didn't train your fast twitch for years and now, you aren't conditioned to sprint fast.

Also jumping ability in some people can hurt sprinting ability. Some of the fastest guys in the combine have mediocre jumps (standing long, and vertical). You might be one of these people.

Basically everything you were doing was hurting your speed.

11 years ago 09/07/2013 12:41am EDT

re: ds trainers BIOTCH

ds trainers BIOTCH wrote:
Basically, Basketball is a slow twitch sport. Now, some idiots will scream that its fast twitch and parts of it are, but mostly it will cause slow twitch development.
What happened is you didn't train your fast twitch for years and now, you aren't conditioned to sprint fast.
Also jumping ability in some people can hurt sprinting ability. Some of the fastest guys in the combine have mediocre jumps (standing long, and vertical). You might be one of these people.
Basically everything you were doing was hurting your speed.

This post is so full of fail.

OP, clearly the past 3 years of running 50-70 mpw took a toll on your fast twitch muscle fibers. If you want to run fast, you have to train fast. Cut that slogging sh*t out and add in some explosive exercises and running routines.

11 years ago 09/07/2013 1:23am EDT

re: slowpoke$#!+

If you can't break 15 then you suck. Any distance guy can break 15 in a 100. You're just really, really out of shape.

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