Ever coached identical twins or are one?

One of my teammates has an identical twin on another team. The other twin is significantly more muscular and attractive, but ours is faster. We think it may be a compensation issue.

citius5000 wrote:

So a couple years ago i coached a set of identical twins the only difference being they routed for difference baseball teams lol. So both had exactly the same background and did the same training and both even had the same hip injury freshman/sophomore year. So both twins ran the mile in 5:22ish freshman year, sophomore year 5:13ish, junior year 4:52. But senior year one goes 4:42 and the other stays at 4:52. All other PRs basically the same. Thoughts to why? I figured it became more mental to the slower twin who didn't improve his senior year. Just thought this could be an interesting topic for discussion. Rojo and Wejo i would love to hear your opinions also.

So, So, So..

"rooted"

Crappy coaching.

Weren't Josh and Jordan McDougal identical?

I once had 7 sets of identical twins on my hs track team.

I am an identical twin. My brother could run fast ( not saying i'm fast) he just focuses on his music and stuff.

No real difference except that I have asthma and he doesn't, it really is all mental.

In your situation I can guarantee you one of them put in the mileage and other did not. It's all about working hard.

If anyone has any other questions feel free.

cool kid wrote:

one of them put in the mileage and other did not.

A number of years ago I coached twins. Both put in lots of mileage and both were state champs. That was such a fun time!!

I'm coaching twin freshman girls right now. In the fall they were in separate races, one in varsity and one in JV. Their finishing times were within three seconds of each other. One is typically faster than the other. The faster one is also in more honors classes. It's an interesting dynamic having one twin that seems to excel slightly more than the other in multiple areas of their lives.

These two do get hurt a lot from their competitive dance schedule. So time will tell if one continues to slightly out perform the other.

Genetics is only part of one's biology. Identical twins are often not identical and sometimes don't even look like identical twins at all. This is due to two major things: 1) the two twins are exposed to different things after they're born, and 2) zygotes typically don't split exactly evenly, so the amount of nongenetic stuff in the cell isn't evenly distributed. You wouldn't think this would matter much, but zygotes are incredibly sensitive to even minute influences. Even the biology of a baby can be greatly influenced based on what it's exposed to. Most twins end up looking a lot alike but having some distinct features as well. Two brothers I knew had quite different personalities for instance, and one was about 10 pounds heavier than the other. The lighter one went on to be much more successful though, even though their lives were nearly identical through high school.

With twins it's actually most common for one to be a little more dominant the other. One is just a little stronger or faster. Must suck to be the other twin, but that's just how it goes.

I am a twin, during my freshman year of xc I was 47 seconds faster than my brother, ever since freshman year of track he has been significantly faster than me.

What was the difference - I got injured multiple times and he did not, I had an iron deficiency issue for longer than him.

I have always had much worse form than him (though I am now improving) which is probably what caused the injuries.

FWIW - I was born a little heavier than my brother and am a little more muscular/taller, I had slightly better grades and better SAT scores than him but would not necessarily say that I am much smarter than him. We have different personalities yet they are not that far apart.

Because I was so much faster than him as a freshman I still wonder if I was/am more talented than him, developed earlier or what caused that.

Benefit of having a twin who also runs - built in training partner.

Thats what i used to tell my twins that theirs two of them to motivate each other and theres no reason not to get in the summer miles lol. These two didnt get serious until junior year but still had a hard time getting in the miles in the offseason. Built in training partner didnt always work lol.