Because if you only jumped up, you'd be standing there in mid-air like a moron.
Because if you only jumped up, you'd be standing there in mid-air like a moron.
Standing still is better, unless you want to show your competition how scared and dumb you are.
A lot of 'em, rather than jumping, sway right and left. The moronic TV camera operators, in collusion with the TV directors, follow every inch of their sway, anally attempting to keep the runner perfectly centered in the TV frame.
Why? They're only swaying a couple of inches each way. The new TV shape of 16:9 has plenty of extra room on each side to accommodate the swaying, and even the old 4:3 shape would accommodate it. When they pan the camera right and left, trying to follow the athlete's swaying, all the crap in the background (crowd in the stands, etc.) whizzes by back and forth and makes me dizzy.
Google 'post-activation potentiation'.
I also liked to do that that to get the heart rate back up.
I don't want my heart rate too low right at the start.
I also found it useful to be a little late to the starting line which would get my gpgeary racing right before the start.
Slight breeze wrote:
Why... Just why? LOL
I don't.
the 800-ers and 400-ers are the worst. jumping up and down and slapping themselves on the quads and hips.
No squat racks on the track during competition, and post activation potentiation is not the same as tuck jumps...and the tuck jumps are not followed by 5-10min rest.
It's a way of intimidating the competition. And it feels good to stretch it out.
electron1661 wrote:
It's a way of intimidating the competition. And it feels good to stretch it out.
That's what she said.
Loser please wrote:
electron1661 wrote:It's a way of intimidating the competition. And it feels good to stretch it out.
That's what she said.
That's all I was trying to do when I took ExtenZe pills.