Title says it all.
Title says it all.
They will look like they are from Kenya.
When you look at a Greyhound or Thoroughbred, what do they look like they are built to do?
Number one thing is to be injury resistant. Some will run their best not looking like toothpicks i.e. Peter Snell, John Walker, Ben True, Chris Solinsky, etc. In reality, we are all built to run.
Who cares? It’s all about heart/lung size and structure,
You can get someone naturally skinny, sterotypically athletic aerodynamic build who weighs 140 lbs with a weak as sh!t heart race against a 190 lb stocky dude with 20% bodyfat with natirally good cardio structure and the stocky guy would win every time simple as.
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Number one thing is to be injury resistant. Some will run their best not looking like toothpicks i.e. Peter Snell, John Walker, Ben True, Chris Solinsky, etc. In reality, we are all built to run.
Back in the elite hunter days thousands of years ago, Michael Phelps with his build would have protected the tribe. Phelps would have had to learn MMA skills. Runners with very short legs for their height are not built to run.
Not Mike Phelps wrote:
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Number one thing is to be injury resistant. Some will run their best not looking like toothpicks i.e. Peter Snell, John Walker, Ben True, Chris Solinsky, etc. In reality, we are all built to run.
Back in the elite hunter days thousands of years ago, Michael Phelps with his build would have protected the tribe. Phelps would have had to learn MMA skills. Runners with very short legs for their height are not built to run.
I guess you've never heard of Luke Puskedra, Andrew Wheating, Jack Bacheler etc.
skull shape something prefontal cortex something else interocular distance, forehead slope...etc the list goes on
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Not Mike Phelps wrote:
Back in the elite hunter days thousands of years ago, Michael Phelps with his build would have protected the tribe. Phelps would have had to learn MMA skills. Runners with very short legs for their height are not built to run.
I guess you've never heard of Luke Puskedra, Andrew Wheating, Jack Bacheler etc.
Yes, they were built to run. Many others, including Phelps and probably you were not.
Very skinny. Someone with long distance running genes will have around a 18.5 bmi without trying. By eating like a pig, anything they want, their bmi won't go above 19. They don't get tired and always seem to have energy, never wanting to just sit around.
What about leg proportions; hip structure; leg structure; etc.?
Inquiring Runner wrote:
What about leg proportions; hip structure; leg structure; etc.?
See "Kenyan".
Two legs. Preferably arms as well.
Skinny wrote:
Very skinny. Someone with long distance running genes will have around a 18.5 bmi without trying. By eating like a pig, anything they want, their bmi won't go above 19. They don't get tired and always seem to have energy, never wanting to just sit around.
It's crazy to think that Toshihiko Seko ran a 2:08 at a BMI at around 21, or that Joseph Ebuya was ever elite having a BMI of 23.4, or how David Black (BMI at around 19.7) was out kicked at the commonwealth games by Dick Tayler (BMI of 21), same thing when Alan Webb debuted in the 10000m how did he out kicked Ritzenhein? Ritz BMI of about 18 vs Alan Webb BMI of around 21.
As already noted wrote:
Inquiring Runner wrote:
What about leg proportions; hip structure; leg structure; etc.?
See "Kenyan".
Abel Mutai is listed as 6'1.5 and 161 ibs or a BMI of 21.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_MutaiJoesph Ebuya is listed on his IAAF profile as 5'6 and 145 ibs or a BMI of 23.4
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/joseph-ebuya-210293Haven't seen any stats yet, but Eric Kiptanui looks very jacked and built. I'm very interested in seeing what his height and weight is. This idea that one has to starve themselves to reach a certain number on the scale is very counterproductive to running. But we keep on seeing it time and time again, runners starve themselves and than never run like they once did(see Alan Webb and other runners under Alberto Salazar).
In jog and sprint races, the order of finish is not the same as would be the order of finish in a fast race from the start. At Ritzenhein's best he would have beaten Webb 19 times out of 20 in fast 10000m races. Look how weird were the results, 2016 Olympics men 1500m. No one believes if 800m mark were completed in sub-1:51 Centro would have won gold. Steve Scott did better than expected in some jog and sprint races. Didn't Scott outkick Steve Ovett in a jog and sprint 1500m or mile race in 1977?
Some are muscular wrote:
As already noted wrote:
See "Kenyan".
Abel Mutai is listed as 6'1.5 and 161 ibs or a BMI of 21.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_MutaiJoesph Ebuya is listed on his IAAF profile as 5'6 and 145 ibs or a BMI of 23.4
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/joseph-ebuya-210293Haven't seen any stats yet, but Eric Kiptanui looks very jacked and built. I'm very interested in seeing what his height and weight is. This idea that one has to starve themselves to reach a certain number on the scale is very counterproductive to running. But we keep on seeing it time and time again, runners starve themselves and than never run like they once did(see Alan Webb and other runners under Alberto Salazar).
They are still built like Kenyans.
200 metres freestyle swim results in 50m pools are nearly equal to 800 metres track & field results on outdoor 400m tracks for both men and women. If Phelps' short legs relative to his height did not hinder his running ability then surely Phelps could have raced sub-1:50 800m according to your theory.
jog & sprints wrote:
In jog and sprint races, the order of finish is not the same as would be the order of finish in a fast race from the start. At Ritzenhein's best he would have beaten Webb 19 times out of 20 in fast 10000m races. Look how weird were the results, 2016 Olympics men 1500m. No one believes if 800m mark were completed in sub-1:51 Centro would have won gold. Steve Scott did better than expected in some jog and sprint races. Didn't Scott outkick Steve Ovett in a jog and sprint 1500m or mile race in 1977?
Steve Ovett is listed as 6'0 and 154 ibs or BMI of 20.9
Steve Scott is listed as 6'1 and 161 ibs or BMI of 21.2
Very similar BMI's of the two runners who are considered the GOATS of distance running:
Kenenisa Bekele 5'3 and 123 ibs or BMI of 21.1
Haile Gebrselassie 5'4 and 119 ibs or BMI of 20.4
Not Mike Phelps wrote:
200 metres freestyle swim results in 50m pools are nearly equal to 800 metres track & field results on outdoor 400m tracks for both men and women. If Phelps' short legs relative to his height did not hinder his running ability then surely Phelps could have raced sub-1:50 800m according to your theory.
The Japanese have short legs relative to their height.
To answer your question, narrow and “high” hips, symmetrical knees, high cut calves and short heels. However, the stuff you can’t see if the most important such as heart and lung size, mitochondria density and all that jazz.