If your speed genetic variants are switched off then you can't behave like an ordinary sprinter and except great results. You don't truly try until you eliminate things that won't turn on your sprint genes. Walking or running for more than a few minutes at a time won't work. You shouldt really walk at all. Then we will truly see if you can't become a sprinter
A little more info?
FinnJ wrote:
If your speed genetic variants are switched off then you can't behave like an ordinary sprinter and except great results. You don't truly try until you eliminate things that won't turn on your sprint genes. Walking or running for more than a few minutes at a time won't work. You shouldt really walk at all. Then we will truly see if you can't become a sprinter
So if I become an invalid it will help my sprinting speed?
FinnJ wrote:
You shouldt really walk at all.
That's great and all, but I kind of have other things I'd like to do with my life that would conflict with the "no walking" policy.
Most people start out with about 50-50 speed and endurance genetic expression. 80-20 are those of us who is either good sprinters or endurance athletes with little training. For them it is possible, but a lot harder to change their genetic expression.
A sprinter can easily stop sprint based training if he wants to complete a marathon although it will take time. It s much harder for someone with 80-20 endurance base to train for sprinting. Everytime he does something related to slow twitch muscles such as walking he is interfering with his ability to sprint. It takes months to years to effectively change the genetic expression
I never tried racing below the mile, I always liked xc more than track, at least through school. In track would usually race the longest distance I could at any given meet. Maybe I could run a good 400 if I trained for it, but I don't want to.
I dunno. I grew up when we would play outside, picking teams for kickball and touch football and whatnot. No internet, very few video games, nobody sitting in their house all day all summer. And some of those kids just. could. not. move. fast.
I'd bet that if I had worked with them for 5 years consistently from ages 16-21, then maaaaaybe some of them could have done a 13.5 100m . And it would have been a glorious celebration.
Not putting anybody down. Hypothetically, if somebody worked hard to get from like 19.5 to 13.5, that would be pretty cool.
Cheetahs walk a fair bit. Maybe they could sprint 100 mph if they didn't.
"Genetic expression"? Replace that with muscle fiber type then maybe we can have a meaningful conversation.
https://renaissanceperiodization.com/muscle-fiber-types-change-training-end-unfounded-debate/
Sub-8 Mile wrote:
I dunno. I grew up when we would play outside, picking teams for kickball and touch football and whatnot. No internet, very few video games, nobody sitting in their house all day all summer. And some of those kids just. could. not. move. fast.
I'd bet that if I had worked with them for 5 years consistently from ages 16-21, then maaaaaybe some of them could have done a 13.5 100m . And it would have been a glorious celebration.
Not putting anybody down. Hypothetically, if somebody worked hard to get from like 19.5 to 13.5, that would be pretty cool.
Going from 19.5 to 17.9 would be extraordinary.