Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | David Epstein 

He is better at giving speeches because of his small shoulders. Less pressure on the lungs. Soon, other athletes will follow.

There is that moment when talking about 530 runners under a 4 minute mile since 1956 where he says less than 10 new runners added per DECADE. He makes mistakes. He's still a human.

Why would u point that out, i cant unhear his breathing now

u can hear him breathe the whole video though

I'm just here to notify @QJAndra 😘

So true lmfao

same

Abd El-Ghazali do you have the same surname as me?

So true man

facts

Ikr

@@KevinBoneSosa it looks like Prezi Classic. Does anyone know if this can be done on Prezi Next?

I am pretty sure he doesn't use powerpoint but something more akin with lucid chart

Use Prezi. An amazing website.

You stole my comment nine months before I thought of it.

Baby got buns, uhn!!!

You gonna tell him? I'mmmm not gonna tell him..... Apes may have no buns, but they do have short tempers....

Lmao

Lmao no, I can’t say I have

Well, if a 600 pound gorilla can do a one-handed chinup, you gotta respect that

Ahahahahahahaaha OMG.....

Feakos dang yours is fast mine in 1600 meters

Or is that 301 - Ur IQ? lol

😂

Legend

that's the craziest fact in the presentation

between ages 20-40 or thereabouts

Evan Brown I just met a dude, a 7’2” security guard Turns out he played in the NBA about 15-20 years ago

KD has a wingspan of 7'4 but his height is 6'10 Guy was fucking made for NBA

Aditya Aswal Theres photos of KD standing next to 6’11 players and he’s taller than them. I think he lies about his height lol

I know... who'd want to skip gynecology lectures? Especially back then?

@@davidvarnes7708 creep.

I dont know why people think there is something sexy about that. Its about the least sexy thing in medicine. No one is thinking about that while doing that stuff.

@@scottbickerton4152 Plenty of convictions of gynaecologist engaging in sexual crimes with their patients. The rate of male gynaecologists has gone down in recent times. Possibly due to not having the sort of privileges that someone like David Varnes fantasizes about and also because the good male gynaecologist don't want to be associated with the idea of male doctors who act according to David Varnes' line of behavior. We'd all do better remembering that humans are common descendants of animals and when sexual deviancy is possible, it should be assumed that at one point it will or will have already occurred in a population of humans.

@@davidvarnes7708 I would imagine a lot of what they study is diseased, damaged, or deformed...not exactly sexy.

Well then suck him off will ya

@@EpicBunty LMAO

Not sure whether you are being sarcastic or not.

he took his own advice but in picking the on what to work on.

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can you hit the gym or no

Congrats man !

I’m very happy for you!

I definitely wasn’t expecting to see you here. Awesome news, I hope you keep getting stronger.

And pretty soon someone else will beat your record of fastest 14 minutes

Kachow ski that’s what she said

@@smartaclesllama8677 you are one smart llama

True. He is a fantastic speaker, you understand him easily and time goes quickly.

Cant relate

He is dead wrong at 14:02 though. Killian Jornet is an absolute freak, he has an "astronomical VO2 Max of 92 ml/min/kg, which is among the highest levels ever recorded"

Same here lol

lmao so true

rofl....same here...after month of it popping up....

Tom Erwin same

In all fairness this one was actually worth the time, not like that weird joe rogan prison story..

You seriously didn't buy into his biased presentation, did you? Just because it's presented professionally, doesn't mean it's not BS.

@@PPA625 So how is it baised? Since u think its baised pls do explain what part of it is baised

What about when he have to learn...surely thats the most authentic learning if the concept of "authentic learning" even stands up

@@sarahl3721 authentic learning is learing something you're interested in. So it depends whether he was interested in the topic he studied and presented.

When you compare that to the social justice drivel, lies and delusion of a Ted X talk it seems even better!

Well, he's written a pretty genius sports book

Assuming you are American I have never understood why many Americans say "... how good of a..." instead of just "...how good a..."

@@joyfulzero853 many of us americans tend to have a "lazier" form of speaking in casual conversation, so saying "how good a..." would be more common. "how good of a..." is actually the proper phrase, and the one that I personally prefer to use - mostly because I'm a stickler for precise language.

@@joyfulzero853 You got ratio'd you bozo

@@joyfulzero853 I think only the British say it with an of

We're also making things harder for ourselves. Capitalistic bureaucracy to increase profit is a thing, and overproduction of unecessary products are harming our climate which in turn harms us.

redrounin no buns

umbasa! lol

Then maybe you should see a doctor.

If you're dying how are you typing?

yeah, everyone has looked at an ape's butt once or twice in this lifetime

+Hamza Tahir i agree

Are you kidding? First he claims all improvements are due to technology, then contradicts himself by pointing out that athletes train harder and smarter than ever before. And he never explained how there's been an 80 minute improvement in the marathon in less than 100 years.

That's not contradictory at all. The reason that athletes are training harder and smarter than ever is because more research has gone into the training these athletes put themselves through. We better understand biomechanics and the way that different bodies are genetically predisposed to performing better in certain sports.The improvement in marathon times is multifaceted as mentioned by sienna three.

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he explained it, kenyans didn't run in marathons 100 years ago, they weren't invited. training harder and smarter doesn't explain the big changes, the increased diversity of the population pool has.

Yes. He explains why, and pretends that once you explain the reason for a change, the change didn't happen. Bogus reasoning.

The video just shows that the changes are not natural but artificial.

clown the athlete is not anymore athletic its the extra boost being given to him or her which means it can be applied to athlete of any era and essentially says today's athlete is nothing special compared to the athletes of the past

The question "Are athletes getting faster" implies that the human gene pool somehow improved over the decades. He goes on to explain that this is not the case. Athletes today aren't faster than athletes of the past because we as humans have gotten faster, but because of changes in technology and because more people participate in sports therefore there are more freak athletes to chose from

People are born with tremendous genetics all over the past thousands of years and some aren’t so no athletes are not getting better but nutrition and training programmes are and also PED’s.

Everybody is good at something. If they try wrestling, with their long thin legs, they gonna have a pb ^^

@@Fabzil Elaborate?

@@sbwzrd athletes have bodies specified to their own category, runners have long slender and thin muscles to conserve energy and long lasting stamina, powerlifters are heavyset with fats to store energy 5. Fighters are a little bit balanced for maximum performance

You just on RU-vid to much

Cheers …. most kind. @@jrock0block80

I want to know where the limit is. How much faster can the human body theoretically run? How much more weight can it lift?

Kinda like wanting to read the End of the book huh, guess we'll have to stay healthy and strong long enough to find out :D I wanna live to be a hundred & 3

Yo are you spons Caue im interested

Hilarious and Original

That’s exactly what I was thinking 😂

agreed, when i run out of ambien ;)

that’s just do to technology

This guy is brilliant. He could see me cancer and I'd buy it.

The that's a terrible chart. Use log scale if your data range is very wide. What a terrible presentation. The data is off the chart.

looks and sounds like he just read a book on "how to give a perfect presentation." Presentation could have been quarter the duration with more info if Epstein dropped the emotional whooaa isn't this soo amazing inflection

Totally agree

jon doe ehh i wonder if you’d have the guts to do the same thing

LAS: The two issues are unrelated.

I agree. Must have participated in theater or speech at a younger age. Or he has a complete disconnect with stage fright.

If that were true, then i would be a dwarf •_•

That's a high IQ play right there

300 IQ

Bobby Silver Speech 100

and then you pulled her in and kissed her and everyone cheered and clapped.... r/thathappened

Michael Anthony this. That 10.2 could've been a 10.00 or a 10.4. Let's say it was actually 10.00, the faster case. 0.2 is a lot to shave, but handtiming it is certainly possible to be off that much. Now put Owens on a modern track, that's 1.5% decrease, so his time is now 9.85. Now add in blocks. That alone could drop to 9.75 (.10) which would break Bolts record. Now add in nutrition and new exercise protocols. Now add in shoes. Now this is what is mystifying to me. Track today takes advantage of the physiological advantages, longer limbs, etc. They have the better nutrition and s&c. They have the better technology. Some, maybe most even, use PEDs. How is it that Owens would theoretically be capable of running faster than Bolt if given the modern tools today? Owens 10.2 before the tech is only a top 3 in a state for HS (compared to now). Owens with the tech today would be a freak among freak athletes (9.8 is not too unreasonable, you're top 5 in world). So is Owens THE biggest freak, in that he can run the pace of a modern athlete in 1940s or has human performance not really increased, and mainly technology or PEDs? It kind of disheartening if true actually.

yea owens was a pack a day smoker! no way an elite level sprinter of today could smoke

JS bolts record is 9.58 btw

JS hand times are always faster compared to electronic times because the person has to react to the sound of the gun or the body movement of the runner. The clock and the gun didn’t start at the same time at they do today. Idk why U used the 10.00 instead of the 10.4.

No kidding Jesse Owens smoked?? Imagine if he didn't!! Good Lord He'd have been flying...

Hahaha. you have mono?

Yup, physically cringed when I read it.

@@hunterG60k lmao same when I read your last name

He has actually very little presentation content - a few stock image cutouts. The construct of the presentation is very good the images accompany his words and they are only present when he needs to illustrate something visually. Nothing he says is repeated on the screen. Thats the beauty.

Bear McBear

I wish I was that good at pretzels

If you continue to wish for things instead of pursuing what you want, you will never achieve it. You think Prez Trump wished to be prez and then did nothing? He attacked his dream. Now we are all benefiting.

Just learn to speak fluently and you can do the same, Stubby has the right idea

@humanISvegan why are you so mad lol? he did provide scientific evidence what are you even talking about?? are how is he jealous?

@humanISvegan You are the nonsensical one. How is he jealous? Didn't he provide you enough scientific explanations through this entire video? What are you even talking about?

I like this cunning linguist.

truth

U catch up fast. Goku also keeps breaking his limiter.

@@huskiehuskerson5300 nah, there's a difference between a limiter and limit. Goku just broke his new limit reaching new heights and there's still a new limit after that. Saitama broke the concept of the limiter, as in, he has no limit.

@@huskiehuskerson5300 fkin captain america

Pretty sure Saitama is socially disabled, nowhere in the entire manga did he show any signs of having basic social skills.

Goku isnt human. He is of godly race that forgot its own power.

Lannister

It’s Sir

Sir Roger Bannister. He was a Brit.

Not in GoT

there was Ser Roger Reyne who was killed by Tywin Lannister you know the song "Reins of Castamere" is all about that or for TV show fans "Lannister Song" sung by Bronn

humanISvegan how smart can u be then?🤔

he did his homework

Similarly, Dagestan is the foundry of wrestling champions

@@LAZLOWEYO A lot of the Kenyans got caught doping.

yeah, but are their hearts enlarged and will die at an early age?

Look up what kinda animals are in Kenya, people learn to sprint pretty fast when sharing a habitat with the fastest predators to coexist with humans

I Need More Sleep Kenyans aren’t known for being fast lol they’re known for their endurance

hahaha thanks for sharing that! no, but i wouldn't blame 'em in this day and age

brightbite lol same

I wish XD

Same

SAME.

Wooooooo At least someone thought of it! XD

no they are not. better and stronger athletes are born or discovered

@@2yc352 lol do you realize what reference he's making? XD

@@Thisisnotanid45 Kanye West' song right?

@@akhileshnidamanuri8460 How dare you

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I read a statistic somewhere that only 23 Olympic marathon runners in history finished with a slower time than the winner of the 1904 marathon. Of those 23, only 10 were not run in 1904.

Not all statistics are right

@@jondovik6250 nor they are to be taken as straight undeniable facts. There's always room for errors :)

I was about to point that out abou the timekeeper.

www.amazon.com/Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Athletic-Performance/dp/161723012X

But there is a delay at the start too, also since you can anticipate the runner crossing the finish line there is no reaction time there. That would make it plus .2

He said something about performance enhancing drugs but they usually get caught for it.

But he also didn't talk mention how the gene pool was "upgraded" due to increase in average human health standards etc. There's both pros and cons he didn't talk about, because he can't talk about everything. So he has to make it flow, therefor with the theme of the presentation I feel like this was better. He had already mentioned technology, he's not gonna talk about every single one. He didn't mention the flop for high jump or better poles for pole jumping etc.

Giannis/Ben Simmons.

Tombriderx there’s always exceptions, we talking about the average nba player

Giannis, LBJ, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Carmelo Anthony, Rodney Hood, Shaun Livingston, Brandon Ingram, Kevin Love, Kyle kuzma, Ben Simmons, there’s a lot more too. These are just the ones that come to my head initially.

KLove? Seriously? LMAO

We thought KD & LBJ were physical freaks until Giannis came along

Rok Podlogar right on my dude

Joshua Bautista lmao

HACHIMON TONKO... KAIMON... KAI! I feel the human race still has a lot of gates to go through

7th GATE OPENNNNN!

i think that´s literally what he ´s talking about

I know me too.

Yah, changed from a hobby to a career.

Yeah they were called Amateurs before, no money at all just medals.

@@xsolent why r u replying everywhere😂😂

It’s been a while and I don’t have the article but scientists found the fossilized footprints of some person in some part of Africa estimated to have run faster than any modern Olympic athlete. I guess running for your life against some of the fastest predators to have coexisted with humans is bound to break some records

Very good point

Grainy Corcelles It was a joke bro

r/whoooooosh

@@dpfilms1904 super whoosh lol

6 seconds 10 minutes 1 hour 5 days and counting ....

Dude i walk to school which is 1.2 miles away i can walk in 30 minutes

😂😂😂

I pity ur wife😂😆

probably bad

Well that person in the 1930's is at least 96 years old now so you're probably better.

Circumcision would be a major factor..... It was, I believe, less common during the 1930's. 😬

#priorities haha ;)

Desmond moonbear 😂😂😂

lol you can have the most eloquent talk video and then the comments are like this

@AC130 BOMBDROPPA So now you have no bunnz either? 😂

500th like

Yeah the human race isn't evolving athletically like the constant record-breaking would have you believe. Actually, you could say it's de-volving, the athletic capabilities of the average person has been plummeting thanks to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and a weaker education system. www.ericcressey.com/why-were-losing-athleticism If you liked the video you'll find this article interesting.

forzacavaliere everyone knows acquired traits aren't acquired. How exactly does a sedentary lifestyle select for less athletic people? It doesn't.

Peter Chiang you clearly misunderstood

I agree.

Peter Chiang read up on epigenetics, the traits aren't so much acquired or lost, they're just more likely to not be expressed or expressed (depends on the gene in particular)

about 1.5% worse

zaggernut 50 Idk, it seems like it would be like a parabola, where it gets worse for short distance, like 100m, where there isn’t enough traction to use all of your strength, not that bad for mid distance, like up to 3k, and then worse for 5k and up as it continually drains their energy over a longer course.

@@JoeARedHawk275 I remember when we use to run along the beach in Okinawa Japan for PT. Sand really feels like its sucking the life out of you through your damn feet. 4 miles later and i was finally back on asphalt kissing the ground

Just got done watchin one of your vids, this was in my up next.

Damn straight

are you sure about that sir

Nah

No, he just wears glasses lol

Yeah, how daft of them.

Punks.

^ I like all of you

I just listened to a remix of this. Ya'll savage.

You'll be ok Kieran. After all, what doesn't kill you makes your stronger.

Bill gates*

message me if you found some. I'm as interested as you.

www.amazon.com/Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Athletic-Performance/dp/161723012X

John Vatkevich I got the book

E C3 about to order

KingSalv34 let me know what you think

Daft Punk ftw!

And it's not like all races back then we're like that, it was an anomaly.

Have you seen the Pretty Good episode from Jon Bois too????

But isn't his point in the rest of the presentation that we are in fact NOT improving athletic performance per se by much, but rather a plethora of other related factors? The example at the start seems just a way to set up high expectations and then turn them around.

Daniel Marks that was his point actually. Conditions now are more optimal

Daniel Marks agreed. Half didn’t finish, the other half got drunk, and I think a few were mugged.

lol yeah we all know how that Michael Jordan vs everyone in the 50's and 60's experiment went. Watch a hockey game from 1963 and compare it to 2019.

hicks727 what experiment