In this video we show an anatomy comparison of elite sprinters of varying builds and ask how these bodytypes effect how athletes express their speed Music: HORUSIII x HICAP - We Do It No
I just want to say I had a meet yesterday, and I ran a 200m PR of 27.92. I know it's not fast but I am going to work hard to get in down to a 21-22 by my senior year. (I am a freshman;15yo)
You're on the right track, working on the ground strike and dynamic movements will help. Speed maintenance work by doing some 250 and 300 meters work during your season is also a great way to increase your speed during the finish, also doing high rep and low weight in the gym. You got this! good on you young man.
The title picture shows how muscular Bolt really was especially for his long limbed structure. Bolt has the perfect body shape. Narrow hips, wide shoulders, long limbs, a proximal not distal weight distribution (very important). So Bolt was the perfect sprinting mashine. Guys like Asafa or Gatlin are also pure power in person. But at 6ft 5 and 200lbs Bolt must be an alien period.
His torso is definitely too small compared to his limbs. For ideal body he would need to do bench press and pull ups. I don’t think he had done any of those
@@DimitriTheBarbarian Sry it's about sprinting and power not bodybuilding. Bolt had the biggest widest shoulders of out there without uch if any lifting. He had the genetics of course. Strength training by lifting weights or even calisthenics don't help to run faster. At the highest level it even makes athletes slower because it's very unspecific. For the same reason a strength athlete will not focus on sprints the sprinter should not focus on strength. specificity is very important in training.
@@Leonidas-eu9bb I understand. I was just trying to explain that he doesn’t have “perfect body shape”. He is a great athlete but he is specifically built just like any modern day athlete: their body shape fits best for their specific sports. If we talking about best body shape I would say it’s Decathlon because these athletes have to perform in various disciplines.
1:38 Lemaitre actually has a decent amount of lower body muscle. Just proportionally his upper body looks tiny. I think that that is the key thing, you can get away with having a small upperbody in sprinting as its not super relevant but all of the "slim/skinny" sprinters still have well developed hamstrings and often but less prominently quads. I think often times the guys who have good lower body muscles have a developed upper body because they are just good at building muscle in general but its only a couple of specific muscles that benefit from size.
Lemaitre was the only sprinter that looked like someone that never did any exercise. I never understood how he was like that. He must have been very bad at building muscle
Yeah I went from 170lbs to 155lbs and took a full second of my 150m times. There's also the strength in flexibility component. Longer range exercises give you stronger tendons and ligaments which leads to less injuries. So if your someone that prioritizes short range movements and bulky muscle. You might gain explosiveness but your tendons might suffer because the haven't be trained to handle those forces. Therefore more injuries will occur.
Very true I strongly encourage athletes do a reverse triangle system in the gym. Where u start off with heavy weights low reps. As the weight goes down the reps go up. This will keep u lean increase muscle endurance all while getting stronger, once I did this and dropped 15 lbs man I was running waaay faster
Stretching is a myth. It'll slow you down in the race if you stretch before running. Tendon stiffness is the secret to explosive speed. So u dont want to be flexible. There's a reason why men on average are less flexible, it's an advantage physically to have stiff joints & tendons. Think of tendons like a rubber band. A flexible rubber band has great mobility but less force capabilities & is easier to tear than the stiffer rubber band.
@@jasonphan2001 lol well the fastest runners naturally are gymnast, so that goes out the window. I think there's a shift between conventional wisdom and new understanding of what makes a great athlete. Where's starting to do more long range movements and it's leading to faster times and less injuries, so you couldn't be more wrong in the subject. Plus anytime I see an explosive athlete that get injured I know they prioritize short range movements over long range ones.
@@chriscodling6573 the conventional knowlege was that stretching is good, it's not. What top sprinters are "naturally" gymnasts? What i said is actually true. Do some research.
In H.S when I was around 160 lbs. I was naturally faster and could run longer vs now at 200 lbs even tho I train more and eat better. The extra 40 lbs makes a difference
At some point we have to understand that its not about a particular physical structure or muscle composition etc. This is a thing based on a case-by-case instance. every person has a unique physical structure which reacts a certain way to certain types of training. you can have a shorter physical structure yet uniquely have superior athletic abilities than certain taller structures that could be classified as having superior athletic abilities. there's no formula really. EG At some point not a lot of people thought a man of Usain Bolt's physical structure could run that quick.
Great video! I really enjoyed it. Only critique I have is that the explanation to why sprinters have skinny ankles was wrong. The analogy was also wrong. If the surface area of the pogo stick was larger, the same amount of force would be transmitted because the spring inside the pogo remains unchanged. The reason why the best runners have skinny ankles is because the rotational inertia about the knee joint is less when more mass is closer to the knee.
good mobility is important for running and it is not always about strength..Take a look at tegogo mobility at 2:04 and you see why he runs that fast while mainting good sprint mechanics/posture
@@samo6083 Yohan is not that muscular and also he has a balanced start and finish. He has split 6.35 through 60m and has the fastest ever 200m finish in 9.12. Yoah has balanced stats, Omanyala is definitely stronger in the second half of the race. Funnily enough Omanyalas 200m is terrible even though he has good top end and good speed endurance through 100m. Hes probably way too heavy for the 200.
@@user-rn7vq5og7o Former rugby player from what I've heard about him hence his size also genetics of course. Pretty sure his tribal ancestors are naturally stockier than the ancestors of say Kipchoge.
Ive trained with Harry AA at Loughborough and honestly he’s got the most incredible genetics of ALL TIME body building wise. If he did body building he’d be up there with Ronnie Coleman. He had a HUGE chest at 18. It’s mental.
I find the 'thin extremities' explanation a bit confusing and unconvincing; could it not rather be that it's easier to swing a stick that is thin at the far end? Bowyers and archers understand that a bow needs to be thin at the tips if the stored energy of the drawn bow is to successfully transfer into speed. You might think that thick tips would mean even more potential for stored energy so be a net gain, but no: the increased tip-mass slows the speed with which the tips return to straight on release (of the string), which results in a slower arrow.
My only concern are the new carbon shoes some sprinters use that gives out more force than what's put in. That's illegal, and is equivalent to using a trampoline to dunk then claim you can jump higher than vince carter or MJ
@@khumokwezimashapa2245 Weight to height ratio would be a more important metric. He's heavier than others because he's taller, not because he's bigger.
Longer limbs is better for extending the torso and abdomin. My legs are short but my shoulders and torso is a bit longer. It's all about torso and center of the body.
It is about how much force the body can produce. Smaller people have shorter strides but are usually quick. Taller people produce more force and are usually slow they have long strides
They have the best body for sprinting but not for long distance running, swimming, climbing, weightlifting, jumping etc practitioners of all those sports are physically fit. There is no superior sport.
joshuadavis5899 I think he means they have the best bodies that can transfer to alot of different sports. Alot of non-olympic sprinters can (some very successfully) became good American football and rugby players. Sprinters have incredible strength for their body size meaning they would probably do good in powerlifting. They're technically coordinated (though not genetically gifted) for weightlifting. Lean enough to be decent at swimming. List goes on.
I'm not sure how heavy he was those years but according to this commentator he was dropping his weight from 95kg to near 90kg in 2010. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8diiLzjdegs.html Lets say he was 91-92kg in this race, he was pretty big looking there In 2007/2008 he may have been between 87-90kg
I spent a whole day watching Bolt clips , so I thought that long persons can get higher top speed if they have the muscles move those long legs. If you look at it as a technician smaller hip results in less work with arms. Though I wonder if blood in the arms have time to get to legs in 10 seconds , maybe it don't matter.
Na minha escola tem um cara musculoso que passou o campeão da cidade nos 100 metros, com a marca de 12:40 descalço correndo no asfalto, o campeão tem 1,70m de altura e o outro 1,85m de altura
ok, but there is something not kept in mind, the number of miofibers, two miofibers produce more force than one, and it is not necessarily reflected in size
In simple laws of physics, it requires more strength and power to move a bigger, heavier object. This is basically saying that Usain Bolt had to work much harder than the other sprinters to run the times he did. He was literally a sprinter in a basketball player's body being the same size as Michael Jordan
I'll be the 1st person to tell you, bulking up for sprinting is OVERRATED! It's better to not be big enough than it is to be too big. Once you gain muscle, you're likely not going to lose much of it. Sprinting promotes muscle growth. You may lose a few pounds of fat but you're likely to maintain most of your muscle just by sprinting alone. My resistance training now mainly consists of resisted sprints, hills, and weighted jump/plyometrics. Adding more muscle especially hinders you in the longer sprints.
все это лабудень. Рекордные результаты и забеги с высочайшими показателями происходят очень редко и то как тело атлета меняется в следствии физических нагрузок, приёма стероидов и тд практически не коррелирует с результатами. Если бы была зависимость ее бы уже многократно использовали. Плохо поел, или посрал влияет куда сильнее))
Just watch Hussein Bolt run, ((being the TALLEST SPRINTER in the world)),.... And count how many strides the TALLEST SPRINTER in the world 🌎 needs to take,.... In comparison to other short powerful Sprinters,.... And you will see and understand what the difference is. And... Type in; "Greyhounds 🐺chase Rabbit 🐇... And just watch how the rabbit takes off at least ((TWICE)) as fast as the dogs do,.. but how they intercept the poor bunny 🐰 in the long stretch. It's just that simple. Hussein Bolt's advantage, is that he is the TALLEST SPRINTER on the track. Imagine if there were other powerful TALL Sprinters on the track with bolt... I think that he would have some SERIOUS "TALLER" COMPITITION! 👍🏾😎✊🏾
There were other tall sprinters on the track with Bolt and he was faster than them (Ryan Bailey was 6'4 and couldn't catch Bolt in any race). Bolt was only a couple inches taller than Asafa Powell and many of the other tall sprinters he faced. Tall doesn't make you fast (there are taller sprinters today that aren't close to Bolt, the closest is Fred Kerley at 6'4 who ran 9.76 last year). And you know his name is Usain not Hussein right? His advantage was being powerful and quick while being tall but that wouldn't matter if he wasn't powerful and quick in the first place.
‘GOAT’ is a meaningless phrase now. Shelly Ann has holds no record. How is she a GOAT if many women have run faster than her, including he contemporaries? Longevity alone is not enough. You have to be the fastest or at least to have held records.
@@zolaeight7574 She's 3rd fastest all time and has the most gold medals. She also was the fastest in the world in 2022 running multiple 10.6's which had never been done before. Are you not aware of this? I will agree the "GOAT" thing is stupid.
The lean with strength. However building muscle helps prevent injury. The slimmer athlete tend to d’s e more injuries wayde degrasse lemaitre gardiner.
Have any sources on that? Lots of bigger athletes have also had injuries, then you have Kim Collins whos still ran sub-10 at 40 years old & is slimmer than most sprinters.
@@richardgallimore5976 he’s a rare case. But if you look at gatlin and Powell they were able to run until they’re late 30s bolt was breaking down by his late 20s. Even in the league Lebron is able to play longer bcuz of his size strength and flexibility
@@certifiedchaos4643 I don't see that as a correlation to body type/musculature, unless you have some sources on this. Bolt didn't take training as seriously in 2017, as he was only still running because that was the last year of his contract. He wanted to stop after Rio, as he accomplished everything there was to accomplish in the sport & didn't really want to compete in 2017. He didn't compete in the 200, & based on his times clearly didn't train as hard. Bolt is the only athlete in the top 6 fastest men of all time that hasn't failed a drug test. Other sprinters who are on substances can for sure recover fast than they should be able to well into their 30s. MJ & Kobe also played until around 40 years old, & they're not as big as Lebron.
@@richardgallimore5976 let me clarify athletes who tend to have stronger cores and strong base tend to last longer . Mj played with bum knee Kobe had Mcl injury Achilles injury a torn labrum. They weren’t nearly as explosive Lebron. Also Lebron has strong leg muscles As a sprinter u generate so much force and you shock your central nervous system. So it’s imperative that you build muscle to handle that force.
@@richardgallimore5976 Trayvon bromell aleia Hobbs had injuries early on. But once they got in the weight room and added muscle mass their performance improved
That's not how steroids or genetics work. I knew someone who was big and muscular coming out of middle school and last I checked he was a semi pro football player. I also know people who are naturally big without weights but when they start lifting their bodies respond quickly and they gain mass easily. Genetics plus training will do that.
about ankle and bone size. you do not land on your ankles now do you, but on your feet. I legit laughed at this blatant reaching. a bigger bone structure is alway better
