The worlds fastest/most explosive athletes from 0-15 meters are not sprinters…
How does anyone know this? Has anyone ever measured and compared the accelerative abilities of elite spritners vs. weightlifters or whoever else? It seems to me that this idea has developed out of sheer speculation.
Not that it’s an entirely idiotic notion, since muscle power is more important during acceleration that during constant speed running. But speculation is still speculation, so I wish people would stop citing this as a known fact.
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Dr. Yessis at the Mexico Olympcis. He found that olympic lifters had flexibility second only to gymnasts, and olypic lifters beat high jumpers in the vertical jump, as well as beating sprinters in the 25m dash.
[quote]wressler125 wrote:
Dr. Yessis at the Mexico Olympcis. He found that olympic lifters had flexibility second only to gymnasts, and olypic lifters beat high jumpers in the vertical jump, as well as beating sprinters in the 25m dash. [/quote]
Interesting. I was aware of the verticle jump thing but not that weightlifters had been compared to sprinters. 25m seems a little far though
[quote]belligerent wrote:
wressler125 wrote:
Dr. Yessis at the Mexico Olympcis. He found that olympic lifters had flexibility second only to gymnasts, and olypic lifters beat high jumpers in the vertical jump, as well as beating sprinters in the 25m dash.
Interesting. I was aware of the verticle jump thing but not that weightlifters had been compared to sprinters. 25m seems a little far though
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I’m pretty sure it was any distance from 10-25, but I couldnt remember more than what I said off the top of my head, and didn’t want to post on speculation.
It wouldnt be hard to look up though.
I’m pretty sure it was any distance from 10-25, but I couldnt remember more than what I said off the top of my head, and didn’t want to post on speculation.
It wouldnt be hard to look up though.
It has also been well documented by people the amazing vertical jumping ability these Olympic lifters have. This is really amazing once you think that these guys don?t jump but yet can out-jump the pro basketball players in the NBA. In the Mexico City Olympic Games Dr. Yessis did a field test with the Olympic lifters competing with the Olympic sprinters and jumpers. The had two tests, the 25m sprint and the vertical jump. It was documented that the Olympic lifters out-sprinted the Olympic sprinters in the 25m and out-jumped the Olympic jumpers in the vertical jump! This is quite a feat for men weighing 250-300lbs."
Why would an olympic athlete risk burning himself out during the games they are competing in?
The vert test seems more likely to me, but I’d like to see the actual study from Yessis. I see it cited a lot, but never actually referenced. I’m not saying it’s NOT true, it just seems weird to me.
Doubt youll find the actual manuscript. The study was done in 1966. It would be impossible to duplicate today, because most sprinters do a good amount of olympic lifting.
Still pretty amazing to think that guys that rarely sprint have a faster start off blocks than people that practice they’re start.
Yeah definitly. The start is more strength-speed than speed-strength, and there’s not a class of athletes in the world with more strength-speed than oly lifters. Although I bet shot-putters would be impressive as well for their size.
Has anyone seen that pic of Big Dave Tate jumping on to a box that I can barely scale with a block and tackle? I think I read on his log he jumped on to the top of a 48" rev. hyper too.
I was always the white kid that could never jump till I started lifting heavy and doing OLY lifting. Now I can actualy sprint and jump better than a lot of track athletes I know.
[quote]wressler125 wrote:
I was always the white kid that could never jump till I started lifting heavy and doing OLY lifting. Now I can actualy sprint and jump better than a lot of track athletes I know. [/quote]
