Whats wrong with Leg Extensions? I can specifically remember Michael Johnson doing a form of 1 legged extensions on what looked like a modified leg extension machine. Anyway I would imagine that Bolts REAL workout is done on the track developing fast twitch fibers. Sprinters dont care about mass and chain weighted pushups…lol
Anyhow I suspect everyone wants to give Bolt advise cause hes not an American Athlete which means he must be doing sOmething wrong and his trainers CANT be among the best in the world…right?..come on guys
give credit where credit is due… remember also Jamaica’s women swept the 100m finals in the olympics and they werent all sisters …so must have something to do with their training regiment…and genetics… but really what olympic athlete is NOT genetically inclined for the specific sport that they are competing in?? Bolt… the greatest sprinter in the history of mankind… handsdown.
Good points, I just thought it was intreesting. This is a fraction of a fraction of his workout he may be in a certian phase of training who knows the bug thing is this guys the best the sports seen.
that article reminds me of the bb.com sylvester stalone crap they ran at some point, after the most recent Rocky movie. The dude is on steroids, and here they have people thinking (at such an age) they can attain that physique. Ridiculous.
Bolt is an olympian. Whatever he is doing, it’s probably not that.
[quote]vision1 wrote:
BobParr wrote:
“You should do core work and chest work to get everything strong.” - Bolt
Uh, if I wanted to use just one exercise to work my core and chest, I think I’d choose pushups with added load, like chains, or I’d do a standing cable press. I also wouldn’t be doing this 1x10, 1x8 scheme. And what’s up with the leg extensions???
I think this goes to show how genetics play such an important role at these elite levels that these guys can succeed IN SPITE of what they do in the weight room.
I think this goes to show that you’re an idiot, and what he does in the weight room isn’t all that important. It may even be that the high rep machine work he does fits well in his overall training program which contains mostly sprint/speed work. The article could also be BS considering the last paragraph about gatorade.
Who are you to tell this man to do weighted pushups???[/quote]
ummm he didn’t tell the man to do weighted pushups, he said if it were him HE would do weighted pushups
Any dude that runs sub 10s is a freak show but to run 9.58s is UNREAL. NO ONE here wilL EVER run sub 10secs with a legal wind with whatever magical training. You will have to be a genetic freak show to run sub 10 and even th en Bolt will completely DOMINATE you to no end.
[quote]myself1992 wrote:
vision1 wrote:
BobParr wrote:
“You should do core work and chest work to get everything strong.” - Bolt
Uh, if I wanted to use just one exercise to work my core and chest, I think I’d choose pushups with added load, like chains, or I’d do a standing cable press. I also wouldn’t be doing this 1x10, 1x8 scheme. And what’s up with the leg extensions???
I think this goes to show how genetics play such an important role at these elite levels that these guys can succeed IN SPITE of what they do in the weight room.
I think this goes to show that you’re an idiot, and what he does in the weight room isn’t all that important. It may even be that the high rep machine work he does fits well in his overall training program which contains mostly sprint/speed work. The article could also be BS considering the last paragraph about gatorade.
Who are you to tell this man to do weighted pushups???
ummm he didn’t tell the man to do weighted pushups, he said if it were him HE would do weighted pushups
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Thank you for pointing that out. At least you actually read my post before calling me names! I would never presume to give Bolt, or any other high-level athlete, training advice. I suspect, as others have pointed out, that the whole thing is basically a puff-piece with made-up information. If it’s actually true that Bolt does lift that way (and what was laid out is the entirety of his lifting program), then I would suspect Bolt is doing this on his own instead of working with a qualified strength coach and what he’s doing in the weight room isn’t really adding much of anything to his performance. That’s not to say that I’m criticizing his achievements on the track or the quality of his track coach.
It really doesn’t matter what he does in the weight room. Those of us who have run track know that you don’t build running speed by lifting weights. You do it by RUNNING.
Anyone who believes thats his real weight training is mentally challenged. His coach Glen mills is a really smart guy.
Bolt spent a year or two doing various hyper-extensions and pre-hab exercises to fix his hamstring problems before starting heavy weight training
[quote]TheBigV wrote:
that article reminds me of the bb.com sylvester stalone crap they ran at some point, after the most recent Rocky movie. The dude is on steroids, and here they have people thinking (at such an age) they can attain that physique. Ridiculous.
Bolt is an olympian. Whatever he is doing, it’s probably not that.[/quote]
Yeah, because steroids do all the work for you. But not supplements, take lots and lots of supplements.
[quote]Koing wrote:
Any dude that runs sub 10s is a freak show but to run 9.58s is UNREAL. NO ONE here wilL EVER run sub 10secs with a legal wind with whatever magical training. You will have to be a genetic freak show to run sub 10 and even th en Bolt will completely DOMINATE you to no end.
Koing[/quote]
Exactly. I don’t mean people on T-Nation necessarily by this, but people elsewhere don’t realise that the overwhelming statistical probability is that no matter how they trained and what drugs they did, they would never, ever break 10, let alone get close to Usain’s time.
[quote]conorh wrote:
TheBigV wrote:
that article reminds me of the bb.com sylvester stalone crap they ran at some point, after the most recent Rocky movie. The dude is on steroids, and here they have people thinking (at such an age) they can attain that physique. Ridiculous.
Bolt is an olympian. Whatever he is doing, it’s probably not that.
Yeah, because steroids do all the work for you. But not supplements, take lots and lots of supplements.[/quote]
Haha, for some reason I can just imagine someone taking that sarcasm seriously and superdosing on tribulus.
[quote]Nikiforos wrote:
conorh wrote:
TheBigV wrote:
that article reminds me of the bb.com sylvester stalone crap they ran at some point, after the most recent Rocky movie. The dude is on steroids, and here they have people thinking (at such an age) they can attain that physique. Ridiculous.
Bolt is an olympian. Whatever he is doing, it’s probably not that.
Yeah, because steroids do all the work for you. But not supplements, take lots and lots of supplements.
Haha, for some reason I can just imagine someone taking that sarcasm seriously and superdosing on tribulus.[/quote]
Yeah, it was kind of a dick move, but here lately the hypocrisy of thinking that steroids make you a cheater and put you on easy street, all the while using every supplement that might give you an edge has really gotten to me.
[quote]mrjones1914 wrote:
It really doesn’t matter what he does in the weight room. Those of us who have run track know that you don’t build running speed by lifting weights. You do it by RUNNING.[/quote]
And those of us that have REALLY run track know that sprinters are born, not trained. Sorry to break reality to you. I’ve ran with and against guys that would smoke drink and do all kinds of crap, rarely train and then go out to the track and just simply belt it down the straightaway.
[quote]daraz wrote:
You’d think with the times he’s running, that the guy would have a half an ounce of talent…[/quote]
Yeah - just imagine - huge bench, huge squat but failing a drug test