If BJ ran a 100 m race TODAY, how fast would that be? 10.8-11.2 range?
seeing as he is “coaching” im pretty sure hes keeping in shape, im sure hed break 11, dont know if it would be easy, but i`d bet on it!
have a look:
http://www.benjohnson-979.com/
Take my word for it, coaching is no recipe for performance.
Do you know how to tell the difference between a personal trainer and a coach at a glance?
The coach is the slob working with the really fit guy, and the PT is the really fit guy working with the slob.
(Not always- but often enough. After all, you can’t pay attention to your athletes and work out with them at the same time, and if you do your job as a coach, you’d soon be unable to keep up with your charges anyway!)
difference between coach and pt…tooooo funny!!! Thanks for the laugh.
That’s priceless, Charlie! I think everyone shopping around for a coach (or trainer) should bear that in mind. Look at the condition of the athlete, not the “guru”.
Charlie…
I think you just coined another saying for the history books with that statement on Coaches/PT’s.
Great stuff
Rupert
CharlieFrancis.com
Flash
Does this remind you of a “walk the walk” reference out there? “Hey! He might not be original but he’s pretty!”
Nice one!
I was going to post referring to that quote Charlie -
'nuff said.
There is more truth to what Charlie said than some people might believe. The More clients that I get, the harder it is to train myself and hold a job.
Charlie, that’s exactly what I was thinking when I read your post.
Super quote Charlie. and so very true.
priceless,i’ll add that to my list of CF quotes
so true charlie. is there any possibility of bj ever posting on this site? just wondering.
I also wonder if BJ will ever post on this great site. I emailed BJ’s site Mid-Summer last year asking about posters, videos etc. and a few months later I received an email stating that BJ had been out of the country training others. There was also mention of a book coming out by BJ in the Fall of 2003.
The name at the bottom of the email was Ben Johnson. I wonder if it was really him.
-Balance
So what Charlie is saying is that we can expect Linford Christie to look like a slob in a couple of years :sing:
Linford won’t be a slob for while yet guys!
11 seconds would be easy for him to run methinks…u dont need a gargantuan amount of training to run 11…
hell if i can do it…
I saw a brilliant documentry on Ben and in it, he said he beat a guy at school and ran 11seconds. So he ran 11seconds when he was 15 or something.
I say Ben would run 11.35 !
Training is that much important.
Muscle Memory is the key here
Kenny Mac~~
Yo people imagine if all the old timers got togther to race for charity or something.
Carl Lewis
Linford Christie
Ben Johnson
Lerol Burrel (can’t spell)
Raymond Stewart
And the rest!
I think that linford christie would win, this guy is a machine.
Got to big up all my people!