NCAA T&F Problems

[James_Smith]

@eroszag

The fact they just got competitive women, depends on 2 facts…1 cannot be discussed here, the second has been dealt with int the past; special exercise can be useful when you run 11, so bounds, speed weights and so on…not when you are faster…shorte GCT…the same at low level sprinting, many benefits from bounding, but at high level, just get more prone to injury.

Eroszag, I don’t think it’s reasonable to even consider #1 because we all know that ‘that which may not be named’ is something that was/is not restricted to particular geographical locations- as evidence by more than one of our own world class American female sprinters have been associated with it.

Regarding #2, I agree with the potential dangers of the single leg alternated and repeated bounding; however, we’d have to know that this is what every sprinter is/was subjected to before it was considered to be a major reason why there aren’t/weren’t more world class times being ran by athletes from those nations.

Additionally, Wells made a living off of those type of drills so we can’t necessarily rule out their efficacy or alternatively, consider their presence in the training to automatically exclude one from attaining world class results.

• ergo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q33pqu-zRas

and for some comic relief, an example of training that seems to be interestingly exclusive to the hordes of performancetrainingspecialistgurus in America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtdfWh-SJk

(you know what blows me away, not even the fact that some fool is using some of these exercises on athletes, but that it appears to be acceptable enough to them to post a demonstration of this type of abortion on youtube for the whole world to see)

I think we’d all agree that there’s no question that there’s one thing, above all else, that all world class sprinters have in common; and that’s the requisite morpho-biomechanical genetic potential.

this brings us back to the reason why I started this thread, which was to discuss the results of NCAA sprinters, or T&F in general, weighed against the talent pool that constitutes NCAA T&F.

I don’t have the statistics; however, it would be interesting to know how many high school sprinters enter the collegiate ranks and either:

1. only marginally improve upon their high school results over the course of 4 years, 2. don’t improve upon their high school results, or 3. become riddled with injury in college which may be a clear reflection of training related problems