Does anybody ever recall prodigies like this just flattening out and not improving at all? I'm not talking about injuries. More like early puberty growth spurts and maybe his body type changing and the athlete losing the ideal body type for the event?
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Originally posted by Track fanDoes anybody ever recall prodigies like this just flattening out and not improving at all?
More like early puberty growth spurts and maybe his body type changing and the athlete losing the ideal body type for the event?
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Originally posted by Track fanDoes anybody ever recall prodigies like this just flattening out and not improving at all? I'm not talking about injuries. More like early puberty growth spurts and maybe his body type changing and the athlete losing the ideal body type for the event?
I like the phrase in the article that "his time is under review because he had a 2.1-mph wind at his back." I wonder how long this review takes.
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Originally posted by SpeedfirstReally this shouldn't come as a big surprise, from the ages of 7 to 13, is when you have the window to improve fast twitch. Now not knowing what his training consist of, I would venture to say some genetics are involved here as well.
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Originally posted by lonewolfOriginally posted by unclezadok[I like the phrase in the article that "his time is under review because he had a 2.1-mph wind at his back."
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Originally posted by guruof trackOriginally posted by SpeedfirstReally this shouldn't come as a big surprise, from the ages of 7 to 13, is when you have the window to improve fast twitch. Now not knowing what his training consist of, I would venture to say some genetics are involved here as well.
But it is to the advantage to any athlete to begin training earlier than later, especially fast twitch and in particular type IIx.
If you can train, recruit and develop these muscle fibers to fire optimally at an earlier age, you again are better off than those who wait and/or never put forth the type of efforts those athletes who undertake this.
We both have seen and/or experienced the so-called gifted natural athlete, you know who steps on the track without hardly any real serious training and whips practically everyone. I am speaking now the youth, Jr. high athlete, however when he or she reached high school and in particular the varsity level and now is facing talent equal to theirs both who train more, no longer is there this dominance.
Again those athletes, even those gifted ones who start off earlier training, will be the better off as a result.on the road
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Puberty does funny things. Pre-puberty, my son was always the fastest kid in school in baseball, football and track. When he and his peers hit puberty, he shot from 5-8 to 6-1 overnight. He was still fast but lost that sprint dominance.
Motivated, I believe, by his dislike for a braggart classmate who had been the dominant "distance" runner, he ran 100 mile weeks training until he was one of the fastest milers-two milers-xc in Texas; blessed with a residual kick that few of his competitors could match. He could barely break 50 in the 440 and 2:00 in the 880 but if allowed to loaf thru a 10:00 pace two mile and it was his last event of the meet, he would sometimes run the last lap in 52-53, then apologize later for "showing off."
A taciturn sort, he would never discuss stategy pre-race, declare a goal or predict a time. HIs only post-race comment was usually, "I could have gone farther, I just couldn't go any faster."
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Originally posted by lonewolfOriginally posted by bad hammyTakes just a tick or two off of the old age-11 record of 54.21. :shock:
http://dominique.100free.com/ops:
At least, I am still better than all the girls/women except in the HJ where I have to back up to age 16.ops:
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Has the human race evolved that much in a half century? :?
Take a look at Robin Reynolds holding 3 age-group records in the 400m. She is already something special.
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Originally posted by guruof trackI'm confused as to how Bolt can have the 18 year old record for a time he recorded when he was 17??
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