Monday, October 01, 2012

The Interesting Workout Of Glen Robinson III

I guess Glenn Robinson the pro-BB player was Glenn Robinson II. (instead of I).  I found the training pictured in the Glenn III vid fascinating.  And then B. Pressey provides the excellent PDF on the evolution in speed which all should read, and if u do, u'll see in there the aspect of improving morphology encountering improving knowledge, facilities and training to produce faster speeds, which really is another reference to what's going on in that vid. And then Pressey includes the vid of that young white guy to confound everything.  One does wonder to what degree that performance may have been drug related.  I just disliked the height of that young fellow's pre-race jump.  Nearly unreal.

Back to Glenn III and my theory that given this sort of advance in training regimen how really insignificant birth becomes.  There are, needless to say, minimum body type requirements to athleticism.  Increasingly these are going to be competing against similar superbly trained athletes.  We've yet to get there with horses, and, even, for the most part considering it.  Will be interesting for some of us to come up with a horse program that would get us there.  There are so many possible elements to this.  Leave it to future discussion since the RR blog site now has some live guinea pigs.

How are my boys doing in their training, next post.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Bill said...

That pre-race hop was one of the most incredible athletic feats I have ever seen, and it was his warm up!

All sprinters do a variation of it, but the height he achieved was other-worldly.

By 'drugs' I meant marijuana, not steroids, to clarify.

The kid, if you can believe the story, practiced his start 20 times in the hallway of his house every night before bed.

After Combest won his first national indoor tide, in the 60 meters in 1998, no less an authority than Carl Lewis said, "I have been running track for over 20 years, and he has one of the best starts I have ever seen. The sky is the limit for [him]."

So, the question begs: was his start nature or nurture? Practice or genetics?

Both likely, but only one was under his control. Fail to practice the hell out of that start and we would have never heard of him, most likely.

10/2/12, 8:00 AM  

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