The Insane Ways Track and Field Transforms Your Body
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Discover the jaw-dropping changes that happen to you when you're an elite track and field athlete!
Athletics isn't just a sport; it's a catalyst for unbelievable body transformations. In this video, we dive deep into what happens to athletes when they push their limits in various track and field events.
00:00 INTRO
00:55 SHOT PUT HAND
02:05 (ALMOST) UNBREAKABLE BONES
03:11 RUNNER'S BLOOD & PAIN
05:00 FASTER & SMARTER
07:07 LIVING LONGER
Find out how how sprinting increases your cognitive abilities and how the triple jump can make your leg bones almost unbreakable. Learn about the remarkable adaptations that come with shot putting, middle to long-distance running, and more. From extreme muscle development to incredible cardiovascular enhancements, see how track and field shapes the human body in ways you never imagined and uncover the science behind the astonishing transformations from one of the most demanding sports on the planet!
#TrackAndField #Athletics #Sprint #Endurance #sportsscience
References:
Triple Jump bone density: europepmc.org/article/med/115...
Cardiac output in untrained, trained runners and elite runners: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.11...
Pain study comparing non athletes, soccer players and endurance athletes: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Sprinting study comparing muscle size and strength of untrained, sub-elite and elite sprinters pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33009...
Increased BDNF in sprint runners: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
8124 former US olympians lifespan study: bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/4/206 - กีฬา
This is one of the most informational videos of track I've ever seen. Its super detailed! I learned so much information from watching this.
That is great to hear! Really appreciate that, thank you.
Now this is the type of information they need to include in the Netflix sprinting series and promo spots for olympics. Amazing! Track and field is so underrated, partly because people have no idea what goes on behind the scenes and what athletes have to do to perform at these levels. Also, I threw shot put in high school and college and had no idea that happens to the hand, guess I didn't have enough power to do that. Keep these videos coming, need more of this!
Thank you, completely agree! More track videos on the way 👍
Not many people can understand the obsession needed for track & field and endurance sports. I would like to think I’m a decent marathon runner. Latest marathon being 2:40:30 at the age of 40. I have run 34 marathons and have no intention on stopping. I wake up at 4-5 am most mornings and just grind away to get my 80-100 miles in a week with 3-4 strength sessions and 3-4 flexibility/stretching along with some biking sprinkled in. People think I’m crazy and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
@@Marathon5151damn that’s solid mileage! Do you include tempos / short intervals? Avoid alcohol?
@@TirnanHealyYes, I include tempo, fartlek, intervals, strides and hill sprints. I don’t remember when’s the last time I drank alcohol and I became vegan July 2023 to increase recovery.
That is a solid marathon at ANY age!! Wow!! Keep doing the thang, man!! That is why I am getting back into competition and training at age 66. I miss it and it helps me feel better, and my athletes can see that you are never to old to have fun and compete!!
40% more blood and unbreakable bones - T&F athletes are basically superheroes.
Agree!
As a community college level Distance runner, this is why we need to get more attention to track and field as a sport in the US. When the US hosted the track and Field World Championships, I was watching in the stadium, and there were empty seats (imagine if there were empty seats at the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, World Series, World Cup, etc.). Training in these events makes you live longer, and more people should be able to see it. All of this is not to mention how many people do track in high school as a sport.
Great points, track & field is the #1 sport in high school in the US, we need to figure out how to keep people excited about it.
Been following the science of sprints for over 15 years and had no freaking clue it made you a little smarter too. Happier I knew, but smarter? Awesome.
I'm not elite level, but I've done endurance sports for 30yrs. My doctor regularly has to ask me to move around so that my resting heart rate and blood pressure will register on his machine as I'm lower than it's designed for.
XDDDD
Being a 45 year old sprinter who can reach a top speed of 18-20 mph and ran 100m in 13sec. That is some good stuff in the video. And I definitely need to focus on stride length.
That's cap.
@@jackdaniels2905 13 sec at 45 is do-able. very athletic but if you train yeah
@@jackdaniels2905 13 is not crazy
#Jackdaniels2905 it's not crap. 13 seconds for a 45 year old sprinter with no spikes or blocks is almost world class speed at the Master/senior levels. Go so some research on official 100m track times in my age group before you type.
@billybussey 13 is crazy. I'm world class fast and I'm faster than 98% of the world population in my age group. Do some research before you reply incorrectness.
This is gold. As a track athlete losng motivation because of summer break, this really pumped me with motivation to workout! Really enjoyed this type of video, please keep this up.😍
Heck yeah, that is great to hear! Keep after it 👊
Lock in! Go get em💪
As a track coach I have never seen this topic addressed in such an entertaining way. Very well done
Thank you, really appreciate it.
I remember that workouts were so painful and agonizing that after they ended, it felt like normal life was on Easy Mode + Runners High.
Like oh, I got to do an essay now, that's not as painful as the workout I just did :)
That is a fantastic insight! Great example of how athletics carry over into other parts of life.
Saying that elite sprinters dont have greater stride frequency than normal runners is misleading. Maybe this is true towards the top end, but the ability that sprinters have to rapidly exchange their legs in the first ~30 meters cant ever be replicated by normal runners.
Interesting hypothesis, would be very interested to see the data on that.
this is called content. underrated content. but that's the best part because it takes time to spread the word. good going guys.
Much appreciated!
The most excellent yet the most underrated sport on the planet.
Totally agree!
I really wish I stuck with track & field growing up. I was an excellent short distance sprinter. Always wondered why certain muscles were bigger than others, but it all makes sense.
It was a really great idea to show scientific litterature in the video
It could be even more fantastique if you could put them in the bio
Thanks, absolutely, just added links to all scientific literature in the description.
@@OutperformOfficial Thank you very much, you do an amazing job to promote and explain track and field!
I took up sprinting in my early 30s and even though I’m not super fast, my body is on another level (jacked and maintaining 8-10% BF for years).
Nice! Same here, getting back into sprinting many years after college and it is an incredible workout. Fantastic for growth hormone energy and fills in the gaps of traditional weight lifting. Also, it's a lot more fun than squats and deadlifts.
and that's the reason me being an endurance runner, i strength train with some compound lifts where i can lift double my BW and whenever i do hill training, I SPRINT, my max at hill was 24.1kmph for 3 sec out of 15 sec of uphill.
These are insane how fast the body adapts🔥😮
Great motivations to keep training into the Masters ages.
If you feel goosebumps watching this, we should be friends.
Love this video! I did track for 4 years (in high school) and I learned quite a bit from this video. This needs to be more well known information because then more people would probably be interested in the sport.
Thank you, absolutely agree!
Best TH-cam Chanel 🙌
Really appreciate that! 🙏
This had some seriously good information, might have even convinced me to do more long distance running
Heck yeah, endurance training is definitely a life changer!
Great break down
This is such a great, informative video that gives info without being preachy. I've always told my tracksters that track is for smart athletes; I didn't know it helped them get smart!! LOL!!😊 Excellent video, keep them coming. The influence of systematic training on the human body is AMAZING. 😊
Thank you, really appreciate that! That is a great thing to tell your athletes, completely agree.
Gave me motivation to try all these sports. Nice vid
Damn this is dope! I just made a similar video about how running changes your body and brain - but so cooo to see event specific adaptations
This is an excellent piece... almost it's own genre: the short-format documentary!
Thanks man, that is what we were going for.
Great video, happy I found it in my recommended 👍
Thank you for posting high quality content like this
You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Okay. This is one of the coolest videos I have watched on TH-cam. Period.
Heck yeah, really appreciate that! 🙏
Having tried everything from HS X-C to the LJ, TJ and the 400m hurdles in college, I can honestly say that T&F has had a profound impact on my life and my career. I’m a white collar professional, but T&F taught me how to deal with stress and also how to get back up off the ground after losing. It has given me earned confidence. Something you cannot fake. At the most basic level, being able to run fast or far and jump-and knowing that you can do this-is like a security blanket as you walk through the world. Someday when I’m retired, I’d like to augment this by training in BJJ. I think that’s the missing piece of the puzzle for me. I rolled briefly with some SOF dudes and realized quickly that MMA is the challenge I’ve been missing!
Great write up. I'm right there with you on BJJ, it's something I've had on my list to take up for a few years now, continue to hear great things about it from friends that have started. I also feel like it's the missing piece to my training.
Amazing video. Very detailed
Thank you!
Helping this vid on the algorithm :)
This is awesome!!!💛
👊
Thank you for this very interesting video! Would like a more detailed and longer version as well.
Noted! Thank you.
My gosh this video is so cool ..... it makes me excited to start watching and appreciating all this different sports. Well done.
Thanks so much!!
Should also mention how the psoas is much much larger in faster sprinters like asafa powell than even 10.2 runners. Love the video!
Thanks, great point about the psoas.
As a climber who has been very consistent for a couple years, my shoulders and fingers are atleast "above average" in term of strenght, power and durability, ive done some crazy "dynos" to really nasty holds, one handed with literally no fear of shoulder dislocation.
Great video. A Larger muscle can produce more force, so they are stronger.
Very interesting, thank you! And as a mid-long distance (amateur) runner, I subscribe to the pain 🤣
loved this video keep it up🔥🔥🔥
Great to hear 👊, will do.
Great video thank you
This is INCREDIBLE. Really appreciate this as a former mid-D runner
Much appreciated!
Found my new favorite channel. Track & Field needs a Netflix series like F1.
Heck yeah, completely agree!
Wow wow, that's a VIDEO!!!
Thank you! 🙏
They need to make it team oriented to bring in more popularity
That is a good idea.
Nice vid!
Thank you!
Super interesting video!
Thank you, glad you think so!
Track and field athletes are just better than NBA, NFL, Hockey and Baseball athletes. I just love the way they train and all the events are exciting to watch. I especially love the women hammer, discus and shot-put and can’t wait until til the Olympics!
Can you do a video on high jumpers?
Yes, we've got a lot more track and field 'mini documentaries' on the way, stay tuned!
I didn’t do any sports as a kid and just got into sprinting 100-200m alongside doing Olympic lifts and plyos to supplement. It has been awesome! I absolutely love it, although I’ve been out for a couple weeks due to an eversion ankle sprain playing flag football.
Good stuff
Now I now why I felt good when I did sprinting till college. I did just for fun.
Another brilliant video! I just have a question regarding sprinting technique. Does actively driving your legs straight down into the track make you faster? would love to know. :)
Thanks for the positive feedback! Regarding your question, actively driving your legs straight down into the track does contribute to speed when done properly. It’s essential to combine this with proper rhythm, posture and arm action for the best results. Keep practicing and refining your form to see significant improvements!
What are the impacts of track and field training/competition at the elite level on testosterone levels in males?
Elite track and field training can significantly impact testosterone levels and growth hormone levels. Intense workouts cause a spike in testosterone as the body responds to physical stress, promoting muscle recovery and adaptation. However to maximize the hormonal response you have to get great sleep. During slow wave or deep sleep is where the body does its magic and releases the most testosterone and GH. You also need to get enough protein. 30+ grams per meal x 4 meals a day (at least 120 grams per day) is a good starting point. Studies suggest that it takes ~30 gram dose to get the body to maximize protein synthesis. We're planning on doing a video on this in the future with a lot more detail so stay tuned!
Pole vaulters and Decathletes are the only all-around athletes in T&F.
Pole vaulting is the most fun event, too.
We're working on a Decathlon video right now. It's unbelievably underrated and even though people don't watch videos on it we're spending the time and doing it anyway. Keep an eye out for it in 2 weeks.
Strange… i feel this urge to run
W video
Funny video dude. I currently have a stress reaction in my tibia from high jump, when do I get unbreakable bones!
Bummer man, not sure about high jump adaptations. Best of luck with your recovery.
It would be great when sport commentators would bring up some of these factoids during a race.
Absolutely agree!
Even looking at the variety between athletes in the same event in crazy. Look at the difference in build and running technique betweeen sha'carri Richardson and Usain Bolt 2 dominate atheletes with completely different builds
That's true. Or look at Usain Bolt vs Christian Coleman. However, we are currently working on a video about the decathlon and looked at the average height and weight of medal winners from the last 5 Olympics in same 10 individual events. We were surprised to find how similar athletes are. Especially in the throwing and jumping events.
Now i feel guilty of skipping my runs
Heh. Based!
My favorite sport(s?)!
This is a sub
The good thing about solo sport is, you don't need to carry your mates. In team sports, if your mates are useless, ALL YOUR TRAINING CAN GO DOWN THE DRAIN
how about pole vault
Mostly it transforms me into a bundle of small lingering injuries.
haha, I've been there.
I always hated distance running bc its just pain tolerance.
POV Swimming: Hold my beer
Hello sir
I am 20 years old
I usually practice short events 100 m to 400 m
Current i am going to semi elite or advance level ( before elite level )
My glute muscle and size is good in underweight type body
But i do intense walking in offseason for my recovery and healing injury due to long time of sprint session
My walk speed ( 9 to 11 km /h pace ) is 80 to 85 percent to like as race walker , but not techniques as race walking
I have no training in 800 m and 1500 m , i gave jog time 2 min 50 in 800 m
And without no training 6 min 10 second in 1609 metres one mile and 5 min 45 second in 1500 m with relax and jogging mode with full of bad air quality pm 2.5 250
Even i was not good in middle distance or long distance i usually easily tired in my teens
Even my sprint time is better within one years
100 m - 17 sec to 12 sec
200 m -40 sec to 25 sec
400m - 100 sec to 56 sec
Tell me , which type of muscles fibres i have and what should do , i am focus on sprint events
Because i have not coach , i am doing without coach
My body looks like underweight
Does training for 3k race have the same blood and pain tolerance benefits mentioned in the video?
Absolutely!
@@OutperformOfficial i wnt to combine weight lifting and running, at what running distance does it affect muscle mass?
@@ciw868811km
Incredibly well done. Keep this coming 👏🏿👏🏿
(also shout out to my almost unbreakable bones from 20 years of triple jump 🫡)
Thank you, will do! 👊
Wolff's Law
You got it!
Pourquoi le titre est en français et l'audio en anglais enfait...
Great vid, but very hard to take longevity study at face value-too many confounding variables, a large one being socioeconomic status.
Thanks, fair point. Here is a really interesting study that touches on socioeconomic status that shows that silver medalists live longer than gold. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, winners die over one year earlier than losers. I find strong evidence of differences in earnings and occupational choices as a mechanism" www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629618303370#:~:text=In%20roughly%20half%20of%20cases,year%20earlier%20than%20Silver%20medalists.
Very interesting!
왜 제목이 한국어지?
Not professional soccer players having the same pain tolerance as a normal person
I thought that was very interesting/surprising as well.
And people wanna tell me it isn’t the best sport in the world, haha okay 🙄🤣🤣
printers are cool
That last bit was misleading. Certainly elite athletes live longer than gen pop, but if the claim to refute is that it doesn't shorten the life, it should be compared with other health-conscious groups. Afaik, the consensus is that peak athletic performance does curtail longevity.
Looked at a lot of research on this, it's difficult as there are many confounding variables. The data on endurance athletes is pretty clear cut, VO2 max is one of the best predictors of longevity and although there are diminishing returns towards the very top it doesn't plateau. Strength and power athletes are another story, difficult to parse out athletes that used PED's, if they continued to exercise into later years of life etc.
Some studies show high jumpers have longest life expectancy (with a relatively small sample size) bmcsportsscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13102-017-0067-z
Would be curious to see the data you found that supports the consensus is that peak athletic performance does curtail longevity.
@@OutperformOfficial Thanks for this enlightening reply. I will comply with your request, even if not right away. I'm very open to being wrong.
But, off the top of my head, I think my understanding comes from listening to podcasts from longevity researchers. I have names in mind, but I don't want to attribute to others possible falsehoods out of carelessness.
@@OutperformOfficial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27540872/
This is one study (only one) substantiating what I said. It does, however align well with what Prof. David Sinclair says about longevity being a function of low energy expenditure and low body mass.
@@OutperformOfficial Here's one study on the matter
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27540872/
It aligns well with what Prof David Sinclair stipulates on longevity, that it is a function of low energy expenditure and low body mass.
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7:11 extreme exercise often leads to lifelong injuries so yea