Exceptionally well-said, Essop. Some real talk out there, that only athletes around their 30s+ can understand, since that's when you start realizing that your sport is not "the whole world", but "part of the rest of the world"; and you are just another individual athlete among a sea of other individual athletes. Then you start realizing how the wider socio-economic context in which you belong has been greatly responsible for your personal results, based on the value your personal results have given to the wider socio-economic context. I have come to call this "The Paradox of the Elite Athlete": It is the Elite athletes who get the best spikes and best tracks to train on and improve their times, while actually it is the non-Elite athletes who would benefit the most by having the best spikes and best tracks to train on.
Not sure if you'll see this but for what it's worth I wanted to ask if you could do a review on the movie "any given Sunday" Seems fitting as it is a sports movie that is multilayered. Please your insight would be dope🙏🏾
Thanks Essop. While it is true what you said, however there is the elephant in the room. It is the undeniable benefit of running and how it is not yet fully capitalized. One cannot deny the underdevelopment of this sports, especially when it comes to marketing to the general public. I do think though that with the right direction and the right promotion with a modest investment, it could be done though. Do note that most of the facility is publicly owned amongst other and also do note that running is perhaps the cheapest form of exercise you could do. Is there a role for say a sporting shoes sponsored events that raise public health awareness about running, especially in place where public health is strong like the NHS? Tuan
I do agree that a lot of young talented people in athletics tend to be arrogant or narcissistic. They got by on their natural talent, that's why they have more trouble dealing with injuries or tougher competition when they get older. As for the rest of the points, track stadiums require more land and you need to build on that land. Gyms and other studios don't require you to build anything. You rent a room and put in some equipment. You would see way less gyms, if anytime anyone wanted to open a gym, they would have to get some plain land, and build the damn thing from the ground up. Tax money (government) pays for infrastructure. Infrastructure which will develop professional athletes that will represent their country in international competitions. By far the most effective training method for running, IS RUNNING. Why would we need some complicated heavy weight equipment? And what's wrong with hurdles? Why would we need special hurdles designed specifically for sprintes to jump over? There already exist plastic hurdles for jumping over. Does there need to be a sticker on the hurdles that says ''sprinters jumping hurdles'' for them to be efficient? Usually special fitness equipment is more expensive, just because it says ''fitness'' on it, when you can get pretty much the same thing in other stores for much cheaper but it wasn't made with fitness in mind. We have track, grass, dirt, cones, hurdles, sleds, ropes, elastics, spikes, free weights, sand pits, hills, starting blocks, medicine balls, shot puts,...and a bunch of running and other running exercises. The heart of any running training, is running itself. Athletics is still more popular than boidybuilding, crossfit and yoga and what not. Name me 5 professional bodybuilders on your national bodybuilding team...name me 5 professional yogi's on your national yoga team that represented your country in the yoga world championships. Bodybuilding isn't even a sport. Actual pro athletes get a ''pro athlete'' card and can be employed by the police or military and stuff like that. Bodybuilding, crossfit, yoga and stuff like that is popular because of the movie industry and heavy marketing. Gyms make a profit off of people who buy gym memberships but never go there. Running is hard, that's why most people opt for stationary exercises. And once again, why does it matter what we're jumping over? We're not even touching the damn thing if we're jumping over it, so why does it matter what we're jumping over?
Anyone who considers bodybuilding a sport is very wrong, as it is far from being called a sport. For me, an athletic person must have strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility. A bodybuilder does not possess any of these qualities.
@@syomaromar- The main reason I don't consider bodybuilding a sport is because it's not a performance based activity. Every sport measures performance, how well you can do some intense physical activity. Bodybuilding is about who the judges think looks best. It's a beauty pageant.
Interesting counter-points. I agree with most of them, yet I don't believe they "devalue" Essop's general thesis. The wider socio-economic environemnt is willing to "invest" in you, as long as there is a positive return from it. If TnF's positive return was impactful enough then, to use some of your points, it wouldn't matter how much space or money is required to build a Track and you would have more TnF coaching programmes. That is why, as you said, you have more gyms. They require less space (less cost) + their return is larger (higher revenue). If TnF on its wider scale as sport-resource was providing similar results, then we would see more of it and about it on the non-elite level --> which as a result would increase the elite level stage --> and the elite level stage would in return invest more on the non-elite level in order to feed itself. Paradoxical, isn't it?
You remind me of my old coach. I do think that there is a lack of community amongst many runners, a lot of that being due to self-centeredness. That being said, it is difficult to find people locally who have the same interest of sprinting/ running in general. For example I have multiple close friends who are into strength training and bodybuilding, but none who are into running. This video is definitely eye opening, as a stronger communnity, more facilities and scientific understanding of running performance could lead to revolutionary world record times.
Also it is hampered by the fact that running is an individual sport. it is easy in a team sport to invest in fellow teammates as you all succeed together.
fuck man...i love our sport to death! It sucks that a track is super rare and when a school has one its just stone or stone spray painted black (atleast in ontario CAD) I know so many kids that loved the events but gave up because no one cared for the track or the sport :( Also the constant risk of shin splints sucked....
I agree with the sentiment, but from what I remember of the pneumatic-resistance power running machines they hardly involve triple extension at all. Has there been such a machine introduced to the sport?
I love your videos, but I'll have to disagree on this one. I can't talk for the sprinting comuminty as a whole, but my experiences have been through clubs volunteering their time in non proffit organisations helping athletes participate in the sport. I believe it's for different reasons. The culture of sprinting is elitist. Many clubs pressure athletes to compete in club leagues, etc, leading to the importance of times. The power of 10 is a perfect example. I have not seen boot camps for sprinting (I might start one 🤔) for the general public who just want to learn and gain benefits from sprinting without competing, unlike sports such as bodybuilding, health camps etc. Even at the world stage, you are nobody unless you're first (which leads to drugs, cheating, etc). It's very hard to just train for the enjoyment and benefits towards your health if you dont know anything about sprinting. Funding only goes to the best atheletes, which again leads to nassiatic behaviours of trying to be the best. Its better for companies to invest in higher probability of success on atheletes who are more likely to succeed and give them profit. In other words, I dont think it's the type of people who ruin the progression of sprinting economics, but the environment they are placed in, creating outcomes of selish people. I've even seen it in coahes favourtising athletes because it makes them look good as if they're the reason the athlete fast, leading to higher career options.
Anyone who considers bodybuilding a sport is very wrong, as it is far from being called a sport. For me, an athletic person must have strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility. A bodybuilder does not possess any of these qualities.
That stuff you listed isn't even the deal breaker for me. It's the fact that their competition is not contested on anything but looks. There is no "performance."
I agree to an extent. I’ve done both, competed at college level in sprinting and both bodybuilding and sprinting requires intense training, self control and diet and perseverance. The training aspect is actually quite similar and requires the same skills.
Bodybuilding requires strength, skill in how to perform exercises for optimal growth, very very extended knowledge on how to train optimally and what to eat, an insane amount of body awareness, ridiculous amounts of willpower to diet down to 5-3% bodyfat or less while trying to retain as much muscle as possible, the flexibility to perform high RSM compound movements with full range of motion and to do that for 10 to 20 years. All the while the rest of your life is getting increasingly more difficult while you're struggling with the fatigue from your diet and crashed hormones because you're under 10% bodyfat for a quarter of the year, it getting so bad that you have to take the last 2 weeks before a competition off from work and not being able to enjoy your vacation. And yes, you still have to work because bodybuilding doesn't pay the bills unless you're in the top 0.001% with a bunch of sponsors. I'd say it's a sport.
Exceptionally well-said, Essop. Some real talk out there, that only athletes around their 30s+ can understand, since that's when you start realizing that your sport is not "the whole world", but "part of the rest of the world"; and you are just another individual athlete among a sea of other individual athletes.
Then you start realizing how the wider socio-economic context in which you belong has been greatly responsible for your personal results, based on the value your personal results have given to the wider socio-economic context.
I have come to call this "The Paradox of the Elite Athlete": It is the Elite athletes who get the best spikes and best tracks to train on and improve their times, while actually it is the non-Elite athletes who would benefit the most by having the best spikes and best tracks to train on.
Thank you for the subtitles, greatly appreciated!
Not sure if you'll see this but for what it's worth I wanted to ask if you could do a review on the movie "any given Sunday" Seems fitting as it is a sports movie that is multilayered. Please your insight would be dope🙏🏾
THAT’S IT I’m collecting money to get a Kaiser Runner
$200 a month for 36 months....my gods my wallet hurts XD
Thanks Essop. While it is true what you said, however there is the elephant in the room. It is the undeniable benefit of running and how it is not yet fully capitalized. One cannot deny the underdevelopment of this sports, especially when it comes to marketing to the general public. I do think though that with the right direction and the right promotion with a modest investment, it could be done though. Do note that most of the facility is publicly owned amongst other and also do note that running is perhaps the cheapest form of exercise you could do. Is there a role for say a sporting shoes sponsored events that raise public health awareness about running, especially in place where public health is strong like the NHS?
Tuan
Goat has returned
awesome video as always. keep making these videos!!👐👐
Happy New Year...
Really honest video... as always...
I do agree that a lot of young talented people in athletics tend to be arrogant or narcissistic. They got by on their natural talent, that's why they have more trouble dealing with injuries or tougher competition when they get older.
As for the rest of the points, track stadiums require more land and you need to build on that land. Gyms and other studios don't require you to build anything. You rent a room and put in some equipment. You would see way less gyms, if anytime anyone wanted to open a gym, they would have to get some plain land, and build the damn thing from the ground up. Tax money (government) pays for infrastructure. Infrastructure which will develop professional athletes that will represent their country in international competitions. By far the most effective training method for running, IS RUNNING. Why would we need some complicated heavy weight equipment?
And what's wrong with hurdles? Why would we need special hurdles designed specifically for sprintes to jump over? There already exist plastic hurdles for jumping over. Does there need to be a sticker on the hurdles that says ''sprinters jumping hurdles'' for them to be efficient? Usually special fitness equipment is more expensive, just because it says ''fitness'' on it, when you can get pretty much the same thing in other stores for much cheaper but it wasn't made with fitness in mind. We have track, grass, dirt, cones, hurdles, sleds, ropes, elastics, spikes, free weights, sand pits, hills, starting blocks, medicine balls, shot puts,...and a bunch of running and other running exercises. The heart of any running training, is running itself.
Athletics is still more popular than boidybuilding, crossfit and yoga and what not. Name me 5 professional bodybuilders on your national bodybuilding team...name me 5 professional yogi's on your national yoga team that represented your country in the yoga world championships. Bodybuilding isn't even a sport. Actual pro athletes get a ''pro athlete'' card and can be employed by the police or military and stuff like that.
Bodybuilding, crossfit, yoga and stuff like that is popular because of the movie industry and heavy marketing. Gyms make a profit off of people who buy gym memberships but never go there. Running is hard, that's why most people opt for stationary exercises.
And once again, why does it matter what we're jumping over? We're not even touching the damn thing if we're jumping over it, so why does it matter what we're jumping over?
Anyone who considers bodybuilding a sport is very wrong, as it is far from being called a sport. For me, an athletic person must have strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility. A bodybuilder does not possess any of these qualities.
@@syomaromar- The main reason I don't consider bodybuilding a sport is because it's not a performance based activity.
Every sport measures performance, how well you can do some intense physical activity. Bodybuilding is about who the judges think looks best. It's a beauty pageant.
@@wss33 ،i strongly agree with you
Interesting counter-points. I agree with most of them, yet I don't believe they "devalue" Essop's general thesis.
The wider socio-economic environemnt is willing to "invest" in you, as long as there is a positive return from it. If TnF's positive return was impactful enough then, to use some of your points, it wouldn't matter how much space or money is required to build a Track and you would have more TnF coaching programmes.
That is why, as you said, you have more gyms. They require less space (less cost) + their return is larger (higher revenue). If TnF on its wider scale as sport-resource was providing similar results, then we would see more of it and about it on the non-elite level --> which as a result would increase the elite level stage --> and the elite level stage would in return invest more on the non-elite level in order to feed itself. Paradoxical, isn't it?
You remind me of my old coach. I do think that there is a lack of community amongst many runners, a lot of that being due to self-centeredness. That being said, it is difficult to find people locally who have the same interest of sprinting/ running in general. For example I have multiple close friends who are into strength training and bodybuilding, but none who are into running. This video is definitely eye opening, as a stronger communnity, more facilities and scientific understanding of running performance could lead to revolutionary world record times.
Also it is hampered by the fact that running is an individual sport. it is easy in a team sport to invest in fellow teammates as you all succeed together.
Nice :-) Happy New Year!
fuck man...i love our sport to death!
It sucks that a track is super rare and when a school has one its just stone or stone spray painted black (atleast in ontario CAD)
I know so many kids that loved the events but gave up because no one cared for the track or the sport :(
Also the constant risk of shin splints sucked....
I agree with the sentiment, but from what I remember of the pneumatic-resistance power running machines they hardly involve triple extension at all. Has there been such a machine introduced to the sport?
Happy New Year, Ess. 🎉
Thank you🫡🫡🫡
Based economics.
Back back or back for now? 😬
Nice vid
This is another great vid
Its true unless you're a perennial champion theres no money in sprinting. and being said champion is like 0.0001% chances
Along with the Keiser Runner, what other pieces of equipment are sprint specific?
6 months for the answer what a lad
dead on
"Low nine" no way!
is your philosophy on lunges still the same?
I love your videos, but I'll have to disagree on this one. I can't talk for the sprinting comuminty as a whole, but my experiences have been through clubs volunteering their time in non proffit organisations helping athletes participate in the sport.
I believe it's for different reasons. The culture of sprinting is elitist. Many clubs pressure athletes to compete in club leagues, etc, leading to the importance of times. The power of 10 is a perfect example. I have not seen boot camps for sprinting (I might start one 🤔) for the general public who just want to learn and gain benefits from sprinting without competing, unlike sports such as bodybuilding, health camps etc. Even at the world stage, you are nobody unless you're first (which leads to drugs, cheating, etc).
It's very hard to just train for the enjoyment and benefits towards your health if you dont know anything about sprinting. Funding only goes to the best atheletes, which again leads to nassiatic behaviours of trying to be the best. Its better for companies to invest in higher probability of success on atheletes who are more likely to succeed and give them profit.
In other words, I dont think it's the type of people who ruin the progression of sprinting economics, but the environment they are placed in, creating outcomes of selish people. I've even seen it in coahes favourtising athletes because it makes them look good as if they're the reason the athlete fast, leading to higher career options.
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Anyone who considers bodybuilding a sport is very wrong, as it is far from being called a sport. For me, an athletic person must have strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility. A bodybuilder does not possess any of these qualities.
That stuff you listed isn't even the deal breaker for me. It's the fact that their competition is not contested on anything but looks. There is no "performance."
It's a beauty pageant as I see it
I agree to an extent. I’ve done both, competed at college level in sprinting and both bodybuilding and sprinting requires intense training, self control and diet and perseverance. The training aspect is actually quite similar and requires the same skills.
Bodybuilding requires strength, skill in how to perform exercises for optimal growth, very very extended knowledge on how to train optimally and what to eat, an insane amount of body awareness, ridiculous amounts of willpower to diet down to 5-3% bodyfat or less while trying to retain as much muscle as possible, the flexibility to perform high RSM compound movements with full range of motion and to do that for 10 to 20 years.
All the while the rest of your life is getting increasingly more difficult while you're struggling with the fatigue from your diet and crashed hormones because you're under 10% bodyfat for a quarter of the year, it getting so bad that you have to take the last 2 weeks before a competition off from work and not being able to enjoy your vacation.
And yes, you still have to work because bodybuilding doesn't pay the bills unless you're in the top 0.001% with a bunch of sponsors.
I'd say it's a sport.
@@Dawn-u1t That doesn't make it a sport.