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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t know who posted the previous, but plenty of the football players from fall participate in winter and spring track for sprints and field events. They just don’t compete in cross country which is at the same time as football.

Also, all the talk about talent and being born with speed. True, but most of the top players on the track team also just work very hard as well.

Sprinting definitely required both innate skill but also, hard work as part of track practice. [/quote]

Of course, nobody is suggesting football players run XC.

At some schools, however, kids are either forbidden or discouraged from participating in T&F.  Its gotten a little better in recent years but there are still many elite athletes not running track because they are either not encouraged, or are actively discouraged from doing so.

There are various theories on sprinting but some involve very, very little practice. Search for Tony Holler, well known sprint coach.  And many coaches follow similar philosophies. Maybe not all as extreme as TH but even when I was a HS midD runner, we  would laugh at the practices the sprinters had to "endure". Run the bend, sit down for 10 minutes. 2x (3x40) with 5 min between reps and 15 min between sets. lol  Tough life. But that's how you train those physiologic systems.[/quote]

I was a NCAA D1 All American 1500 meter runner.   The best sprinters trained very hard - my coach was an Igloi disciple and I did more speedwork than most.  But I would not have wanted to do Clyde Hart's workouts (Michael Johnson's coach) at Baylor given the high intensity.  Sprinters also do lots of cross training.  Sub-10 100 meter guys and 20 flat 200 meter guys (and the women's equivalent) work very hard and in my experience were often as sore and beat up as we were - i.e., 8 x 400 in 55 with 200 meters jog in between.  You are correct - different training to be sure, but very arduous.  [/quote]

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