The Insane effects Sprinting has on the Body!

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Published 2023-10-07
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Sprinting has incredible effects on the human body, as can clearly be seen with a single look at any Olympic sprinter. While long distance runner tend to be thin and toned, sprinters are usually rather muscular and ripped. This is due not just to sprinting's outrageous ability to burn fat ( runrepeat.com/sprint-interval-training ), but also to it's ability to maintain muscle mass with massive spikes in growth hormone ( link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00237784 ).

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All Comments (21)
  • @GodKillerKRAT0S
    My neighbors think I'm weird sprinting up and down the street but whatever, gotta get those sprints in.
  • @foldish187
    1 tip, if you haven't got sand to run on, use long-ish grass to train on, making sure to lift your foot over the blades. It helps with driving your knees up and forward, improving your cadence and helps with ankle strength and stability as you're bringing your foot down on an uneven surface.
  • I was a state qualifying sprinter in high school and ran a lot in the military. The best sprint workout i have ever experienced came from basketball conditioning. What we did was 1-mile (1600m) total worth of sprints on an outdoor track... (I recommend starting with at least half that and with a slightly lower intensity for a week... or 3) but it was typically broken up into (16) 100m dashes with limited rest time. (8) 200m dashes, or (4) 400m dashes. we did the 200m dashes most often. we would start at the 200m start line and have a goal time to hit (mine was 32 seconds even though I was capable of running it in 23 seconds, because we have to do a lot of them with a lower recovery time)...but we would sprint to the finish line then walk till we were even with the field goal post (which is about 50m), then lightly jog the rest of the way to the start line (150m)...the coach would be counting down and we would have to be ready to sprint as soon as we got there. it was great for conditioning and speed. BUT!! in the military we did something similar that's much easier to keep track of and you don't need a track. they're called 30, 60's or 60, 120's. which is exactly what you would think. sprint for 30 seconds, walk for 60. or sprint for 60 seconds, walk for 2 minutes. this would typically last for what felt like an hour but was probably 15-25 minutes....enjoy.
  • Ive been sprinting for almost a month as of writing this. I only sprint 1-2 100m dashes a day, though ive seen significant improvements to my overal physique and body shape. Ive gained a decent ammount of muscle in that time, and on top of veing faster, i also am able to run for longer amounts of time. I really think that if everyone did a little sprinting each day, the world would be a lot healthier
  • @j2thesea38
    I heard Huberman mention something about sprinting recently, and have now done a few simple sprints repeat (10X) sessions on the grass, the length of the soccer field. It feels great. This video is a good reminder for me to keep it up, and all the physiological adaptations to sprinting are a great bonus! While sprinting again its reminded me of the good old days when I was a kid and a teen--naturally sprinting just for the joy of it. As we age it is so easy to forget the basics. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I sprinted between ages 40 and 50! At 52, I look forward to making this a staple of my workout routine.
  • @nikitaw1982
    Thank you. I spent a few weeks doing goofy looking physio exercises in the gym for hips and hamstrings just so could do sprint training with out injury as a middle aged guy. Now don't feel so silly. It worked, went to the beach with nephew and just sprinted for the fun of it and felt fantastic. Fight or flight. Seems sprint training should be a lot more popular than it is.
  • Bolt does an average of about 38kph in his sprints for about 10s, Kipchoge does 21kph for 2hrs. Long distance running is really really tough.
  • @jeffkundert9458
    Outstanding revelatory video that I've been doing for decades......with no running. My legs were shattered in Viet Nam and so I do this sprinting with swimming and rowing and it works the same. I was winning national fitness contests at over 50 and now I'm just under 75 and ready for fitness pics on my 75th birthday and getting more ripped. Enjoy the sprinting in your way.
  • @ddc2957
    After permanently breaking my toe a few months ago, I can no longer sprint for fitness, which was all I did. Run while you can lads! It’s a gift.
  • @fattrolls8094
    After sprints, my posture is incredibly improved for days. Don’t know why but it does
  • @patmull1
    Before a year, I decided to become one of the few hobby sprinters in the world of hobby long-distance runners. Sometimes you feel like a weirdo, but I don't look back. I love the variety of supplementary exercises and workouts I can do and the amazing feeling when your visual field blurs in a full speed and you feel the wind washing your body while you are sprinting fast. It's an amazing mental exercise as well for staying calm in a stressful situations.
  • @MurkTempers
    Another benefit, is feeling awesome. Sprinting is such a cool feeling, being able to move at incredibly fast speeds is one of life’s best pleasures.
  • @JewelxxetPierre
    Please never stop making videos like this, it’s so helpful and honestly very entertaining to watch, YouTube channels that focus on miscellaneous forms of body strengthening are very rare and way more fun to watch than simple strength and muscle building channels.
  • @bigbattenberg
    This is quite accurate. As a distance runner, my recovery and speed have greatly improved by doing calisthenics for upper body and core three times a week. Also I do two interval running sessions per week and only one long run which is still pretty short. The fast recovery and overall feeling great I attribute to the hormonal effects of calisthenics.
  • @J23_
    I've been sprinting for a year and If I hadn't been aware of this video I'd have continued to make the same mistakes I did all year. I want to be explosive in speed for combat sports. The sprint workout you recommended I believe is game changing for me.
  • @Moonlight-yu5xo
    As a 52 year old (former) athkete warming up becomes more important. We are bulletproof in our 20's and a little less in our 30's but I pulled a calf muscle on my first beach sprint I was very much looking forward to...sets you back weeks...
  • @Julez-
    I love this channel bro, just went out to sprint for the first time in 10 years and I feel amazing. I'd usually do regular 5km runs and get bored after a couple times and give it up for months. Running makes me feel dull mentally afterwards but right now I'm sharp and excited. The feeling at top speed was incomparable. Definitely gonna be keeping sprints in my routine.
  • It’s important to note that it is really easy to over train doing sprints. My track coach had us run up to 40 sprints some days and we were sprinting every single day. I injured my quad pretty bad and my friend severely injured his hamstring (almost coming off the bone!) We are both the fastest players on our football team so it really hurt our team to have us out on injuries that could have easily been avoided.
  • That Rocky reference was so spot on, im pretty sure most of us had ut in the back of our heads since the video has started 😅 Thank you for the great video, sir 👍🏼
  • I'm training for a marathon, and I've found improvement across the board by just adding one SIT workout a week. It's made me more able to access higher speeds and feel more able to maintain speed uphill.