I've never really trained for sprints, and have no idea numbers wise where I'm at, but have always been regarded as average speed wise. my vertical jump though, while I don't consider to be anything special, is on par with a lot of the averages I see thrown out there for D1 athletes (mine is 27" standing), and is one of the better verticals out of the athletes in my school. anyways, my question is, once I begin actually focusing on my sprint speed, should I develop pretty quickly? logic being that the power is there, as displayed by my vertical, the skill of sprinting itself just needs development. I'm curious because I'm a baseball player, and while my vertical would be top 5-10 at a lot of showcases/combines, I have no idea how my 60 yard dash would stack up. so again, just curious. thank you!
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07-23-2014, 09:53 PM #1
vertical jump to sprint speed correlation?
Stats
245 front squat, atg+beltless
255x8 deadlift
155x3 bench :(
+50x3 strict chin up
29.5 inch vertical
170 bodyweight
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07-24-2014, 06:41 PM #2
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07-25-2014, 03:09 AM #3
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07-25-2014, 09:00 AM #4
Vertical jumps are often used by people to indicate a degree of speed because they both use fast-twitch muscle fibers. People make that connection and say that if someone has a good vertical, he's probably pretty fast, and vice-versa. I don't know how accurate that is, though; personally, that doesn't apply to me. My vert is awful, but I'm decently quick regardless.
You definitely have room to improve your speed; how fast you can potentially get, though, I have no idea.
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07-25-2014, 12:56 PM #5
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The two are actually pretty strongly correlated, but like anything else each is its own skill, so if you practice one more than the other your numbers could be skewed. 60s are pretty technique intensive, so two athletes with very similar speed could have two drastically different times based on how much they've practiced.
You can find correlation charts on the internet - I'm just too lazy to look one up for you.www.dreesperformance.com
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07-25-2014, 12:58 PM #6
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07-25-2014, 03:30 PM #7
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07-25-2014, 04:02 PM #8
a white boy trying to tell me how to jump? neighbour please. anyway, i still stand by what i said. you're gonna see a lot of knee bend in the two leg jump, whereas there is going to be no forward knee travel in the one leg jump. just take a look at olympic high jumpers, they keep a vertical shin and use most of their posterior chain to get themselves up
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07-26-2014, 01:13 PM #9
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07-27-2014, 11:07 AM #10
I believe there is a strong correlation. I had a 36 inch standing vertical (and no, I am not black) while only running an 11.7 100 about a year and a half ago. Through improving sprint mechanics greatly and tons of strength and conditioning, I am now running 10.8-11.0 consistently. Posterior region training greatly benefits bot, additionally.
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07-27-2014, 11:10 AM #11
As noted by the above poster, high jump mechanics are vastly different from a standard vertical jump.
And race is irrelevant. And the majority of the best long jumpers in the world right now are white (Greg Rutherford, Mitchell Watt, etc) and there is a white guy dominating the HJ (Ivan Uhkov) so don't bring that into this equation.
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07-27-2014, 05:12 PM #12
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