What?

We always ran indoors on a flat concrete surface, usually barefoot.

What coach would time their players on a sloppy, muddy field in cleats?

It'll be epic.

And a defribillator.

This on both accounts.

I did speed training @ Maryville the summer before my senior year. I ran a low 4.6 before we trained, but never got my "after" 40 times because I went on vacation to fish in MN. I am sure I got faster in straight line speed, but the biggest difference was made in agility.

If any of you have kids in sports and have the opportunity and ability to send them to one of these programs you should do it. They last 3 months through the summer typically -- I think 2 or 3 times a week, I don't remember anymore. Not real fun while you are running on the giant treadmill going 15 mph at 15 degree inclines for several minutes at a time (my friend reminded me of this via text). There are some more interesting plyo stuff or rubber bands. The 4 square was kind of fun, especially on one foot.

For me to "graduate" I had to run 20 mph, 0 degree incline, for 6 seconds.

I was 6'2" and roughly 180lbs then (ten pounds lighter now).

Guys that were way behind the times for 1996.

We also ran 2 at a time. I guess to get practice over with quicker.

JFC, no offense but that sounds ridiculously reeruned.

Ran a 4.29 my junior year in college. With my height and weight, now way it went past "Wow, that was awesome!" Perhaps now, I could have been drafted in the second round as a WR/RB......:LOL:

I ran (3) 4.65's on the field with cleats, but could never break 4.7 on the track or in the gym.

It must have been 20 year ago now, but one 4th of July the whole family was over at my folk's house. We had been eating all day and had a few drinks -- nothing crazy but a few. And it's about 90+ degrees out as usual for that time of year in KC. My brother and I start jawing at each other and decided to race around the house -- 3 times. Well we finished that activity and moved on to the heat stroke activity. We both just laid on the family room floor for the duration of the evening. Everyone else went to go watch fireworks.

Ran track and XC in college and ran a 4.7 at an all team pentathalon event we had. It was middle of the road, meaning the only people I was faster than were the shot putters. I whooped ass that same day in the 1000 meters though with a 2:26 (3rd Fastest).

I ran a 4.8 as a Sophomore in HS. I'm proud of that 4.8....Although I was faster as a Junior and Senior, but I didn't run the 40 those years....So I was probably in the 4.6 range during those last 2 years.

so you ran faster than every freak athlete other than 4 since 2000???

god damn people are dumb

heh, I dont know if many people actually KNOW just how fast a 4.4 40 time really is.

I'll put it this way....the fastest track guy/WR on my old HS's football team (actually he was allstate in both sports) ran like a low 4.5.

and I can almost guarantee he's waaay faster than anyone that's ever posted here on CP.

I don't think any of you reeruns realize how fast a 4.6 is...

you guys are just like my friend...who IS ONE OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED RUSHERS IN IHSA FOOTBALL HISTORY...

he was 5'10 200...he maxed bench 350 lbs as a senior...and he was an absolute BEAST...he was recently named to the all-decade team for football (graduated in 2003)...currently one of my roommates

according to him he ran a 4.5 in high school...and I know that's not true as he's been my best friend since we were 12 years old...

it's just high school stopwatch bullshit

no way that guy was as fast as LARRY JOHNSON...

maybe a 4.75...maybe

and he was a fast mother ****er

the fastest guy I know...he is an athletic specimen...and always has been...is way more honest...and he said the fastest 40 he ever ran was a 4.65 and he also graduated high school with me and he was easily the fastest guy in our school...and he did this at an acceleration clinic with actual equipment to measure a 40...

not high school football coaches trying to pump a false sense of "big dick" into their players...

shit our coach was timing white kids at 4.3

lmao

and you know what's funny

here will come a bunch of guys who were "easily in the 1000 lb. club" in high school...and blah blah blah...and blah blah blah

you're all full of shit

the kid I described above was a freak...he's a chubby mister now...but when he was throwing up twice his body weight in bench and running a 4.7 while beasting the shit out of opposing football teams playing FB and gaining 8 YPC...all while being diabetic...it was insane

and I'll never have any sympathy or be impressed by Jay Cutler for managing his diabetes and being a football player...it isn't hard...this kid got diagnosed when he was 12 and after he figured out how to handle it no one would ever have even known he had it...all he did was drink more Gatorade...

I laughed my ass off when the sideline reporters would be like "and Cutler has to prick his finger 3 times a quarter to make sure his blood sugar is right!" like he was some sort of hero!

this kid drank like a fish, ate whatever he wanted, downed Mountain Dew...and managed to put up one of the best careers for a running back in Illinois high school football...