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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
4.7 is a really fast time, and people lose sight of this because of the magical 4.5 number. To speak further to this point, there have been a number of studies in recent years discussing how many 40 times are fictitious at best in order to market athletes better.
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I already discussed my experience at length earlier in this thread. My high school was a football factory until the head coach left for Rockhurst. The number of college football players produced during his run was pretty awesome.
Now, most of that was due to training. Kids as young as 7th grade participated in the high school weight training, running and other drills every summer. The number of guys that were in the 1,000 pound club (bench, squat and dead lift) was pretty staggering. It was a way of life.
I'm actually surprised to hear that 4.7 is a benchmark because I figured that most of the four and five star Blue-Chip high school skill players easily ran 4.7 or better.
So much of running a 40 is technique, which is why we're seeing guys running sub-4.5's these days.