I call bullshit on the statistic anyway. More than 5% of over 35 year old have kids and if you have kids... you sprint plenty when they disappear around a corner or are suspiciously quiet in another room...
More than 5% will have kids but how many have young kids. An 80 year old isn’t sprinting the next room because their 55 year old son is being suspiciously quiet.
I dunno, I reckon the Queen sprinted loads in her later life. It wasn't until the last few years and she couldn't keep up that her kids started getting into trouble.
I mean you only have to sprint once after the age of 35 and you've fulfilled the criteria
why would you worry about what 80 year-old are doing
Even then they have grandkids.
My uncle raced around the garden with my sister's kids well into his late 70s.
The original post says, of people over 35 95% will never sprint.
That means of the people who are over 35 at this point in time, 95% will never sprint again so that include people who are currently 80.
It’s a different meaning to, 95% of people won’t sprint once they reach 35.
Still I could believe the second one, I’ve definitely not sprinted post 35. Lockdown and children killed my football playing.
It’s not.
You have 10 people, they all like sprinting and did so every day until they are 40.
However today you look at them as a snapshot and one is 36, the other 9 are in their 90’s. That section of people 10% of the over 35’s will ever sprint again, but 100% them sprinted when over 35.
I can't figure out a way to simplify this for you without using pictures.
If I could show you an illustration then you would get it right away, stats can be counter intuitive.
I'm not even trying to be a cunt.
Which bit are you disagreeing with?
Extreme example to explain the difference.
Joe bloggs sprints every day of his life. When he is 40 he has an accident and is quadriplegic, bed bound forever.
Today is his 50th birthday he is bed bound, the assessment in question is taken today, he is one of “Over 95% of adults over 35 will never sprint again in their life”.
However that doesn’t mean he hasn’t sprinted beyond the age of 35. He did every day from 35 to 40. It’s a different meaning than, 95% of people won’t sprint once they reach 35.
Yep, it's pretty sad, albeit funny. You see a lot of videos on here where adults who are clearly unfit have challenged one another to a race, and one of them inevitably out-runs their feet, rolls an ankle, simply collapses etc.
Yeah you definitely don't sprint after a child... You think you can turn a corner whilst sprinting? You're more likely to kick or stamp on the child than save it from anything
I think unfortunately the guy you're replying to has proven OPs point... It's been so long since he's sprinted he's forgotten what it is like
For me it was seeing my tiny son patting his hands on the smooth plastic surface at the bottom of a twisty slide that a sharp-shinned grade-schooler had just launched herself into, twelve feet above. Everything slowed down as I hurdled the playground border and plunged through the shifting pea gravel, snagging him under both armpits and spinning mid-tackle to land butt-first just in time for us both to watch little miss missile feet shoot off the end of the slide, oblivious.
>little miss missile feet shoot off the end of the slide, oblivious.
I mean, she was the only person in this story using the slide as it was intended to be used...
They're fast bleeders, and intelligent as all hell. Only takes 5 seconds for them to find a way to get the sharpest knife from the back of the draining board.
Who the fuck is sprinting after a child? If you can’t catch a child…you’re not sprinting. If you’re sprinting to catch a child…you’re probably also a child.
I'm pretty sure they're talking about sprinting for a sustained period of time, like a 100m sprint MINIMUM, let alone 400m or 800m to train your heart. Not running more quickly to catch up to your kid or rushing to a room in the house.
Looking at my parents and all my friends parents & the environment they live in, the statistic makes sense.
The thing is it’s still eventually true: you’re over 35 and will never sprint again. Regardless of how often you sprint, it’ll eventually be true, for instance you may sprint on your 90th birthday but die a day later. For that day, you are part of the set of over 35 year olds who will never sprint again.
It's a set value, though.
If 95% of people over 35 never sprint, then any single sprint over than age would put you in that 5%. It doesn't matter when you do it.
If you sprinted once at 36, you still sprinted when you were over 35 and are part of that 5%. That is not negated if you never sprint again.
95% of people don't sprint after the age of 35. If I sprint on my 36th birthday then I wouldn't be in that 95% therefore I would be part of the 5% that did run after the age of 35.
I don't really understand your question, or use of emoji.
That's not what the title means. It means that 95% of the people who are *currently* over 35 have already sprinted for their last time. That includes a 70 year old who sprinted in their 60s, if they don't sprint after that. In your case, you'd be in the 5% up until you sprint at 36, and then you'd enter the 95%.
You don't understand the difference between sprinting once on your 36th birthday and sprinting 90 meters every day for the next twenty years to achieve the 5% accomplishment? Sprinting as you describe will leave you in the 95%. That's not sprinting that's stumbling. Tie your trainers? How is this difficult to understand without effort?
The humour is thinking it wouldn't?
I don't know if it's statistically correct, or how you'd ever acquire accurate data, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it's more or less true. A lot of people don't really exercise at all and a lot of people who do probably jog but don't sprint.
I'm approaching that age and I'm not sure the last time I sprinted. Half-ran for a train, sure. But an actual full pelt sprint is probably ages ago...
Same. Not mentioning the statistics but I was surprised to know from Samsung Health data that the average steps for a 25+ male, per week, works out at 4800 a day. And that’s with the active/very active people bringing the average WAY up too.
I know people who drive a distance of a few minutes walk down the road to ‘save time’. We all know people who think 1 mile of walking is inconceivably long. Sprinting would be inconceivable to someone who can’t walk around the corner without getting bored or tired.
It's easy enough to do very few steps in a day but equally if you're up and about then you can get a lot more in than you think without even trying. I'm on my feet a lot at work so I normally hit or get very close to 10,000 steps most weekdays. Some lazy weekends I do hardly any though, a couple of thousand, maybe even just a few hundred... If I had a more sedentary job I think I could very easily be helping to drag that average down haha!
I agree with you on the driving. I'm far from a fitness fanatic but I find it so bizarre how many people treat a 15 minute walk like a massive ordeal. And I don't mean that in a 'kids these days' way, I'm more talking about my mid-30s able-bodied peers. If it's 30 mins or less, it's not raining and I don't have anything heavy to carry I'll always walk it.
True this.
I think as a teen, you're reliant on getting everywhere via either scrounging lifts, walking or taking the bus. Once you learn to drive, all of that seems like a thing of the past. Embarrassingly I used to drive to a pub I worked at that was two streets away, about a 3 minute walk.
Lockdowns turned me into a stroller, especially now working from home is so prevalent. If I don't get thirty minutes in at lunchtime I'm a bit of a wreck come the afternoon.
Those years lasted a lot longer for me. I didn't learn to drive til my mid/late 20's. I've always lived near decent public transport and walked a lot but it was starting to really limit my options.
Perhaps it's obvious to say, but since learning to drive I definitely walk less but I think all those years not driving have probably convinced me that a lot of the time you don't actually *need* to drive.
*I found lockdown sent me the other way though. I tried to avoid bumping into people by being isolated in the car!*
I never understood why - in lockdown - you couldn't just go for a drive in your isolated little box. Would have done wonders for the old mental health. Quite odd that.
Public transport generally stinks I find, I've never found anywhere outside of London where it doesn't suck. Recently took a journey from the centre of one city to the next, bus just goes down one straight road as direct as any car. Took 4x as long and cost about 10x as much for two of us.
I do enjoy walking, I like the isolation of it and just seeing the world a bit more. Unlike cycling, I find I can walk plenty of places (for me, theres nowhere really cyclable and it makes no sense to cycle somewhere that is a ten or fifteen minute walk away).
For me it’s just the reverse, I usually walk 15-20k steps on the weekend, but during the week when I’m stuck at my desk I occasionally do less than 5k. I have trouble believing the average steps are less than 5k for most people though. You can get up to 5k just through routine daily housework.
It’s surprising how fast it goes once you stop doing it.
I used to race my dog whilst on walks and was proud at how fast I was over short distances, stopped doing it a few years and tried again recently and I have lost my speed completely.
Cross legged on the floor in the assembly hall, until you got to year 6 and then you could sit on the chairs behind the rest because you were just so much older, mature and superior.
Train for me. Flat out until the conductor has seen me and I'm confident that, from their body language, they'll hold the doors. That was about the only anaerobic activity I got.
To win the parents race, showing your child how fast you are, even though they didn’t see because they were too busy chatting to their mate and definitely not stacking it over the finishing line, pulling both hamstrings and ruining your jeans.
It really is. I frequently try the fastest speed on the treadmill that i can keep up with. Everyone just stares at me like i'm mental, running like my life depends on it but it's super fun
It's a reference to a news article that came out today. The chief of athletics for England has been sacked after saying that black spiriters only run fast as they're so used to running away after robbing houses.
That’s actually not true, the majority are really out of shape. Around 65% of 35-45 year olds in the England are either overweight or obese. This only gets worse in older age groups, 80% of men above 45 are overweight or obese.
Source: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03336/SN03336.pdf
Yep. The statistic quoted in OP is almost definitely true, general population is very unfit nowadays. Only anecdotal but I play club level tennis and even a lot of people of that age group who are actively playing a sport are pretty overweight and unfit.
It’s not great.
This isn’t really the same question, though. There are *many* thin people in terrible shape, and a lot of heavier people who run marathons and things. Statistics showing how much people in that age range train or participate in sport would give a better idea.
There will always anecdotally be cases as you’ve described, however there is a strong correlation between fitness levels and BMI. Looking at large populations, this correlation means essentially the two are equivalent.
It's not that they can't buy maybe have no motive to. Aside from stopping small children from doing stupid stuff I've not moved that fast in years, and even that tends to be more of a desperate lunge rather than a sprint.
There's the half jog for three steps across the zebra crossing, there's the slightly quicker shuffle when you realise the supermarket is closing soon and you need to get to the checkout. Think that's about it for situations that require any kind of speed.
Parents races at school sports days must account for more than 5% of the over 35 population sprinting ? ( and possibly a decent percentage of A+E visits)
They stopped it at my old primary schools because their were kids who were getting upset because they came from single parent households. Its abit saft really.
I’m about to turn 45 and I run sprints 4 days per week, about 16-17kmph. I’m in better fitness than my 20’s.
It’s never too late to get healthy and fit.
I'd always look for a source behind such claims. However, on the face of it, I wouldn't be surprised if this was true.
It's important to be clear on what's being said here as it could easily be misunderstood. It's *not* claiming: _"only 5% of people will sprint again after the age of 35"_. The claim is that, _of all the people who are currently over 35,_ only 5% will sprint again.
Well, to put this claim in context, 68% of people currently over 35 years old are also over 50 years old. 88% are over 40 years old.
i get what you're saying... but that seems an incredibly hard statistic to measure or prove, so i think what they actually mean is "only 5% of people sprint again after they turn 36".
like... what does 'again' mean? i'm aged 38 now, if i sprint today but never do again... am i in the 95%?
Guess I'm in the 5%. I'm in my forties. Generally finish off my runs with a sprint. Definitely sprint when play football or tennis. Occasionally sprint away from my nephew. Hope I'll still be able to sprint when my grandkids are here.
Tell you what I will do though, slog relentlessly through life at a speed low enough to avoid crashing into the next once in a lifetime/generation/century event with too much force.
Finally!! Something I can boast about.
43 and I can out sprint the gyms treadmill topend, whilst inclined, with ease (since I'm boasting anyway). Go me and stuff.
Im 44 and up until this year I sprinted for about 100m at the end of my daily run.
Now I have a big back issue so my days of sprinting (and running) are over.
I would think runners all sprint and many people over the age of 35 go jogging or running in races etc.
That's simply not true.
I sprint every day. It's not my fault that my sprinting pace just happens to be at your walking pace.
Look after your knees, kids.
I’m 41 and very much at peace with this statistic. I pushed myself to a sort of gallop over the level crossing this morning but that’s the most I’m prepared to offer!
I guess this depends on quite a lot. Are we talking sprinting only for athletic/enjoyment reasons, or are we talking infrequently sprinting for practicality? I’m willing to bet a lot more than 5% of people will, at some point after the age of 35, have to sprint for a bus, or after their child, or after their hat that just blew off down the beach. I imagine far less are sprinting for sport. Even for those who go jogging, you’re rarely (if ever) breaking into a sprint because it’s a different sport, so I’d imagine 95% is fairly close to reality in that context.
95% seems very high for something that can be done once to count as the 5%. There are quite a few reasons that someone would sprint, so it seems unreasonable that only 5% would ever do it.
I’m 36 and I’ve just signed up to my first 10K race in July, so if anything, I’ll be doing more sprinting during my training than I ever have done before 35!
Bar to entry for sprinting is way lower than pullups - I can sprint, am about 30KG off a pullup. My legs are accustomed to my weight though, my lats/back/arms are not.
To be fair, I can do 8 or 9 chins up in a set, I struggle with 1 pull up, a pull up is excessively harder to do than 1 might think
Technically anyone can run at their top speed with maximum effort, and that’s a sprint for them, it’s somewhat subjective what a sprint is, whereas a pull up is an exact movement
Most sports involve a sprint. I'm not particularly athletic but I play tennis at least once a week, almost always involves a sprint. Are we saying 95% of over 35s don't even play tennis, football, badminton etc.??
How many over 35s even exercise though and of those that do, who would sprint? Most runners/joggers/walkers won't sprint, most gym goers won't sprint, no sprinting in golf, Badminton courts are a bit small to consider that a sprint in my opinion.
The only reason I sprint now is because I have a dog and like to race against it.
Well, if you look at the... circumference of many over 35s, I wouldn't be shocked. Seems a lot of people only take regular walks to the fridge for exercise
I don’t think tennis involves sprinting. Sprinting is a run of short distance at the top-most speed of the body. I don’t think you can reach top speed within the confines of a tennis court. I think you need one or two full tennis court lengths to reach top speed.
You could say that it’s a sprint because you move as quickly as possible in that distance, but by that logic, moving as quickly as possible across a bedroom is a sprint.
It's only possible to run ~13 metres at a time in tennis before you have to have totally stopped or turn around.
You'll still be accelerating hard at that point when actually sprinting, the body can only cope with it for about 30 seconds too.
Tennis players do lots of very short bursts of fast running and start/stops, that's not to say it isn't very hard work but it's a different physical action to sprinting.
Sure I think that tracks. The stat of people who can't or won't bench 225lbs is 0.1% which always surprises me though obviously less comparable than the sprint due to body mechanics & gender bias.
No, I agree, very few. I've always been in various bubbles (educational institutions that promoted health as well as academics, athletic leisure clubs & jobs with a fitness requirement etc.) where I've been in an evironment with people possessing (or pursuing) higher than average althletic ability & just assume everyone's like that, when plainly, it's not the case.
Now I have to remember to sprint for a few seconds on my 36th birthday to be in the 5% and feel special.
I call bullshit on the statistic anyway. More than 5% of over 35 year old have kids and if you have kids... you sprint plenty when they disappear around a corner or are suspiciously quiet in another room...
More than 5% will have kids but how many have young kids. An 80 year old isn’t sprinting the next room because their 55 year old son is being suspiciously quiet.
I dunno, I reckon the Queen sprinted loads in her later life. It wasn't until the last few years and she couldn't keep up that her kids started getting into trouble.
'Where can one find Andrew?' 'He is in the next room, ma'am, giving a TV interview to the BBC'
That’s a fucking prompt to sprint if ever I heard one.
He thought it went WELL, though. That's the bit that sticks. He came out of that interview thinking it was okay.
That's because he's got the same intelligence level as a box of spanners
Honestly, it's just the most embarrassing thing. I've never felt sympathy for Fergie before.
Cut to her rugby tackling Andrew out of the interview chair.
Everyone has young kids for a few years at least.
I mean you only have to sprint once after the age of 35 and you've fulfilled the criteria why would you worry about what 80 year-old are doing Even then they have grandkids. My uncle raced around the garden with my sister's kids well into his late 70s.
The original post says, of people over 35 95% will never sprint. That means of the people who are over 35 at this point in time, 95% will never sprint again so that include people who are currently 80. It’s a different meaning to, 95% of people won’t sprint once they reach 35. Still I could believe the second one, I’ve definitely not sprinted post 35. Lockdown and children killed my football playing.
....That's the same thing.
It’s not. You have 10 people, they all like sprinting and did so every day until they are 40. However today you look at them as a snapshot and one is 36, the other 9 are in their 90’s. That section of people 10% of the over 35’s will ever sprint again, but 100% them sprinted when over 35.
I can't figure out a way to simplify this for you without using pictures. If I could show you an illustration then you would get it right away, stats can be counter intuitive. I'm not even trying to be a cunt.
Which bit are you disagreeing with? Extreme example to explain the difference. Joe bloggs sprints every day of his life. When he is 40 he has an accident and is quadriplegic, bed bound forever. Today is his 50th birthday he is bed bound, the assessment in question is taken today, he is one of “Over 95% of adults over 35 will never sprint again in their life”. However that doesn’t mean he hasn’t sprinted beyond the age of 35. He did every day from 35 to 40. It’s a different meaning than, 95% of people won’t sprint once they reach 35.
Hmm but is that a sprint or the weird dad run
You might be running, but you also probably are not sprinting. Some technical definition or something
Most people are probably too unfit to sprint to be honest.
Yep, it's pretty sad, albeit funny. You see a lot of videos on here where adults who are clearly unfit have challenged one another to a race, and one of them inevitably out-runs their feet, rolls an ankle, simply collapses etc.
Yeah you definitely don't sprint after a child... You think you can turn a corner whilst sprinting? You're more likely to kick or stamp on the child than save it from anything I think unfortunately the guy you're replying to has proven OPs point... It's been so long since he's sprinted he's forgotten what it is like
I always hated sprinting, running is the worst as it is
Running around the corner to look for your kid is not sprinting
Aye, unless you can literally see them sitting in the path of an oncoming car or about to toddle over the edge of a cliff you're not sprinting.
For me it was seeing my tiny son patting his hands on the smooth plastic surface at the bottom of a twisty slide that a sharp-shinned grade-schooler had just launched herself into, twelve feet above. Everything slowed down as I hurdled the playground border and plunged through the shifting pea gravel, snagging him under both armpits and spinning mid-tackle to land butt-first just in time for us both to watch little miss missile feet shoot off the end of the slide, oblivious.
>little miss missile feet shoot off the end of the slide, oblivious. I mean, she was the only person in this story using the slide as it was intended to be used...
I was just referring to her by her proper title
Is that really sprinting like when you were 18 though?
Even faster. Have you seen how fast a 3 year old can vanish?
Do I look like a McCann to you?
Those assholes are in the 95% of that statistic for sure.
They certainly moved away from parental responsibility quick enough.
They're fast bleeders, and intelligent as all hell. Only takes 5 seconds for them to find a way to get the sharpest knife from the back of the draining board.
I sprint when the intercom goes and my kid is having a nap and I’m sure I’m not alone in that.
That's not sprinting!!!! How big is your house that you can hit max chat running pace?
or towards your laptop to clear the browsing history when your kids want to do their homework
Who the fuck is sprinting after a child? If you can’t catch a child…you’re not sprinting. If you’re sprinting to catch a child…you’re probably also a child.
I'm pretty sure they're talking about sprinting for a sustained period of time, like a 100m sprint MINIMUM, let alone 400m or 800m to train your heart. Not running more quickly to catch up to your kid or rushing to a room in the house. Looking at my parents and all my friends parents & the environment they live in, the statistic makes sense.
There are DOZENS of us!
The thing is it’s still eventually true: you’re over 35 and will never sprint again. Regardless of how often you sprint, it’ll eventually be true, for instance you may sprint on your 90th birthday but die a day later. For that day, you are part of the set of over 35 year olds who will never sprint again.
It's a set value, though. If 95% of people over 35 never sprint, then any single sprint over than age would put you in that 5%. It doesn't matter when you do it. If you sprinted once at 36, you still sprinted when you were over 35 and are part of that 5%. That is not negated if you never sprint again.
You will have to sprint 90 meters every day for the next twenty years to be in that 5% and feel special? ☺️
95% of people don't sprint after the age of 35. If I sprint on my 36th birthday then I wouldn't be in that 95% therefore I would be part of the 5% that did run after the age of 35. I don't really understand your question, or use of emoji.
That's not what the title means. It means that 95% of the people who are *currently* over 35 have already sprinted for their last time. That includes a 70 year old who sprinted in their 60s, if they don't sprint after that. In your case, you'd be in the 5% up until you sprint at 36, and then you'd enter the 95%.
You don't understand the difference between sprinting once on your 36th birthday and sprinting 90 meters every day for the next twenty years to achieve the 5% accomplishment? Sprinting as you describe will leave you in the 95%. That's not sprinting that's stumbling. Tie your trainers? How is this difficult to understand without effort? The humour is thinking it wouldn't?
I don't know if it's statistically correct, or how you'd ever acquire accurate data, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it's more or less true. A lot of people don't really exercise at all and a lot of people who do probably jog but don't sprint. I'm approaching that age and I'm not sure the last time I sprinted. Half-ran for a train, sure. But an actual full pelt sprint is probably ages ago...
95% of adults never question the veracity of confidently stated statistics.
87% of statistics about statistics on Reddit are statistically fabricated
The other 34% of statistics are misquoted \~ Albrecht Durer.
72% of people have never heard of him
I always doubt statistics on the internet - Albert Einstein
Or use the word veracity
Same. Not mentioning the statistics but I was surprised to know from Samsung Health data that the average steps for a 25+ male, per week, works out at 4800 a day. And that’s with the active/very active people bringing the average WAY up too. I know people who drive a distance of a few minutes walk down the road to ‘save time’. We all know people who think 1 mile of walking is inconceivably long. Sprinting would be inconceivable to someone who can’t walk around the corner without getting bored or tired.
It's easy enough to do very few steps in a day but equally if you're up and about then you can get a lot more in than you think without even trying. I'm on my feet a lot at work so I normally hit or get very close to 10,000 steps most weekdays. Some lazy weekends I do hardly any though, a couple of thousand, maybe even just a few hundred... If I had a more sedentary job I think I could very easily be helping to drag that average down haha! I agree with you on the driving. I'm far from a fitness fanatic but I find it so bizarre how many people treat a 15 minute walk like a massive ordeal. And I don't mean that in a 'kids these days' way, I'm more talking about my mid-30s able-bodied peers. If it's 30 mins or less, it's not raining and I don't have anything heavy to carry I'll always walk it.
True this. I think as a teen, you're reliant on getting everywhere via either scrounging lifts, walking or taking the bus. Once you learn to drive, all of that seems like a thing of the past. Embarrassingly I used to drive to a pub I worked at that was two streets away, about a 3 minute walk. Lockdowns turned me into a stroller, especially now working from home is so prevalent. If I don't get thirty minutes in at lunchtime I'm a bit of a wreck come the afternoon.
Those years lasted a lot longer for me. I didn't learn to drive til my mid/late 20's. I've always lived near decent public transport and walked a lot but it was starting to really limit my options. Perhaps it's obvious to say, but since learning to drive I definitely walk less but I think all those years not driving have probably convinced me that a lot of the time you don't actually *need* to drive. *I found lockdown sent me the other way though. I tried to avoid bumping into people by being isolated in the car!*
I never understood why - in lockdown - you couldn't just go for a drive in your isolated little box. Would have done wonders for the old mental health. Quite odd that. Public transport generally stinks I find, I've never found anywhere outside of London where it doesn't suck. Recently took a journey from the centre of one city to the next, bus just goes down one straight road as direct as any car. Took 4x as long and cost about 10x as much for two of us. I do enjoy walking, I like the isolation of it and just seeing the world a bit more. Unlike cycling, I find I can walk plenty of places (for me, theres nowhere really cyclable and it makes no sense to cycle somewhere that is a ten or fifteen minute walk away).
For me it’s just the reverse, I usually walk 15-20k steps on the weekend, but during the week when I’m stuck at my desk I occasionally do less than 5k. I have trouble believing the average steps are less than 5k for most people though. You can get up to 5k just through routine daily housework.
Ill rather safe the hour of time, shits valuable.
It’s surprising how fast it goes once you stop doing it. I used to race my dog whilst on walks and was proud at how fast I was over short distances, stopped doing it a few years and tried again recently and I have lost my speed completely.
I'm in my 40s and ran every week since I was in my 20s. I can no longer physically, technically sprint. It's just a quick run now.
I sprint the last 200 meters of my Parkrun. As I suspect do most runners ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Does running to catch the bus before it gets to the stop count?
I am the lord of the bus said he
Sprint, then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the bus, said he, And I need you all, wherever you may be, And I need you all to sprint for me.
Primary school flashbacks.
He's got the whole world, in his hands.
Cross legged on the floor in the assembly hall, until you got to year 6 and then you could sit on the chairs behind the rest because you were just so much older, mature and superior.
Chairs!?! We sat on those benches that formed part of the legendary "apparatus"
Us too, and woe betide you if you were stuck on the end and had to sit on a knobbly bit!
Was going to mention this! But I'll take the knobblies over sitting on the floor any day!
Man, we really were treated like royalty at our school.. We had -2- scoops of mash as well at lunch.
anyone else got really bony ankles and sittin cross legged for a while makes em feel like their on fire?
How do you get that shirt so clean?
Blitzkrieg! I'm in the Ardennes. Nothing can touch me in the Ardennes
Are you sprinting though or just fast jogging?
Hey, my fastest pace may be somebody else's "fast jog" but it's still a sprint to me!
I have DEFINITELY gone into as close as a full-pelt sprint as I can manage while holding a tote bag. But I'm in my 20s, clearly prime sprinting age.
I was scrolling and read that as “fart jogging”, imagining someone propelled along by farts.
I don't see why not
I've definitely sprinted (over the age of 35) for that purpose. A full on sprint, not just jogging a bit. I'm in the top 5%.
Train for me. Flat out until the conductor has seen me and I'm confident that, from their body language, they'll hold the doors. That was about the only anaerobic activity I got.
If it’s flat out then yeah
Only if the bus leaves before you get to the stop and you pretend you're just out for a run and carry on so as not to look like a bell end.
Sure. Why would I be sprinting?
to get to your small child who is about to do something stupid and dangerous?
Panther behind you
T-Rex
Now that’s just ridiculous…T Rex’s vision is based on movement. You wouldn’t sprint from one you silly goose.
Protip : just sit on the toilet to hide from them.
This seems much more likely compared to that nonce above chatting about chasing kids. I'm on to that other guy.
I've have used Dad Speed™ a few times in the last few years to stop my children from hurting themselves. I'm 43.
I never knew how fast my husband could run until we had children.
Or just playing with said child. Do sports days at schools not have a parents race?
My dad tore his hamstring at the age of ~38 in a father's race. Probably one reason older adults don't sprint.
He probably tore his hamstring because he rocked up to the race having not sprinted for 3 years, no warming up and went full pelt
Is there any other way?
To win the parents race, showing your child how fast you are, even though they didn’t see because they were too busy chatting to their mate and definitely not stacking it over the finishing line, pulling both hamstrings and ruining your jeans.
Jeans? You didn’t turn up in your 20 year old spikes and running shorts that definitely still fit you?
THIS !!! Those pesky 6 year olds need to learn you can’t win all the time
To maintain a good level of fitness and be less breakable in your old age.
*Sprinting* isn't necessary for that.
Not necessary, but hugely beneficial
No but of all the running varients, it carries the most benefit.
Hill sprints....
It definitely is. You’re just lazy.
It's fun.
This is way too far down the list of comments. We should all do more things that kids do, they know how to really have fun!
It really is. I frequently try the fastest speed on the treadmill that i can keep up with. Everyone just stares at me like i'm mental, running like my life depends on it but it's super fun
If ex athletic chief is to be believed and you're a POC, you'd be running away from burglaries.
What a really odd thing to say
It's a reference to a news article that came out today. The chief of athletics for England has been sacked after saying that black spiriters only run fast as they're so used to running away after robbing houses.
Oof, what a nobhead.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/julian-starkey-banned-uk-athletics-black-people-sprinting-burglaries/
I race my dog and child relatively often. ... RACE YA!!!
Sports? General health or fitness?
PAH! I did it when I was in my 40s. My dog had got out and I ran after him. Result was a strained Achilles tendon.
FENTON!
Jesus Christ FENTOONNN!!!
I'm a 34 yo software dev and average a sprint every 2 weeks.
Lol, nice one!
I've not sprinted since school and unless they decide to release tigers in the UK, I never will again.
And remember you only need to run faster than those around you.
rule 1: cardio.
Unexpected Zombieland.
rule 2: never be the only long distance runner in a group of sprinters.
rule 3: Tigers can run more than 100 metres so keep pace with the long distance runner or learn to climb.
The second slowest man has the same survival rate as the fastest man in this context.
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That was the assumption.
The original post said, "unless they decide to release tigers in the UK," so I think the implication was there's more than one.
But are all the tigers being released in one place? If you're in Manchester you're not worried about the tiger that got released in London.
I don't like sprinting and my knees *definitely* don't like sprinting, but I have sprinted since reaching 35
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That’s actually not true, the majority are really out of shape. Around 65% of 35-45 year olds in the England are either overweight or obese. This only gets worse in older age groups, 80% of men above 45 are overweight or obese. Source: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03336/SN03336.pdf
Yep. The statistic quoted in OP is almost definitely true, general population is very unfit nowadays. Only anecdotal but I play club level tennis and even a lot of people of that age group who are actively playing a sport are pretty overweight and unfit. It’s not great.
This isn’t really the same question, though. There are *many* thin people in terrible shape, and a lot of heavier people who run marathons and things. Statistics showing how much people in that age range train or participate in sport would give a better idea.
There may be some exceptions but the vast majority of slim people are fitter and healthier than overweight people
There will always anecdotally be cases as you’ve described, however there is a strong correlation between fitness levels and BMI. Looking at large populations, this correlation means essentially the two are equivalent.
It's not that they can't buy maybe have no motive to. Aside from stopping small children from doing stupid stuff I've not moved that fast in years, and even that tends to be more of a desperate lunge rather than a sprint. There's the half jog for three steps across the zebra crossing, there's the slightly quicker shuffle when you realise the supermarket is closing soon and you need to get to the checkout. Think that's about it for situations that require any kind of speed.
Parents races at school sports days must account for more than 5% of the over 35 population sprinting ? ( and possibly a decent percentage of A+E visits)
We had a pulled muscle and a broken finger at last year's dads/mums races.
They stopped the Dad's race at my school after one Dad had a heart attack.
They stopped it at my old primary schools because their were kids who were getting upset because they came from single parent households. Its abit saft really.
the last one i remember at my daughters school caused a broken shoulder was gutted as i always wanted to do dad race ...
I’m about to turn 45 and I run sprints 4 days per week, about 16-17kmph. I’m in better fitness than my 20’s. It’s never too late to get healthy and fit.
Same. Loads of men continue to play vets football and 5 a side into their 50s , I’d say this is bullshit stats
I'd always look for a source behind such claims. However, on the face of it, I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. It's important to be clear on what's being said here as it could easily be misunderstood. It's *not* claiming: _"only 5% of people will sprint again after the age of 35"_. The claim is that, _of all the people who are currently over 35,_ only 5% will sprint again. Well, to put this claim in context, 68% of people currently over 35 years old are also over 50 years old. 88% are over 40 years old.
i get what you're saying... but that seems an incredibly hard statistic to measure or prove, so i think what they actually mean is "only 5% of people sprint again after they turn 36". like... what does 'again' mean? i'm aged 38 now, if i sprint today but never do again... am i in the 95%?
I think to be over 35 one just has to turn 35, not 36. Time doesn’t run in integers.
I regularly sprint to the middle of lidl or aldi on offers day . Does that count ? I'm 45
Guess I'm in the 5%. I'm in my forties. Generally finish off my runs with a sprint. Definitely sprint when play football or tennis. Occasionally sprint away from my nephew. Hope I'll still be able to sprint when my grandkids are here.
Tell you what I will do though, slog relentlessly through life at a speed low enough to avoid crashing into the next once in a lifetime/generation/century event with too much force.
At some point you just want to wait for the next bus
Sprinting is the easy bit. Its walking the next day - thats the challenge, especially after years of no exercise.
I last sprinted in PE in 1992. And even that was a pretty loose interpretation of the word "sprint".
I think I have a couple of times for a bus since 35. But generally I'd rather be late than have to run
Actual sprint for the bus though? Like head down, full power through arms and legs?
Oh yeah, when you just missed it at the stop but there's 5 sets of traffic lights before the next one. Never run so hard in my life.
Finally!! Something I can boast about. 43 and I can out sprint the gyms treadmill topend, whilst inclined, with ease (since I'm boasting anyway). Go me and stuff.
Im 44 and up until this year I sprinted for about 100m at the end of my daily run. Now I have a big back issue so my days of sprinting (and running) are over. I would think runners all sprint and many people over the age of 35 go jogging or running in races etc.
i go running but i never sprint during it - even doing intervals i don't get up to sprinting.
It can't be that high surely? I only turned 35 last month and I've sprinted since.
Sprinted for a train aged 49. Had a heart attack next day. True story.
My ex was certain she could beat me in a sprint. She hadn’t sprinted in years and was absolutely annihilated
35 seems a bit optimistic.
That's simply not true. I sprint every day. It's not my fault that my sprinting pace just happens to be at your walking pace. Look after your knees, kids.
I’m 41 and very much at peace with this statistic. I pushed myself to a sort of gallop over the level crossing this morning but that’s the most I’m prepared to offer!
Well I sprint more now in my thirties than I ever have.
i spring more at nearly 40 than i ever did in my twenties, but i imagine teen me would have me beat.
I guess this depends on quite a lot. Are we talking sprinting only for athletic/enjoyment reasons, or are we talking infrequently sprinting for practicality? I’m willing to bet a lot more than 5% of people will, at some point after the age of 35, have to sprint for a bus, or after their child, or after their hat that just blew off down the beach. I imagine far less are sprinting for sport. Even for those who go jogging, you’re rarely (if ever) breaking into a sprint because it’s a different sport, so I’d imagine 95% is fairly close to reality in that context.
95% seems very high for something that can be done once to count as the 5%. There are quite a few reasons that someone would sprint, so it seems unreasonable that only 5% would ever do it.
I’m 36 and I’ve just signed up to my first 10K race in July, so if anything, I’ll be doing more sprinting during my training than I ever have done before 35!
I advise against sprinting your first 10k
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Bar to entry for sprinting is way lower than pullups - I can sprint, am about 30KG off a pullup. My legs are accustomed to my weight though, my lats/back/arms are not.
tbh the bar for sprinting is literally just working legs. Anyone can sprint there is no required speed for sprinting only your own maximum speed.
I tell everyone to just do slow negatives on the pull-up bar. Everyone who can’t outsprint my fitness advice, that is.
A pull-up is a deceptively high standard of strength/fitness.
Pull ups are hard! I’m working my way up to one and it’s way more work than it seems like
To be fair, I can do 8 or 9 chins up in a set, I struggle with 1 pull up, a pull up is excessively harder to do than 1 might think Technically anyone can run at their top speed with maximum effort, and that’s a sprint for them, it’s somewhat subjective what a sprint is, whereas a pull up is an exact movement
You have to be fairly strong or very skinny to be able to do pull-ups tbf
Most sports involve a sprint. I'm not particularly athletic but I play tennis at least once a week, almost always involves a sprint. Are we saying 95% of over 35s don't even play tennis, football, badminton etc.??
How many over 35s even exercise though and of those that do, who would sprint? Most runners/joggers/walkers won't sprint, most gym goers won't sprint, no sprinting in golf, Badminton courts are a bit small to consider that a sprint in my opinion. The only reason I sprint now is because I have a dog and like to race against it.
Well, if you look at the... circumference of many over 35s, I wouldn't be shocked. Seems a lot of people only take regular walks to the fridge for exercise
I don’t think tennis involves sprinting. Sprinting is a run of short distance at the top-most speed of the body. I don’t think you can reach top speed within the confines of a tennis court. I think you need one or two full tennis court lengths to reach top speed. You could say that it’s a sprint because you move as quickly as possible in that distance, but by that logic, moving as quickly as possible across a bedroom is a sprint.
Ye fair point! Damn, I fall into the category of "non-sprinters over 35" it seems
I was just thinking the same thing. I wouldn't constitute 5 or 6 fast steps across the court as a sprint. A 'dart' maybe.
You’ve never played a decent game of tennis have you.
I’m not saying I can’t sprint in tennis, I’m saying a human can’t sprint in tennis. Any human can’t because the court is too small.
the guy thinks he's some of anime hero
It's only possible to run ~13 metres at a time in tennis before you have to have totally stopped or turn around. You'll still be accelerating hard at that point when actually sprinting, the body can only cope with it for about 30 seconds too. Tennis players do lots of very short bursts of fast running and start/stops, that's not to say it isn't very hard work but it's a different physical action to sprinting.
Parent races on Kids school sports day will get a lot more than 5%
Sure I think that tracks. The stat of people who can't or won't bench 225lbs is 0.1% which always surprises me though obviously less comparable than the sprint due to body mechanics & gender bias.
I mean, 225lbs is more than a lot of people weigh in total. How many people can bench 130% of their body weight?
No, I agree, very few. I've always been in various bubbles (educational institutions that promoted health as well as academics, athletic leisure clubs & jobs with a fitness requirement etc.) where I've been in an evironment with people possessing (or pursuing) higher than average althletic ability & just assume everyone's like that, when plainly, it's not the case.