Do taller people  run faster than shoter people?
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This site will answer your question.
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I play basketball all the time. I'm only about 5'5 but I still beat people that are 6 feet or taller. Strengths - good shooter, good at stealing, great defense on people my height, good at driving it in, decent ball handling.
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I believe the world is built for average height people, not tall people and certainly not short people. Tall people have many inconveniences when it comes to the world like doors that are too short and cars that are too small.
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Yes, a lil bit. Sprints strengthen calves which increase your vertical. You can also do jump roping, ladders, calf raisers.
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A crocodile is no speedster on land. Either running straight or zig-zagging you have to be quicker than the crocodile. Humans are averagely faster than crocodile on land. After all, a crocodile runs out of gas quickly. That's why when it makes a kill it is really quick or it will end up empty-stomached and tired.
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How would playing basketball make someone tall?  You probobly think that because most tall people play because it's a big advantage to have height.
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Guards abuse their knees more than centers or power forwards. Guards are usually smaller in height compared to towering centers and forwards so they have to exert more effort in jumping to reach the hoop. Moreover, they run the floor more throughout their careers so it eventually takes its toll as their playing years go up.
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I think it does....I started martial arts and being athletic when I was 10. I'm now 5'6 but I'm the shortest in my entire family!! My brother is 6'6....\n\nHowever the answer is No. There are many athletes and bodybuilders who are tall yet started lifting in their teens (for example, Shaquille O'Neal, David Robinson, Karl Malone, Michael Vick, Dave Draper and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Weightlifting being a growth stunter is a myth.\n\nThat is absolutely false. It is a complete myth that weightlifting stunts growth.\n\nRunning and jumping alone puts a force more than 5 times a person's weight on one legs. If a man is 200 lbs, he'd have to be squatting more than 1,000 lbs in order to be putting more stress on his legs than regular running or jumping would do. If running or jumping doesn't stunt your growth, neither will doing squats.\n\nWorking out and lifting weights should not affect your reaching your potential genetic height
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if you are taller than them then that could be a reason that you way more but are as skinny or skinnier. thats how it is for me.
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well if ur talking about high jumping in track and field my friend and teammate won state w/ like 5'2
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Yes. You need speed and (especially) endurance to run from trouble. Endurance gives you the ability to endure hardships and tragedies. An attacker grabs you; you escape and run away. \nA flood happens; you climb up  high and if necessary swim to floating logs etc. You run out of gas on the highway. Maybe you have a cell phone, but maybe the battery is dead just at that moment. Now you have to walk 5 miles back to that last town you went through. All of this requires endurance. In Jerusalem, being out of shape can get you killed real fast. Liberal laws even in Jerusalem forbid a soldier from having his M-16 locked and loaded or even to have a magazine inserted. One such Jewish soldier survived a butcher knife attack from behind as he was waiting for a bus. While he defended himself from that knife, he inserted a mag into the gun, racked a bullet and fired, killing the Arab terrorist. They said what saved his life was his conditioning. Jews are on the constant vigil for bad guys. Here in America an attack is not ever expected. Nonetheless there are predators about you use that as an advantage. So if one such attack does occur, you won't be asking if being in condition is necessary. You'll know it is. Also a women is not defenseless. An elbow into the neck. Fingers in the eyes. Bend back fingers. Knee into the groin. The goal you must have in every such occurrence is to escape, and that requires conditioning.
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I think Gerry McNamara actually dunked once and he's only like 6 feet tall.\nBut the Scandinavians are really good a jumping, they always win the high jump. This guy from Sweden was only like 5'6" but he won the 2004 Gold Medal in High Jump, I bet he could dunk too.
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I had a HUGE crush on a boy who later ended up going out with a 5"10 girl. I was a little bit jealous, since I was only 5"2. I'd say that being tall is a definite advantage, since your legs are longer and you're much sexier than shorter girls. I wear heels every day in order to look taller. BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE!
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Long legs give you different center of gravity and tend to make you spin slower.. but I think that if you use them to your advantage you could do great things, I just hope you're not tall too because that limits what you can do in those 1/3/5/7/10 meters you got
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An average dward can kill a man in one blow - they can trow cars and jump tall buildings.\n\nNot really.  They are just short people - stronger than children as they have adult musculature but not super strong or anything unnatural.  I guess a dwarf could train to become really strong but so could a non-dwarf.
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It is not because of physical superiority. You may argue that blacks generally have a genetic advantage over other races, and that may be true, but the difference is marginal. Trust me, it is mostly because other races are too intimidated to go out and win a starting position dominated by blacks. Sure, being a wide receiver does require a lot of speed, but let's consider how marginal the difference in sprint speed between blacks and whites actually is. The fastest white sprinter ever (a German) did the 100 meter dash in 10 seconds way, way back in the 60's. Today, almost fifty years later black sprinters have improved that time by only about .5 of a second. Plus, don't forget, a wide reciever has other attributes besides speed that have to be taken into consideration. The NFL has a tendency to put more emphasis on the combine then they do on performance on the field. I'd take a guy like Steve Largent or Dwight Clark (both modern era players) over Atwaan Randle El or Ashley Lelie! Wouldn't you??? \n\nJust for sake of speculation here's another scenario to consider. I'd be willing to bet a whole years salary that if the Communist Chinese government decided to make it mandatory for every Chinese male to train as an Olympic sprinter does from the time they entered Jr. High school, China would have an Olympic gold medalist on the podium within 12 or14 years.. Why? Well, why do you think? There are over 2 BILLION people living in China alone. Someone out of 2 BILLION people would HAVE to have the desire, anatomy, and the determination to eventually win the event. Think about it..
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sure they should!\n\nif you are into running then run man!\n\nand you should have a forum on YA to express your questions and share your answers as well.