hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be looking at the top speed
of usain bolt and noah lyles we just did this video the other day but upon further
review there's a few things that we needed to be able to change to make it so it's a little
bit more accurate but today we're going to be finding out exactly how fast these two guys
are when in the world championships here for usain bolt or the olympics usain bolt and then
in the race where noah lyles was able to come back against christian coleman a couple years ago
and on on the right side so really excited to do this video we're gonna go ahead and hop
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like that leave those down below or hop in the video right now okay so we have usain bolt here
on the left side and we have no allows here on the right side and what ended up happening is that i
read a thing that said that these markers here were 10 meters apart but they actually are 8.5
meters apart right and and i just did you know this video um before and ended up having some
technical difficulties so i already kind of know what the results are going to be unfortunately i
wanted to make it so we're able to kind of get the results together but either way we're going
to see some really really cool stuff i'm going to start off with usain bolt because i'm really
really curious on exactly how fast he's able to run and i think this will get a little bit more
accuracy in terms of how we're able to do this and you know get some of the numbers so we'll start
off here again you can see how the time stamp is so it's basically right where he's touching
i got the time of 94.66 here uh in terms of where he's at uh you can see he's a little bit behind
the the marker there so one two three again he's a little bit behind the marker um you know
we can say 8.4 maybe 8.3 i'm going to say 8.3 just because i think that's a little bit more
of a you know i try to be conservative here with these numbers so that's number four
and then he's definitely about halfway through um on that so we're gonna go ahead and say um first
for three steps he's at eight point four divided by three and it's two point eight then we're
gonna do two point eight times four eleven point two uh and then since it's at 2.8 11.2 for now
um let's let's add another 1.4 on there plus 1.4 equals 12.6 right so about 12.6 meters
in that ten seconds there so then we're gonna go ten point six twelve point six i'm going to
divide that by point four four seven zero four and that number comes out to 28.1
miles per hour um before when i did this it was actually closer to 27.7 and i just was not as uh
nice with the the distance there so what i did was instead of 8.4 i did a base off of 8.3 so you know
three steps so 8.3 divided by three was two point seven six and then i multiplied that times four
and then i gave him another 1.35 and then i divided that by there so now we have 12.41
and then i divided that by 44704 and got 27.7 on that one so again i mean these are a little
bit more accurate numbers here because we're looking at you know usain bolt and looking to see
exactly how much space he's able to obviously come up with and before they were talking
about how his max speed is 27.8 you know you could say he might be above 28 miles per hour
based off of you know how how we're looking if you think that that step was you know 8.3 meters
right at this step to you or if this distance that he carried right from here boom that's 8.3 meters
to you then he's running 27.7 and if it's 8.4 meters right not a huge difference when it's 28.1
all right so now we're going to go ahead and take a look at noah lyles this is going to be that end
of the race where he came back against christian coleman great race so we're gonna start this one
at 13.35 you see the markers here so he's a little bit behind the me the marker here one two three
right and by this time to me um he still has a good amount of ways to go there uh he started off
a little bit behind but he still has you know at least a half a meter you know maybe maybe more um
you know so let's say he's at 7.9 divided by three it's 2.63 but the thing with him is four
he's still not touching so he basically touches right there so it's like closer to almost five to
me just because you know he's he's a little bit further out within that that step if we look at
you know usain bolt as he was coming through here he was just getting to that that motion
right where um you know so he still has a little bit longer period of time before he's hidden he
has another like um 0.15 before he's hitting the ground where no allows is like 0.04 right so he's
a little bit further out in front in my opinion so yeah 2.63 and we're gonna multiply that times four
and then i'm going to add another uh 2.2 onto it equals 12.72 and then we go 12.72 divided by
0.44704 and that equals 28 point four five miles per hour 28.45 so now the question ends up being
we go here if you don't think that that was you know so we're looking here one two three if you
if you think that based off of what we're looking at here let me clear that off so he's a little bit
behind right he's to me he's probably about point two meters behind we have one two three right so
now the big question is you know because it's hard to be able to be exact it's how far away
from me from there is he is he a meter is he a half a meter um and based off of that that makes
a big difference in where our you know deciding factor ends up being you know if it's a 2.63 that
means that he should be um you know at least a meter out in front of it after he lands right
and so he doesn't look like he's too far out in front so uh he might only be say he's only 7.5
right so now we're going to go 7.5 divided by 3 it's 2.5 multiply that times 4. he still ended
up getting a good amount of so we're going to add another 2.25 right because that would be at
two point five meters so we're going to say 2.25 which gets them to 12.25 and we divide that by
0.44704 and that is 27.4 miles per hour so that takes a mile an hour off uh based off of where you
think he's at i was thinking that he might be you know a little bit under eight meters right because
that whole distance from here you know from here to here is 8.5 right so i was thinking
he's like a half meter short altogether um which would you know that's why i did it based off of
7.9 meters and how how he went but if you do it based off of 7.5 meters then he's at 27.4
meters per second so really makes a big difference this is where reach is super important when it
comes to sprinting right just by that extra 0.4 difference in the course of three steps
or how fast you're able to cover 8.5 meters takes a whole mile per hour off of your top end speed so
you know it's going to obviously be very very different still 27.4 miles per hour is amazing
if he's in the 28 miles per hour then that is also a very very elite number and something that
you know i definitely think no allows could be faster than usain bolt i think noah lyles right
now is you know the fastest person uh fastest sprinter um you know the big thing is usain bolt
was able to just cover so much ground so much faster right he's able to get to his top speed
i feel like a little bit more effectively than no allows no allows really comes on strong at the end
um but it takes him a little bit usain bolt had a unique ability to really get to that top end speed
a little bit faster than a lot of people which i think really separates him as the best ever and
why he was able to run that 958 um is because for his size and being able to get to his top
speed as fast as he could i was really so amazing so um as always guys thanks for watching this
would love to hear your comments down below and what you think based off of you know watching
this whole breakdown if you want to get your speed analyzed by me i would be happy to do so we really
look deep into the numbers here we look at contact time turnover time how fast you can go based off
of what you want to be uh you know given what information you think is most important and based
off of that we'll go into the mechanics right i do these these breakdowns for everybody so you know i
do it on tyson gay i have them on on obviously noah lyles christian coleman um a software pal
basically everybody that's in here we'll do we'll do breakdowns on our i have done breakdowns on
uh just be able because i'm really passionate being able to understand sprinting performance
and how you can run faster really make it so you can get fast from the 40 to 60 100 whatever
this top-end speed development is something i'm very very passionate about and so being able to
understand this and get deep into the numbers really helps me being able to clarify for you
guys what exactly you need to do in order to run faster so that's what we do we have that in the
breakdowns down below we also have a program the speed program for you so a lot of ways to be able
to help you out if you have any questions we'll be happy to answer those again that contact is down
below in the description as well as always thanks for watching the videos we'll talk to you soon