re: Physics/Strength Training/Leonard Fournette Question

What in the frick is this....

First off, Schmelly, your lb to kg conversion is wrong. 330 lbs is about 150 kg (not 726 kg).

Now for today's physics lesson...

Power is Energy/Time

The energy supplied by the lifter has to equal the final potential energy of the weight, which is given by:

Energy = Mass * Gravitational Acceleration * height

As a power clean lifts to the shoulder, this should be about 5 ft high (or 1.5 m) on a 6 ft tall football player. This gives:

Energy = 150 kg * 9.8 m/s^2 * 1.5 m = 2205 J

The power is then:

Power = (2205 J) / (1.2 s) = 1837.5 Watts which is about 2.5 horsepower.

- from your friendly neighborhood particle physicist

FYI - That means 660 clones of Fournette would be enough to supply the 1.21 gigawatts of power needed for Doc Brown to go back to the future.

Mountain Tiger is correct... Should be 660,000.

Lol @ the kg conversion. I wasn't paying attention. Did lb x 2.2 instead of /2.2

Congrats on being the only non-Ruhtard on the Rant

I would have guessed Kieland Williams on account of the calfzilla's alone.

Photosynthesis!! BAM!

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Photosynthesis!! BAM!

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And THIS is ur first post? Lol

Fournette is a blend of Addai and Ford..

Not as powerful as Addai, and not as strong as Ford. A combination of power, strength and speed that not many RBs have.

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The laws of physics don't apply to Buga

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That's because he created physics

fwiw, the math doesn't translate exactly to the field.

There's dozens of small data points from how he swings his arms to the relative balance of using quads vs hamstrings while running, to the way his feet contact the ground (and how much force is lost into the ground vs how much is preserved in forward momentum), to his core and shoulder strength, etc... All these things point to how efficiently he uses his strength/power on the field.

It would be impossible to track all those data points casually... If you had a lab and ran a series of tests over and over, maybe you could. But you can sort of get a sense of how efficient athletes are by watching them. Tyrann Mathieu comes to mind as perhaps the best example of an athlete with such outstanding body control that there seems no wasted movement. If he's making a tackle or stripping a ball, every part of him seems unified to that purpose. When LF hits his groove, he's definitely outstanding in that regard. But I don't know how you'd be able to assess that accurately.

He showed his whole toolbox on that run. The stutter-step to make the lineman miss, the speed to get to the edge and then the power at the end.

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