I actually met my wife because I commented on her ankles. At a bar, she went the wrong way and did a 180. I saw how beautiful she was, wanted to take a shot, mentally went down the list of appropriate body parts to comment on without coming off creepy or thirsty, and shouted, "Nice ankles."
I'm pretty sure they only talked about torque and nothing about sprinting.
In case you learned about torque from a gearhead, torque is essentially a measure for the rotational effect of force around a fulcrum. So, since most (all ?) of our limb motions are turning around some pivot point (joints), we can measure torque for all of those.
Now I realise how hard it was for them to define torque to me as a child.
Yeah, English isn't my first language and the first time I heard the word was watching Top Gear as an adult a decade or two ago, so that's my most immediate association 😄
What does toque have to do with sprinting from a standstill? Torque of more like, capacity to put out mechanical energy. I read this as "your arms look capable of lifting heavy weights".