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Very true. Usain Bolt is known to have laughable form, so bad that coaches who have filmed him just throw up their hands when playing it back. Also, you can ge
by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Very true. Usain Bolt is known to have laughable form, so bad that coaches who have filmed him just throw up their hands when playing it back.
Also, you can get incredibly strong just on 3 squares and water and sleep. Either you have the genes and do the work, or you don't.
- dualogy 11y agoAbsolutely true. Gym rats and Joes have been ridiculously complicating their diets over the decades to squeeze out an at-best theoretical 1% boost or something. Also being 15 helps with a natural abundance of virtually-side-effect-free ridiculous testosterone and growth hormone leveles. But hard work paired with good genes still trumps all other considerations by a wide margin.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoHormone levels don't explain a 15 year old's performance against other 15 year old's (Cummings is the nr 1 ranked 15 year old in the world in his division), nor does it explain a better performance than 18 year olds who have higher testosterone levels. Anyway I think the original point wasn't so much the people who obsess over diet that he's perhaps referring to. Rather the fact I can name you a dozen top athletes from the top of my head who pretty much lived on McDonalds, drank 2 litres of soda a day or ate multiple candy packs a day. Changing something ridiculous like that to merely a sensible, normal diet, can actually help, and it's different from obsessing about replacing legumes in your diet with quinoa which probably isn't going to give you any gains whatsoever.