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Absolutely 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.
by dualogy 11y ago
Absolutely 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.