Pissed Off Personal Trainer

In Part 1 I gave a theory of Genetic Potential (GP) and Part 2 a theory for Natural Potential (NP) but life is never so simple as to evoke one theory at a time. So what if you have an individual with high GP and high NP BUT that individual due to environmental, and other factors, is not maximizing either. So you have got an overweight 19 year old who spends their days sat down, watching Netflix playing computer games etc and has a terrible diet. The environment changes and the individual chooses diet XXXX and starts doing basic exercise (walking etc) but predominately less sitting. 3 months later that individual has lost a good load of weight and is now singing the praises of diet XXXX. Well we see this all the time. Every single diet has someone who lost loads of weight 'just' by following that diet. A percentage of followers of every single diet then use these super responders as justification of the miracle of their diet (and to the determent of every other diet). Yet th

In part 1 I presented a theory and ramblings for genetic potential (GP) and tried to give some real-world figures for reference. Now I want to present another theory/idea that has been rattling around in my mostly empty head for ages, Natural Potential (NP). This time I want you to imagine living in a world with little to no automation, no shops, cars or even mobile phones. Food had to be gathered, grown or hunted. Essential items had to be foraged, carried and so on. Physical training doesn’t exist, its an unkown concept. In this world you are going to fitter, stronger and more mobile than someone who doesn’t train in the modern world because your ability to move and carry is essential to surviving and you do it all day every day. This is your Natural Potential. In 2020 many, well far too many people are not even close to the NP because they simple do not move enough. They are in negative fitness equity before the even start training or exercising more often. Therefore, w

Most people don’t have any real idea of how fit/strong/fast etc they could actually be. They don’t have a reference point or a realistic comparison to gauge this from. Imagine if you live in a world where your parent where both former professional athletes. They had earned good money as athletes and one parent was now a coach, the other a specialist sports physiotherapist. You parents were able to train, coach, mentor you from the perfect age in order to develop you into the best athlete in the sport, ever, dominating the sport and breaking the world records. This feat was aided by the fact that you parents' passed on the genetics that made them elite in their sport, and past on their work ethic to maximise those genetics. Consider this point your genetic potential (GP) . Described above is too perfect, it rarely happens as far too many variables must line up to make this all possible. However, we all have a GP it just may not be enough potential to make us elite sports m