Random Thoughts on Training Potential Part 1
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...