Question: Are elite athletes born superior to you? Answer: Absolutely they are superior to you, athletically. Your welcome, saved you 8 and a half minutes.
My best friend in high school was one of the strongest people at our school and he didn't work out at all. 5'10, 180 lbs, 8% body fat. Now he's in the army and they make him do push ups, sit ups, and run. From just those exercises, he's put on 20 lbs of muscle. After only a few months of training, he can do 120 push ups in 2 minutes and can run 2 miles in 10:45. It's not fair.
Elite level athletes are superior to the rest of us, period. You can be a professional athlete and be passionate for it, but you don't become great in that sport unless you have the genes. Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all time. There may be people alive who have the potential to be better swimmers, but they aren't doing it. Once you become a household name to people who can't name a single other name of somebody in your sport, then that's 90% genetics and 10% of passion.
You haven't done much research... That makes a difference at the extreme peaks of human performance. And by that I mean; if you are in a sport where every athlete has maximised the gains from training. As is the case in 100m sprint for example. All those guys train, eat, sleep to be fast. Most have trained their whole life. When you're in a field like that, the biggest differences will be the coincidental childhood stimuli the athletes where exposed to as well as God given genetic potential. But 90% of sports do not require this same level of specialisation to one aspect of athletic performance (in our example speed). I'd argue that 90% athletes in any professional sport are far from their genetic potential when it comes to speed, strength, endurance and flexibility, balance etc. But if you can get close enough to your genetic potential in a lot of these categories and pick up a sport early, guess what bro, you'll be elite. Training, is by far more important than genetics. You can't become an elite athlete without training either directly (gym, practice, dieting). >>>>>>AND
Why not run? Track/cross country is a fun sport whether or not you're good at it. Also, it's one of the easiest sports to get better at. Run once a day and you'll get better day by day.
I'd say it greatly depends on the sport. Most people for example will never be able to run as fast as Usain bolt for example. but I'd say with enough training almost anyone could be a great football(soccer)player just look at Messi and Ibrahimovic for example. They are physically as different as it gets but they are both outstanding players.
I think you're right. I've just had my DNA tested and to my disbelief I have two copies of the R fast twitch gene but I'm fairly confident 99% of the people watching this video would destroy me in a sprint race. I can't throw for shit either. There must be many more associated genes involved in power performance and I must be weak AF in all of them!
There were a lot of amazing people on the show "Stan Lee's Superhumans." There was this marathon runner, Dean Karnazes, who apparently never tires out.
I think genetics within race plays some part too. Example: During the World Olympics, the sprinters in the finals are usually blacks(regardless of nationality). Same goes for other enthicities in various sports.
I am a natural born non-athlete and i have bad knees genetically, but since i put in all this work to be the best i can, i can run faster and jump higher than most of my friends
I think the science on having the best genetics for a certain sport is still very young. Take for example the 100 meter sprint, it was always thought that short powerful athletic men would always be superior to taller athletes and then came along Usain Bolt who is 196cm tall which is just over 6'5" tall. His stride length (the distance he takes to take one step is much longer than his rivals so that over a 100 meter distance he will take 71 steps whereas his closest competitor will take at least 75 steps. This means his weight is in a more forward momentum more of the time than his opponents. And to think he has a very poor start which means he still has a lot of improvement.
Yes, Usain is two inches or 5 cm taller than what is probably the optimum range (the fastest sprinters before him have always been between 5ft9 and 6ft3), but he probably has other advantages that compensate for it.
I feel like nurture is extremely important too. If you have a father that puts you into sports when you are super young and instills a resilient mindset in you, it might take you further than someone who may be a little more talented than you.
When approaching the professional level sports, genetics have a huge difference. Everyone can climb a tree or run a mile or do 10 pushups (unless you are born with some handicap, of course)
I don't know about all athletes but superior (hardworking) footballers are definitely just born better. We just cannot all have Messi's ball control and football intelligence no matter how we try, even if we had a 100 years of practice he'd still beat us. The level of foot eye co-ordination is absolutely out of this world.
People can be born with great physical genetics/features but if their heart and knowledge of discipline is not focused into their sport, then they won't be an elite athlete.
It’s not just physical either. If you are born with a highly competitive mindset, then you are hard to beat. Example - some elite athletes still have to drive and artificially motivate themselves to train (and they do and they succeed) , but it’s the ones who will lace up the shoes and run in the cold and wet without giving it a second thought even for a moment that are the true elites - you have to be utterly incorruptible about your training and performance.
Well honestly look at the difference I’m a massive George’s St Pierre fan and he has some of the best genetics of all time, extremely fast, strong, frame looks like he was made out of stone not to mention a sky high IQ, and even I’ll admit he got picked apart by Johnny Hendricks who was a normal guy with a dad bod who just so happened to take steroids, bottom line is yes genetics do matter in sports but not NEARLY as much as PEDs, the drugs they take is what makes the whole world of difference
"Nature", Your genes are your potential. NO ONE exceeds their potential but no everyone reaches their potential. "Nurture", how hard you work and how much your parents push you is what moves you to your potential. If the guy with the best genes works the hardest and gets the most support from their team, no one will be able to beat him unless he gets injured, distracted, or the rules of the competition are changed. For a sprinter to beat Usain Bolts 100M world record, there will have to be another freak of nature with better genes for sprinting because Bolt is a FREAK OF NATURE. Same with Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Lionel Messi, Rafael Nadal & Roger Federer.
I'm so not gifted in any sport and I was perfect at being stupid as in I was academically bad. I studied lots and lots every day and now I'm above Average. Before I was crap at swimming in year 2 and came last in every race! Now I've been swimming for like 6 years and people with natural swimming talent still beat me! I love running but again I was so untalented until I started training every single day in year 5.( no I'm not joking I LITERALLY trained and am training every day I'm not sick or anything) I still run 6-7 times a week and 20-35km a week and am in year 8 but naturally talented runners who never train still beat me! It's so unfair I don't have a useful body or mind at anything. My only talent is being untalented. I work really hard but still can't achieve anything good.
Dan Carter, Jonny Wilkinson, Richie Mccaw and most other rugby players are not natural they spend hours every day training trying to get one small aspect of their game right
my dad was a runner athlete had set 3 Icelandic records and one is still standing and i am fastest in school and my team, but i have same problems whit my knees and asthma
The design of leg from the knee down allows for less use of energy that is stored for later use in the completion. They jump better, run better and faster .It’s not intelligence that makes them win .
Elite athlete, meaning like the top one percent of performers... Think of it this way a skill such as running a marathon, look at the genetics of all the people who have run a marathon in under 2:10 ever... see what gene pool they all come from? Almost without any exceptions these people are all Kenyans from the Kalenjin tribe... Could almost anyone be trained to run a marathon in under 3 hours which is still pretty good? of course, but could almost anyone be trained to run it in under 2:10? The statistics refute that sharply...
My father is pretty muscular despite being almost 60 and doesn't do much lifting and I find after 1 or 2 workouts, i make an incredible amount of physical progress despite not pushing myself too hard. I gain muscle very quickly and lose muscle very slowly on my kinda off months of working out.
Trace! What’s your opinion on Malcolm Gladwell’s “Mathew Effect”/Accumulative Theory in his book “Outliers.” This theory is the idea that kids born in early months will be selected to be on better youth travel teams since they will be (at that age) noticibly more developed than their younger peers. From here the accumulative advantage takes over and these older athletes compete with better competition from day one, on. Outliers says that success depends on the idiosyncrasies of the selection process used to identify talent just as much as it does on the athletes' natural abilities. Please like so Trace sees!!!
Genetics are very very very important. Some are just........born superior. Born to be sprinters. Born to be Basketball players. Born to be bodybuilders. Nature will always create freaks and oddities. This is what makes the human family so awesome. (not my family - not my personal family).
You can control nurture, but it's difficult to control nature at the current time. So it's really unrealistic to pit pure nurture against pure nature, when in reality it is nurture + nature vs just nurture because everyone can be nurtured while it is harder to control genetics.
Having no fear is also one thing and keeping yourself in shape but people do have some advantages to other obviously. Important thing is to practice and improve to get better.
The largest predisposition for whether a kid will become an elite athlete is environmental. What sport they find success in is largely genetic. I firmly believe AT LEAST half the population has the physical capacity to make it to an elite level in a sport. The thing that separates the ones who make it to the ones that don't is mental and environmental. Do they want to do it? Have they been exposed to it? Are they supported in that endeavour by their family? Do they believe they can do it and have the will to encounter and overcome every obstacle along the way? That's the biggest factor. When you look at Phelps you're looking at a guy that is a freak among freaks among regular people who are driven and passionate about their sport enough to make it to an elite level.
My 100 m etre time was 12.89 se onds at school 12 th grade.. now in collage after going doing leg excercises thigh muscle increased and also explosivness now tested my 100 metre second is 11.45 seconds..wtf? I cant belive wats happening to my body..i was slower cuz i had thin legs and weak legs.. please help!
Just saw a video about Julio Jones and thought about Megatron and then thought about how almost every athlete is plagued with injuries towards the end of their careers. That then made me wonder are we truly meant to be Athletes? To train your whole life and play a sport should mean you're more prepared and shouldn't endure constant injuries, right?
Short answer, yes. Elite athletes are brains literally work faster than others. The world can move slower to them than it does to others... Prime example, a gifted boxers who can dodge punches at an elite level
I think its both nature more than nurture. My father was a professional boxer in the late 90's, While i don't exactly like all sports...i see i pick them up a lot faster/easier than my friends who's parents weren't athletes. Kids that are forced to play sports as youths, tend to be going against 'nature', get bored of sports and end up being like their parents.
usain bolt: born 6’5 all fast twitch muscle fiber above average endurance as seen in his 400m time the ability to take less strides and somehow never be tense in a race usain is truly nurture on top of nature most talented sprinter to step on the track ever
I feel I have always been a step ahead of everyone I have been around no matter what it is I do with regards to sports without ever trying and out of curiousity I had to look this up and found your video. I can tell you gifts can take you places we all know that but only through hard work and nuturing of those gifts, they begin to serve us. Of course professionals and people with very long term training in ANY sport is superior to me at this time. However I feel I could easily choose quite a few things to dedicate my life to and succeed at it as well. Idk what to do w my life lol
I believe athleticism is something your born with. For example. I'm only 5'9" with a 37 inch vertical leap. I'm ripped and toned without the need to work out and always did well in all sports I've tried. While others I competed against who tried much harder still couldn't surpass me.
+Brayan Rivera its ridiculous that people are even debating whether or not aptitude exist it obviously does. I myself in many was never even a "beginner" skill wise.
The only thing that differentiates between great athletes and mediocre athletes, drive pro athletes simply work harder and train harder to improve their skills
No, its something with their mentally. Something in ones personality, especially when talking about elite level players, that separates them from a great player. Look at all the top sportsmen of the world. They all have cognitive functions that are working the same way. It's like IQ's, some people are just born intellects. Some people are just born athletes.
The question also is, that if someone tries really hard at something and becomes the best at it, is the working hard a genetic or environmental quality? Also is it genetic to react really well to training, or have a great baseline but not react well to training?
It is some of each. In self report measures, the heritability of Conscientiousness (which includes work effort, motivation, and related traits) is between 0.4 and 0.5, but when the measure averages self report with four assessments from other persons, the heritability rises to 0.70 or higher. This is probably because other people tend to rate you more realistically than you are likely to rate yourself.
+fitnessNerd I'm sorry to say, but when we're talking about the human body at the highest level - elite physical condition - race does have an effect. For example, black people have more potential muscle mass and can out sprint and out run other races. But white people are the best for swimming, and let's not get started with the Aryans... But it was this Darwinian thinking that was very, very popular back at the start of the 20th century, carrying on from the 19th. Unfortunately, we all know what that all led to. Never discriminate based on race, obviously. We're all human and in general we're all the same. But when you're dealing with full-time athletes, find me a white man in 100m or 1500m race who can actually challenge a black athlete at the highest level!
+sean chern Yeah actually race doesn't actually matter. Physical trends that make an athlete better at a certain sport just typically gather in a certain race or races of people. However, any race could get the traits necessary to be better at a certain sport, but one race can often times have the traits commonly. That doesn't mean by virtue of being black you are a good sprinter or being white means you're a good swimmer. You may have different physical abilities than typical of your race.
+The Joker very true. as half Asian living in a very athletic town. I've always felt I needed to put a little more effort into the sports I am performing compared to my white counterparts, who are just bigger.
this is what I want to know im really fast im 11 my dad wasn't fast my mom wasn't fast but I don't know any about my grandparents though so could it just be the food I eat and the amount I sprint I do the 100m in 13.10 200m 27.62 please reply.
I have used 23andme for genetic analysis and according to them I have the alpha-actinin-3 protein. I'm not trying to show off here but it's true, ever since I hit puberty I have always noticed I can build lean muscles fairly quickly, I just got into bodybuilding last year and my friends were surprised how fast I managed to get that V shaped upper body due to my lats, I'm a short guy, standing at 5"6.5, and they keep telling me I'm building muscles easily because of my short height, but I actually have a brother who's 5 inches taller than me and he builds muscles just as easily
Wow I think i have the X R varient of acnt-3? I have always been over weight until recently and have extremely bad lungs/breathing since i was young but can i sprint with the best, i would often place top 3 in the 100m 200m sprints, 400m and im dying and coughing a lung up.
My grandpa from mums side is fast af for his age and my parents are strong as hell although they are both short and I’m one of the strongest and fastest in my school but also mildly overweight and unathletic.
So that's why I'm a natural with drums and why I have very very naturally strong forearms, thighs, and shoulders. I'm from a mining and farming family, and my pop plays drums. Intradasting sir.
It's always 50% genetics and 50% nurture (in this case, training). No need to say all this things. It' common sense. Don't make it complicated. And something else...We like a sport because we are good at it. We enjoy being better than others.
In basic sports (sprinting, jumping swimming etc) genes matter however in more complicated sports such as soccer football rugby it's not all down to genes. Genes do still matter but they are not necessary a necessity
Jon Bones Jones is arguably the best mixed martial artist there is. He is unquestionably genetically gifted for the sport standing at 6'4" tall with an 84.5" reach, weighing 205 lbs on fight day. If we should discuss genetically supierior athletic specimens, he must be in the discussion. Both his brothers are in the NFL as well so hows that for genetically superior
99% percent of all running backs in The NFL are....Black! Strength and speed at the very highest level attainable. Marathon winners? 99% Black..Specifically African plains.. Genetics my friend..:-)
wow this is pretty crazy and stuff to learn and health and fitness in this episode the one thing that was cool is that the athlete's arm is longer then his hight which is the same as me when I'm 6'1 but my arm is 3-4 inches longer then my hight and I knew this when I was 12.
It depends where you born too, i was born in a third world country, i was better than anyone in most athletic challenges but people only play soccer there and i hate soccer...
wow thats good but how does genetics influences the drive and hunger for achieving greater goals and what does mean to start a physique carrier or bodybuilding is to fulfill the desire of getting good body & overcome the insecurity of being weak & small
Yooo i was searching for this I'm 13 years old and i have really muscular legs but my thighs r bulky whyyy??? I learnt walking in a really small amount of time when i was born
Anyone interested in the role of genetics with respect to athletic performance must read David Epstein's book "The Sports Gene". While Epstein admits that environment, diet, training, will and opportunity are important factors in athletics, in order to make it into professional/elite levels of sport, genetics is the decisive factor. Epstein does a masterful job in "The Sports Gene" of illustrating scenarios among athletes where environments are similar, and yet different results are produced, thus revealing how central genetics is to exceptional athletic performance. This is why awarding athletic scholarships is so unfair, because certain people are born with distinct advantages to achieve those scholarships. While the same thing can be said for intelligence, in that there is a hereditary detriment that factors into how high your IQ can be, one can make up for genetic shortcomings in the academic arena with hard work. This is why an F student, with tutoring and motivation, can be an A student. It happens all the time. Conversely, you will seldom if ever see a 5'6" male make it to the NBA, or a person with a disproportionate amount of slow twitch muscle fibers, regardless of how hard he trains, become a world class sprinter or power lifter. That is why academic scholarships are by far the more fair system of awarding scholarships than athletic scholarships. They are less dependent on genetic variables.
Pierzing.glint1sh7 In my comment I acknowledged that genetics is a factor in determining IQ, but that having good academic outcomes - enough to obtain scholarships - doesn't necessitate the level of genetics gifts that professional athletic performance necessitates. I have personally seen failing students become A students, with the proper mentoring/tutoring. Conversely, you will rarely, if ever, see a person who does not have a solid genetic advantage ever make it to the collegiate, much less professional, level of sport. Hence, this is why I concluded that awarding academic scholarships is by far the fairer means of divvying out money for college than athletic scholarships.
Pierzing.glint1sh7 No.I am a child of first generation Indian parents, and there is a high percentage of us that get academic scholarships. Why? Is it because Indians are somehow born smarter than whites, Mexicans, and blacks? No. Its because if you compare average Indian or Chinese immigrants to other lower performing ethnic groups you will find that Indian and Chinese immigrant families put more emphasis on studying and dedicate more hours to studying, and that is what gives them the edge. This emphasis on education is particularly strong in first generation and second generation Indian and Chinese students, and then such emphasis dissipates among third generation Indian and Chinese students and their academic performance starts to lower to the standard you see among other ethnic groups. If academic outcomes were primarily determined by inherent intelligence, then you should not see this diminishment in performance. It should stay consistent. The fact that such performance does decline with successive generations indicates that once the cultural influence that determines work ethic declines due to cultural assimilation, so does performance, even though the third generation still retains their inherited Indian or Chinese genes. Amy Chua, a Chinese Yale Law professor who has garnered much acclaim for her writings on successful cultures, wrote a book called "The Triple Package", where she documents this decline in performance among successive generations of high performing immigrant groups. In short its not about the genes, as much as it is about the work ethic that determines academic success, and the scholarships that come with that success. Yes, being genetically gifted from birth might make the road easier to academic success, but lacking such genetics gifts, unlike in the arena of athleticism, can be overcome.
Of course elite athletes are born superior to normal people! Imagine being average height and trying to break the high jump world record or have the average leg size to body ratio and trying to break the 100m record. Or maybe having the average lung capacity and trying to beat an elite Kenyan runner!
micheal+long arms= success mayweather + long arms= success usain + hieght+ genetic= fastest man alive "he pushed Peyton a little harder" had me rolling XD But you're right with "what if the skates were never put on" my parents were athletes and i really didn't have that chance since my mom's fears kept me couped up. But in elementary gym i could run longer than the kids who were in football and futbol teams. in highschool playing football i wasn't the fastest but i became the fastest and strongest the further into the game i was but my motivations were killed through events so i quit. My daughter is energize bunny compared to my neighbours' kids. When nature is slacking, nurture can make an athlete. When Nature is there but nurture is lacking you get a paramedic. (nature+ nurture)- unforseen injury= Pro athlete
False. Determination will help to a certain extent against average people, but you are faced around real athletes, hard work won’t do much. I’m living proof of it🌚
Question: Are elite athletes born superior to you?
Answer: Absolutely they are superior to you, athletically.
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genetics are an unfair advantage but if u don't put it to work someone will out work you. "hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard".
well said dude
There was a girl above my grade that had a crap ton of athletic talent AND hard work. She was good, and still is.
yh but when talent works hard.... it game over...
Megatron very true.
+cyka hahaha so true, once talent works hard pack ur bags and give up.
My best friend in high school was one of the strongest people at our school and he didn't work out at all. 5'10, 180 lbs, 8% body fat. Now he's in the army and they make him do push ups, sit ups, and run. From just those exercises, he's put on 20 lbs of muscle. After only a few months of training, he can do 120 push ups in 2 minutes and can run 2 miles in 10:45. It's not fair.
Only 120 in two whole minutes?!? A 10:45 is a respectable time though
Yeah it's unfair just like everything
Don't say unfair everyone is better at something no one is perfect
@@uthantdillon3896 that's a lot man
No one is ever born equal. Some people have thick bones and some have thin. Some have better stamina while so don't
All in the genetics
Some people are born with a better learning ability too
Genetics is everyone
@@skxlter5747 true that
Elite level athletes are superior to the rest of us, period. You can be a professional athlete and be passionate for it, but you don't become great in that sport unless you have the genes. Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all time. There may be people alive who have the potential to be better swimmers, but they aren't doing it. Once you become a household name to people who can't name a single other name of somebody in your sport, then that's 90% genetics and 10% of passion.
Genetics is by far the most important factor in athletic ability. It really isn't even close.
You haven't done much research...
That makes a difference at the extreme peaks of human performance. And by that I mean; if you are in a sport where every athlete has maximised the gains from training.
As is the case in 100m sprint for example. All those guys train, eat, sleep to be fast. Most have trained their whole life.
When you're in a field like that, the biggest differences will be the coincidental childhood stimuli the athletes where exposed to as well as God given genetic potential.
But 90% of sports do not require this same level of specialisation to one aspect of athletic performance (in our example speed).
I'd argue that 90% athletes in any professional sport are far from their genetic potential when it comes to speed, strength, endurance and flexibility, balance etc. But if you can get close enough to your genetic potential in a lot of these categories and pick up a sport early, guess what bro, you'll be elite.
Training, is by far more important than genetics. You can't become an elite athlete without training either directly (gym, practice, dieting).
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@@plothaki and the nature vs nurture debate never ends
Don’t let genetics ruin your will for sports. If you train hard enough and stay consistent you can become good athlete
I sucked at all sports from birth. Having really terrible foot coordination and below avarerage hand eye coordination sucks.
Same. :(
Same bro :( people make fun of me cuz I don't do any sports but I do exercise at home
Why not run? Track/cross country is a fun sport whether or not you're good at it. Also, it's one of the easiest sports to get better at. Run once a day and you'll get better day by day.
+jwin_the_pro I don't have legs
jwin_the_pro i am flat footed. i get horrible pain in my feet from running and standing for long period of time.
I'd say it greatly depends on the sport. Most people for example will never be able to run as fast as Usain bolt for example. but I'd say with enough training almost anyone could be a great football(soccer)player just look at Messi and Ibrahimovic for example. They are physically as different as it gets but they are both outstanding players.
Not anybody. Very frw ever make it as an a player. Despite all the resources and training given at be academies
at the end of the day the kid who gets up everyday to work ends up in the magazines
If the kid has superior genetics that is.
Ash Ketchum! He was born to be a Pokemon master
Born a loser
this is very tru
Played high school football for a few years and I can tell you right now yes elite level athletes are born there’s no doubt about it
I think you're right. I've just had my DNA tested and to my disbelief I have two copies of the R fast twitch gene but I'm fairly confident 99% of the people watching this video would destroy me in a sprint race. I can't throw for shit either. There must be many more associated genes involved in power performance and I must be weak AF in all of them!
JSkillz what brand did you use to test your dna
The fast twitch gene only benefits you to the extent that you have fast twitch muscle for it to activate.
There were a lot of amazing people on the show "Stan Lee's Superhumans." There was this marathon runner, Dean Karnazes, who apparently never tires out.
I think genetics within race plays some part too. Example: During the World Olympics, the sprinters in the finals are usually blacks(regardless of nationality). Same goes for other enthicities in various sports.
Which could mean Culture.
Lil Leslie exactly
Yea black people have longer legs believe it or not.
And there tall.
Jesus Rosales there are a lot of tall white guys too
I am a natural born non-athlete and i have bad knees genetically, but since i put in all this work to be the best i can, i can run faster and jump higher than most of my friends
I think the science on having the best genetics for a certain sport is still very young. Take for example the 100 meter sprint, it was always thought that short powerful athletic men would always be superior to taller athletes and then came along Usain Bolt who is 196cm tall which is just over 6'5" tall. His stride length (the distance he takes to take one step is much longer than his rivals so that over a 100 meter distance he will take 71 steps whereas his closest competitor will take at least 75 steps. This means his weight is in a more forward momentum more of the time than his opponents. And to think he has a very poor start which means he still has a lot of improvement.
Yes, Usain is two inches or 5 cm taller than what is probably the optimum range (the fastest sprinters before him have always been between 5ft9 and 6ft3), but he probably has other advantages that compensate for it.
This is a common knowledge question, ofc it does. Tf? Fast twitch = explosive, strong. Slow twitch = endurance, and repetition.
I feel like nurture is extremely important too. If you have a father that puts you into sports when you are super young and instills a resilient mindset in you, it might take you further than someone who may be a little more talented than you.
When approaching the professional level sports, genetics have a huge difference. Everyone can climb a tree or run a mile or do 10 pushups (unless you are born with some handicap, of course)
I don't know about all athletes but superior (hardworking) footballers are definitely just born better.
We just cannot all have Messi's ball control and football intelligence no matter how we try, even if we had a 100 years of practice he'd still beat us. The level of foot eye co-ordination is absolutely out of this world.
People can be born with great physical genetics/features but if their heart and knowledge of discipline is not focused into their sport, then they won't be an elite athlete.
It’s not just physical either. If you are born with a highly competitive mindset, then you are hard to beat. Example - some elite athletes still have to drive and artificially motivate themselves to train (and they do and they succeed) , but it’s the ones who will lace up the shoes and run in the cold and wet without giving it a second thought even for a moment that are the true elites - you have to be utterly incorruptible about your training and performance.
Well honestly look at the difference I’m a massive George’s St Pierre fan and he has some of the best genetics of all time, extremely fast, strong, frame looks like he was made out of stone not to mention a sky high IQ, and even I’ll admit he got picked apart by Johnny Hendricks who was a normal guy with a dad bod who just so happened to take steroids, bottom line is yes genetics do matter in sports but not NEARLY as much as PEDs, the drugs they take is what makes the whole world of difference
Big Daddy 49-0 Rocky Marciano GSP is the goat of MMA.
That_Canuck_God agreed
"Nature", Your genes are your potential. NO ONE exceeds their potential but no everyone reaches their potential. "Nurture", how hard you work and how much your parents push you is what moves you to your potential. If the guy with the best genes works the hardest and gets the most support from their team, no one will be able to beat him unless he gets injured, distracted, or the rules of the competition are changed. For a sprinter to beat Usain Bolts 100M world record, there will have to be another freak of nature with better genes for sprinting because Bolt is a FREAK OF NATURE. Same with Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Lionel Messi, Rafael Nadal & Roger Federer.
This explains why I was never naturally fast at cross country but also explains why soccer and biking felt really easy in comparison...
I'm so not gifted in any sport and I was perfect at being stupid as in I was academically bad. I studied lots and lots every day and now I'm above Average. Before I was crap at swimming in year 2 and came last in every race! Now I've been swimming for like 6 years and people with natural swimming talent still beat me! I love running but again I was so untalented until I started training every single day in year 5.( no I'm not joking I LITERALLY trained and am training every day I'm not sick or anything) I still run 6-7 times a week and 20-35km a week and am in year 8 but naturally talented runners who never train still beat me! It's so unfair I don't have a useful body or mind at anything. My only talent is being untalented. I work really hard but still can't achieve anything good.
Keep working bro
Dan Carter, Jonny Wilkinson, Richie Mccaw and most other rugby players are not natural they spend hours every day training trying to get one small aspect of their game right
my dad was a runner athlete had set 3 Icelandic records and one is still standing and i am fastest in school and my team, but i have same problems whit my knees and asthma
The design of leg from the knee down allows for less use of energy that is stored for later use in the completion. They jump better, run better and faster .It’s not intelligence that makes them win .
Care to explain further?
@@cgpxae2119 The feet are softer to give a spring effect in combination with the knee and hips .
Elite athlete, meaning like the top one percent of performers... Think of it this way a skill such as running a marathon, look at the genetics of all the people who have run a marathon in under 2:10 ever... see what gene pool they all come from? Almost without any exceptions these people are all Kenyans from the Kalenjin tribe... Could almost anyone be trained to run a marathon in under 3 hours which is still pretty good? of course, but could almost anyone be trained to run it in under 2:10? The statistics refute that sharply...
My father is pretty muscular despite being almost 60 and doesn't do much lifting and I find after 1 or 2 workouts, i make an incredible amount of physical progress despite not pushing myself too hard. I gain muscle very quickly and lose muscle very slowly on my kinda off months of working out.
“Hard work beats talent when talent does work hard”... well what happens when talent does work hard THEN WE ALL FUCKED
Trace! What’s your opinion on Malcolm Gladwell’s “Mathew Effect”/Accumulative Theory in his book “Outliers.”
This theory is the idea that kids born in early months will be selected to be on better youth travel teams since they will be (at that age) noticibly more developed than their younger peers. From here the accumulative advantage takes over and these older athletes compete with better competition from day one, on.
Outliers says that success depends on the idiosyncrasies of the selection process used to identify talent just as much as it does on the athletes' natural abilities.
Please like so Trace sees!!!
Genetics are very very very important. Some are just........born superior. Born to be sprinters. Born to be Basketball players. Born to be bodybuilders. Nature will always create freaks and oddities.
This is what makes the human family so awesome. (not my family - not my personal family).
welp Im a sprinter - I can run for a mile without stopping and that was when I was 11
+Princess Celestia thats not a sprinter ...just saying
Football is a skill sport , basketball is a skill sport . Athletics is not a skill sport
You can control nurture, but it's difficult to control nature at the current time.
So it's really unrealistic to pit pure nurture against pure nature, when in reality it is nurture + nature vs just nurture because everyone can be nurtured while it is harder to control genetics.
im sure i'll be a great athlete but i just can't get away from this dam you tube
You didn't mention Phelps' long upper body; It's the biggest factor to swim optimally.
Having no fear is also one thing and keeping yourself in shape but people do have some advantages to other obviously. Important thing is to practice and improve to get better.
The largest predisposition for whether a kid will become an elite athlete is environmental. What sport they find success in is largely genetic.
I firmly believe AT LEAST half the population has the physical capacity to make it to an elite level in a sport. The thing that separates the ones who make it to the ones that don't is mental and environmental. Do they want to do it? Have they been exposed to it? Are they supported in that endeavour by their family? Do they believe they can do it and have the will to encounter and overcome every obstacle along the way?
That's the biggest factor. When you look at Phelps you're looking at a guy that is a freak among freaks among regular people who are driven and passionate about their sport enough to make it to an elite level.
My 100 m etre time was 12.89 se onds at school 12 th grade.. now in collage after going doing leg excercises thigh muscle increased and also explosivness now tested my 100 metre second is 11.45 seconds..wtf? I cant belive wats happening to my body..i was slower cuz i had thin legs and weak legs.. please help!
hahaha the guys name is DICK WIENER!!! 6:39 lmfao! ok sorry un-pause
Just saw a video about Julio Jones and thought about Megatron and then thought about how almost every athlete is plagued with injuries towards the end of their careers. That then made me wonder are we truly meant to be Athletes? To train your whole life and play a sport should mean you're more prepared and shouldn't endure constant injuries, right?
Short answer, yes. Elite athletes are brains literally work faster than others. The world can move slower to them than it does to others... Prime example, a gifted boxers who can dodge punches at an elite level
I think its both nature more than nurture. My father was a professional boxer in the late 90's, While i don't exactly like all sports...i see i pick them up a lot faster/easier than my friends who's parents weren't athletes. Kids that are forced to play sports as youths, tend to be going against 'nature', get bored of sports and end up being like their parents.
usain bolt: born 6’5 all fast twitch muscle fiber above average endurance as seen in his 400m time the ability to take less strides and somehow never be tense in a race usain is truly nurture on top of nature most talented sprinter to step on the track ever
I feel I have always been a step ahead of everyone I have been around no matter what it is I do with regards to sports without ever trying and out of curiousity I had to look this up and found your video. I can tell you gifts can take you places we all know that but only through hard work and nuturing of those gifts, they begin to serve us. Of course professionals and people with very long term training in ANY sport is superior to me at this time. However I feel I could easily choose quite a few things to dedicate my life to and succeed at it as well. Idk what to do w my life lol
I love how people are seriously debating whether or not aptitude exists
I believe athleticism is something your born with. For example. I'm only 5'9" with a 37 inch vertical leap. I'm ripped and toned without the need to work out and always did well in all sports I've tried. While others I competed against who tried much harder still couldn't surpass me.
Can I be the first to say Bullcrap? Cause I think this is Bullcrap.
+Brayan Rivera its ridiculous that people are even debating whether or not aptitude exist it obviously does. I myself in many was never even a "beginner" skill wise.
Drop the ego bro. If you are so amazing why arent you a professional athlete?
You have 0-negative blood type.
The only thing that differentiates between great athletes and mediocre athletes, drive pro athletes simply work harder and train harder to improve their skills
agreed.
+mbanana23456 so you really think only a handful of basketball players have worked as hard as lebron james?
No, its something with their mentally. Something in ones personality, especially when talking about elite level players, that separates them from a great player. Look at all the top sportsmen of the world. They all have cognitive functions that are working the same way. It's like IQ's, some people are just born intellects. Some people are just born athletes.
I was always able to pick up any sport and do pretty good, genetics do play a big role
Thanks dad for giving me good genetics am good at every sport.
I'm depending on my moms side my dads Gene's are only good for strength and soccer
I am strong and fast but one of my leg is longer than the other one
I wasn’t born to be a athlete but the way I grew up changed it all I don’t have good stamina but I’m good at 100s and 200s btw I’m skinny asf
What if you are good at sprints aswell as long distance?
The question also is, that if someone tries really hard at something and becomes the best at it, is the working hard a genetic or environmental quality? Also is it genetic to react really well to training, or have a great baseline but not react well to training?
It is some of each. In self report measures, the heritability of Conscientiousness (which includes work effort, motivation, and related traits) is between 0.4 and 0.5, but when the measure averages self report with four assessments from other persons, the heritability rises to 0.70 or higher. This is probably because other people tend to rate you more realistically than you are likely to rate yourself.
it's hyperarch mechanism, not genes.
Race also affect alot. Africa American can dunk easily compared to Asian in same height.
That is not necessarily true. Race has nothing to do with athletic performance. With hard work anyone can require the skills (that includes dunking).
+fitnessNerd I'm sorry to say, but when we're talking about the human body at the highest level - elite physical condition - race does have an effect. For example, black people have more potential muscle mass and can out sprint and out run other races. But white people are the best for swimming, and let's not get started with the Aryans...
But it was this Darwinian thinking that was very, very popular back at the start of the 20th century, carrying on from the 19th. Unfortunately, we all know what that all led to. Never discriminate based on race, obviously. We're all human and in general we're all the same. But when you're dealing with full-time athletes, find me a white man in 100m or 1500m race who can actually challenge a black athlete at the highest level!
+sean chern Yeah actually race doesn't actually matter. Physical trends that make an athlete better at a certain sport just typically gather in a certain race or races of people. However, any race could get the traits necessary to be better at a certain sport, but one race can often times have the traits commonly. That doesn't mean by virtue of being black you are a good sprinter or being white means you're a good swimmer. You may have different physical abilities than typical of your race.
+sean chern Race is nature dude.
+The Joker very true. as half Asian living in a very athletic town. I've always felt I needed to put a little more effort into the sports I am performing compared to my white counterparts, who are just bigger.
this is what I want to know im really fast im 11 my dad wasn't fast my mom wasn't fast but I don't know any about my grandparents though so could it just be the food I eat and the amount I sprint I do the 100m in 13.10 200m 27.62 please reply.
Yeah that’s fast for 11 year olds i ran a 13 couple months ago when i stopped training started training again now i run a 12.3 im 14 btw
Ed Coan was a gifted genetically and is,in the opinion of many, the greatest powerlifter of all time.
I have used 23andme for genetic analysis and according to them I have the alpha-actinin-3 protein. I'm not trying to show off here but it's true, ever since I hit puberty I have always noticed I can build lean muscles fairly quickly, I just got into bodybuilding last year and my friends were surprised how fast I managed to get that V shaped upper body due to my lats, I'm a short guy, standing at 5"6.5, and they keep telling me I'm building muscles easily because of my short height, but I actually have a brother who's 5 inches taller than me and he builds muscles just as easily
Wow I think i have the X R varient of acnt-3? I have always been over weight until recently and have extremely bad lungs/breathing since i was young but can i sprint with the best, i would often place top 3 in the 100m 200m sprints, 400m and im dying and coughing a lung up.
How do I know which x/y/r thing I have?
Love how everyone on this comment section are experts on the comments they are talking about.
My grandpa from mums side is fast af for his age and my parents are strong as hell although they are both short and I’m one of the strongest and fastest in my school but also mildly overweight and unathletic.
So that's why I'm a natural with drums and why I have very very naturally strong forearms, thighs, and shoulders.
I'm from a mining and farming family, and my pop plays drums.
Intradasting sir.
Sanus Chaus meanwhile i have tiny wrist the size of a 12 year old girl :(
It's always 50% genetics and 50% nurture (in this case, training).
No need to say all this things. It' common sense. Don't make it complicated.
And something else...We like a sport because we are good at it. We enjoy being better than others.
In basic sports (sprinting, jumping swimming etc) genes matter however in more complicated sports such as soccer football rugby it's not all down to genes. Genes do still matter but they are not necessary a necessity
Jon Bones Jones is arguably the best mixed martial artist there is. He is unquestionably genetically gifted for the sport standing at 6'4" tall with an 84.5" reach, weighing 205 lbs on fight day. If we should discuss genetically supierior athletic specimens, he must be in the discussion. Both his brothers are in the NFL as well so hows that for genetically superior
MURRxOEx951 Jones is a trash PEDs user.
joe thomas. he's an offensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns
Rhythmic gymnastics man so cool and freaky, they are magic
My wing span is 3+ inches longer than it should be but I can't swim lol
99% percent of all running backs in The NFL are....Black! Strength and speed at the very highest level attainable. Marathon winners? 99% Black..Specifically African plains.. Genetics my friend..:-)
wow this is pretty crazy and stuff to learn and health and fitness in this episode the one thing that was cool is that the athlete's arm is longer then his hight which is the same as me when I'm 6'1 but my arm is 3-4 inches longer then my hight and I knew this when I was 12.
It depends where you born too, i was born in a third world country, i was better than anyone in most athletic challenges but people only play soccer there and i hate soccer...
wow thats good but how does genetics influences the drive and hunger for achieving greater goals and what does mean to start a physique carrier or bodybuilding is to fulfill the desire of getting good body & overcome the insecurity of being weak & small
i got bored after 7 seconds, at least put in some background music
That's your goldfish-level attention span at work.
Yooo i was searching for this I'm 13 years old and i have really muscular legs but my thighs r bulky whyyy??? I learnt walking in a really small amount of time when i was born
Lionel Messi is only 5'7 and is one of the most Controversial Athlete that has been borned. Like how is this even possible?
Simple - Genetics.
Same with Usain Bolt. He's scientifically to big to sprint that fast.
Leo Mendez thats talent hes just better at football naturally
Messi took steroids as a teenager dumbass
@@Cursemasterx LMFAO he took HGH
What do you have to remember of this video ?? Everything is in the genetic
Anyone interested in the role of genetics with respect to athletic performance must read David Epstein's book "The Sports Gene". While Epstein admits that environment, diet, training, will and opportunity are important factors in athletics, in order to make it into professional/elite levels of sport, genetics is the decisive factor. Epstein does a masterful job in "The Sports Gene" of illustrating scenarios among athletes where environments are similar, and yet different results are produced, thus revealing how central genetics is to exceptional athletic performance. This is why awarding athletic scholarships is so unfair, because certain people are born with distinct advantages to achieve those scholarships. While the same thing can be said for intelligence, in that there is a hereditary detriment that factors into how high your IQ can be, one can make up for genetic shortcomings in the academic arena with hard work. This is why an F student, with tutoring and motivation, can be an A student. It happens all the time. Conversely, you will seldom if ever see a 5'6" male make it to the NBA, or a person with a disproportionate amount of slow twitch muscle fibers, regardless of how hard he trains, become a world class sprinter or power lifter. That is why academic scholarships are by far the more fair system of awarding scholarships than athletic scholarships. They are less dependent on genetic variables.
+Drake Santiago
This comment is too long.
IQ is also genetic and yh I totally agree about genes being important in sport
thanks for the book suggestion!
Pierzing.glint1sh7 In my comment I acknowledged that genetics is a factor in determining IQ, but that having good academic outcomes - enough to obtain scholarships - doesn't necessitate the level of genetics gifts that professional athletic performance necessitates. I have personally seen failing students become A students, with the proper mentoring/tutoring. Conversely, you will rarely, if ever, see a person who does not have a solid genetic advantage ever make it to the collegiate, much less professional, level of sport. Hence, this is why I concluded that awarding academic scholarships is by far the fairer means of divvying out money for college than athletic scholarships.
***** true true
but arent academic scholorships only given to the truly gifted - the kind which can only come from genetics
Pierzing.glint1sh7 No.I am a child of first generation Indian parents, and there is a high percentage of us that get academic scholarships. Why? Is it because Indians are somehow born smarter than whites, Mexicans, and blacks? No. Its because if you compare average Indian or Chinese immigrants to other lower performing ethnic groups you will find that Indian and Chinese immigrant families put more emphasis on studying and dedicate more hours to studying, and that is what gives them the edge. This emphasis on education is particularly strong in first generation and second generation Indian and Chinese students, and then such emphasis dissipates among third generation Indian and Chinese students and their academic performance starts to lower to the standard you see among other ethnic groups. If academic outcomes were primarily determined by inherent intelligence, then you should not see this diminishment in performance. It should stay consistent. The fact that such performance does decline with successive generations indicates that once the cultural influence that determines work ethic declines due to cultural assimilation, so does performance, even though the third generation still retains their inherited Indian or Chinese genes. Amy Chua, a Chinese Yale Law professor who has garnered much acclaim for her writings on successful cultures, wrote a book called "The Triple Package", where she documents this decline in performance among successive generations of high performing immigrant groups. In short its not about the genes, as much as it is about the work ethic that determines academic success, and the scholarships that come with that success. Yes, being genetically gifted from birth might make the road easier to academic success, but lacking such genetics gifts, unlike in the arena of athleticism, can be overcome.
i have to eat twice as much as i want if i want to keep my weight of 70 kg
thanks genetics
I could've been a good baseball player but I didn't like it so I became a slightly above average basketball player
how can you tell if your genotypes??
and I'm good at skiing and I'm very flexible what does this mean ??
Stamina and durability is me but strength I am the weakest in my class
Of course elite athletes are born superior to normal people! Imagine being average height and trying to break the high jump world record or have the average leg size to body ratio and trying to break the 100m record. Or maybe having the average lung capacity and trying to beat an elite Kenyan runner!
Yes straight up. It's basic GCSE pe. Mesomorph, ectomorph, endomorph. Or muscular, skinny, fat. It's a body type. Genes and shit
The answer is YES.
Who else is here because 23andme told you that you are an elite power athlete? 🙋🏻♀️
Weird fact. ADHD is the most common trait in elite athletes, and it’s not even close
I was watching offline TV. How the fuck did I end up here? I do love seeker plus tho.
Not superior. Better suitable
micheal+long arms= success
mayweather + long arms= success
usain + hieght+ genetic= fastest man alive
"he pushed Peyton a little harder" had me rolling XD
But you're right with "what if the skates were never put on"
my parents were athletes and i really didn't have that chance since my mom's fears kept me couped up. But in elementary gym i could run longer than the kids who were in football and futbol teams. in highschool playing football i wasn't the fastest but i became the fastest and strongest the further into the game i was but my motivations were killed through events so i quit. My daughter is energize bunny compared to my neighbours' kids. When nature is slacking, nurture can make an athlete. When Nature is there but nurture is lacking you get a paramedic. (nature+ nurture)- unforseen injury= Pro athlete
Peyton Manning‘s dad did not push him into football they talk about it on the documentary
Ian Thorp has size 17 feet.
Genetics aren't shit it just depends on how determined the kid is
False. Determination will help to a certain extent against average people, but you are faced around real athletes, hard work won’t do much. I’m living proof of it🌚
Short answer: yes and yes
Sport performance is largely genetic.
Bullshit genetics is useless if the kid don't like it
Wait until genetic modifications are commercially available to rich people having kids. Watch that wealth gap grow and grow
Liked this video right after that Eli manning diss
I have that Gene. Just one copy.