genetics do play a huge factor, but work ethic plays even more so. My views from my life history....
I was an All-conference D2 fullback in college. I wasn’t even a starter until my junior year of highschool. I was chunky and strong, 5’ 9 190lbs
every summer and spring I went to a high-end training facility with those super speed incline treadmills, with plyo platforms, those horizontal leg press machines where you litterslly jump off the platform. I trained my ass off. Weights in the afternoon. So 8 training sessions a week between speed/weights. By my senior year in college (with anabolics) I was 5’ 10 242lbs, 425lb bench, 545 squat, and a 335lbs hang clean. I ran the 40yd dash at 4.61 lazer. 33inch vertical.
my 2nd string fullback...Casey...black male 5-9 230lbs. His numbers were maybe 30lbs less than mine, and when we would race I would beat him maybe 70% of the time. Very even.
casey was a great man. But his love was religion. He but in hours of extra study, did little groups on campus, volunteered at the Age-to-age kids home. Dad was a preacher, and he wanted to be the same. (Transfer from wake forest) he made the required sessions, but no more. He didn’t eat real well, enjoyed McDonald’s and man he loved wings. Wings every day.
if Casey was on the sauce and put in the hours I did....I would of been 2nd string and special teams only. His genetics were better than mine. But through sheer obsession and drive I started
work matters. I tattooed “Sine Labore Nihil” across my fucking back to remind me.
but genetics plays a big role too. Most only progress to probably 60% of their genetic limit. It’s what you will sacrifice that will determine how far you advance