How Much Do Genetics Affect Athletic Performance?

[mrsensei]

Having bad genetics isnt an excuse, its a challenge!

[JonathonYoppini]

Awesome! I am in control of approximately 50% of my peak fitness! Love it!

[pizzaman]

Hard work and consistency, however you probably won’t be a pro.

[redravenrages]

If you have two arms and two legs, and a brain, you are naturally gifted.

[jj]

Non professional athletes are so far from their genetic ceilings - most of it is about time training - most of us dont have the time to put in enough work! Thats the ceiling

[HristoMitev]

Some people will always be faster than you. There are people with Vo2 Maxes between 80-95. If your Vo2 max is 90, you'll be faster than 99% of people on 2 hours of weekly volume.

But as a regular person (Vo2 max of about 60), I am still far from my potential genetic ceiling (despite training 10-15 hours a week, as a cyclist)

[Balling_y]

Testostorone also affects how explosive and fast you are

[Gavinfunk]

Think about the fastest kid you knew in school when you were 7/8 years old and how much faster they were than you. That's genetics! In our 1 mile race in school at age 10, 1 kid was a full 400m lap ahead of the next finisher.

[janty]

Now i know why im 8 years in a row sprint champions on my school time😮

[Flyingmushroomman]

Genetics are your celing, everyone starts at the floor without training

[cirquedefreak]

Got into running at the beggining of this year. Was doing 5k a day. Then I took a hiatus for some reason and legit just got back into it the 4th. Back at square one distance wise, have been doing 1 mile as a base and then if I can I’ll go a bit further but what I find really nice is that despite me taking a 3-4 month break, my mile time didn’t get worse and somehow improved by 15-30s

[GamraHindu]

As a proud Indian Hindu. IDGAF for what you say. We won marathons

[luffyluck]

Honestly I think that the sports you do as a kid probably matter the most.

[JackHurley-nt]

I bet there’s some people who want a athletic scholarship and some people wont but dont worry that’s required to be a popular athlete

[ninoadan]

it's not hard to tell if we dont have the genetic. everything just 10x harder for you compared to everyone else. but that also means you are tougher, despite being weaker.

[bardongalang]

Good genes plus hardwork 💪
Bad genes plus hardwork 🎉

[Watchdog]

Yeah my genetics suck. I'm short and stocky, not really built for speed.

[Cow_God]

Just saying but I have genetics from my mum and my dad, my dad is a sprinter and my mum is a long distance runner so like does that make me both?

[Zephy]

Im naturallly really fast at 100m but dont train? Does trainint improve speed or distance since im thinking.of improving my speed at sprint.

[zayda]

Thank god i have the best genetics in the world