I have heard people in the gym, on YouTube in magazines spout the same crap about breaking plateaus and taking your lifts to the next level: “It’s all in your mind, the game is 90% mental and 10% physical.” Personally, that is such BS. When it comes to elite athletes, if you do not have the physical goods, then you can forget it. If you don’t believe me, just look at the top athletes in the history of sports.

Wilt Chamberlain, Aleksandr Karelin, Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan, Darrel Green, Mike Tyson, Rocky Marciano, Jim Brown, to name a few weren’t just hard workers, they were gifted with physicality that they developed through hard work. But don’t get it twisted, they were never like Pee Wee Herman, then became dedicated to becoming a champion and all of a sudden they developed into a stud. The reality is that 99.9% of us could never be them, no matter how dedicated or how many steroids we took. That’s just a fact of life.

With that being said, it is a good thing that people except responsibility for their performance in athletics (and life), however people go to far when they say things like “all it takes is a dream, dedication and hard work” or “You can accomplish anything or be what you want to be as long as you keep pushing forward.” That just is not true. At the highest levels of elite athletics, it takes talent, plain and simple. And when it comes to lifting, that talent is an innate tendency towards being exceptionally strong. It is what it is.

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