Athletes have invariably been a product of their time. If you go back to the 1900's you had gigantic barrel chested strongmen lifting up sofa's with loads of folks sitting on them. Now even in golf you can see professionals who've ripped arms, strong backs and quads and muscle-bound pecs. This is the product of modern coaching and strength conditioning.
If you hark back to Arnold's golden age of bodybuilding in the early to late 70's. He was giant, great even compared to most of the other bodybuilders. But today if you saw him on stage beside one of the top 50 pro's he would look seriously under developed.
Though bodybuilding has always had the closes link to steroids of any sport, the diet and training routines has gotten intensely hello tec.
Runners have got quicker, power lifters have gotten stronger, tennis players have got tougher, and football has gotten much , much faster. But does that imply today's sports stars are a lot better than in the past?
Well most of it has risen out of the psychology, supplements, and modern thinking in training, rest and recuperation. But if you look at how dedicated Bjorn Bjorg was, how single minded Arnold and Franco Colombo was, or the talent that Pele or George Best had, there's no doubt in my mind these athletes would have excelled today.
Much of today's sportsmen are a product of science and marketing grants as much as anything. The sportsmen in the decades gone by still had the will power and dedication to break all the prior bounds set before them, so there is no doubt in my mind they'd be the same today.
Sport and training is after all in the mind. If someone asserts you can not do it, you are gonna go out on a limb and prove them wrong. That's the reason why records will always be broke, that is the reason why the boundaries of speed, strength and guile will always be challenged.
If you hark back to Arnold's golden age of bodybuilding in the early to late 70's. He was giant, great even compared to most of the other bodybuilders. But today if you saw him on stage beside one of the top 50 pro's he would look seriously under developed.
Though bodybuilding has always had the closes link to steroids of any sport, the diet and training routines has gotten intensely hello tec.
Runners have got quicker, power lifters have gotten stronger, tennis players have got tougher, and football has gotten much , much faster. But does that imply today's sports stars are a lot better than in the past?
Well most of it has risen out of the psychology, supplements, and modern thinking in training, rest and recuperation. But if you look at how dedicated Bjorn Bjorg was, how single minded Arnold and Franco Colombo was, or the talent that Pele or George Best had, there's no doubt in my mind these athletes would have excelled today.
Much of today's sportsmen are a product of science and marketing grants as much as anything. The sportsmen in the decades gone by still had the will power and dedication to break all the prior bounds set before them, so there is no doubt in my mind they'd be the same today.
Sport and training is after all in the mind. If someone asserts you can not do it, you are gonna go out on a limb and prove them wrong. That's the reason why records will always be broke, that is the reason why the boundaries of speed, strength and guile will always be challenged.
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