The same factors that stunt height stunt the development of muscle. It’s not just nutrition and weightlifting: even rich, well fed athletes from the 50’s often look downright famished.
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There’s this “The Emperor Has No Clothes” moment little kids have where they’ll look at footage of soccer or basketball games from the 80s and say, to their horror of their wise elders, “wow, these guys SUCK!”But the young punks are right: athletes from the past really are worse.
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But people back then ate real food free of xenoestrogens…
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You forget the genetic breeding as well. There's a lot of multi-generational families with players in each generation. Papa might of been a bench-warmer for the Knicks(which is still 99% in playing ability) and Mama is a tall well built lady, but the Son could be the next Kobe.
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This can be seen in the Ball lineage. Lavar Ball was like 96% in playing ball, which is excellent but when competing against 99%+ means that you will be called "Bad". Ball literally had kids with his wife because she was a good genetic pick. His son Lonzo is better than him.
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I trained BJJ in the late 90s, and still love all the legends from that era, but when I watch competition today, there is just no comparison. Technique, fitness, speed: all of them are 10x greater now.
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