Originally Posted by
bakes1
Maybe...
But I don't know how anyone could say that if they haven't trained as long and hard as the so-called 'tiny percentage'
Train that long and that hard and then do the comparisons.
This is no offense to you btw Chasm54 as for all I know, you may have trained as much as a pro.
But I believe that most people who say things like that haven't even attempted to train 1/10th of what the pros have so they really shouldn't be talking about gene pools and things in general they know nothing of.

They train that long and hard because they are pros, not the other way around. They don't need to have a day job, so they can train that much. How do you think they became professionals though? By showing potential way above those around them.