Originally Posted by david.l.k
Sorry bro, but I gotta disagree, anyone can get powerful and muscular, it just takes dedicated training. You think Bruce Lee was born that way, he worked his ass off (no pun intended) to attain that level of physical fitness. I couldn't do proper push-ups last year and until 2 months ago I couldn't do pull-ups when I was 40% body fat (250 at the time) I would have laughed at anyone who said I could do pull-ups, I'm not gennetically predisposed to that I would say. Experience has changed all that. I'm probably around 15-20% now, losing more fat by the day.
Yes & no. Depending on the goal, it takes body type & dedicated training. You won't get anywhere without the training, but no matter how much training some people do, they will never look like Arnold or Bruce Lee, & conversely some can never look like an Africian marathoner no matter how much they run. Similarly, anyone who is world class in a particular sport has a great deal of dedication, but they still wouldn't be world class without some genetic gifts. On the other hand there are a great many (probably most people in some respect) who have some natuaral or genetic gift which hasn't been taken advantage of by the application of hard work.