FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Scott,

On the recent MM episode you told the story where you and Dave Henry were comparing poses after a workout, and he made a comment about different physiques.

Considering how long you've been training and the kind of talent you've worked with, In your youth (I'm sorry lol, ur still a beast) did you ever have trouble coming to grasp with the fact that some people will just get this easier and will achieve more than the average person?

It's a very troubling thought for me sometimes regardless of how much I know genetic variation plays a role. Kind of like coming to terms with the fact that you have have a lower iq which will prevent you from climbing the top of the hierarchical ladder.

P.S- the iq part you're probably in the elite spectrum

Hey Bud,

Maybe, if your latter contention is true, it explains why I never really had much problem with the former issue.

TBH, playing sports growing up I did decently well and ended up being in a sense more successful in some instances than many of those around me who obviously had better genetics (at least for sports per se). My family of origin (and genetics from my parents) set me up to be a pretty hard worker, and b/c of that I did well.

Example was playing football. We had a horrible team. With the exception of my Jr. year when we had the 3rd best quarterback in the U.S. (a Senior who was drafted to play MLB out of high school and went to Michigan and actually started as a defensive back...), we lost every single game I played in.

I never missed a workout, a practice or a game (except my Jr. year when I was injured so I didn't get to taste those victories). We had a "strength coach" who came up with a full body training regime (everything 3x / week) that entailed 98 sets to failure each day. It took 4hr to complete, using 1 min. rest intervals between sets (3 x exercise). After that, I'd do agility drills (for both offensive and defensive positions - 30 min each) and the the "optional" endurance run of 3 miles that I'd up to ~4mile b/c there was a route that worked for that. Then I'd eat, go home for "chores" and have swim practice and/or passing league later that night.

I was the only player who did all of that, so I was elected co-captain and held a kind of leadership role on the team.

I watched all the other players come into the season out of shape and get destroyed during practice, but get in shape and be fitter than me eventually, but I was still doing pretty well, so there was never any feeling of not being in control, etc. d/t poor genetics b/c I was doing all I could (or so I perceived).

(That training regime was silly of course.)

-S