"The Sports Gene"
Oct. 17th, 2016 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiefoeIt must have been very satisfying for David Epstein to debunk the '10000 hour rule' so throughly.
1. Sudan "Lost Boy" runners ~= Keyan tribe with the running scholarship. Lean body type compared with "fuel economy" cars.
2. Jamacan sprinters: sickle cells good for malaria resistance => fast twitch muscles
3. body type diversifion intensified with larger stakes, superseding older ideal of being average
4. "10,000" hour rule debunk. Contrast of a hardworking high jumpers in Norway vs. Donald Thomas's raw talent (in his thick Achilles' tendon.)
4. gene that allows people to respond to training for VO2max faster
6. African having most diverse genes; correlation between genes & height most complicated.
7. "super muscle" baby not evolution disadvantage now
8. baseball players don't have super reaction time but do have super eyesight. visual 'chunking' experts
- Consider that children grow more quickly in spring and summer than in fall and winter, and that this is apparently due to sunlight signals that enter through the eyeballs, since the growth of totally blind children consists of similar fluctuations but are not synchronized with the seasons.
- It was a strong clue that one key difference between expert and novice athletes was in the way they had learned to perceive the game, rather than the raw ability to react quickly.
- Statistical analysis showed that about half of each person’s ability to improve their aerobic capacity with training was determined exclusively by their parents.
- The bottom line is that not only are NBA players outlandishly tall, they are also preposterously long, even relative to their stature. And when an NBA player does not have the height required to fit into his slot in the athletic body types universe, he nearly always has the arm span to make up for it. In the post–Big Bang of body types era, whether with height or reach, almost no player makes the NBA without a functional size that is typical for his position and often on the fringe of humanity. Only two players from a 2010–11 NBA roster with available official measurements have arms shorter than their height.
1. Sudan "Lost Boy" runners ~= Keyan tribe with the running scholarship. Lean body type compared with "fuel economy" cars.
2. Jamacan sprinters: sickle cells good for malaria resistance => fast twitch muscles
3. body type diversifion intensified with larger stakes, superseding older ideal of being average
4. "10,000" hour rule debunk. Contrast of a hardworking high jumpers in Norway vs. Donald Thomas's raw talent (in his thick Achilles' tendon.)
4. gene that allows people to respond to training for VO2max faster
6. African having most diverse genes; correlation between genes & height most complicated.
7. "super muscle" baby not evolution disadvantage now
8. baseball players don't have super reaction time but do have super eyesight. visual 'chunking' experts
