REST DAY

1000M swim

CLOSING THE GAP ON GENETICS

So on my rest day while swimming laps in the pool, I was thinking about how genetics plays a huge part in competitive fitness.  There are people that don't train as hard as the next and can rock it all day.  There are people that excel more than others in jiu jitsu cause of natural flexiblity or longer limbs.  No matter how you cut it, some people get dealt a better hand and there is no doubt about that.  Lance Armstrong, case in point has a 10% larger lung volume than the average man and if he didn't train for months would put the whoopin on pretty much everyone still.  

Can the human mind control what is going on there at all.  Can a person train hard enough to rewire what their brain thinks to allow the brain to perceive a different reality and possibly a different outcome.  

Some one sent me a youtube video of a man who ran a half marathon in the arctic somewhere in norway or somewhere and he did it in the middle of winter at -26 degrees with just shorts on.  No shoes or warmies.  He said he wills his body to heat up and his body temp stays hot enough to do this crazy feat of human performance.  Is he just different?  Or has he figured out how to control his brain to a certain extent.  If that is the case can one will their mind to be stronger and do things that just don't seem normal to the rest of society.  If not, then at a bare minimum, your fitness will definitely carry over to your next generation as long as you show them and pave the way for your bloodline to get stronger over time.