> Is training/exercise/activity during youth critical to the potential of
the adult athlete? In other words,
>can an athlete who lacked an active youth ever make up for that lack
through training as an adult?
There will always be individuals who are not active during youth, yet become
world class athletes. Priscilla Welch was one and I'm sure there are
others. But all the subjective evidence indicates that an active youth will
increase the likelihhod that someone will become an elite track & field
athlete, probably due to a variety of factors. What is true as a
generalization may not be true of individuals. It's similar to the claim
that U.S. runners are slower because don't train hard enough. As a group
and as a nation at all levels, that is undoubtedly true, but there are
numerous individuals training their asses off for whom it is not very
accurate.
- Ed Parrot
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