I know he trained like hell, but was there something about him that made him overpowered?
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As others state, it is because of genetics.
It’s the same with everything. You can’t be a basketball player (not counting outliers) if you are not super tall. It’s not like you can practice growing to 7 foot tall. You either are, or are not.
It’s the same with how the body is put together. There is natural variation INSIDE the body, too. For example, [muscles attach to the bone by way of tendons.](https://gmb.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/tendon-chart.png) One person’s tendons might attach 1/8 inch to the left or right of another person’s tendons. Because of that, one person might have a mechanical advantage over the other person – by the extra leverage gained by having the tendon attach to the bone in a more advantageous way. So, you can’t just move over your tendon, so one person will ALWAYS be able to do things better than the other person, even if the two people are exactly identical to each other in all ways.
I know for myself, I have very long tendons, so if you look at my biceps, you will see that I have a VERY long string before it actually turns into muscle. About 2 inches. That tendon length will never change. My brother, on the other hand, has tendons that are 1/4 inch long. So, he is able to pack more muscle on his body, and his muscles are bigger. He has more. We both started lifting weights in our mid teens, and he just exploded way more than I did. We ate the same exact food at night, went to the same school, same parents – about as close to keeping variables the same as you can get. He put on slabs of muscle, but I stayed at 165 pounds, could never get bigger, although my muscles got a lot stronger and well-defined, of course. So while we started out the same, I when I reached benching 350 pounds, he was north of 425.
Genetics.
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