How do athletes break records even though the sport has been going on for decades. How do individual humans break those records so often even though we’re said to be getting weaker than our ancestors. Is it just pure willpower or what? In some sports it could be chalked off to rule changes and stuff but there are a lot of sports without any rule changes and rely purely on the athlete. Are they juicing and the juices keep getting better? Is a new record just seen as a goal that only needs to be broken and not annihilated?
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A lot of it comes down to nutrition science. If you read about track athletes in the 1930s, 1940s for example, their diets were awful sometimes. Even if they were trying to have a good diet, I don’t think anybody knew enough about the science of it to do it optimally.
There has also been huge advancements in recovery techniques and the science of that. Also more knowledge of safe training and ergometrics.
One other thing I haven’t seen mentioned, there are simply more people on earth year by year. Thus there is a larger pool of talent.
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