Are BlackPeople better athletes because they have a bigger nose to breathe more air?
Although Blacks perform better in some sports, research has failed to find any physical reason for this. There are theories as to why Blacks are better runners, but in the lab when they peel off the skin and do all kinds of tests there is no difference in the muscles or bones to explain this. It certainly has nothing to do with the nose. If so many from the Middle East would be the greatest athletes.
Why do athletes have big muscles if.....?
There is no excercise that can increase the number of muscle fibres that you have. Different types of excercise target different types of muscle fibres eg. endurance training targets red muscle while strength training targets white muscle fibres. Strength training causes hypertrophy (enlargement) of the muscle fibres, and increase in resting muscle tension the actin and myosin filaments lengthen, resulting in increased bulk. The reason athletes are bulky is due to the strength training they do in the gym.
Every guy on steroids has a better body than natural athletes?
It depends on what your definition of a "better body" is. If you mean freaky, blocky mass, with distended bellies and unnatural, over-developed musculature, then yes, you could say 'roid users have better bodies. Problem is, this isn't sustainable or healthy over the long haul and they eventually crash ... often with serious, irreversible health problems that can be fatal. Natural bodybuilders tend to be more refined in their physiques, which I think is more aesthetic. And I would argue that most women would be more attracted to men with the proportions of the bodybuilders from the Golden Age who didn't use steroids (Steve Reeves, Reg Park, Richard Baldwin, etc.) over Dexter Jackson or Jay Cutler. They do earn more money ... but at what cost? Premature death? I guess it all depends on your priorities and what's important to you.
How can one have big muscles but not have strength?
Strength is a combination of two major factors: muscle size and neurological training.Increasing neurological training (ie, training for strength) results in adaptations that coordinate the muscles you have, making you more efficient at moving heavy objects. Essentially, this means you’re training the muscles you have to be better at lifting heavy. This is the kind of training strength athletes do.Increasing muscle can also increase strength. The more muscle you have, the more force you can generate. However, if that muscle isn’t trained for strength neurologically, you’ve not fully trained your body to use all that muscle. Think of it like this: a strength trained lifter at 200lbs may be able to outlift a 250lb bodybuilder, but a strength trained lifter at 250lbs would still be stronger than the 200lb guy. More muscle = more potential strength built.Bodybuilders typically do little to no strength training, focusing instead on training that maximizes size. This results in big muscles, but not necessarily strong ones. However, these muscles can then be later trained to be stronger via dedicated strength training, so dedicated size training isn’t necessarily a bad thing.Many strength-focused lifters do periods of size training to maximize their muscle size within their weight class so they can move as much weight as possible.
Does gaining muscle make you slower?
That’s pretty much the opposite. I don’t know why people keep believing this, but it is plain nonsense. Muscle is an active tissue that will allow you to contract harder and produce more force while performing any movement.NOw, how is that supposed to make you slower?I used to be a track and field athlete back in high where I specialized at the 200m and the 400m events. Particularly the half of our workout routine was lifting weights in an attempt to gain muscle in the hamstrings and glute area so we could maximize our explosiveness.This is the case with almost all track and field athletes, who are by the way the fastest humans in the planet. And if you take a good look at the Olympic events you will notice that most of the guys in the 100m and 200m are jacked. does that make them slower? hell no.Also, if you look through all sports like wrestling, boxing, and especially American football. For god sake, a guy like Heath Evans who is a beast who weighs over 250 lbs, can run his 40-yard dash in roughly 4.61 sec. That’s a great number even by track and field standards. So definitely his muscles didn’t slow him down that much.You have to keep in mind here that most of the muscles stimulated during heavy weighted movements are the type 2b fast twitch muscle fibers. Those fibers contracts explosively and they are designed for quick bursts of force production, so they are more suitable for anything speed related. So by developing those fibers, you won’t get low, actually, you will get faster.Hope you find my answer helpful, and if you are afraid to gain muscle just because you don’t want to lose your speed, forget about it, it will never happen.GOOD LUCK.
Does flexibility make you a better fighter?
Certainly wouldn't hurt. Flexibility is mostly supplemental, but is important in normal development. It gives a larger range of motion, and improves movement. Stretches also improve the strength of tendons and sinews, so it's not all about being flexible. Yoga is a perfect example of this. It's known for developing strong core muscles as well as flexibility. In Yogic theory, stretching opens certain pathways in the body (nadis), which improves the body's capabilities, which can be applicable in martial arts as well as general health. This is for those who believe it, anyway.