re: Great Video "Are athletes really getting bigger, faster, stronger?"

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Exactly, it's amazing that so many people are clueless. Even in the 1970s Bruce Jenner worked a normal job and trained by himself at a local high school after work. Athletes today are professionals with dieticians, trainers, modern equipment etc. Give those same perks to athletes of the past an IF todays athletes are better, it's miniscule.

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No shite but they didn’t have those things and athletes of today do, so they are bigger and faster and stronger…very much so.

And no Nolan didn’t throw 108, and that’s coming from a huge Ryan fan boy.

Hitters of yesteryear struggled with what would be considered meatballs now a days.

Lineman in the nfl are bigger and stronger than ever

Only position that has downgraded as far as size and strength is center in the nba because the rule changes that were put in mainly because of Shaq.

So yea…take babe Ruth and Mickey and especially ted Williams and give them the tech and training of today…would they be elite…absolutely. But plucking them straight out and putting them in todays game…really of all the pre 60 baseball players..only Williams would be able to compete right away.

There is a reason as pitching has gotten so much better linear hitting mechanics has essentially disappeared from the game. All the big names but Williams pretty much were linear. They would get fricking dominated today with the off speed and velo. Ruth with that heavy arse bat would be falling out the box.

Like I said, give them 18 months of modern training and tech…they could compete but it would take half a decade of that type of training to have an chance of being dominant like in their era


And track…dude they been juicing before juicing was cool. They were juicing when baseball was piping greenies like skittles. Can’t take any of those records seriously. And most modern training and programming is based off of the Russians work, specifically that of the Yuri verkhoshansky and the dynamo club and the works of bomba, zatsiorsky, issurin, bondarchuck and then the Americans Mel Siff and then later louie Simmons with his brining the Russian conjugate system to the forefront. So they were already using modern methods for the actual Olympic and track events in Russia back as early as the 50s not mention the drugs being used.