I attended a wrestling seminar once and the guest of the event was World Champion Sergei Beloglazov (http://www.sergeibeloglazov.com/). He mentioned that in Russia, when people take up a sport, they would only compete when they have trained for FIVE years. All this time the training consists of a lot of technique work, day in day out.
With today's "i want it now" mentality, it is no wonder that a lot of people give up physical culture after just a short time in it. How many times have you heard of people saying "oh, i used to go to the gym" and things like that? How many times have you heard people saying that they tried this diet, that diet and are still fat?
The problem, in my opinion, is not that their will is not strong enough. The problem is that their will is not ENDURING enough.
Raplh Waldo Emerson said "a hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer".
Every elite athlete started out just like any other man. But they work at their endeavour longer than any man. Just have a search on wikipedia on any famous athletes and you would find years of training behind them. Not only that, a lot of elite athletes started out weaker than the average man. With their enduring will, they brought themselves into great physical performance.
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