What kind of genes do you need for you to be successful at running

Question

I know that you need to train hard, but I've also heard, that say, for example, to go to the olympics 4 running, u need to have good genetics.

Tall or short?

Skinny or a lil thicker?

etc etc

Answer 1

Tall and skinny, still strong though.

These people in the olympics run amazingly fast from the very beginning.  The ones that do the mile run around a 6:00 their first time ever doing a time-trial, and improve EXTREMELY fast. Not only this but you can't be born with asthma, flat-foot, or bowlegs. Some other things that help are: enlarged heart, high VO2 max, a disproporionate amount of muscle fibers of the type their event is in, and high testosterone/HGH levels.

Heres an article about the Kenyan genetics: http://www.vdare.com/misc/entine_boston_...