HillerCast 0044 - Solo #1

And this is, of course, when it relates to the elites, but I think it applies to everybody as well.

You've got to kind of be insane to the degree that you think that you suck and then also have this hyper-confidence where you think that you can do everything.

And it's an initial video that I put on the internet way back when.

I compared a bunch of people to dogs, and I hear that the same way.

And let me tell you kind of what I mean by that.

I think that you're born with predetermined traits.

And for whatever reason, when it comes to animals like dogs or cats, you can see what a tiger is versus a house cat, and it's very obvious.

Tiger's bigger, more powerful, the king of the jungle, but maybe that's the lion.

And you got dogs, you've got German shepherds, and you've got Rottweilers, and you've got pugs.

And I do think that people are a little bit more like these animals than they might want to admit.

And the reason that this is prevalent when it comes to fitness and CrossFit in particular is because maybe it's, maybe it's CrossFit's a little bit newer, but Rottweilers would be great bodybuilders and powerlifters.

And then the short-haired pointers are the sprinting dogs, if I'm not mistaken.

And you wouldn't have one do the other.

And then you've got the one that's good at just about everything, and maybe that's the Beethoven-type looking dog, or maybe they're more of a brute.

But then you look at the jungle cats, and cheetahs are agile.

They jump up trees, and those are maybe the sprinters of the world.

And then you've got the Garfield sort of cats, which are gonna be better at something else when you're looking at when compared to the lions and the tigers.

And I don't really understand why somebody who is six foot five would have the same sort of expectations of themselves as somebody who's five foot six, and I'm just talking about height specifically.

And if you come from the background that I do, which isn't just CrossFit, I have a pretty large CrossFit background, but you come from the exercise science world, you learn about muscle fiber types.

And I just think about the ability for certain individuals to contract their lungs from the point in which they are born, and that's really what I'm talking about.

And I'm not trying to compare us to animals, and I know that people get all upset when you compare people to animals, but you really shouldn't because we are animals.

I think that you should be able to look at your parents the way that Matt Fraser looked at his Olympic skating parents and think that I've got something going for me just from day one.

And that's what I kind of thought when Brent Fikowski put up his post.

It's like you should be able to look at what you got going for you and know where you could go, hyper-critical and aware of your surroundings with kind of this insane persevering of more.

And I think that once you can do those two things, you can become the elite sort of athlete that someone like him was, or you can get to the highest level of capability that you would want from yourself as your average everyday human being doing whatever sort of form of exercise it is.