"The reasons the west Africans and consequently the West Indians do not make good athleets is because they are physically different, they are stocky, tend to be shorter and heavier and they are also raised at sea level. Most of the west Indian populations were originally west african slaves so that clears that up."
That is my point.
Again, you are not explaning to me why other poor countries equally suited for distance running (elevation, soft surfaces, etc.) do not produce talented distance runners. Kenyan isn't any different than other poor countries that don't produce many distance runners or different from countries that produce only sprinters? You are engaging in apriori reasoning. Why doesn't Nigeria or the Ivory Coast produce distance runners but tons of sprinters? Is their poverty not the distance running type?
I don't give a shit about the fitness of power sports GENETICALLY no Nandi Kenyan could ever win a strong man contest (their may be one extreme outlier in the population). And GENETICS is the explanation for Kenyan depth in distance running (not the success of any one Kenyan, mind you). Ethnicities are ethnicities for a reason - they are more closely related and share similar genetics. Populations are distributed on a normal curve with outliers and more Kenyans are equipped with the genetic tools to be great distance runners than other ethnicities. Now, don't be a dumbass and name a bunch of good European runners. We are talking about populations, not individuals. There are certainly folks from most any ethnicity with the necessary tools to be great distance runners, but just more from Kenya (and we are still talking about outstanding individuals, most Kenyans don't have the tools to be great distance runners either.) And once it is apparent that your hard work has the ability to pay off in a sport, your culture begins to appreciate it and more people begin to attempt it and are willing to work, so you get the reinforcement of culture. Culture has natural roots.
What you must be saying if you disagree is that if we raised a Kalenjin baby in American, he would have as good a chance of winning a strongman contest as anyone else. It wouldn't happen. A Kelenjin can never see a video game, have the best steroids and spend all day in the weight room and would not get as big as Magnus Magnussen ever.
I don't think altitude has much to do with why Kenyans make good runners. It isn't where they grew up but simple body type considerations. And, it is far easier to avoid video games and train if you know you will have some success. I don't think any Kenyan would stick with body building or cycling very long when they figured out how hard they'd have to work just to get beat by people who don't work nearly as hard. Could you ever see a Kenyan built like Bryan Berryhill or Clyde Colenso or Paul McMullen? It would never happen.
"Our lifestyle is too easy, our food too processed, our lives are too stressful and complicated and ruled by money."
A logically fallacy at work here. Certainly, this is a reason why we don't develop the talent we have, but once Kenya is saturated with western goods they will still have runners in disproprtion to their population. Look at Japan, they don't have near the presence on the World Lists as Kenya and have 10 times the population. They are a distant second. Do you think it is video games and burgers that keep them from competing? In my eyes, they develop their talent extremely well. East Africa and the Arabic countries will always have a disproportion of good distance runners (and not many power-lifters or bodybuilders) by simple region of genetic tendencies.
Notice how the non-Arab Middle Eastern countries (Iran, Turkey) excel at far different sports than the Arab ones despite sharing a similar culture (and note that the countries with the highest influx of E. African blacks have the best runners) for simple reasons of genetics.