Elaborate on #4.
Is it right to say that there are five parameters determining your strength?
1. Your muscle mass
2. Your nervous system’s ability to activate muscle fibers
3. The composition of fast and slow twitch fibers
4. Your ability to push hard
5. Technique in the specific lift
Of these, number 1 is the most trainable. 4 and 5 require practice.
Elaborate on #4.
Regarding #4, I'm thinking of mental properties. How willing and able are you to dig deep when it gets really heavy? To not quit on the last rep of a really heavy set, or to keep pulling on the bar when it feels like it's glued to the floor.
Pretty solid list.
I don't know how "scientific" it is to make such a list, and it is likely that we are lacking adequate medicinal epistemology and hard knowledge about physiology, etc. But I would add to that list a common denominator for every man of the elite of strength: A genetically gifted bone structure. And secondly: A good reception by his endocrine system of the industrial quantities of steroids with which it is attacked.
Have you not gotten stronger without industrial steroids?
I was thinking about the elite of the elite. I mean WSM, powerlifters with +1000 lb squats and that all shit.