TRIATHLON EDUCATION III

I have read over and over articles like:  Who Makes It Into the Middle Class

By ANNIE LOWREY | New York Times – Fri, Sep 21, 2012 6:00 AM EDT

The study breaks life down into stages (for instance, adolescence) and gives benchmarks for each of those stages (in that case, graduation from high school with a grade-point average above 2.5, no criminal convictions and no involvement in a teenage pregnancy)… Unsurprisingly, the researchers found that success seems to beget success - meeting each benchmark makes one more likely to meet the next. Moreover, the effect accumulates. A child who meets all the criteria from birth to adulthood has an 81 percent chance of being middle class. A child who meets none has only a 24 percent chance…Family wealth, for instance, matters a lot. The researchers show that children born to rich families have a 75 percent chance of being middle income or better by the time they reach their 40s. For children born to poor families, the chance is just 40 percent.

The same thing for triathlon benchmarks which exist according to our empirical research.  Our success achieving those benchmarks will depend on the family and environment, as it was said on the previous post regarding triathlon education (I and II).  NOTHING DIFFERENT from what it is said in the article outline above; the benchmarks have little to do with athletics.  They are educational benchmarks and very difficult to measure.  It is as difficult as to calculate “how crazy is somebody.”  Let´s look at those benchmarks:

1)   How much “heart” the athlete has?

2)   How much the athlete enjoys training?

3)   How much the athlete enjoys learning?

4)   How much the athlete enjoys the environment?

Paul Bergen mentioned something important when comparing training a horse versus training a human being.  6 avr. 2012 TRIATHLON PHYSIOLOGY FOR DUMMIES AND THE TENDENCY TOWARD THE MEAN.  Horses do not have parents. Evaluating athletes regarding the four points mentioned above requires a “well-made human being.” Not everybody could evaluate those four points.

Improving for the Worlds

Look at the athletic population around you and start practicing your “clinical eye” regarding those four points.  Even further, make your own empirical research “without lying to yourself” and you will start improving your life regarding “performance.” It is not just athletics.  We know that “global warming” is “real,” but we still do not believe it.  We are deteriorating as a whole.

SAT Reading Scores Are the Lowest They've Been in 40 Years

By Alexander Abad-Santos | The Atlantic Wire – Mon, Sep 24, 2012

Coming in with an average SAT reading score of 496, 2012's graduating seniors have the dubious distinction of having attained the worst reading score since 1972. (For those test-takers of a certain age and test-taking history, "reading" is actually that part we knew as "verbal.") Regardless of what you call(ed) it, "The average reading score for the Class of 2012 was 496, down one point from the previous year and 34 points since 1972," reports the Washington Post's Emma Brown, gleaning numbers from the College Board, the organization that administers the test.