26 nov. 2012

PERIODIZATION. Should We Use the Name?

Names can deceive us as you hear in the previous post, previous video, Saul Kassin: "False Confessions".  Once you have a confession, the entire thinking of the judges changes even if what you see as a witness was something else.  The observer is influenced by the confession to the point of changing the entire view of the events.  Naming has the same effect in our way of thinking.  Words are attached to something big depending on one´s idiosyncrasy. That big thing is made of thoughts, images and “coordinates” (how we understand the world so one locates oneself in it).  We will use a verb or a description instead of the name; “the name is not the thing named.”
Nicholas Romanov, (Pose Method) told me once: “Periodization was invented by the Russians 40 years back, and we also decided to leave it 15 years after because it was not useful.”  I would change the name of periodization for “life time commitment to excellence” where the period is a life time.  How to program ourselves for life would be the question instead of how to do a periodization for the year?  “Life time commitment to excellence” takes the place of the word periodization for sports that should start very early in life to have the option of being successful, as it is the case of gymnastics, swimming or triathlon.  You have to prepare your body-mind for decades to be able to train hard enjoying the process.
In individual sports, we have training curves helpful to have a plan, “life time commitment to excellence.”  Paul Bergen mentioned once: “When Inge de Bruijn came back to training after several month hiatus and less than two years before the Athens Olympics, I told her that she was not going to be ready for the 200 meters.  She needed to do just a 100.  I worked for that distance because we did not have time for the 200; we worked on her strength/weight for that distance.”  All the distance runners are and were very fast runners in 400 and 800 meters; below 1:50 for the 800 meters; and the champions for 10,000 meters are near that time running the last 800 meters of an important race.  That is a benchmark if you want to be a champion after 20 years of age, running the 10,000 or longer.  It is just a benchmark, nothing else, if you are looking to be a champion.  That benchmark is a warranty that you are doing a good job.  Usain Bolt does not run the 400 meters because he does not train for it and hardly can run below 46 seconds that distance.  Of course, he could be the best 400 meters runner but he needs more psychological-educational training to start training for that distance, and surely, his 100 meters could suffer.  We have a limited number of fibers/weight and training should be specific depending in the distance we want to compete in.
When looking at the juniors competing in triathlon, they have almost or the same speed as the elite athletes have; but they cannot double the time when competing at the same speed.  The elites winning the Olympic distance triathlon are generally the winners doing the sprints; so they have the speed to do both.  This reasoning is simple logic following Aristotle, nothing great.  Ironman winners cannot win Olympic distance triathlon and sometimes they cannot even compete in Olympic distance triathlon because they do not have the speed.  Therefore, Olympic distance and sprint distance triathlons have a different speed preparation compare to Ironman distance.
2012 ITU World Triathlon Stockholm : Elite Men : Results
Principio del formulario
Final del formulario

1
GBR
00:54:24
00:09:00
00:01:00
00:29:53
00:00:27
00:14:05
2
ESP
00:54:31
00:09:16
00:01:01
00:29:47
00:00:30
00:13:59
3
FRA
00:54:35
00:09:00
00:01:05
00:29:51
00:00:26
00:14:15
4
ESP
00:54:36
00:09:05
00:01:04
00:29:46
00:00:28
00:14:15
5
RUS
00:54:41
00:08:59
00:01:08
00:29:49
00:00:28
00:14:18
6
SUI
00:54:50
00:09:14
00:01:02
00:29:46
00:00:29
00:14:22
7
FRA
00:55:02
00:09:08
00:01:02
00:29:48
00:00:29
00:14:37
8
ITA
00:55:15
00:08:53
00:01:08
00:29:53
00:00:27
00:14:55
9
SVK
00:55:21
00:08:52
00:01:07
00:29:55
00:00:25
00:15:04
10
AUS
00:55:27
00:09:15
00:01:06
00:29:43
00:00:26
00:14:58

 Olympic distance
Principio del formulario
Final del formulario

1
ESP
02:00:29
00:17:44
00:01:04
01:10:36
00:00:31
00:30:34
2
GBR
02:00:31
00:17:00
00:01:11
01:11:11
00:00:33
00:30:34
3
SUI
02:01:18
00:17:45
00:01:10
01:10:28
00:00:33
00:31:20
4
GER
02:01:40
00:17:43
00:01:06
01:10:36
00:00:35
00:31:39
5
GER
02:01:46
00:18:19
00:01:07
01:10:20
00:00:32
00:31:26
6
CAN
02:01:48
00:17:42
00:01:11
01:10:33
00:00:32
00:31:48
7
RUS
02:01:50
00:17:39
00:01:08
01:10:40
00:00:38
00:31:43
8
ESP
02:01:56
00:17:41
00:01:12
01:10:30
00:00:32
00:31:59
9
RSA
02:02:00
00:18:18
00:01:02
01:10:26
00:00:35
00:31:36
10
GBR
02:02:06
00:17:38
00:01:07
01:11:02
00:00:32
00:31:46

Applying simple physics to daily life, we know that a conductor with lots of filaments is better than a single filament conductor with the same volume.
The ampacity of a conductor, that is, the amount of current it can carry, is related to its electrical resistance: a lower-resistance conductor can carry a larger value of current. The resistance, in turn, is determined by the material the conductor is made from (as described above) and the conductor's size. For a given material, conductors with a larger cross-sectional area have less resistance than conductors with a smaller cross-sectional area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conductor ...Bundle conductors are used to increase the amount of current that may be carried in a line. Due to the skin effect, ampacity of conductors is not proportional to their cross section, for the larger sizes. Therefore, bundle conductors may carry more current for a given weight. A bundle conductor also has lower reactance, compared to a single conductor. It reduces corona discharge loss at extra high voltage (EHV) and interference with communication systems. It also reduces voltage gradient in that range of voltage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_conductor#Bundle_conductors
 
We know that a silk rope is better than any type of rope to tolerate humidity and force to hold a ship because of the number of filaments per square centimeter.  Our muscles are limited in number of fibers and there is a correlation between force/weight and endurance.  If you train force, your muscles are not fit for endurance and vice versa; there is a limited number of fibers in muscles. Our training should optimize the development of the fibers needed for our competition.  Are you an ironman or an ITU competitor?  That is why Ivan Raña won Cozumel this year but could not do much in the ITU circuit.  Depending on how good our competitors are we have success or not; but the better our competitors are, the more specific our training should be if we want to win. 

Gennadi Tourestki says that “we need 10,000 hours in the water to discover talent.” Those 10,000 hours need to be within the frame of “life time commitment to excellence.” Are the kids doing those hours to prepare for the “real training”?  Technique is the other variable to improve efficiency in triathlon.  Raña can run a 2:38 in the marathon of the ironman with the 31:00 he is able to run in the 10k of the Olympic triathlon.  He went 2:44 in Cozumel.

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