I read Macca´s interviews regarding Olympic distance
triathlon and Ironman. The Brownlees
already spoke about the difference. They
do not want to change the way they train for the adventure of Ironman when they
are winning. I would not change even if
it is worth trying economically; the Olympic distance triathletes are better
recognized. Triathletes try Ironman as a
way of retirement when they are unable to keep up with the ITU speed. As human beings, we pursue what we can do better,
and sometimes it is not precisely what we want to do. Nicholas Romanov mentioned to me that he has
difficulties accepting athletes that feel comfortable being elite but do not
have the desire to be the best. He does
not like to see that those athletes just look for being elite and not being the
best. Triathlon becomes a job, something
that is fine because people, and of course triathletes, need to eat. Triathlon as a job with many advantages
becomes the only motivation to practice the sport of triathlon. IT BECOMES A JOB as any other. KEEP THAT IN MIND TO EVALUATE YOUR ATHLETE! Is your athlete training to eat or to develop
full potential?
The following videos are not related to Obama against Romney. The videos that follow are related to Floyd Mayweather. Floyd´s family comes from slavery and has had many champions including his father. That is why black people are so good; they overcame handicaps for centuries. It is not genetics; they have a culture and a history. I spoke to a German survivor from the World War II. He was a toddler when it happened and he told me: “America is different because you did not have the war. You become a survivor after the experience of war and war is part of you.” It is like Crocodile Dundee in a sense. 2 nov. 2012 Crocodile Dundee Second Part and Triathlon
During the late 18th
and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government.
One of the primary reasons for the British settlement of Australia was the
establishment of a penal
colony to alleviate pressure on their overburdened correctional facilities. Over the 80
years more than 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia.[1]
The number of convicts
pales in comparison to the immigrants who arrived in Australia in the 1851–1871 gold rush. In 1852 alone, 370,000
immigrants arrived in Australia. By 1871 the total population had nearly
quadrupled from 430,000 to 1.7 million people.[2] The last convicts to be transported
to Australia arrived in Western
Australia in 1868. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia
New Zealand’s Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for
convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and
sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the law, has been
quietly forgotten. It has become a hidden part of our past, buried under the
convenient fiction that the Treaty of Waitangi is the sole pivot of New Zealand’s
colonial story. In Convicts: New Zealand’s Hidden Criminal Past, noted
historian Matthew Wright challenges that notion. Our early nineteenth-century
Pakeha past is, at least in part, a story of convicts who had found their way
past the edge of the law, an age of heroic tales of survival, scurrilous deeds,
cannibalism and piracy.
See VIDEOS in the right order. They point out the difficulties encounter with
athletes and what we should work on before starting an intelligent training:
Maximizing our engine is
very important to achieve the best result in what we do as a sport. Maximize you ironman engine or your ITU one;
they have a different training. DO NOT
LOOK FOR IMPROVING VO2 max WITHOUT MAXIMIZING SPEED!
VO2 max is easily improved
by increasing mileage. The problem is
that if you are slow runner (check your average mile/time); your improved VO2
max does not help you at all. I gave you
an example of the Tarahumara in Mexico, or even Armstrong running (regardless
of doping or not). VO2 max is specific
to the activity we practice swimming, biking or running; slow running versus
fast running.
In Mexico, we have
a tribe that have the ritual of following the deer to kill it for exhaustion: The
statement that, “The Tarahumara may be the finest natural distance runners in
the world”, made by University of Arizona archeologist Michael Jenk inson,
offers some insight into just how good the indians are at running (Lutz 21).
The Tarahumara routinely run distances only covered by only the most advanced
ultramarathon runners today. To these indians, running is more than sport,
running is literally life. The Tarahumara live in very rugged land and travel
by wagon or horses is usually impractical. Because of this, foot travel is more
often than not the best option for getting from one place to another and it is
usually the quickest. While on foot, the Tarahumara do not stroll from one
place to their destination, running is used to perform everyday tasks. It is
not uncommon for a Tarahumara to travel between fifty and eighty miles everyday
at a “race” like pace.
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmd1/art.html
We have spoken of improving the capacity to tolerate lactate, which literally means how to improve our speed. I do not call it that way instead: Keeping with the promise of speaking another language regarding lactate; the use of lactate by neurons will give us the NEURON THRESHOLD to use lactate. “Lactate threshold” should be “neuronal threshold” as it has to do with the neurological training mentioned before in a post.
It is pertinent that what
it was mentioned on previous post regarding VO2 max is accurate for lactate
also. Lactate was announced in a previous post: 1 avr. 2012 TRIATHLON PHYSIOLOGY FOR
DUMMIES AND THE TENDENCY TOWARD THE MEAN
When speaking about
lactate, I have to show you a different way of looking at it. Another
language so we can see something else helpful… In Medicine there are many
monuments left for our heroes and at the end it is difficult to see “the real.”
Lactate is the most effective transport of energy for our body in the “fight
or flight” situation; when the body has an emergency, lactate is
produced. OUR BRAIN NEURONS USE LACTATE AS THE ONLY FUEL to do our daily
task. I assume that neurons use it in general as the main fuel. So, lactate is
“good.” We have to produce lactate to get the neuro-fibers firing.
Around 4millimols per liter of blood allows us to finish an Olympic
Distance Triathlon at our best pace. The more tolerance we acquired to
lactate the better we are. Here, it is important to point out that
sometimes the cybernetic equilibrium is lost and lactate continues to increase
without being used by neurons or other cells (not in the case of Lance
Armstrong as you will see below). Anecdotal, we can say that even if we
finish a marathon in “the sweet spot,” our lactate goes up above 10. It means,
we have a tolerance to lactate above 4.
It is just interesting now that the fourth fight is
going to happen between Pacquiao and Marquez.
Testosterone really helps for this kind of sport. You do not need it seven days before the
fight; its effects appear 15 days after taking it. Pacquiao is accussed of using
testosterone which does not help your VO2 max but your speed and aggressiveness.
Given that the biggest fight in boxing, a showdown
between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, has yet to take place due to a
disagreement in anti-doping procedures, it’s ironic to see Freddie Roach
demanding an anti-doping test on the actual night of the fight. While
Mayweather has stood firm on his demand for random Olympic-style testing
leading all the way up until the bout, Pacquiao has thus far only been willing
to agree to testing up until 7 days before the fight. After going through his
own experience with an opponent and their use of performance enhancing drugs on
the night of the fight, one has to wonder if Roach may now understand why Floyd
Mayweather might have his own reasons, whether they’re justified or not, for
wanting more stringent testing leading up until fight night.
We should look at things in
a cybernetic way. Everything is
interrelated and how to find the edge every time is the game.
1)
In order to improve
VO2 max we need to really want it. In
other words, we need to prepare our heads.
2)
If we do not have
speed, it is worthless to have a high VO2 max unless we do ironman.
3)
We need “to want it
bad” in order to practice speed. We need to
have a well-made head to practice speed longer than three minutes each rep without burning out rapidly. We need planning and order in our lives.
4)
It is not just a
matter of “wanting bad,” we need technique, planning and intelligence to look
for the edge.
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