Ignorance has made us play the Russian roulette when
training triathlon since the time of Scott Tinley.
Scott Tinley, a man that started triathlon training and went beyond the
limits of training in the 80’s to improve performance, gives a good recounting
of what could happen if one does not follow a plan to improve. This was
an interview at the end of his career. Inside triathlon magazine, volume
15, June: 2000:
“You have alluded that there have been a lot things going wrong with
your body in the past four years. What have they been?
I think I compromise
in number of different systems in my body—my pituitary-adrenal axis and my
hormonal system. And my emotional state—because of depleted
neurotransmitters.
What are some of the signs of these depleted states?
When you exercise cortisol
increases because is a parasympathetic stimulator –fight or flight. You
want your cortisol to go up…My cortisol level was already elevated. A
normal person is 8 to 9 –mine was 13 at rest…We did tests at the Olympic
Training Center and found that my cortisol production dropped during an
eight-mile-run (20).
I use this name Russian roulette because what has
happened in Crimea. Putin is an expert
in playing the roulette making the moves he made and the words he uses. Putin has more information than the majority
of us, but still plays the Russian roulette; triathletes do not have
information and play a deathly Russian roulette when training as you can see
from the interview given by Scott Tinley.
After years of following people like Tinley we have an idea of what
could kill us, but we still play Russian roulette. I remember listening to one of our team
members saying that he was going to train long hours at a slow pace because he
wanted to be “strong.” He thought that
training slow would make him strong; he became strong as a tractor, but unable
to do a triathlon fast enough to be competitive.
Russian roulette is about betting against the odds
because of ignorance. We see the
Brownlees training and Gomez training but we do not want to study what they
do. A simple exercise, to be able to run
after the bike the way we do without bicycling, needs a good bicycle training;
meaning more than 400 kilometers weekly training with 30% above
40k/hr. over a flat surface or the equivalent (30% above 430 watts) for a male. To run 10k below 30 minutes needs long hours running
(100K/WEEKLY) at a high cadence, 210 steps per minutes or above. Our running is not like the regular runners running
because of the weight we have as triathletes; the more weight, the less flying
we can do. That is why high cadence is
important to be able to run a 10k fast for a triathlete.
Training is not about accumulating miles, but accumulating miles at a
good cadence with the best efficiency possible.
This is what we call a Neurological Workout. Neurons shape the muscles at the end and not
the opposite.
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Neurons are like “plugs”
that fire according to our training. We
never speak of training our neurological system but it is necessary to train
our neurons as well as our muscles.
Neurons do not use fatty acids as fuel, depend entirely on glucose. The end result of our hormones is to produce
homeostasis in our body and glucose places a major role in our
homeostasis. That is why we need to have
a cybernetic model to understand our body.
There is not research about it but neurons model our muscle fibers.
Rate coding of muscle force
The force produced by a single motor unit is determined in part by the
number of muscle fibers in the unit. Another important determinant of force is
the frequency with which the muscle fibers are stimulated by their innervating
axon. The rate at which the nerve impulses arrive is known as the motor unit
firing rate and may vary from frequencies low enough to produce a series of
single twitch contractions to frequencies high enough to produce a fused
tetanic contraction. Generally, this allows a 2 to 4-fold change in force. In
general, the motor unit firing rate of each individual motor unit increases
with increasing muscular effort until a maximum rate is reached. This smooths
out the incremental force changes which would otherwise occur as each
additional unit was recruited.[9]
Proportional control of muscle force
The distribution of motor unit size is such that there is an inverse
relationship between the number of motor units and the force they generate
(i.e., the number of muscle fibers per motor unit). Thus, there are many small
motor units and progressively fewer larger motor units. This means that at low
levels of recruitment, the force increment due to recruitment is small, whereas
in forceful contractions, the force increment becomes much larger. Thus the
ratio between the force increment produced by adding an additional motor unit
and the force threshold at which that unit is recruited remains relatively
constant.[3]
The same we can say about swimming. Practicing good technique is the only way to
go fast in the water. Most of the good
swimmers learn to “feel” the water when toddlers; we need to teach our athletes
to feel the water when they are adults and that is sometimes a heroic maneuver. It is done
with a good student willing to learn to “feel.”
“Feeling” is something that needs to be taught at any age to continue
improving. It is not only feeling the
water and feeling falling when running; but "feeling" situations and people around us which make the difference in
our training. Athletes need to know “WHO
IS WHO” to reach goals and full potential. FEELING WITH THE HEAD.
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