Triathlon and Einstein II

We speak about Einstein frequently and try to understand what he meant with his sentence:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Most of the quotes by Einstein are revisions of daily living.  The things he thought and felt for a while.  He spoke bravely without editing his thoughts.  The relationship to triathlon has to do with the need to revise triathlon training if we want to continue improving.

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

·  "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

·  "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

·  "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

·  "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

·  "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

·  "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

·  "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

·  "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

·  "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

·  "God is subtle but he is not malicious."

·  "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

·  "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

·  "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

·  "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

·  "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

·  "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

·  "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

·  "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

·  "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

·  "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

·  "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

·  "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

·  "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

·  "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

·  "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

·  "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

·  "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

·  "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

ETC.

Reading what he thinks about the theory of relativity for lay people is very similar: He revised the physicist’s thinking.  Nothing out of the ordinary but it requires much of UNLERNING.  Einstein unlearned to give us the Theory of Relativity. 

 

We have a previous post about Einstein:

7 nov. 2012

Einstein and Triathlon

We have champions in science; applying science to triathlon is not something for everybody, it is for champions. We need more than common sense, but at least common sense to be researchers.  Einstein would say:

That is why he sentenced:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJ0lTEhoL8

Are we ready to unlearned?

Please read Triathlon Physiology for Dummies and the Tendency toward the Mean in this blog. It was divided in several parts.

13 avr. 2012

TRIATHLON PHYSIOLOGY FOR DUMMIES AND THE TENDENCY TOWARD THE MEAN

Physiology of targets when training triathlon

Tenth part

Targets should be a neurological workout. Meaning the cadence during the workout should be the one we use in competition or as close as we can, without involving much of the muscular system, e.g.  Spinning when biking; small steps running at a 210-220 of cadence; kicking 6 per stroke swimming without applying force.  This training prepares the body to use fuel for neurons in competition.  Remember, neurons only use glucose as fuel and glucose comes from glycogen stored in the liver, muscles, and in the case of brain neurons in the astrocytes. But glycogen can be wasted in matter of minutes and the body starts using proteins to keep glucose at the level close to 80.  The other way of forming glucose in the body is from lactate, which is produced by the muscles as a mechanism of emergency to help the neurons to keep firing, but such mechanism happens in the liver after training.  So we need to drink calories in the form of glucose and proteins to help with the process while training.