Table of Content

Endurance : Training : Recovery

Recovery: a lot evoked, little explored

Periods of rest are active phases

Regeneration is probably one of the most commonly used terms in the world of sports. And one of the most diffuse. For research, it is one of the most difficult fields to be comprehended because the exact starting point of readings is lacking. Studies focus on sections of the problem and observe athletes who are only similar to each other in a superficial way.

Recovery: our heads need time off, too

Empty carbohydrate stroes in the brain

With increasing body strain brain activity increases too. This is even more pronounced if one comes close to his perfomance limit. In case of extreme neurone activity the energy demand can exceed energy production. The brain's carbohydrate stores get empty and as a consequence competition is discontinued.

3 pairs of shoes waiting

Next to handicraft training is also art

The courage to take a break is essential

Dogmatism and stimulus routine are contra-productive. To release a really great performance, yoi have to feel really good. That sounds quite simple. It is not. It is difficult to find out what it means to feel great. Most of the time you don’t know until afterwards when you can put the delivered performance into relation with the perceived condition you were in.

Regulation of body temperature

Some things seem different to what they are

Why do not all of us suffer from a heat stroke under hot weather conditions and physical exercise, and why do some of us do so even in moderate temperatures Inspired by Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas.

Heat stroke genetically based

Not due to weather and dehydration

Under whatsoever extreme environmental conditions heat stroke is a rare event that funnily enough occurs under conditions that would never let us assume it to happen.