Those who reads this blog with some frequency will notice that I usually write "performance" in the posts the word. Along my experience, I am often asked about this thing called performance even before I start one training approach, a potential athlete would or could ask for.
When we begin a training program of running or triathlon or long distances for cycling and swimming, we dream with a wonder world at the end and with all the glory of victories and achievements the exercise will produce.
We can put some realistic goals while knowing our performance - ok, this word will dominate the post, so get used. One of the fundamentals goals of training is promote and maintain health and, believe it or not, performance is THE factor to put in perspective.
You have to realize that a pace that used to be difficult to sustain a few months ago and now is better, is because your body has adapted.
The final end could be a wonderful goal, the way to reach this must be with patience to pass over the steps of evolution, not always happy on the day-to-day, but the answers will come with time.
In endurance training the results will appears with the improvement of capture, transport and use of oxygen by the cardiorespiratory system. Heart and lungs with capacity improved to provide oxygen for active muscles, will let them more reactive, resistent and powerful. This is healthy or not? Your body is getting better and your performance will be elevated.
I read a phrase last week that should be a mantra for every athlete ("every athlete" means every person who is engaged with the sport, training with consistency and constancy): "Performance is an everyone's right" - @fjrassessoriadecorrida. That's it! Performance isn't just an elite high-level athletes group, who counts with all structure to achieve the best result of human kind.
Train your sport with dedication and you'll perceive quality in your health, it's by your performance markers that you'll have a tangible parameter for your daily routine. Medical follow-up is always important, but you update your exams and evaluate this are seasonal, a different scenario for daily-training.
Performance marks triathlon or each of its disciplines are intensity, volume, effort perception, heart rate and power. Technical measures like cadence for running, cycling and swimming are another way to evaluate. For getting a better performance I posted years ago in "A melhora da performance" (portuguese only).
So, to get healthy you have to always improve your performance? No. There is a limit for our body to sustain the best and it is not only a physical thing. It's kind of paradoxical, but keeping a health body is really hard. Not even always better on performance markers you can keep a steady health. The truth is that the performance must be controlled via training. In a balanced training program, an athlete can peak his/her performance twice or three times for a 3-6-weeks over a year. A decrease of performance followed by peak phase it is health, thou. It's time for a rearrange. Mental, emotional and physical. A new cycle starts.
A training cycle is divided into phases: preparation, base, build, peak and transition. In all of those, the development in each phase is to reach a better peak phase. I could say that it is a progressive system and the other phases will follow the peak progression's. Base and build phases always have to find new alternatives of training, so body can be stimulated in a predictable less. If you repeat the same stimulus and make equal phases for every cicle, your mind learn to control body and push the "break" or get a shortcut to make the same train session you made 3-4 months ago.
It's always good to remember that mental stress, feeding and social relationships are related with a progression in performance.
Your attitude during, before and after training will be determinants in your sport's performance, yet your health. Dazzling of reactions linked to a positive attitude are related to a better performance. So, is there a negative effect to train in those sad and tiring days? Maybe... maybe not. This a future subject for another post.
Meanwhile, I have to thank to everyone who is sending post suggestions. It's been cool! This is my first post in English and is a translation of my last post here, hoping ti get understood, . Thank you, really enjoying your participation.
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