Adaption is your friend, and your enemy
Adaption is a fantastic thing. Your body works quickly to help you survive longer. But this leads to stagnation in your exercise gains if your goal is more than just survival.
The way to beat adaption is to keep applying healthy stress to your brain and body. This type of “confusion” means that our body does not know what it is trying to survive for - and it has to keep catching up with the new demands. When I started to exercise - after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes - - the improvements came relatively quickly. I lost about half a kilogram each month, the exercise became less tiring, and I could feel that I was regularly gaining a little extra strength. Back then, 20 years ago, I had no idea my body was working against me, to make me so efficient that my progress would plateau. Each night I say "enough" but it doesn’t work
In the week before Xmas, I became curious about how it would feel to run every day.
The week of Xmas I ran 4km every day, and then all through January. Now, in February, I tell myself I'll stop, but I keep getting up and running. I'm not sure why. How To Exercise Without Moving A Muscle
We've all noticed as we age that we become a little less steady on our feet. This loss is due in the main to the deterioration of our neuromuscular capability to balance. But our fast-twitch muscle responsiveness - or lack thereof - also plays a crucial part.
When we lose balance our fast-twitch muscles act quickly to steady us and put us back into balance. If they are weak, then we potentially take a fall. There's good news. You can rebuild your fast-twitch muscle capability with less effort than you might have imagined. If you have a running goal then you need to build stamina
I've found that there's often confusion about what endurance and stamina mean, especially in the context of running.
If you don't know the difference, then you can't train specifically for one or the other. Yet training for one or the other can boost your everyday performance and get you to your time or distance goals faster. If you're focused on achieving a certain distance or time, then you need to be able to incorporate stamina training. And once you know the difference, you'll never forget, like riding a bicycle. |
ChoicesSince I was diagnosed at 50 with Type 2 diabetes I've been learning how to do bone-building fitness training which lowers my age. You can too. It's your choice. Walter Categories
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