{"id":1768,"date":"2019-09-26T06:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T05:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2019-09-26T06:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T05:45:01","slug":"striving-for-the-ultimate-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"Striving for the ultimate performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Striving for the ultimate\nperformance seems to be an issue for a handful of people that I know. Yes, the\nfanatics, the outliers, the creative ones, the crazy ones who spend most of\ntheir time frying their brains on how to improve their athletes specifically,\nand how to enhance the ultimate human performance in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s many books\nhave been written by Russian sports scientists, you know who I mean, the\nclassics, Djatschkov, Matwejev, Werchoshansky, Bondartchuk, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One author has been neglected and\nhe wrote a wonderful small book, for the West only within reach through its\npublication in the former GDR, called \u201cKraftvorbereitung\u201d . His name Vladimir\nKuznetsov, a former elite javelin thrower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apart from this book, his name is\nstrongly connected to the development of the concept of \u201canthropomaximology<\/strong>\u201d(1), which he described as \u201cthe science of the\nstudy of physical and psychological capabilities, of motor skills and the\ncapabilities of the healthy human organism in the zone of his\/her biological\nand mental limits and the objective principles of its development and\nperfection for application under normal and extreme conditions in many\ndifferent daily activities\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation:  a scientific approach to get the very best\nout of the human being and looking for the ultimate limits of human\nperformance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main factor in improving human\nperformance is of course the adaptation<\/strong>\nof the human body-mind. So in the former East-Bloc states the study of\nadaptation has been taken seriously and the science of adaptology<\/strong> or in sports, sportsadaptology<\/strong>\nhas been established. In other words: how does the human body-mind adapt to external\ninfluences like training?  It is the\nfoundation of the methodology of training or as we call it training-science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, most of our\nknowledge of human performance nowadays does not come from these sciences but\nfrom the world of fitness, from therapy (= pathology of malfunction) or from\nbusiness, people trying to get as many people in the gym as possible, keeping\nthem engaged and paying and not looking for the ultimate performance. Or people\nselling \u201cmagic\u201d toys. Exercise scientists are specialists who most of the time\nlike to ride their hobby horse and do seldom have access to the world best\nathletes as subjects for research about the ultimate performance. Only rarely\none might find a case study of a world-class athlete. Hardly any background to\nstudy the limits of human performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least before the wall came down\nin 1989, quite a few scientific studies have been performed about\nanthropomaximology and sports adaptology. \nHowever basic research has been performed much longer ago, amongst many others,\nthe names of Folbort, Meerson (adaptation of the heart) and Viru (adaptation of\nthe hormonal system) come to mind. Kuznetsov calculated that e.g. in the one-arm\noverhead throw, human realize only 20-30% of their movement potential. Studying\nthe principles of javelin throws of 60, 70, 75 or 80 meter did not lead to any\nuseful information, but studying javelin throws of 83-85 meters and more, lead\nto useful insights that could be used to improve the javelin throw and break\nnew records, (keep in mind that at that time the world record, even with the\nold javelin was less than 90 meters). The deeper understanding of these\nprinciples can also lead to the development of new concepts and technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports adaptology is being defined\nby Seluyanov as being \u201ca new scientific discipline studying the holistic\nbehavior of systems and organs of an athlete in the form of instant and\nlong-term adaptive processes.\u201d(2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to fully understand the\nphenomenon of adaptation, understanding of only one single physiological\nsystem, like  muscle, heart or hormonal\nsystem is not enough, since many systems are involved in the adaptation process\nand they all interact with each other in a positive or negative way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adaptation is an individual process\nand its dynamics depends on the characteristics of each individual athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this has become an integral\npart of my own vision on methodology of training 2.0 as I lecture and publish\nabout. More support came from a recent book that is largely unknown, but is the\nvery best book that gives us a deeper understanding of adaptation based on\nrecent insights. (3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understand adaptation and you will\nunderstand the foundation of training, the activity with which we spend most of\nour time. Aiming for ultimate performances of our athletes is not sufficient,\nfor that we also have to aim for our own ultimate performance as coaches, there\nis also no finish line for our understanding of adaptation, training,\nperformance or our athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Tschiene, P: Anthropomaximologie \u2013 Ein neuer Ansatz in der Theorie und Praxis des Sports; Leistungssport, Vol.10, No.1, 1980, pg.65-67 (German) \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Seluyanov, V.N: Sports\nAdaptology;  Sport Science and Physical\nEducation, Vol.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Isaev, A.P; Erlikh, V.V; Rybakov, V.V: Sports Training Individualization. State, Problems and Advanced Solutions; NOMOS, 2017. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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