The cardinal problem is not the intensive loading by itself, but rather the potential for loading anew after intensive training units or after competitions. A series of races which is too dense furthers the decline of performance capability and stability, since the normal endurance training is replaced by compensation loading/stress. The loading/training effort which follows one race and prepares for the next is seen by the athlete as training, and the inferior quality of inevitably proceeding is is not noticed. Not until after the fourth competition weekend, almost independent of sport type, do signs of the greater strain in competition appear, and the first instability in the intensity work noticed. The main reasons for this phenomenon are lacking or insufficient sport-specific endurance loading stimuli in the aerobic metabolism situation, in corresponding duration and quality. The dwindling aerobic energy flows (decrease in the proportion of fat metabolism in favor of carbohydrate metabolism) must be compensated for by higher and higher anaerobic metabolism. Every form of persisting mixing of competitions and compensation loading is a sure road to producing performance instability and declining performance.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:51:28 +0000
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