Triathlon : Training – Race – Recovery

3 Race
Peaking on a solid base
In endurance races the body faces mainly two critical
conditions, one is fatigue and the other are gastrointestinal
complications. During a race you meet all kind
of stress factors that can jeopardize your under these
conditions rather fragile balance.
Fatigued connections between
the brain and the muscles
Brain activity and neuromuscular recruitment are interdependent.
During racing your brain has to be fully present
and awake to guarantee optimal muscular recruitment.
When fatigue kicks in, signal control becomes weaker
and weaker. Then storms of signals can reach the muscle
without getting filtered anymore.
Training
and Tapering:
Chewies
or Capsules
Start
3,85km
This lack of control of the signal transmission from the
brain to the muscle and back may lead to cramps followed
by exertion and finally exhaustion. This fatigue is
located in the central nervous system not in the muscle.
Early morning
Biest booster
Consequently, you need your brain working at full capacity
to retrieve your personal best.
Leaks in the stomach and gut
Endurance performance affects the integrity of the intestinal
barrier. The prolonged strenuous exercise per se,
heat stress, mechanical shearing forces, oxidative burst,
reduced blood flow, too high an intake of carbs or painkillers
such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents are
only a few of the many stress factors that may induce an
integrity loss of the intestinal barrier.
Integrity loss regardless of its cause is associated with
an increased intestinal permeability. Stomach and/or gut
start leaking. The selective absorption of nutrients from
the gut stops. On the other hand bacteria and toxins penetrate
non-selectively into the body‘s interior and harm
its balance. The symptoms you are then bothered by are
cramps, diarrhea, bloating, nausea, vomiting, pains or/
and stomach bleeding.
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Training – Race – Recovery