Chrissie Wellington might be out for the next year, she has a lot of pretty good advices to give.
It sounds simple, but it’s so easy to forget. If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats. To plunder the words of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, « Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. »
The message is this: All the physical strength in the world won’t help you if your mind is not prepared. This is part of training for a race — the part that people don’t put in their logbooks, the part that all the monitors, gizmos and gadgets in the world can’t influence
Have a mantra and/or a special song to repeat
Keep a bank of positive mental images
Practice visualization beforehand
Remember that training is about learning to hurt
Complete article here (CNN).
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A great post from Noa. Fueling strategies for performance & recovery. How do you fuel when you are training 2-3 times per day? FYI, I’ve presently a fight in my household, Noa (me) VS Jamie Oliver (wife).
Immediately after training (or at least within the hour) you need to consume 1-1.2g of carbohydrates per kg body weight. This is important because during the first hour after training glycogen synthesis rates are at their highest and this phase is not insulin dependent. This does not mean that you can eat whatever you want during this 1 hour “window”. On the contrary, it means that you need to pay even closer attention to the foods you eat and make smart choices. Time things right and make sure you are well prepared so you can eat real food vs commercial sports foods, cookies, processed foods, etc. Real food is better for you! I really can’t stress this point enough…
Complete article here
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How exercise fuel the brain.
This increase in brain activity naturally increases the brain’s need for nutrients, but until recently, scientists hadn’t fully understood how neurons fuel themselves during exercise. Now a series of animal studies from Japan suggest that the exercising brain has unique methods of keeping itself fueled. What’s more, the finely honed energy balance that occurs in the brain appears to have implications not only for how well the brain functions during exercise, but also for how well our thinking and memory work the rest of the time.
For many years, scientists had believed that the brain, which is a very hungry organ, subsisted only on glucose, or blood sugar, which it absorbed from the passing bloodstream. But about 10 years ago, some neuroscientists found that specialized cells in the brain, known as astrocytes, that act as support cells for neurons actually contained small stores of glycogen, or stored carbohydrates. And glycogen, as it turns out, is critical for the health of cells throughout the brain.
Complete story here
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So Crazy!!!! A ANT+ Bike Speed/Cadence sensor that requires nos zipties or tools!!!
Intéressant cette mention à propos de l’existance de glygogène intra-cérébral. J’ai hâte d’apprendre le rôle exact de ce mini-dépôt, probablement trop petit pour jouer un rôle métabolique significatif (en comparaison par exemple au pool de glycogène hépatique).
Anyway, intéressant tout de même.
Charles