How to develop the will power on the example of triathlon
Motivation A Life / / December 19, 2019
When it comes to sport exhaustion, fatigue - not the only reason that you give up and stop. And she can retreat to prove supremacy of mind over body.
Matt Fitzgerald, athlete, coach, and author of books about sports, talks about the training of willpower and real capabilities of each person.
Triathlon - it's hard. And this is one of the reasons why we do them. If he was not so difficult, crossing the finish line, we would not feel such a deep satisfaction. So we want to have our crosses and training have been really difficult.
But at the same time, we want them to pass easily. Try to avoid unnecessary pain and suffering - it is natural to man, and to finish cross, we must overcome not only pain and suffering, but also its natural resistance to pain and suffering.
At the level of the psyche, triathlon and any other hard training - it is a dispute between the devil on the left shoulder that screams to you "Just give up!" and an angel on his right shoulder, which begs you " Go on! "
When you find yourself in such a situation, the ability to continue despite the physical pain, commonly called willpower or mental resistance, and
there is scientific evidence that this resistance can be brought up. In other words, you can learn to tolerate much greater inconvenience for serious exercise.Education willpower is crucial for triathlon, because the more physical pain and discomfort you can suffer, the longer you go, ride a bicycle and run with all due speed, before you fell into exhaustion.
Recent scientific studies show that mental resistance is crucial for the overall performance in endurance sports. Samuel Marcora from the University of Bangor in Wales suggested that the ability to withstand the most severe sports load dependent, to a greater extent, not from the physiological characteristics, and the ability to endure psychological suffering.
That is, we begin to take the end of the training or cross-country, not because the muscles too much lactic acid, so that the force required to continue, too painful to it endure. As a result, we give up.
Of course, do not you think it's you surrender. When you go all out in front of the finish line, but still slow down, despite his efforts, it seems that the body has reached its limit, and the mind and the mind has nothing to do with it. However, Marcora conducted several experiments that proved the opposite.
false exhaustion
In one of these researchers asked a group of cyclists to pedal as fast as possible and for as long as they can. When the experiment participants could not support more than the initial rate, he asked them to stop, and then, without any interruption to pedal at the fastest pace, but only five seconds.
In the first part of the experiment cyclists can maintain the average power of 242 watts for 12 minutes before being surrendered. But immediately after that, they were able to achieve 731 watts for five seconds. If cyclists stopped pedaling due to fatigue and already physically could not sustain 242 watts, as if they were able to wind 731 W without any rest?
The fact that in a short time they were able to exceed three times its previous result, already after came "exhaustion", proves that in fact they choose when to quit pedaling, physical exhaustion, and had nothing to do.
If you will - it's the only thing that limits the achievements in triathlon, and thus it is possible to raise, how is it done?
There are two options
The first and most obvious - train to the loss of pulse. The more unpleasant sensations and discomfort in training, the more chances to find out the real possibilities of his body (Although you will never know them completely, because fatigue causes to slow down even the strong-willed and hardened triathletes).
Of course, do not get tired too often, because it is not too constant exhausting training good influence on health - fatigue accumulates in the body, and then you will not be able to train in full force. Instead, you can teach yourself to stress and overcome on the major weekly training.
It can be very short, intense training or a moderately intense, but long, so you can be tired enough to them.
The second way to pump your willpower - do whatever you can to increase the motivation for training and crossBecause the more serious will be your reason, the more suffering and stress you will be able to sustain and achieve great success.