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01-12-2009, 02:21 PM | #1 |
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speed versus stamina (deceleration)
I recall a journal I used to subscribe to (J or Sports Physiology or some such title) and it promoted the idea (first used in finding athletes for the East German Olympic teams) of rapid firing neurons. It was their premise that specific testing (nerve conduction studies, biopsies, etc.) could isolate those individuals with a genetic superiority in SPEED. It also promoted
(with lots of specific examples is stamina sports, specifically cross country skiing and running) the point that STAMINA is a maturing, developmental condition versus the inborn aspect of speed. Stamina can be a something one can attain through practice, but SPEED is either there or it isn't. It is evident in the thoroughbred: When horses age, what is left to them? Quickness. You see many an old war horse still able to get out front, but not having the ability to last very often.(I am reminded of the ten year old gelding named Celt who won twice last year in just this manner at Hastings). You see precocious babies flash speed but it takes maturation to apportion that over a distance of ground and some NEVER make that change. When horses of ability are going off form, what aspect is left to them while that form degenerates? Their speed, NOT their stamina.
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01-13-2009, 01:43 PM | #2 |
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Human equivalents.
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/a...eFiberType.htm
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