In the battle of the man against limits, Eliud Kipchoge sprayed a record as prestigious as the marathon last month. The Kenyan was planted … In the goal in 2 hours, 1 minute and 49 seconds, so that a question remains in the air: how far can you get? Where are the limits of man? A second scratch is a world in speed and resistance races, just as it is an inch height tests. Although we are getting higher, faster, stronger and more powerful, humans have some hanging subjects in his efforts to beat the existing brands. Nobody has jumped for so long – 2 meters and 45 centimeters – as Javier Sotomayor. Experts do not dare to predict a grade (there are studies that predict that you can reach more than 2.50) or a date, but they are clear: sooner or later the record will fall. “This requires the favorable combination of many factors: physical, technical and also psychological,” says Carlos Alberto Cordante, Doctor of Physical and Sports Activity Sciences.
Food and better materials
There are mythical barriers that seemed insurmountable and that eventually demolished. The expert mentions the case of 10 seconds in 100 meters or 46 seconds in the fences of 400 meters. Recently we have also witnessed how popovicians swam faster than anyone else, a hectometer or how Sorokin managed to do 318 kilometers for 24 hours. «It is increasingly refined in relation to volume, intensity and the individualization of training. As aspects such as food, physical preparation, social aspects or sports material improve, there is a feeling that today’s physiological limit will not be tomorrow, “notes the athletics expert.
The combination of factors
Professor Manuel Jiménez López, Doctor of Human Physiology and the Physical Activity and Sport of the International University of La Rioja (unir) is positioned in the same line. The expert speaks about technical technical innovation, the evolution of materials, biomechanics and the improvement of energy economy. As an example of the first, Dick Fosbury, one of the most revolutionary athletes of the twentieth century, is to change the way to compete in long jumping: before he did not turn on his back. «It is probably to make sure that there will be limits for these brands at a certain moment in the evolution of man, but those limits are also far from being achieved. The work of scientists who investigate high sports performance is to find the most suitable combination to overcome Records year after year ».
The power of the Spirit
To the factors that we have discussed, Jiménez adds the phenotype and early specialization, something crucial in sports performance. As far as psychology is concerned, there seems to be an even more important element: attitude. «The illusion is not negotiable. In the height of the height, measuring 2 meters would be an advantage, but there are some organic aspects that are just as important and that can solve the disability of having a few centimeters less than your opponents, such as the elastic component of muscle or motor coordination in each of the phases of the jump, “says the expert in the human physiology.
And it is that the mind can play a bad pass in high performance, and in the high jump it becomes more remarkable than in other disciplines. «We have seen how there are people who could do it physically, but at a mental level they can have the nerves. In other records you are not directly opposite the brand, but here we have a visual stimulans (the bar to overcome) that make you aware of what you are confronted and that prints much more pressure, ”says Carlos Rojas, four times champion of Spain of this discipline of this discipline
Struck impulse
The athlete refers to the importance of explosive power work, especially when it comes to improving the lower train (essential to jump higher). Because the athlete requires enormous power to increase the body off the ground. “That impulse can be the equivalent of a maximum of eight times his body weight.” That is why it seems necessary in which the athlete develops a fast fiber muscle system to be able to apply that power in the most explosive way. This works with pliometric body exercises of squatillas or sprints (run a small distance to maximum speed).
