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The interval method or interval. training was a method developed in the years 40 and 50 in Germany, and that the Czech corridor Emil Zatopek popularized.
This corridor highlights for great level of force and resistance, and it was known as the human locomotive.
In the olympic games of 1948 he won the test of 10.000 meters and he got the silver in the 5000 meters.
But it was in the games of Helsinki in 1952 where he transformed into the king of the bottom winning the 5.000 meters, the 10.000 meters and the marathon, unique fact in the history of the olympic games.
This historical corridor based his preparation on the training for intervals, ending up running in a session 30 km distributed in series of 400 meters, with a recovery of 200 meters (about 60 seconds). This preparation formula has made him pass to the history.
The theory of the training has gone evolving with the improvement of the marks and results in the competitions. For that reason t,he method of intervals squatter a place in the programs of training, but without being used exclusively.
The interval method is a form of fractional work that alternates periods of work with others of rest, to be able to maintain a high intensity of work during more time than if we made it in a continuous way.
This takes advantage in the training to improve cardiovascular and energy aspects and to adapt the sportsman to the competition conditions.
For that reason it is used fundamentally in the training of the resistance in tests of high intensity.
It will continue…
Julio 14th, 2008
1. What they are and what they are for.
The press-up is probably a good known exercise of force that exists next to the abdominal ones. They have sent us more than once to carry out them when we went to school to become strong, to evaluate us in some cases, and in the military instruction it has always been considered a basic exercise.
It is an enough hard exercise and it requires a certain level in a physical way to be able to make them well, although variations can be made in the basic exercise that you allow to be carried out a progressive work. Their biggest advantage is that they do not require the material use.
The press -ups are used to improve the force of the superior train displacing the weight of the body. They will strengthen the musculature of the chest and the arms, what prepares us for the movements in those that it is necessary to rush or to push something.
Being more concrete, they would strengthen the pectoral, the previous (muscle of the shoulder) deltoids, and the triceps. According to the variants that we make, they will imply other muscular areas, but of that we will speak later on.
It is very important to carry out them well, maintaining the very right trunk and aligned with the legs. For it, it is necessary to make an abdominal intense work to avoid that the stomach falls down.
This is one of the reasons for those that the exercise is so tired, since to part of being hard, it hinders the breathing for the excess of muscular tension in the thorax.
The musculature of the dorsal high (scapular area) area, opens up as a fan stabilizing the position of the shoulders. This work,if one makes correctly, benefits the acquisition of a corporal good posture.
In consequence, the flexions will not only strengthen the musculature of the chest and arms, but rather it goes us to help to work the abdominal ones and to improve our resistance.
2. How are they executed?
In support of hands and feet. The separate feet the width of the shoulders and the hands something more separated with the fingers looking to the front. The right trunk and aligned with the legs forming an iron.
The shoulders push actively towards the floor to open the back and the abdominal ones hold the trunk so that it does not fall to the floor. The column lengthens from the crown toward the front for not descending the head:
- To inspire, flexing our elbows, descending the trunk and legs like one only, without losing the posture that we had.
- To exhale, extending the elbows to return to the origin.
In the next delivery, we will speak of how we can progress in this exercise, from the simplest forms until the most difficult, allowing us an evolution in their training.
We will continue
Julio 14th, 2008
The urban life is characterized by a nervous high stress and for a movement lack and physical activity that atrophies our motive capacities.
The lack of physical condition makes that the musculature postural weakens and it is tensed, affecting to our spine, and in consequence to our capacity to move, what deteriorates our quality of life.
On the other hand, in our daily life we unwrap ourselves with a very reduced number of expressions: walking, sitting down, lying down, lifting weights, climbing stairs. They are the expressions with those that we solve the almost whole practices of our daily problems.
If these expressions are carried out in an appropriate way, we will make our easier life, practice and comfortable.
On the other hand, if these expressions are developed in a faulty way, we won’t only be more tired and upset, but rather we will contribute to develop body and articular problems as well as column lesions.
It is very important for the care of our health that we learn how to move with effectiveness, including the correct learning of all these expressions, to prevent lesions.
We will begin an analysis of these activities, looking for the formulas that we consider more appropriate to carry out these movements and postures.
With the knowledge of how to carry out them, and putting some attention, we can incorporate these rules day by day .
In a half term of time the benefits can be perceived: Less fatigue, less tension, less pains, more fluity, more desires of making things and a more comfortable life and happiness.
We will continue…
Julio 14th, 2008
The origin of this specialty, as well as its name, surrenders homage to the legend that wraps to the battle of Marathon, taken place in the year 490 A.C.
The Greek tried to defend of the invasion of the Persian empire. The conflict between both towns had military several conflicts throughout the years, and these confrontations passed to the history with the name of Medics Wars.
Both armies measured forces in the marathon plains that are located some 48 kms of Athens. The Greek left to the encounter of the Persian ones leaving women and children given refuge in the Acropolis.
The Greek knew that if the Persian conquered, they would go on the polis, with the idea of plundering the city, to humiliate and to murder the population.
For that reason, they reached the agreement that if they didn’t receive news of the victory in less than 24 hours, to the evening, they would be the Greek own women, those that would take charge that the Persian ones didn’t find anybody alive when arriving to the city.
The Greek of Milciades conquered in the combat, lengthening the battle more than that waited, for what they would have problems to warn on time and to avoid the butcher shop.
According to the legend, and this part of the history is the one that generates certain doubts among the historians, the soldier Filipides offered himself to go running to Athens to transfer the news of the victory.
It was running to Athens running, after a ferocious fight of 24 hours, he gave the news, and he fell dead of exhaustion. This feat impeded the population’s immolation.
When the first Olympic Games were planned in Athens, they wanted to surrender a homage to this history and they incorporated this discipline to the olympic program.
We will continue with the history of this test.
Julio 14th, 2008
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