For many of us, we train to get leaner, meaner and faster.
But do we know what we are training for? If you’ve read the title you’ll be pretty sure that the objective of training is for the purpose of having certain adaptations which will enhance our performance.
Adapatations occur in 4 different areas:
- Central
- Periphery
- Biochemical
- Metabolic
Central
- Involves the Heart and Cardio Vascular system
- Improving central adaptations involve increasing stroke volume through
- Left Ventricular Hyperthrophy
- Greater Elasticity of Cardiac Muscles
- More left Ventricular filling time
Periphery
- Involves the cellular and periphery regions(off course…)
- Increase in cell size
- Increasing Cell mitochrondria (powerhouse of cell)
- Increasing Mayoglobin(transport o2 from cell membrane to mitochrondria) and haemoglobin(in blood, transport o2)
Biochemical
- Increasing glycogen storage
- Increasing enzymes for all energy systems (ATP-CP, Anaerobic, Aerobic)
- Increased ability for oxidation of fat rather then carbs
Metabolic
- Increased lactate buffering capability (ability to synthesise lactate)
- Decreased rate of lactate production
- Increased lactate treshold
- later lactate inflection point (as mentioned a few articals before)