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Physical Education - Overload: maintaining homeostasis
Overload: maintaining homeostasis
Maintaining homeostasis in the face of chronic stress means increasing the
synthesis of specific proteins (mitochondrial [1] enzymes, for example)
that enable the cell to respond to future demands with less disruption. The
optimal training program would be one that maximally stimulated these
positive adaptations while minimising the cellular and systemic stress
thrown at the body in order to trigger the changes. Very hard training does
damage and sometimes threatens our health by transiently lowering our
resistance to infection, not to mention the fact that it can stress our
time schedules and relationships. Put in real world training terms, we
should try to do the least training possible that still achieves the
desired results. This program would then incorporate the appropriate
recovery [2] time:
* long enough to allow the synthetic processes time to occur
* not so long that reversion towards the previous cellular state could
begin
Finally, our overall training program would have to recognise that some
cellular adaptations [3] have a faster response time than others. For
example, plasma [4] volume increases dramatically within a week of hard
training, while capillary [5] growth occurs slowly over years of training.
This knowledge will impact the relative amount of training we dedicate to
achieving specific adaptations [6].
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