Monday, May 11, 2009

Rest Day - 12 May 2009


A theoretical hierarchy exists for the development of an athlete. It starts with nutrition and moves to metabolic conditioning, gymnastics, weightlifting, and finally sport. This hierarchy largely reflects foundational dependence, skill, and to some degree, time ordering of development. The logical flow is from molecular foundations, cardiovascular sufficiency, body control, external object control, and ultimately mastery and application. This model has greatest utility in analyzing athletes’ shortcomings or difficulties.
We don’t deliberately order these components but nature will. If you have a deficiency at any level of “the pyramid” the components above will suffer.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I definitly have some deficiency's! Thrusters make me feel like I'm back in special ed.!
Thanks for the help Alex and Matt.

-Graybush

Anonymous said...

I can't help but feel that there should be a tier called "Horrific Sadism"
-Randy

Anonymous said...

Hey Randy, Did you eat that puppy you wanted to kill?

-Graybush

Anonymous said...

no, that threat was pretty empty, tell alex I have a lady crossfitting with me now and require scaled weight on the WODs he writes.
-Randy