Have you ever stopped to think that if we follow all the
advice in this blog, then we cannot ever be good dancers, like all in it
opposes what would be advisable for someone who wants to excel at dancing?
If we dance classical ballet, then our shoes should
be made of basically plaster at the tip so that we do not deviate the foot, like so that we do not control it. If we dance jazz, then we want to fly graciously in
the air, like with really soft and beautiful movements, beautiful because they
are light, and they induce us to remember things like the sea breeze over our
face in a nice and warm summer evening. If we dance ball dance, then we want to
be one with our partners and have the same rhythm.
If we run the way
we should, we control our feet to maximum, never having anything
really rigid on them; we want to swing our arms up to a certain height, keeping
our hands under some amount of tension and closed; we want to be ahead of the
other person, since we here aim at competitions, not ever together; and so on.
The most interesting finding of all so far is
that we need to move like the cheetah, what then means that our legs should
drag our bodies, should propel them, like we should move in a way that they
remain on air for the longest amount of time as possible and, as they hit the
ground, they move the rest of our bodies almost on their own, and, if possible,
on their own. On top, our feet should lay flat on soil, if possible, never tip-toe
sort of deal.
With the dance, as we know, not mattering if we talk about
ballet, jazz, or ball dance, we should aim to have the tip of the toe on the
floor first instead.
Running is, at the end of the day, an art. However, it is an
art that dancers should not apply themselves to because all its foundations
oppose those of the dance.
Because, with competitive running, we aim at having maximum
height and width in our jump and maximum propulsion through our legs, what then
implies never letting them behind us, as for intention of the movement,
dedicating ourselves to strengthen them can only help with our performance.
Also the weight of our bodies matters: the less amount of weight we have to carry as we move,
the better our performance will be.
On the other hand, we want to be healthy in order to cope
with the effort we have to make to run. In this way, we want to be well
fed, meaning that we want to have a balanced diet, complete in terms of
vitamins and, if possible, reinforced to the side of what may prevent injuries
(calcium, iron, sodium, D vitamin, A vitamin, C vitamin, potassium, and others).
Some marathon runners advise people to ingest a lot of
carbohydrates before the marathons. They tell us that they usually go and have
an all-you-can-eat feast the day before the marathon. That might be a good
advice. However, we must remember that we are not bears (http://www.wildmammal.com/index_files/bear_hibernation.html) to hibernate and keep food inside for any amount of time that be
superior to 40 hours in a healthy way (one may not be able to digest the food
and keep it inside for longer than the normal, but that, we are sure, will
worsen performance, not improve). http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/147016.html and http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/basics/transit.html talk about that.
The normal human digestion time should be 30 to 40
hours. Each individual is able to find out their
own digestive cycle by simply consuming only one meal and observing when they
defecate, since that is the end of the digestive cycle. One would need at most 40 hours of observation, considering the information from the links that we provided. The Bible is full of examples of people who have fastened for three
days, which is 72 hours, so that we should never have health problems for
subjecting ourselves to such an experiment. On top, we can still do the
biblical fasting, for holy purposes, so that we have even more motivation to
calculate our digestive cycle.
What would happen to an individual without enough
carbohydrates inside of themselves in a marathon?
The problem with the people
who are too thin, say anorexic, is that they will end up consuming their own
organism as they run, like, if the organism has no fuel to burn (that would be
our food, or the extra carbohydrates, if we have a super OK body), then it will
burn itself (see http://www.helpguide.org/mental/anorexia_signs_symptoms_causes_treatment.htm, Effects of Anorexia)… .
Any digestive problem may get on the way
to a good performance in running, so that this advice, of ingesting
carbohydrates, is not really good for people with digestive problems. It is also not good for people who are overweight, therefore people
who naturally have those carbohydrates, like they need that their bodies be a
bit consumed… .
The carbohydrates thing only applies to those cases
in which the athlete has a body in perfect shape, like completely balanced, so
that there is no excess of carbohydrates in it. In this case, ingesting those
carbs prevents internal injury, and allow for a pleasant run.
Some athletes seem to have plaques of salt over their bodies
as they finish their marathon, like we touch them and taste the white matter
that they expel and we have no doubts that it is salt (http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-106223.html).
That is just like anorexic people running, like they were
definitely consuming their own organisms as they ran: We should
eliminate sweat, that is, liquid, as we run, that is healthy, but not pure
salt.
If we eliminate pure salt, then we do not have enough liquid inside of
us to cope with the physical exercise.
In fact, medicine says
that we do not have enough sodium containing liquid in our bodies (http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/hydrationandfluid/a/Hyponatremia.htm).
That is actually a serious medical problem that may lead to
death according to the doctors. Its name is hyponatremia.
It is interesting
knowing that the problem happens for excess of water consumption, not absence;
water without sodium. People who suffer from this are advised to drink only
sodium containing liquids during the races.
