Burn out or burned out!
In the world of motor sport burn out usually transpires before the race starts, it is the process of warming the tire in order to add grip for the actual race.
But in any endurance sports like boxing, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon and even in team sports like basketball, baseball, soccer and even volleyball, this what most athlete fear.
During the 2016-17 NBA season the Golden State Warriors can be a best example of a team that was burned out.
This was the season when they broke a 20-year-old record of the Chicago Bulls which registered a 72-10 season record.
But I think they focused too much on breaking the record that as soon as the playoff began Steph Curry and the rest of the Warriors looked tired and drained.
Then injury plagued the team including Curry, Andre Iguodala and Andrew Bogut.
In boxing, our very own hero Manny Pacquiao usually had a 10-12 week routine in preparation for a fight. The grueling routine involves workout mimicking manual labor which he used to do back in his humble beginnings.
Imagine a young Manny Pacquiao would wake up early in the morning to run four to five miles then gets ready for daily duties as a construction worker, swinging sledge hammer, shoveling sand and gravel, carrying and throwing 40 to 50 kilos cement bag. Then at the end of the day he gets back to the gym trains on punching drills, power, speed, foot work and would repeat that on the day to day basis.
Manny’s training makes him control his body weight which hovers around his fighting weight which most boxers had a hard time doing.
In the sports of cycling, cyclist gains lot of weight during the offseason instead of focusing on the other important matters such as speed, power and lactate threshold.
These cyclists have to focus on reducing the weight just to be ready on the race day. Remember the power to body weight ratio. The impact of a kilo of additional body weight will result in a minute slower time in a 10 kilometer climb.
The same goes out to training in any sport; there should be a perfect timing of everything from nutrition, hydration, training, strength and conditioning.
It is not a “mata-mata”process. Just because one person or team is doing it in youtube, then it will work for you. In order for a team to be successful, aside from having all those certificates under their trainer’s belt, one must have ‘COMMON SENSE’.
I could remember not so long ago when our training would last so long and we were forbidden to drink water or hydrate. It is better to be efficient in training as well in competition. Imagine you are well hydrated during training and could have been training 10 percent more and effectively imagine what it would result into during the actual game
Training should be a balance between training hard and training smart. Don't be “too soon junior!” Like in the movie Fast and the Furious when junior pressed his NOS a second too early and in the end got overtaken.
In an endurance sport it is better to be under than over. Work on overall fitness and have fun.
If you are starting training now, plan your attack and get a coach. Don't do too much too soon and get burned out before the actual competition.
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