Olympic cross-country skiing champion Veronika Stepanova in a column on , she compared the race for medals and competing with rivals in tournaments with the process of human evolution.
– The interest of sport in cyclic sports is to push your body into the “red zone”, to make it work as long as possible at maximum speed. At the same time, work effectively so that the movement technique does not “collapse”. Pain is a signal from the body that something is wrong and needs to slow down. The meaning of training is precisely to understand – do you have to surpass yourself, force yourself, or is it really too much and you have to stop?
We have strong muscle bodies, an elastic gait and a BMI (body mass index – “”), as advised by a doctor in a fashion magazine. Someone might think for a second: “Here she is, the modern incarnation of the ancient heroes!”
Man evolved over millions of years, during all this time he had to be able to periodically force his body to the maximum in order to survive. I find myself thinking that athletes are the only part of humanity that lives like that now. Only we are not chasing a deer, but medals. And we’re not running away from cave lions and bears, but Norwegians and Swedes, ha! Stepanova wrote in a column on .
Source : MatchTV
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