REACHING YOUR PEAK PERFORMANCE

How to reach your peak performance? It is a journey. There are various points of view, but they mostly focus on things that are really secondary factors as well as the resultant ones.

From the Pose Method point of view, training requires a categorically different approach to the conventional paradigm of training. The basis of the training program should be the focus on technique - the skill of doing. This skill development is and should remain the most important element of training.

In the past you probably thought of your training in terms of physiological factors such as breathing, heart rate and perceived effort. But these elements only reflect how well you are implementing your technique.

Technique is the pivotal point of energy transformation. And movement is all about channeling energy into forward progress. The more perfectly you move, the more efficient you will be at using your available energy resources.

The physiological development occurs as a consequence of good technique practiced at a high level. If your technique is poor and you become injured on regular basis, then you will never be able to train enough for your physiological systems to develop to peak levels.

We see this regularly in the training methods of elite athletes. They finish their careers on a very low level, never realizing that they have an incredible potential that was not revealed because of a lack of technique development.

Sport specific strength conditioning on top of general level strength conditioning goes hand in hand with proper technique development and maintenance. You need to develop a very specific level of strength to allow for efficient technique execution.

So how long or fast should you run, how far should you swim or pedal? The answer is simple for as long as you can maintain your technique. Once technique goes down the hill everything else follows.

In your overall approach to training, subordinate your thoughts of weekly mileage totals and think instead of how many quality efforts you make each week. Quality does not equate to speed in this case, it means training sessions where you really concentrate on technique and make every step count.

By optimizing your level of skill, perfecting your movement, you will minimize pain and injury and be able to run, swim or bike (insert your sport here) farther and faster, ultimately reaching your peak performance.

Article by Dr. Nicholas Romanov
Composed by L. Romanov