2. Why should we care about directed training
... because it is simply about your well-being, happiness and performance.
This cannot protect you from accidents caused by others, but it will help you to have fewer accidents yourself and to be healthy again more quickly. For me, my directed training saved my life before the end of October 2020. It did not save me from the mistakes of others, but it made me considerably more resilient to the consequences.
For me, directed sport is a synonym for training, otherwise it's just movement. When I do sport for a goal, I have a structured training plan that I stick to and that is also adapted to training principles in terms of the amount and type of load. Sport equals movement when I do sport according to the pleasure principle without a plan. Movement is always better than doing nothing and it also often has positive effects.
"The organism needs strain and directly resulting stress in order to develop and maintain all tissues and organs structurally and, on this basis, functionally, as well as to organize and constantly secure the economic interaction of the organ systems. Stress and strain are also important so that the organism as a whole becomes, is and remains healthy and efficient throughout the entire lifespan (ontogenesis) in order to resist frailty as a result of the physiological aging processes for as long as possible.
(Klein D./ Laube W./ Schomacher J./ Voelker B.: Biomechanics, Theory of Movement, Performance Physiology, Training Theory) Evolutionarily, we still need a lot of different movements for us or our bodies to function. Conscious movement has an influence on our fertility, our metabolism, our intolerances, our nutrition, our immune system, our perception of stress and depression, cancer, age-related diseases such as dementia, on how happy we are, how successfully we can manage our tasks, how attractive we appear to others and much more.
Nutrition is more than just the energy we have and together with movement an important point also in this book. Movement, thoughts, and nutrition always belong together and so these topics are also always considered together in this book, with the emphasis on directed movement and thoughts.
The first important connection between exercise and nutrition is the following:
Our daily consumption (kilojoules) is measured based on the energy (heat) we radiate. For the following example, we can thus directly set energy equal to heat.
In the example, we compare the generation of energy in the body with the heating of a flat. In both cases we want to generate heat, on the one hand to maintain the operating temperature and on the other hand so that we do not freeze in winter.
Therefore, we can equate energy with heat and food with wood and ask the question:"Can only wood warm us?" Whoever answers yes to this has already thrown the wood into the fire. Wood can only warm us when it burns. So we need a fireplace, a chimney or some other device where we convert wood into heat with the use of fire and oxygen.
It is the same in our body: the suitable environment in us is themitochondria, here energy (ATP) is produced from our food with the use of oxygen. Mitochondria are bacteria in our cells that are responsible for the production of energy. This energy gives us strength and keeps us warm.
A lot of food makes for nice fat deposits, but not for a lot of energy.
As with wood, not all wood burns equally well and some woods produce more smoke than heat and can even have a lasting negative effect on the stove. Anyone who has ever filled up their car with the wrong fuel knows what such a mistake can cause.
Most of us eat more than enough, our energy power plants, the mitochondria, can burn almost anything if they get enough oxygen. Oxygen intake has a direct correlation with our fitness level. If you exercise less specifically, you have less oxygen and therefore much less energy. If there is oxygen, we still need many mitochondria to provide the energy we need. Most mitochondria are found in the active muscles. If we have few muscles, then the number of energy power plants (mitochondria) is reduced, so that we have considerably less energy for activities. Those who (properly) exercise too little have much less energy for their activities and their immune system and are therefore much more susceptible to many diseases.
Just as most of us cycle, walk, run or swim, they build almost no muscle and only minimally improve mitochondrial expansion and oxygenation.
Losing energy is like becoming long-sighted or short-sighted. Only when our arm's length is no longer sufficient to hold the mobile phone or book far enough away from our eyes, or when we can already operate the touchscreen with our nose without any problems - only then do ve
