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Hi Carson

I will try to find the reference, but I'm sure Tim Noakes et al at
University of Cape Town did a number of studies of athletes pushing their
bodies past the normal cut off points in fatigue studies.  The body will
start to shut itself off as fatigue sets in, but his hypothesis seemed to
show (if I remember correctly) that the mind played a very important part in
sustained effort at the limit and I think it was implied that this ability
to pass the reserve very often was the determiner between success and
otherwise in an athlete.  Apologies for not having the reference, at hand,
perhaps others have their hands on references?

Regards
Nick Tatalias
Johannesburg
South Africa


On 22/05/2008, Carson Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   Hi Linda.
>
> When I was about 36 years old, a neighbor lady needed me to push her car
> to jump start it. It was a car that didn't push normally, even with the
> clutch depressed. I pushed the car, running with it 3 times in a row, using
>
> up about 250 yards. I was way out of breath and my heart was pounding like
> crazy and I felt woozy.
> This being said, I questioned to myself if it was possible to kill
> oneself by accident doing such things even if there was no known evidence
> of heart disease. It took me a long while to feel normal after this stunt.
> In one of the posts, it was suggested the body would simply shut down if
> overtaxed beyond this point? It surely seems at this absolute maximum level
>
> of effort, pushing to ones ultimate limits, each person is taking a big
> chance?
>
> Carson Wood
> Westbrook, ME USA.
>
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> Subject: RE: [Supertraining] Max heart rate
>
> > In the example I posted on another posting, the athlete was 24 and had a
> > cardiac event at 182 beats a minute. He was in good health and cleared
> > for the experiment. According to the formula, he should have a threshold
> > at 196 beats a minute. Clearly the formula was a failure in his case.
> >
> > The Phantom
> > aka Linda Schaefer, CMT, CSCS, competing powerlifter
> > Denver, Colorado, USA