Atendiendo a la locutora del vídeo y leyendo el sucinto texto en holandés he podido fácilmente saber que Johnny Hoogerland ha perdido la carrera frente a un caballo trotón.

 

Hoogerland es ese chico, e increíble ciclista, que terminó el Tour 2011 a pesar de los 33 puntos de sutura que recibió gracias a un coche de la televisión que amablemente lo atropelló junto a Flecha.

 

Claro, ya me gustaría a mí ver trotar cómodamente al caballo Tourmalet arriba.

 

 

Listening to the video presenter and reading the succint text I have easily known that Johnny Hoogerland has lost in a race against a trotting horse.

 

Hoogerland is that guy and, incredible cyclist, that finished the 2011 Tour in spite of the 33 stitches he had thanks to a TV car that kindly rolled over him along with Flecha.

 

Well, I would like to see the horse trotting gently up the Tourmalet.

 

 

¿Os acordáis de estos imaginarios zapatos de tacón SIDI con SPD? Esto es real, aunque no tan glam.

 

Do you rememeber this imaginary SIDI SPD heels? This ones seem not to be that glam but real.

 

 

 

 

La respuesta a Shimano no podía hacerse esperar. El fabricante italiano lo ha hecho con dos grupos a la vez: un Récord 11 EPS y un Súper Récord EPS.

 

Puede parecer que todo se ha desarrollado esta misma mañana, pero este proceso empezó en 1992. Cuando parecía que en el 2005 todo estaba listo, al regresar del Giro de ese año, las bicicletas en la baca de los coches de algunos equipos que usaban Campagnolo se vieron sorprendidos por una tormenta que ocasionó que el agua entrara en los sistemas eléctricos de las bicicletas.

 

Las unidades pre producción del equipo Movistar dieron prueba de sus resistencia y buen funcionamiento a lo largo del 2011, por lo que podréis comprarlo el año próximo. En total 20 años de espera.

 

La diferencia en peso con las versiones mecánicas es de 200 gramos más para el eléctrico. Si queréis saber si pesa más o menos, si es más caro o barato que Shimano, haced clic aquí.

 

The answer to Shimano could not wait any longer. The Italian maker did it hitting the market with two gruppos at once: a Record 11 EPS and a Super Record EPS.

 

It might seem that all of this was developed right this morning, but it started back in 1992. When it seemed that everything was already cooked in 2005, coming back home after this year´s Giro, bikes using Campy, and whilst in the team cars rack,  were caught by a terrible rainstorm. It caused water to drive into the electronics.

 

Movistar´s Team pre-production bikes gave proof of its reliability within the 2011 season, thus, you will be able to head over your LBS in the 2012. A 20 years wait.

 

Weight gap with cable actuated siblings is 200 grams against the EPS. If you want to know if it is heavier, cheaper, more expensive and so on that Shimano, click here.

 

Es el turno de Valverde. Los hechos inducen a que se pueda pensar de Valverde en ambos sentidos. Por un lado, no ha dado positivo jamás. Por lo tanto, no puede acusársele de dopaje.

 

Por otro, su sangre apareció entre las que tenía Eufemiano Fuentes, cerebro (vacío) de la Operación Puerto quien, por cierto, no es Vicente Ferrer.

 

Está claro que la presunción de inocencia es un arma de doble filo que puede eximir de culpabilidad al que no lo es de forma explícita, pero que puede ser utilizada como defensa por aquél que aún no ha sido culpado pero que podría serlo.

 

Por tanto, Valverde es inocente hasta que se demuestre lo contrario y, sin embargo, por ciertos indicios, podría serlo, algo que no ha podido ser probado. Por si acaso, la UCI ya lo ha sancionado sin dar positivo y por considerar que el hecho de encontrar su sangre en la nevera de Eufemiano Fuentes es suficiente para inculparle. No es mucho, pero no es poco.

 

¿Ha de ser tratado como inocente o como posible culpable? A este respecto, la UCI ya ha tomado su decisión y lo están crucificando en vida. Las normas dicen que en su situación de suspensión no puede presentarse con su equipo (Movistar), eso es cierto. ¿Pero hay necesidad de hacerlo cuando en unos días expirará su sanción? ¿No ha pagado ya suficiente?

 

A mi parecer, es una más de las tretas sucias de la UCI para hacer lo que le da la gana en un deporte que sólo necesita ayudas como las que Movistar está prestando en su labor de patrocinador. Creo que, además de las normas, obra en la retaguardia un criterio personal, subjetivo y animoso.

 

Ánimo, Valverde. Tendrás la oportunidad de dejar atrás todo esto y de correr como sabes hacerlo.

 

Now it is Valverde´s turn. Facts push you to think about Valverde in both ways. On one side, he never failed a doping test. Because of this, he cannot be blamed.

 

On the other side, his blood appeared among the samples that Eufemiano Fuentes, (empty) brain of the Operación Puerto, had and who, by the way, is not Vicente Ferrer.

 

It is clear that presumption of innocence is a double edge weapon that might exempt from guilty to the one who is not in an explicit way, but that could be used as a defense by those who was not found guilty so far but could be in the future.

 

Therefore, Valverde is innocent until proven guilty and, nevertheless, due to some clues, he might be, what has not been proved. In any case, the UCI sanctioned him with no positive result and because they consider that finding his blood in the Eufemiano Fuente´s freezer is enough to blame him. Not a lot, but not a bit.

 

Should he be considered as innocent or possibly guilty? Regarding this, UCI made their decision and he is being crucified still alive. Rules say that in his sanctioning period situation he cannot be presented with his team (Movistar), that is true. But, does it have to happen a few days before his punishment ends? Didn´t he pay enough?

 

In my opinion, is one of the dirty tricks from the UCI to do whatever they please in a sport that only needs help like the one that Movistar is providing as a sponsor. I think that behind the rules, in the rearguard lays a personal criteria, subjective and spirited.

 

Go, Valverde. You will have the opportunity to leave all of this behind and race as you know to do it.

 

Una de las piedras angulares del planteamiento empresarial de SPORT LAB es el poder llegar al máximo número de usuarios. Siempre hemos intentado crear demanda y, como no, atender la existente, sea donde sea.

La formación y de la trayectoria profesional de Pablo se han llevado en parte en Italia. Allí dejó una huella que ha generado lo que en breve será la delegación de SPORT LAB en aquel país.

El día 24 de noviembre vendrá a la central de SPORT LAB el personal italiano a recibir la formación correspondiente para realizar su tarea en las mejores condiciones posibles. Será una semana intensa en la que se condensará el trabajo para que puedan reproducirse la mayoría de las situaciones para que sirvan como experiencia a nuestro amigo Alessio.

Para ello necesitamos CINCO usuarios que quieran llevar a cabo un estudio biomecánico de Nivel I en esos días. Entendemos que dichos estudios no serán tan fluidos y estructurados como los habituales, sino que tendrán la particularidad de ser un campo de entrenamiento para SPORT LAB Italia. Es por este motivo por lo que te proponemos que puedas realizar tu estudio en unas condiciones económicas que compensen el desarrollo un tanto peculiar de la prueba. Por un ensayo biomecánico de Nivel I que habitualmente cuesta 370€-470€, sólo pagarás 300€.

Por tanto, si quieres ayudarnos y aprovechar esta oportunidad, contacta con Pablo en el +34 958 499 405 ó contacto@sportlab.es. Son sólo cinco plazas.

¡Date prisa!

 

One of the cornerstones of the entrepreneurial SPORT LAB plan is reaching the highest number of users. We have always tried to create a demand and, how not, attending the existing one, wherever it is.

 

Pablo´s training and professional trajectory have partly taken place in Italy. He left a footprint that generated what will shortly be SPORT LAB branch in this country.

 

On November the 24^th the Italian staff will come to SPORT LAB headquarters to be trained in order to carry out their work in the best conditions. It will be an intense week in which the tasks will be condensed for the most of the situations that could be valid as an experience for our friend Alessio can happen.

 

For this, we need FIVE users that wish to develop a Level I biomechanical study in these days. We understand that these tests will not be as fluid and structured as usually, but they will be a training field for SPORT LAB Italy. For this reason we suggest your study to be done in an special economic conditions that can compensate the particular development of the tests. If you usually pay 370€-470€ for a Level I test, you will only pay 300€.

 

Therefore, if you want to help us and make the most of this opportunity, call Pablo at +34 958 499 405 or mail him at contacto@sportlab.es. Only five vacancies.

 

Hurry up!  

 

José Andrés Cañadas is one of the lucky winners of the spectacular initiative carried out by Sport Life & Gatorade to take to New York to the ten prizewinners that will run the famous marathon in the city that does not sleep.

The prize is providing to ten runners all the needed to take part successfully in the New York Marathon. That is, personal trainer, nutritionist, effort tests, trip, stay, etc. Well, a dream.

 

If it was not enough, Five Textil designed exclusive clothing for José Andrés to enjoy the best and most advanced garments to ensure that all of this would not be a problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAT PERCENTAGE

 

This analysis, (Fig. 1) allowed us to know the fat percentage of the whole athlete´s mass. It is measured independently in the upper and lower body. Each of them has quite different tolerances as the upper body has no direct intervention in the running motion.

 

In the torso, we measured a 26% percentage, slightly over the idyllic  to run as an amateur, whose upper limit is 20%. In his legs, more relevant due to its continuous movement whilst running, the fat percentage could drop down to the 0% if needed or a consequence of the physical activity. José Andrés features a 16%. The great work of the nutritionist had the desired effect and for the race day José Andrés will be in the desired range.

 

The negative consequences of this fat excess are a higher energetic cost and articular harm because of the mechanical stress, all of it coming from the fact of moving an added weight that “is not ours”. Hence the necessity of optimizing our weight, something noticeable in all of the life spheres, not only in the sportive one.

 

However, fat loss and excessive bodybuilding would turn into more power, but also a heavier weight. The ideal proportion between fat and lean mass (everything but fat) should be determined by a specialist according to each user, his/her biotype, sport and its practice level.

  

Fig. 1.

 

 

 

LEG POWER

This test (Fig. 2) is executed by making the athlete jumping and measuring the maximum reached height with an extremely accurate optical measuring device. Jumps start from a static position and legs bent at 90º (Squat Jump, SJ in the graphic), from standing position and bending your legs for impulse purposes (Counter Movement Jump (CMJ in the graphic), with the help of your arms (A. Brazos in the graphic) or drop jumping from stairs at a determined height (Drop Jump, DJ in the graphic).

 

Short distance runners obtain more  power from their legs and, therefore, jump higher. It happens just the opposite for gran fondo runners. In the case of the Squat Jump and international level marathon runner jumps at a 28 cms. average height. José Andrés scored 22.5, not bad for a non pro.

 

We are to go back once more to the incidence of the fat added weight that burdens the jumper. Without it, all of the marks would have been way better.  

 

Black bars in the graphic point out the reached height after drop jumping from different height and using the jump elastic energy to impulse oneself up. As a curiosity, José Andrés does his best when jumping from 60 centimeters. Now you know at which height he should jump once and again to stimulate his muscle boosting.

 

Fig. 2.

 

 

EFFORT TEST

Through this test we can check the runner evolution within a continuous and increasing intensity effort. We manage three main parameters:

– In blood lactate concentration (Mm, millimoles). Lactate is our body safety mechanism to avoid irreparable damages when achieving a limit effort.  As intensity increases, lactate appears and avoids muscle contraction, generates rigidity and incoordination among other effects.

 

– Heart rate. It is a clear indicator of the effort level. The harder, the higher rate.

 

– Speed: The motion activity generates a movement (run) that has place at a higher speed the harder the effort is.

José Andrés can run up to 9.7 km/h. while keeping his lactate level. (Fig. 3) Up to 11.3 km/h. (vertical blue line) his metabolism eliminates all of the lactate his body generates (2.1mM). That is, theoretically he could run endlessly at this pace what means a 5 minutes and 19 seconds per kilometer. Thus, the whole marathon time would be 3h43´. At a higher speed, he generates more lactate than he can eliminate and it would get accumulated in blood with all the known effects.

As you cannot control your optimum lactate level on the run nor the speed without a GPS, we can translate his running pace into heart bits: 143 bpm, something easier to check with a heart rate monitor. (Pink line in Fig. 3).

Genetic predisposition determines up to a 30% (a lot) of your performance. The rest depends of factors such as nutrition, training and the, sometimes forgotten, rest. If among the aforementioned factors we modify the ones that we can, that is, training, nutrition and rest, we could move up inside the yellow zone in such a way that our ideal pace were more intense and we could maintain a 15km/h. speed without the lactate to harm us.

 

As a consequence, José Andrés will have to run every single kilometer at the NYC Marathon at 11.e km/h. or spending 5´19´´ per kilometer. If nothing happens, that pace will make him reaching the finish line.

 

Fig. 3.      

 

 

CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINING

Once in movement, we could obtain some clear conclusions about the current José Andrés´ situation and what he should do to finish the marathon and/or how to increase his performance through a selective training. The different paces should be set in virtue of:

– Heart rate.

 

– Speed.

 

– Time per kilometer.

 

– Subjective effort perception (RPE Borg).

 

As a result, he will be able to control himself by paying attention to the most advisable or available parameter: sometimes it will be the heart rate and other, per example, time per kilometer.

In the graphic 4 you can see specific José Andrés´ results, but an effort test should provide unique parameters for each individual.

 

The five distinguishable ranges as objective working target are:

– RA- Active recovery: The known as active rest, the warm exercise before training and the pace to come back to calm after an effort.

– CAE- Extensive Aerobic Capacity. Training zone to boost the extensive resistance, in other words, long distance races capacity such as cycling tours, several days marathons, etc.

– CAI- Intensive Aerobic Capacity. Training zone for one day events.

– UA- Competition, cruising speed. Training target for one day long distance events in which you could find more demanding moments.

– ­UA- Anaerobic threshold, lactate threshold. You can train here knowing that we are right in the limit over which our body would generate such a lactate amount that could not be eliminated via sweating, urine, breathing and some chemical processes. Training within this zone would favor that our cruising speed that can be maintained for long time periods was higher. This is the most noticeable improvement zone.

– CLA- Lactate capacity zone, aerobic capacity zone.  Our body is unable of taking all the needed oxygen and enters into a metabolic crisis zone that generates more lactic acid that can be eliminated. Training here will help in very intense but  moderated in time length efforts, as a cycling breakaway, jump out the peloton to catch a rival or the final kilometers of a marathon.

– VO2 max. Maximum aerobic consumption, maximum aerobic power. These efforts can be maintained or under three minute periods as sprints.  

 

 

Fig. 4.

 

RUNNING BIOMECHANICAL

 

You must think that, within the whole race, you never step with both feet at the same time. There is a moment in which all the weight lays in one single leg and, in the same way, all the force for impulse is done by a single leg as well. It means a huge effort and, therefore, knowing the way our muscle-skeletal structures do their job is extremely important.

 

Angular kinetic study allows us to know the muscle-skeletal predisposition (or the lack of it) for the sport we practice.

We already had the chance od analyzing José Andrés´ run previously, reason why updating all the related data was easier. In his case, he is almost neutral (Fig. 5) That is, medial-lateral displacement are within the considered as normal range. In other words, he steps very vertically and his knee-ankle-foot alignment is very good.

 

If it were not like that, he should boost specific  muscles to reach a knee or ankle stability that ensured he could finish the marathon gently.

 

Fig. 5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SURFACE

 

A made and manufactured by SPORT LAB system allows us to know the surface the athlete features, either frontal or sagittal. It might seem more interesting for cyclists due to the higher movement speed and, subsequently, a key incidence of his frontal surface.

However, when runners are the matter, it allows us to cross frontal surface and body composition (fat/lean %) data (Fig. 6 & 7) and evaluate the incidence of the routine, exercise and nutrition we prescribed the athlete.

 

This very advanced photogrammetry device, or what is the same, measuring through photography, makes possible an adequate postural hygiene via some statically taken and extremely precise measurements that tell us about the sportsperson and his muscle-skeletal structures. That is:

– The Sagittal picture (Fig. 7) helps us to calculate the column´s lumbar and dorsal curvature.

– Hip and escapolohumeral waist (shoulders) symmetry or dysmetria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neither Gatorade nor Sport Life have skimped on for all the prized with the trip to New York to enjoy the experience, as much in the personal side as in the sportive side.

This unique initiative will remain for always in the ones´ who knew it mind but, above all, in the ones´who lived it.

It is difficult. The presence of insoles in our market is notorious: thermal, orthopedic, sportive and custom. This general presence and its recommendation coming from companies, laboratories, institutions and solvent distributors have given to insoles effectiveness consideration. It happens as when a rumor is widely spread: you hear it so often that it turns into truth, in an urban legend, a believable topic or in a difficult to eradicate from popular knowledge myth.

 

Something like that happens to insoles. Even more with the ones named as custom. They seem to be the panacea and they are not. Insoles use is only recommendable when it is, what does not happen always. Nevertheless, market receives them willingly because they are the advice of the one “who knows”. Products are to reach us borne out by its properties, result, performance and vendor´s service, but not by erratic and conditioned criteria.

 

We do not expect sowing discord with this nor question many honest professional that carry out a good work, but calling into question some support to the sportsperson systems that turn around insoles. In many cases, they are advices and impositions from brands towards their sales points to generate an added business to the product´s one.

 

We try to defend our opinion with scientific and verified by SPORT LAB criteria. Our task is to investigate and obtain certain conclusions to work with. We take some risks, but we are not warm with what we checked and concerns to your health.

 

We have decided to argue our position because we have detected an increasing in the custom insoles  use and demand among athletes. You visit us more often due to muscle-tendon-skeletal ailments coming from unjustified use of custom insoles within sports practice. (Fig. 1-2) We are also bothered with the hazardous promotion carried out by sport centers and laboratories, shops and even sportspersons, praising its use arguing a better performance and fewer injuries.

Fig. 1-2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The use of orthesis, what includes insoles, makes sense when circumstances advise us in that way, as, per example, athletes with congenital or pathological alterations caused by an accident (Fig. 3-4). Even in these cases, orthopedic accessories might not be required for a proper motoring function. It can be known only after a conscientious study, not before.

 

Fig. 3-4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our feet are designed for barefooting and especially for our movements to happen mainly on irregular surfaces, rugged and or mountainous terrain. The culture we are living at the times being suggests using shoes and that our displacements roll over even pavement, in absence of ruggedness and, of course, with no difficulties.

 

This latter situation in real life atrophies our most basic structures and in a short term it turns into several conditions: articular pain, tendon injuries, foot-knee-hip biomechanical upset, locomotive difficulties, etc.

 

If we turn to a specialist to solve these problems, we could find a custom insole that “raises us up over here, holds us over there and stabilizes us a bit beyond” as a recommendation. In the beginning, how not, it helps us to feel better as the insoles do the work that our muscle-tendon system should. But in the long term, this weak favor unchains a major atrophy of our muscular and tendon structures that destabilizes our body even more.

 

This insole fills up the holes that our feet, that does not step properly, leaves in its abnormal contact with the ground. The muscles that should take part do not do it because the insole holds the feet and the rest of the related muscle-skeletal structures in a wrong position.

 

In the case of a sportsperson, it is even worse as the custom insole keeps the foot arch from working in its whole surface. The foot arch was designed to store elastic energy whilst we load our weight on it. After that, the stored energy pushes us in the desired direction.

In other words: imagine that you press a table with your five fingertips. Press down as if you wished to bury it in the floor. Your hand would flex until you almost touch the table with its palm. If you suddenly release the pressure, the hand would unspring making your arm to be pushed up. Something similar happens with your feet.

 

Back to your feet and riding a bike, when the cyclist pushes the pedal within the first half of the crank rotation, it get deformed by flattening progressively the foot arc and storing the elastic energy. After that, once you release the pressure on your foot in the second half of the crank rotation (your feet bows again), this released energy helps your pedal movement, according to a perfect design by the Mother Nature. If you are running instead, jumping or simply walking, it happens once and again.

 

If in these situations we place a custom insole and, therefore, fitted to our feet anatomy, we keep our foot arch from working in extension and, as a consequence, we find out that a plantar fascia inhibition takes place, also in our Achilles´ Tendon, and a wrong sural triceps muscle function (calf and soleus) as well. All of this means that, if you do not extend your foot arch, you keep it from its elastic function, along with all the rest of the directly related mechanisms. The easiest to deduce consequence is a performance decreasing, biomechanical setup and injuries.

For this more and more common everyday situation, the definitive solutions are the ones focused on the problem´s ORIGIN, not on its consequences. It is about solving, not hiding. It is only possible through a made by true specialist biomechanical analysis. Subsequently, an answer will be given through the correct and personal adjustments within the sports technique that should allow stabilizing the athlete autonomously. In addition, a motoring reeducation should be developed in each case, the kinetic chains should be compensated through specific exercises prescription and so forth until the full recovery and for good.

Given the major physical demands, it is very important for the sportsperson to understand that this is a fundamental part of training and do not allow him/her to be swept away by comfortable solutions.

Es complicado. La presencia de las plantillas en nuestro mercado es importante: térmicas, ortopédicas, deportivas, personalizadas… Esa presencia generalizada y la recomendación de ellas por parte de empresas, laboratorios, instituciones y distribuidores solventes le han dado rango de efectividad. Es como cuando corre un bulo: de tanto oírlo se transforma en verdad, en leyenda urbana, en tópico creíble, en mito difícil de erradicar del conocimiento popular.

Algo así pasa con las plantillas. Aún más con las que se llaman personalizadas. Parece que son la panacea y no lo son. El uso de las plantillas es sólo recomendable cuando lo es, lo que no ocurre siempre. Sin embargo, el mercado las recibe de buen grado porque son el consejo del “que sabe”. El producto debe venir avalado por sus propiedades, resultado,  rendimiento y por el servicio del vendedor, pero no por criterios erráticos o condicionados.

Con esto no pretendemos sembrar discordia ni cuestionar a muchos honrados profesionales que llevan a cabo un trabajo bien realizado, sino poner en tela de juicio ciertos sistemas de apoyo al deportista que giran alrededor de la plantilla. En muchos casos son imposiciones/consejos de las marcas a sus puntos de venta para generar un negocio añadido al de la venta del producto. 

Intentamos defender nuestros criterios con argumentos científicos y contrastados por SPORT LAB. Nuestra labor es investigar y llegar a conclusiones certeras con las que trabajar. Con ello corremos ciertos riesgos, pero no somos tibios con lo que hemos contrastado y en lo que a vuestra salud se refiere.

Hemos decidido argumentar nuestra posición porque hemos detectado un incremento en el uso y demanda de plantillas personalizadas entre los deportistas. Cada vez nos visitan más por dolencias músculo-tendinoso-esqueléticas derivadas del uso injustificado de plantillas personalizadas durante la práctica deportiva. (Fig. 1-2) También nos preocupa la promoción aventurada que realizan centros y laboratorios deportivos, tiendas e  incluso deportistas, preconizando su uso y argumentando mejor rendimiento y menos lesiones.

Fig. 1 y 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

El uso de órtesis, lo que incluye plantillas, tiene sentido cuando las circunstancias así lo aconsejen, como, por ejemplo, deportistas con alteraciones congénitas o patológicas causadas por algún accidente (Fig. 3-4). Incluso en esos casos, podría ser que no fueran necesarios los aditamentos ortopédicos para una correcta función motora del deportista. Sólo puede saberse tras un concienzudo estudio, no antes.

 

Fig. 3-4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nuestros pies están diseñados para ir descalzos y especialmente para que nuestros desplazamientos trascurran principalmente por terrenos irregulares, accidentados y/o montañosos. La cultura en la que vivimos nos impone la utilización de calzado y además que nuestros desplazamientos trascurran por pavimentos regulares, poco accidentados y, por supuesto, sin dificultades.

Esta última situación real en nuestras vidas atrofia nuestras estructuras más básicas y en un periodo breve esto se traduce en afecciones varias: dolencias articulares, lesiones tendinosas, desajustes biomecánicos del pie-rodilla-cadera, problemas de columna vertebral, dificultades en la locomoción, etc.

Ante estos problemas, si acudimos a un especialista podríamos encontrarnos con unas plantillas personalizadas que “nos suben por aquí, nos sujetan por acá y nos estabilizan por allá” como recomendación. Al principio, por supuesto, nos ayuda a sentirnos mejor pues las plantillas realizan el trabajo que nuestro sistema músculo-tendinoso debería llevar  a cabo. Pero a largo plazo, este vago favor desencadena una mayor atrofia de nuestras estructuras musculares y tendinosas que desestabiliza aún más a nuestro cuerpo.

La plantilla ha conseguido rellenar los huecos que nuestro pie, que no pisa bien, deja en su contacto anómalo con el suelo. Los músculos que debían intervenir no lo hacen porque la plantilla sustenta en una posición errónea el pie y resto de estructuras músculo-esqueléticas conectadas.

En el caso de un deportista el problema aún es mayor pues la plantilla personalizada impide que la bóveda plantar pueda trabajar en su totalidad. El arco plantar está diseñado para almacenar energía elástica mientras cargamos nuestro peso sobre él. Posteriormente, esa energía almacenada nos empuja en la dirección que deseamos.

Dicho de otra forma: imaginad que ponéis vuestra mano en la mesa con las yemas de los cinco dedos apoyadas en su superficie rígida. Presionad la mano hacia abajo como si quisierais hundir en el suelo la mesa. Vuestra mano flexaría hasta tocar casi con la palma la superficie de la mesa. Si liberarais la presión de repente, la mano se descomprimiría de forma súbita provocando que el brazo subiera hacia arriba. Algo así sucede con el pie.

De regreso al pie y ahora sobre la bicicleta, cuando un ciclista empuja el pedal durante la primera mitad del recorrido de la biela, deforma (aplanando) progresivamente su bóveda plantar almacenando una energía elástica. Posteriormente, al dejar de hacer presión sobre el pedal en  la segunda mitad del recorrido de la biela (el pie se comba de nuevo), se libera dicha energía elástica ayudando a la pedalada, según un perfecto diseño de la Madre Naturaleza. En el caso de un corredor, saltador o simplemente cuando caminamos ocurre lo mismo.

Si en estas situaciones colocamos una plantilla personalizada y, por lo tanto, adaptada a la anatomía de nuestro pie, impedimos que nuestro bóveda plantar pueda trabajar extendiéndose y, como consecuencia, se produce una inhibición de la fascia plantar y del  tendón de Aquiles, así como un inadecuado trabajo de las musculatura del tríceps sural (gemelos y sóleo). Todo esto quiere decir que, al no extenderse la bóveda plantar, se le inhibe de su función elástica, así como al resto de mecanismos directamente asociados. La consecuencia más fácilmente deducible es la disminución considerable de nuestro rendimiento, desajustes biomecánicos varios y por último lesiones.

Para esta situación cada día más frecuente, las soluciones definitivas son las que se dirigen al ORIGEN del problema, no a las consecuencias. Se trata de solventar, no de enmascarar. Esto es sólo posible mediante un análisis biomecánico llevado a cabo por verdaderos especialistas. Posteriormente se dará respuesta a través de ajustes concretos e individualizados en la técnica deportiva que permita estabilizar al deportista de forma autónoma, se desarrollan programas de reeducación motora específicos en cada caso, se compensan cadenas cinéticas a través de la prescripción de ejercicios concretos y así sucesivamente hasta solucionar realmente y para siempre el problema.

Dadas las mayores exigencias físicas, es muy importante que el deportista entienda que esto es parte fundamental del entrenamiento y no dejarse llevar por cómodas soluciones.   

El Gran José Andrés Cañadas ya ha regresado de su experiencia en Nueva York de la mano de Gatorade y Sport Life. Es difícil transmitir aquí su relato, no el deportivo, sino el humano por correr la increíble Maratón de Nueva York.

 

También nos ha celebrado las bondades de las prendas que Five Textil confeccionó para él y que podéis ver en la foto.

 

Mi más rendida admiración y envidia por lo vivido. En breve relataremos su vivencia a través de su testimonio. Estad atentos.

 

The Great José Andrés Cañadas is back from his experience in New York hand-in-hand with Gatorade and Sport Life. It is difficult to express here his story, not the sportive one, but the human by running the Marathon of new York. My most devoted admiration and envy for what he lived.

 

He also pointed out the benefits of the clothing that Five Textil tailored for him and that you can see in the picture.

 

In short we will tell you his experience thorugh his tetimony. Stay tuned.

 

Por la deferencia de la desinteresada mención de Cycling House en nuestro blog, la Dirección de la empresa ha tenido a bien el ofrecer hasta EL 30 DE ABRIL DE 2012 un 10% DE DESCUENTO a todos los usuarios de SPORT LAB.

 

Sólo por el aspecto de sus instalaciones, lo maravilloso del paisaje y la posibilidad de hacer deporte, me lo planteaba, cuanto más con unas condiciones favorables.

 

La persona de contacto es la amable Delfina Navarro, con quien podéis contactar en info@cyclinghouse.es.

 

 

Just because of the deference of the disinterested mention of Cycling House in our blog, the Management of the company is so kind as to offer until 2012, APRIL THE 30TH a 10% OFF to all the SPORT LAB users.

 

Just because of its facilities, the wonderful landscape and the chance of making sports, I would consider it, even more with good conditions.

 

The contact is the kind Delfina Navarro, to whom you can reach at info@cyclinghouse.es.