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The physical condition

The human organism can increase its functional capacities to a considerable extent through the physiological process of training.

When our body is subjected to a physical exercise of certain intensity, reactions immediately occur:

- increase in heart beats;

- increase in respiratory rhythm;

- increase in depth of breaths;

- increase of secretion of sweat.

These reactions occur regardless of the physical condition of the subject even if the latter can determine the behavior and the entity. These are temporary changes because as soon as physical exercise ceases, these changes also regress and in a short time the body returns to its normal state. The time frame for returning to normal is usually shorter, the higher the condition of the individual.

The term “physical condition” indicates the particular state for which the athlete is in the best disposition, from a physical point of view, to perform a specific performance.

One of the typical manifestations of physical condition is the removal of the “fatigue threshold”.

What is fatigue? What is the fatigue threshold?

By fatigue we mean the diminution of the functional power of an organ, or of the whole organism, due to an excess of work.

The fatigue threshold represents the demarcation limit between complete efficiency and the beginning of the decline in functional power.

The training through multiple activities aims to achieve an improvement in performance and to remove the moment of the onset of fatigue.

In practice, training manifests itself as a systematic and rational repetition of certain movements and behaviors with the aim of obtaining a performance improvement.

The structural and functional changes that occur in our body because of training, have a close relationship with the type of motor performance that has caused them: every form of movement corresponds to a type of adaptation.

In practice it happens that in the phases immediately following the physical effort, the organic and muscular structures urged to produce and support it, are not limited to overcoming the fatigue situation with a return to normal conditions, but have a reconstructive reaction that leads them to overcome the situation before stimulation.

These moments of supercompensation have a limited duration and progressively returns to the normal situation.

It is necessary to provoke other situations of supercompensation before the previous ones are completely exhausted, that is to say a “summation of the training action”(Matwejew, 1972).