Re: Assessments prior to an important competition

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: Hi Kevin, : You bring up as usual a good point. Testing just short before an important event or 4 - 5 weeks before. : It may sound hard , but some of the high performance athletes are menatlly really weak.( unsecure ) : May it be , that they never got educated to be their own coach ? do they do what we tell them. : Remeber to repeat need education, to challange this needs brain ). : A " bad test " may put them under pressure. : So from that point of view I hope we get an answere from somebody out of that field. : May point is : : Yes I like to test very short before the race. : In fact I did some cases with Ryder, Geoff and Martina , where we used the " warm " up , resp. tested as a warm up. : We used the results for the 5 min later start of the race. : Result at that time was win in the junior and in the Pro elite. and in the cadet Cat. : Advantage , you can give exact info about the way they should race. : We did at that day a test immediatly after they went trough the finish linie. : This gave us a complete new idea how much " catabolic " takes place during a race , and how the LBP reacts. : Based on this experience we check every day after the race , how long for different systems it takes to recover to baselinie and perhaps supercompensate. : There where a lot of interesting findings , and even more questions after that. : Short answer : : If it is an athlete you educated and he understands, that we not Test , but assess , than he will do it on his own anyway. : As you know, you do not have to go all out , but up to LBP HR or LBP speed , or LBP wattage. : Check Lactate at that level , see recovery performance and you know how you could " safe " the race , if some small things go wrong, like : liver storage ability. ( Remember using Morning lactate prior and 10 - 15 min post breakfast and you still have some time about your chrono nutrition. : I hope this makes sense . Juerg.

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