Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Just thinking...

No answers, just 10+ questions:

1. What if there was no word 'balance'?
What if it was called 'total body stabilizing strength' or 'sequential muscle coordination'?

2. What if there was no 'agility'?
Would it be called 'speed of coordination' or 'isolated power within integrated stability'?

3. Could we live without the term 'power'?
We could call it 'work divided by time'? Could power be just another form of 'dynamic flexibility'? - 'rapid dynamic flexibility of connective tissue'? Or maybe total body stretch-shortening speed?

4. What if 'flexibility' was just 'stable mobility'? Could mobility be 'isolated flexibility'?

5. Could speed be 'isolated fast energy systems'? Would combining 'aerobic' and 'anaerobic' training be called "integrated energy system training'?

6. Can I train 'strength' solely with no effects on 'flexibility', 'mobility' or 'stability'?
Can I train 'flexibility without an effect on strength? Does 'stability' equal 'strength'?

7. Is 'power' more of an ability to stretch and contract a muscle rapidly or an ability to stabilize your center and produce force against a bigger mass? Is it none of them or both of them?

8. Is 'endurance' training developing one energy system in isolation or all of them in integration? If so, in what ratios?

9. Is 'anaerobic' without oxygen? Is aerobic solely on oxygen? Can you improve 'aerobic' by only training 'anaerobic'? Vice versa?

10. Is isolated not 'functional'? Is 'functional' always integrated? What is 'integrated isolation'? What about 'isolated integration'?

At least I got a headache now, I don't know about anything else...

Tommi

PS: The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. David M. Ogilvy