The Adaptative Process of Training - Opening the Black Box
Keywords:
training adaptation, exercise molecular physiology, epistemology of biologyAbstract
The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) has been and remains being the explanatory model used by the vast majority of sport physiologists and coaches to explain the adaptive process of training. While this paradigm can help us to understand simple phenomena such as the increase of muscular glycogen stores after a training program, it is unable to account for more complex training adaptations. In order to support this claim, first we analize the biological meaning of the adaptation and explanation concepts. Then we present what should be, in our opinion, the real explanation of the biological process of training adaptation. We conclude with some thoughts about the possibilities and challenges that lie in the recent entry of Exercise Physiology in the molecular era.References
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