Knows yu of any literature related to physiological super-adaptations to the recognition of the escalating nature of a stimulus rather than the intensity and/or volume of it?
Basically I want to know if there is any research investigating whether or not the body
will make adaptations to a very submaximal series of stimuli simply because it’s progressive rather than intense.
Another form of this question is if the body will make adaptations in anticipation of a frequently imposed stimuli eventually reaching intensity threshold simply because each subsequent exposure is slightly more intense than
the previous.
davids, I am not sure but, I think that this is kind of like GTG (greasing the groove) by Pavel, it exposes the body to a stimuli on a frequent basis but you never really tax the system to it’s max…I am also looking at viru’s book adaptaions in sports training and I think it covers some of those ideas but the book seems to show that you need to hit a certain level of intensity in order to activate the endrocine system to get going and makes sure that it is rattled enough during a training session to elicit a response that will lead to hormones and all the physiological actions to occur and have a supercompensatort effect…the book is kind of a hard read but if seems really informative. Not sure if any of this helps but maybe you can look into pavels stuff and viru’s book to see if it helps answer you question…peace
I would say the body will adapt to ANY stimulus one way or the other as it is only chance to survive…
Now I guess we’re all here to make sure the way it does so is the desired one!
