View Full Version : Scientists tell why muscles get tired....
hopefulhiker
02-12-2008, 17:16
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/research/12musc.html?ex=1360472400&en=550537e3a9cdb3eb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
canerunner
02-12-2008, 17:48
Interesting read, if I do say so myself.
The trick is that it is very unlikely that this knowledge will help any of us in our hiking within the next 20 years. Even then, it will only make our endurance a little better, and we'll still have to rest and recuperate as before.
It won't make it so that we don't have to rest, or so that we could hike the whole BMT or AT without those zeros and neros. I imagine the only thing that it will do is make it so that there are fewer days between AYCE stops. :rolleyes:
River Runner
02-14-2008, 00:14
Too bad the experimental drug won't be available before Wild Cowboy's thru. He could just prove a lot of us wrong if it were...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/research/12musc.html?ex=1360472400&en=550537e3a9cdb3eb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Thanks. I had forgotten there was one section of the NY Times that still printed worthwhile reading.
MoBill122
02-15-2008, 12:21
On a forum somewhere they were talking about taking Tum's with Calcium prior to a hard hike helping prevent shin splints... maybe there is a connection.
Also have read several times lately about a spoon full of mustard would stop muscle cramps within minutes for some people.
Haven't tried either, but think I will ! lol
Just my two cents worth here
Spoon
Just another lesson why we should not be so quick to believe what we read about what "they" are saying today because likely "they" will say something quite different tomorrow!
HHmmmmm.... yesterday it was lactic acid; today it is calcium...and tomorrow, I wonder what it will be.
It is just like the diet drinks. Yesterday "they" said we could drink them to keep from gaining weight. Today "they" say it is precisely what is causing us to gain the weight.
I am at the point i believe little , if any, of what "they" say!:rolleyes:
River Runner
02-16-2008, 01:47
I am at the point i believe little , if any, of what "they" say!:rolleyes:
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I am at the point i believe little , if any, of what "they" say!:rolleyes:
Yah man! "They" don't have a super track record, IMO.
camojack
02-17-2008, 00:53
Holy smokes! Hopeless started a NON-political thread?! :confused:
SGT Rock
02-17-2008, 08:54
Holy smokes! Hopeless started a NON-political thread?! :confused:
That is what I was thinking.
Fascinating article.
Thanks for the mustard tip!
Frau
john gault
02-17-2008, 09:31
Makes me think of how many times I hear someone utter: "The body is an amazing machine..." I know what they mean by that, but I also see it as inefficient machine as well. If you break a leg bone the muscles will deteriorate while the leg is healing, despite the fact that the body does not need to devour the muscle for energy. Why can't it see that as soon as the bone heals the muscles will be used again. And there are other things like an immune system that attacks the body.....
No wonder why we need science to improve on this very fallible machine.
Stupid body.
_terrapin_
02-17-2008, 09:57
Unintelligent design. Testicles that reside outside the abdominal cavity, 'cuz it's too hot for them inside. Optic nerves between retina and brain pass over (in front of) the light-sensing cells. Real bright. :rolleyes:
OTOH, this machine has been in development for.... a billion years or so? :-?
Um, please don't tell Roger Clemens they are working on muscle fatigue drugs. We may have to listen to him talk about how he doesn't do performance drugs while he pitches another 10 years.
It is interesting the doctors discovered the science behind muscle fatigue and that fatigue might be a good thing to keep you from keeling over by overextending yourself. Developing an anti-fatigue drug to help the heart might be a good thing, but I think we need to be careful about where this could lead if placed in the wrong hands as illustrated in the example above.
An anti-fatigue muscle drug :-?. Bet the military will look into this!