How does Adrenaline and Nerves affect running?
Posted on Apr 29, 2010 with Comments 4
Question from Tommy Boy
On some of the fitness sites, it’s stated that from exercising up onto a persons actual competition race, the nerves and adrenaline affect your perfomance but is it in a positive or negative way?
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On some of the fitness sites, it’s stated that from exercising up onto a persons actual competition race, the nerves and adrenaline affect your perfomance but is it in a positive or negative way?
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Adrenaline is a hormone released by the body as a response to stressful situations, it speeds up reaction time and muscle function, in most cases it has a positive effect on performance. However this is also relative to an athletes ability to deal with the pressure of competition (nerves), if they don’t cope well, this has a negative effect on performance and coordination (commonly refered to as trying too hard)
You should probably try and focus on the biological side, which is the hormonal responses, as nerves fall more into the psychological than into the physical area of fitness.
for me adrenaline is great for short distance say up to 5k. but for mid distance to long, i dont think it is a factor. make sure you pace youself in the beginning or else that adrenaline will burn you out fast. but otherwise start at a moderate pace until you find your groove. i think a lot of people mistake nerves or adrenaline for excitement. for me it is exciting to race i try not think of it as nerves. i do however run faster on race day, so prehaps adrenaline is a positive!
Your body reserves about 5% of its ability for emergencies.
So you should always be able to race faster than practice.
Your nerves or adrenaline helps you, unless you let it negatively affect your performance.
Some people become too nervous and can not perform well in competition.
You must learn to use your extra energy by controlling it.
Relax, do not get too excited, treat the race like you do a practice, warm up the same way.
You will be able to perform in a race better than you can in practice no matter how hard you try in practice.
The Shorter The Race Like 100, 200 & 400m Nerves Are A Bad Thing Because You get Tense And Because Its Only A Short Time Your Running It Really Affects Your Time