Olympic World Records - What is the Best Time to Compete?
We've all heard about the circadian rhythm and its profound effects on our bodies.
Humans have evolved along with the natural light cycles of our Earth as it spins and goes around the sun.
There is a reason that your body does better when it sleeps at night time rather than during the day.
It's also very important to get the right amount of sleep, at the right times to keep your immune system strong.
But have you ever considered the circadian rhythm, and when the best time for sports competition might be? It matters very much.
For instance during the time trials at the Tour de France, they will favor the rider riding their bike during the peak circadian rhythm times of the day.
The best time for cardiovascular efficiency and maximum muscle strength would be 5:00 PM.
Your fastest reaction time would be about 3:30 PM in the afternoon.
Therefore if you are in the Olympics and you wanted to break a world record, along with winning the gold medal, that's the time you'd hope that they schedule the race for.
It would be very interesting to go back in history and look at the race times during the day, and see when those records were produced.
If you are competing at sea level on a 70-degree day, and you are running the 100 yard dash sprint, you have the greatest chances for breaking the world record at 3:30 PM.
If you are running a marathon, it would be best if you were at the 18 to 20 mile marker right at about 5 PM.
Interestingly enough, at 2:30 PM is when you would find your best coordination and there are certainly sports require excellent coordination; diving, slalom skiing, or synchronized swimming for instance.
It would appear to me that a study should be funded to go back and look at all the records that were broken in the various sports and see if they correlate with the circadian rhythms, because this is woven through all parts of the human body.
Indeed, when we are talking about the best athletes in the world, competing for world records, then of course every single slight advantage matters.
And therefore circadian rhythm could be just enough advantage to throw the athlete over the top and perhaps set a new world record.
Okay so, maybe those that host the Olympic Games might consider this, and give the athletes a little bit of an advantage by having the events at the best possible peak performance period of the day.
Indeed, I hope you will please consider this, because I didn't notice any major research papers on this topic when I searched Google Scholar, of course it does stand to reason that this theory of mine would be absolutely correct.
Think on it.
Humans have evolved along with the natural light cycles of our Earth as it spins and goes around the sun.
There is a reason that your body does better when it sleeps at night time rather than during the day.
It's also very important to get the right amount of sleep, at the right times to keep your immune system strong.
But have you ever considered the circadian rhythm, and when the best time for sports competition might be? It matters very much.
For instance during the time trials at the Tour de France, they will favor the rider riding their bike during the peak circadian rhythm times of the day.
The best time for cardiovascular efficiency and maximum muscle strength would be 5:00 PM.
Your fastest reaction time would be about 3:30 PM in the afternoon.
Therefore if you are in the Olympics and you wanted to break a world record, along with winning the gold medal, that's the time you'd hope that they schedule the race for.
It would be very interesting to go back in history and look at the race times during the day, and see when those records were produced.
If you are competing at sea level on a 70-degree day, and you are running the 100 yard dash sprint, you have the greatest chances for breaking the world record at 3:30 PM.
If you are running a marathon, it would be best if you were at the 18 to 20 mile marker right at about 5 PM.
Interestingly enough, at 2:30 PM is when you would find your best coordination and there are certainly sports require excellent coordination; diving, slalom skiing, or synchronized swimming for instance.
It would appear to me that a study should be funded to go back and look at all the records that were broken in the various sports and see if they correlate with the circadian rhythms, because this is woven through all parts of the human body.
Indeed, when we are talking about the best athletes in the world, competing for world records, then of course every single slight advantage matters.
And therefore circadian rhythm could be just enough advantage to throw the athlete over the top and perhaps set a new world record.
Okay so, maybe those that host the Olympic Games might consider this, and give the athletes a little bit of an advantage by having the events at the best possible peak performance period of the day.
Indeed, I hope you will please consider this, because I didn't notice any major research papers on this topic when I searched Google Scholar, of course it does stand to reason that this theory of mine would be absolutely correct.
Think on it.
