Friday, September 17, 2010

Listing The Bone "Effects" Of Speed Work

My list from last post of processes operating in the cannon bone over the course of several days following equine speed work:
bone glue protein increases in volume and buttressing effect.
denseness increases due to contraction of atomic structures of the mineral lattice.
fibrils(and osteons) moved or aligned into ideal directions.
fibrils adhere to increase density and calcification
On going calcification (as a constant)
To this list we add the concepts of rearrangement and bounce back that have been discussed extensively. The force of the speed work will operate on bone nano structures to rearrange materials which post race by inertia and other forces will bounce back to pre-race position unless reinforced by subsequent speed work.
Seems rather neat: Force of speed work + list = rearrangement to greater FR. Rearrangement x frequency (of speed work) = rate of bounce back. Less bounce back is good. More bounce back is bad. And therefore more frequency is good, less, bad. Less bounce back over time will cause permanent beneficial rearrangement.
With the processes identified and explained, at least to the extent possible, can it now be calculated how often we must do speed work to minimally achieve FR. I believe so, next post.
Training: The water deluge is back. Another week of training lost due to constant rain. The best we've been able to do this week i walk under tack, which has been done about 15 min per day. Hopefully tonight things will be dry enough to recommence.

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