Where will training innovations come from? Will training in
the future resemble training in the past or will it look significantly
different? Is innovation in training even necessary? If innovation and change
in training
do occur what will those changes be? What will they look like? I have no answers to these
questions, that’s for sure, I broke my crystal ball years ago and the Ouija board is not working. In doing research for a project I am working on the past few weeks I have been
struck by how similar what we do today is to what was done thirty, forty, even
fifty years ago. Certainly we have progressed, but how far? We know more in terms of sport science, facilities are better, performances appear to be better so how can we get better? Will science lead the way or will it be the practitioner? Will it be technology driven or human factors driven? What will training look like in 2050?
3 Comments
Joe DiFeo
I don’t know Vern. Many teams at all levels still don’t max warm-up and as a pre-game stategy don’t understand when and how and how much.
joe donahue
Science will lead the way…..some of the time.For most,the innovation will be an accidental discovery by the athlete by themselves or with an observant coach.Both of them asking ,”I wonder if….?” Many mistakes will occur, many will follow those mistakes as mythology like they do now. Innovation will come as a wonderful by product of looking in the wrong direction and getting a result by mistake that works.
Tim
hopefully the humans will be driving and everything else will assist.