A lot of sports enthusiasts are now into endurance sports like triathlons and the most common challenge they encounter is overcoming pain from training and the sports itself. This is their basic challenge.
According to The Global Mail, The University of Kent hosted an Endurance Research Conference that shows many experimental results that offer the conflicting side of the importance of pain and what role it really plays. The only important point now is it's something that can't be avoided.
This research featured one marathon enthusiast, Alexis Mauger. He joined the London Marathon and on the 30th Kilometer, he looked like he was in bad shape. He had blood on his chest and face because of his nosebleed. He also had a blister on his left foot and lost a toenail on the right foot and of course on top of that, is the pain her felt. Mauger, who is an exercise scientist, recalls that with intense exercise, a deep muscle burn can be felt. If one continues to endure, it will continuously spread to the whole body.
Thomas O'Leary and Martyn Morris of Oxford Brookes University had another study. Their study showed that regular exercise increases tolerance for pain. This gave a more intriguing thought to most people. A previous study said that training doesn't change the pain sensitivity and now it says that it does increase pain tolerance.
Both researchers volunteered for a six weeks cycling training. They joined continuous bouts at a moderate pace lasting an hour or more, or a set of six high-intensity intervals lasting five minutes each. In the end they were both fitter, however, the high-intensity workouts showed 45 percent improvement in pain tolerance which was measured by a tightened tourniquet on their forearm. This simply means that getting fit doesn't improve pain tolerance. Thus, repeated endurance of pain seems like you're training your mind as well as your muscles.
Walter Staiano of the Danish Institute of Elite Sport said that not all the unpleasant sensation you feel during exercise isn't always pain. This unpleasant sensation and emotional experience with potential tissue damage due is called Pain. They tested the pain tolerance of volunteers making them put their hands in an ice water for a long time. They had a pain scale of 1 to 10 and most participants gave up when they reached the highest point of 10. However, when they did the cycling test the exhaustion and pain reached an average of 4.8 before they gave up.
