Etköhän sää itekkin tiedä että vertaaminen joukkuelajiin ja Tom Bradyn paikalla pelaavaan on hiukan huono.
Faktahan on kuitenkin se että natuna 42 vuotias ei voi olla mitenkään fyysisesti primessään, että vaikka "lajitietoa" onkin ehtinyt karttua enemmän, niin fyysiset ominaisuudet antaa taas tasoitusta nuoremmille ottelijoille. Lihasvoima on parhaimmillaan jossain alle 30 vuotiaana ja 40+ kaikki on selvää alamäkeä. Ironman kisoissa on ilmeisesti vanhin primetime ja sielläkin se on "vain" 32-34. Mutta onhan se kiinnostavaa kuinka Christiano Ronaldo (36 tekee vielä maaleja Manussa), Roger Federer(nyt 40 mutta vielä 37 vuotiaana voitti australian grand slammin)
Jos MMA olisi yhtä suosittua ja harrastettua kuin jalkapallo, niin en usko että Glover voisi olla edes haastajana LHW divarissa mutta mukavahan tuo oli nähdä noinkin mukavan miehen vievän vyön itselleen näinkin pitkän ajan jälkeen ja onhan tällaisia tuhkimotarinoita nähty nyrkkeilyssäkin (Foreman voitti HW vyön 45 vuotiaana, joten Teixeirahan on ihan junnu vielä) ja onhan se mukava tietää että itselläkin on vielä iän puolesta mahiksia voittaa UFC:ssä vyö.
A
study in the
International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, computed the lifts of elite powerlifters (competitors in the World Championships from 2003-17) and weightlifters (competitors in the World Championships and Olympic Games from 1998-2017) to determine when they were at their best.
The average peak age for powerlifters was 35 and weightlifters was 26. The nine-year gap between the two barbell sports is likely because of the greater emphasis on reflexes and athleticism in weightlifting, with powerlifting being a better overall test of one-rep strength.
We determined that the average age of World’s Strongest Man medalists was 30 (29.64).
When does strength peak for people who train with weights? We looked at the evidence to reveal the answers.
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The careers of more than 1,150 swimmers and track-and-field athletes, as well as the accomplishments of nearly a hundred chess grandmasters, were scrutinized based on the event they were participating in, as well as their age and how old they were when they established any world records. In all, more than 11,200 performances among these athletes made it into the data set, and the results confirm that there reaches an age – a physiological tipping point, if you will – when athletes start to experience
an irreversible downturn in their abilities.
Generally speaking, athletes start to see physical declines at age 26, give or take.
(This would seem in line with the long-standing notion in baseball that players tend to hit their peak anywhere from ages 27 to 30.) For swimmers, the news is more sobering, as the mean peak age is 21. For chess grandmasters, participating in an activity that relies more than mental acuity and sharpness rather than brute, acquired physicality, the peak age is closer to 31.4. For setting world records in a given athletic discipline, the mean age is 26.1, so all you sports-minded thirty-somethings hoping to still see your name published in the Guinness Book may have already missed your mark.
French researchers have found that athletes' peak performance actually follows a rigid physiological law. Generally, most enter their athletic prime somewhere between 20 and 30, before undergoing an "irreversible" decline. (They even pinpoint when chess grandmasters start going over the hill.)
www.wired.com
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