Why does Galen Rupp sitdown on the track after a race?

This is all you need to know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTi0mWgQGgs

Jed, if you're not careful you could very easily surpass Jon Orange as the dumbest troll on here. Have a care!

He has worms...needs to scoot like a dog to scratch it.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Jed Clampett wrote:

If it isn't bad for you, then why does being active as in your last paragraph feel better, than if you lay down?

Acid is cleared from muscle by the blood. Blood supply depends on vasodilation, which is regulated partly by nitric oxide, which is released by red blood cells in response to shear stress from working muscle. Stop moving and blood flow slows.

This is a review of pretty much every study about hemoglobin and blood gases:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3824146/

Actually CO2 is also a vasodilator too.

puppet on a string wrote:

Jed, if you're not careful you could very easily surpass Jon Orange as the dumbest troll on here. Have a care!

WTF? You wouldn't say that to my face.

I don't believe in drugs, why should I when I know better than that. Why do you? Sheep mentality, that's why.

puppet on a string wrote:

Jed, if you're not careful you could very easily surpass Jon Orange as the dumbest troll on here. Have a care!

He could but it wouldn't be easy.

Be careful, the trolling for you can't last forever.

Jon Orange wrote:

puppet on a string wrote:

Jed, if you're not careful you could very easily surpass Jon Orange as the dumbest troll on here. Have a care!

WTF? You wouldn't say that to my face.

I don't believe in drugs, why should I when I know better than that. Why do you? Sheep mentality, that's why.

Sure I would. What makes you think I wouldn't?

Let me guess, you have tapped into some sort of jedi force that you are about to release upon the World like you did with your revolutionary ideas for training?

You moran.

Jon Orange wrote:

Be careful, the trolling for you can't last forever.

Neither can your moronic thoughts on here.

It's basic physiology. Real physiology. You want to believe in drugs? You want to believe that the humam achievement is improved or enhanced with drugs?

You're crazy and I'm sane.

Maybe because he's tired...

Jon Orange wrote:

It's basic physiology. Real physiology. You want to believe in drugs? You want to believe that the humam achievement is improved or enhanced with drugs?

You're crazy and I'm sane.

Sure, Jon. You should start another thread on this and get blown out of the water. Again.

Jed Clampett wrote:

The thing is Galen Rupp should know whether it's bad to flop to the track right after a 2 mile run! They have discovered that it helps you to bend at the waist when you finish a race. But to just fall to the ground makes absolutely no sense to me.

It can't possibly help you recover faster.

It's like trying to understand people who do tattoos!

You recover all day, every day, whenever you're not running. Look at what Galen does the other 23.999 hours of the day when he's not sitting on the track. You don't recover 10 seconds after a race no matter what you do, that's why it doesn't matter.

Jed Clampett wrote:

No one dares to try to answer this question except to say it does not matter.

Give a scientific reason for why it doesn't matter. For 100s of years we said it matters because the person doing it might black out (faint). Now we say it doesn't matter?

There must be some studies done on this. Hopefully someone on here had some physiology!

Galen Rupp sits down on the track after a race. Galen Rupp does not pass out when he does so. Therefore, we can conclude that sitting down on the track after a race does not cause Galen Rupp to pass out. That's science. We're observing the results of an action directly, and drawing a conclusion.

Jon Orange wrote:

Be careful, the trolling for you can't last forever.

Sure it can. We own the website.

Why is this suddenly about Jon Orange?

Who gets to decide who "won?"

How can I be a troll on my own post???

A few did try to say why sitting down immediately after a race is bad for you. To those guys I am grateful. Ultimately it appears to me that "flopping on the track after a race," is like everything else in this generation. It's about instant gratification.

It's like I said in one of my first reaction posts about this, you cannot understand why people think it's cool to get tattoos either!

Why is this suddenly about Jon Orange?

Who gets to decide who "won?"

How can I be a troll on my own post???

A few did try to say why sitting down immediately after a race is bad for you. To those guys I am grateful. Ultimately it appears to me that "flopping on the track after a race," is like everything else in this generation. It's about instant gratification.

It's like I said in one of my first reaction posts about this, you cannot understand why people think it's cool to get tattoos either!

to "here's science":

My exercise physiologist used to say that what you want to do immediately after exercise is return the body to "Homeostatis Kinestasis," which is the correct balance between acidity and alkalinity (pH).

Arthur Lydiard also said this and was his reason for avoiding hard interval training. He said it caused injury, illness, or staleness. We do see a lot of that in distance running. Some people even run races when they are sick!?!

If it is not optimal to plop yourself down on the track after a long race, do yourself a favor and avoid it. Tell young people not to do it.

Just because Galen Rupp gets away with it while he is young and fit does not mean that it is right for everyone!!! This may come back to bite him someday. It's also foolish to run 5 x mile after running 8:07.4 in the 2 mile run. Craig Virgin commented on that and lots of people agree with him.

Many of you have given me food for thought, and I thank you for that. If you can educate me further, I am open to it.

Watch this video closely. Observe the Lydiard trained Halberg at the finish.

Then try to stop being such a moran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0PuO3pkLVw