The Pyramid (of Maximum Results) - Training, Recovery, Nutrition

Edited by the Dotto: Andrea Dotteschini

Everyone knows by heart the ingredients that make up the magic triangle of results in the field of sport: training - rest - nutrition.

It is repeated like a mantra in gyms: from instructors to clients, from muscular and experienced clients to novice ones and from the latter to their mothers, who do their utmost to cook a different meal than the rest of the family for the child who , for sport, she decides to lift weights for a fee (always better than being a drifter, the parent usually thinks).
Everyone understands that training hard is important, even the most negligent of newbies sees that there is a correlation between weights and muscles. It is nutrition, a factor not directly observable, that is often underestimated by young people who, bombarded by media and advertising, are afraid of overeating and gaining weight, especially those who have signed up in the gym also to lose weight.
Not even rest is a variable that is taken too much into consideration and is usually reduced to whether or not you feel post-workout pain (doms).
Sometimes, however, it happens to meet someone who - while saying to train well, eat properly and rest 100% - exhibits a physique that does not demonstrate this dedication (perhaps because it is not really dry or because it has absolutely not grown muscularly). Generally, these people give explanations such as: "I always had that layer of belly, it will never go away", or: "More than that I don't get big, unfortunately it's genetic".
Now let's say that these guys are really sincere and that they are not part of particular cases (for example that our friend with the "bacon" was not obese), how can we explain this situation?
The answer could lie in that variable that unites all 3 sides of the triangle: TIME. It transforms our beloved triangle into a pyramid with CONSTANCE at the top.
The shorter the sides dedicated to time, the lower the pyramid will be and the lower the results we get.

Let's go back to the example of our friend who can't remove his belly and let's go into the anamnesis; we will probably find out that from Monday to Friday I go straight into my diet like a Mister Olympia in the weeks before the match but: "Friday? I went to the disco and I got a 3 mojito. Next week, Luca is having his birthday at home. his and has already bought a couple of kegs of beer! ".
In the second case, the constancy in the "training" variable could be lacking. Remember the guy who crashes in the gym without too many results? "No, in summer I usually give up, it's too hot to train".

I hope that with these simple examples you may have understood that the triangle of maximum performance is a concept, in my opinion, a bit short-sighted as it does not take into account the time factor and this can lead to an "incorrect evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of the your efforts.
If we then leave the field of gyms, failure to include consistency among the primary factors for achieving results certainly leads to failure in the sports field and the failure of the program drawn up by the coach.
In sport practiced at a competitive level, in fact, constancy is an essential prerogative to achieve certain objectives and, even more upstream, it is the basis of the relationship of trust between the athlete and the trainer.
Whether you play sports for well-being, for beauty or to become a champion, you must not transcend being constant. In doing so, no result can be unattainable!