SPORTS AND ENVIRONMENT
The environment has become, in recent years, a major issue and a controversial area of discussion even in international forums.
The problem seems to be that industrial and technological progress contributes in part to the destruction and deterioration of nature with promoters and detractors on both sides. And of course the issue of environment does not preclude the athlete, not just high performance in the prevailing climate or pollution levels can influence, and in fact, affect the performance but also in similar damages even amateur not only in performance but also directly on health.
The thinning of the ozone layer and pollution of large cities in the highest degree affect the health, fitness and quality of life.
The essential physiological disorder of the inability of the person who exercises to make, transport and use oxygen efficiently, a key element of the exercise. This may be stale air with higher proportions of carbon dioxide molecules that compete directly with oxygen, which affects performance.
The essential physiological disorder of the inability of the person who exercises to make, transport and use oxygen efficiently, a key element of the exercise. This may be stale air with higher proportions of carbon dioxide molecules that compete directly with oxygen, which affects performance.
Studies in athletes who exercised with the same intensity and duration but in different places gave argument to the importance of the environment on human performance. This research compared athletes on the plain, in height, in environments of large cities as well as smoke-free premises and combustion from cars, factories and industries. These towns, in which there are many long-lived and have the great virtue of not having motor mobility being his only means of transport-drawn, have served the purposes of this study whose results have done nothing but reaffirm scientifically what makes sense and is that the influence of an adverse environment can affect mental and physical performance and health of human beings.
There are other environmental factors directly and indirectly involved in athletic performance as well as in health. Among them are the noise and the direct impact of sunlight on whose rays, especially in summer times, it becomes more difficult to maintain good performance beyond being well hydrated, use appropriate clothing or head coverings.
As for noise, saturation and overcoming tolerance capability of the human ear hearing also negatively affects performance. Physiologically, the decibels in excess, especially in acute and unexpected circumstances such as a “honk”, lead to increased levels of blood pressure and heart rate with the problem, either to cause an increased cardiovascular risk of elevated heart rate (tachycardia) achieved early physical fatigue.
Sports medicine, therefore, enters the argument for the preservation of the environment when it comes to performance.