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« on: November 07, 2010, 07:04:51 pm »
another interesting concept here, is this.. we are looking at this from the micro level, but, say we look at it on the macro level. It becomes Genetic Programming, using evolutions and populations.
The population, such as our community of forum users (athlete structures), comes here with their own training histories, injury histories, etc.. Each user generally creates their own evaluation functions, assessment functions, etc, the degree to which each user does this varies with experience etc.. But basically, these are random "individuals" making up the population, the degree of variety exists, and eventually becomes refined/phased out after each evolution through the training process..
For example, we may have 40 athletes in the population, utilizing 40 different training ideologies.. After evolution #1, each athlete will have different results, the athletes with the best results tend to continue what they are doing, while the athletes with the worst results tend to incorporate ideologies based on what the best are using.. Evolution after evolution, the OVERALL asessment/evaluation/trainingFunc/filters are enhanced on a macro level, which each athlete incorporates on the micro level.. So basically, after years and years of evolution, this forum will have some pretty refined functions & filters regarding performance training, that will get people to where they need to go ALOT faster than a forum that people frequent only to "train to train"..
The key here is learning from each individual, taking into account their differences, similarities, etc, then creating branches in the assessment/eval/training functions so that each person goes down the optimal code path.
This is actually what is happening, slowly..
This forum now becomes the evolutionary algorithm of athletic performance enhancement, that is, as more & more journals are created and kept up with, it will happen.
The entire s&c industry is an evolutionary algorithm, but the problem is, so much scam/fluff has been injected, that the branches most people take, lead to failure, which then makes the s&c evolutionary algorithm a DEVOLUTIONARY algorithm. WTF. We need to demonstrate the optimal paths to success, over and over again, in order to make a dent in this massive population.
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