Wednesday, December 16, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SPORTS: Sisters
is in the OHA9s
<red zone=
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the year stems from the hope
that indoor activities will be
able to resume by that point.
This season will run through
June 27.
At this point, state play-
offs and championships
remain in the plans.
Sisters High School
Athletic Director Gary
Thorson understands the
move, but wishes the cir-
cumstances could work out
better for student athletes.
<I am sure all of the ath-
letes and coaches are disap-
pointed that the seasons were
pushed back and shortened
once again but under the cir-
cumstances it was the best
option,= he said. <No one
wants to see anybody lose a
season again like last spring,
and this gives all the sports
the best chances for getting
the chance to compete. As
I talk with our coaches and
other coaches and athletic
directors around the state,
the consensus is something
is better than nothing and
everyone will do what they
can to give our kids a great
experience.=
There are challenges
woven into the new calen-
dar, including dealing with
weather conditions in Sisters
Country. For example, cross
country and soccer might be
battling significant winter
conditions at the start of their
season.
Thorson, as a coach him-
self, understands the chal-
lenges as well as anyone and
hopes everyone can continue
to make the best of a very
difficult situation.
He said, <This is very
hard on everyone involved in
our programs as well as the
parents, but again we have
to keep reminding ourselves
delayed and shortened sport
seasons pale in comparison
to other things that people
are going through right
now.=
Thorson doesn9t want
to see kids walk away from
I want to see kids join
teams and be involved.
For the sake of our kids,
I hope people in our
community and leaders
throughout the state will
do their part in helping
to get the kids back in
the classrooms and
on the fields.
— Gary Thorson
sports because of the con-
stant changes and shortened
seasons, especially because
athletics is one way for kids
to cope with the social and
emotional challenges every-
one is facing due to restric-
tions that have dated back
to last March. He said that
training, following local
OHA guidelines, is still
allowed through that start of
the <fall= season in February.
Sisters remains in the red
zone per OHA, which is the
most restricted level when it
comes to safe-training guide-
lines. According to Thorson,
coaches are contacting team
members to help them under-
stand what is available and
allowed.
<All of the kids in our
district are hurting without
school as well and we need to
turn the corner on this whole
thing as soon as we can,=
he said. <I want to see kids
join teams and be involved.
For the sake of our kids, I
hope people in our commu-
nity and leaders throughout
the state will do their part in
helping to get the kids back
in the classrooms and on the
fields.=
The OSAA also governs
activities including choir
and band competitions and
has not defined those sea-
sons. The executive board
is delaying that decision in
the hope that students will
be allowed to be indoors in
time to prepare and complete
a season in the final part of
the school year.
Fit For
Sisters
Andrew Loscutoff
Columnist
Muscle memory
can save your
physique
Exercise enthusiasts
always fear losing the
physicality they9ve accu-
mulated meticulously with
sweat equity over months
or years of constant strug-
gle under the resistance of
gravity.
Perhaps they9ve suc-
cumbed to injury, have a
long vacation, or 4 worst
of all 4 are summoned for
jury duty. Fear not, there9s
a phenomenon that will
delight those anxious about
losing time in the gym.
Muscle memory is
a topic that many gym
coaches and skilled learners
talk about.
<It9s like riding a bike,=
they9ll say. Learn the skill
and return to it with ease.
What about muscles9 adap-
tation to exercise and how
they will return to those
adaptations after some
time off? Without the same
stimulus a muscle or mus-
cular systems will detrain
rather quickly. A two-weeks
lag brings drops in maxi-
mal strength; four weeks
noticeable size; eight
weeks and you could for-
get those muscles were ever
there.
However, during all the
time it took lifting weights
to build the muscles, some-
thing else occurred. Muscle
cells have nuclei, which are
kind of like operating sys-
tems for the muscles9 physi-
ological processes. They
help with protein synthesis
into new muscle tissue and
regenerative effects. A more
robust set of nuclei poses a
greater ability to adapt to
weight training.
When a person under-
goes a period of weight
training they develop more
muscle nuclei. These nuclei
are respondent to weight
training and are under the
guise of hyperreactivity to
weight training. This means
they will return to form
much quicker than the time
it took to gain in the first
place.
Take, for example, a
19
person who undergoes an
operation: If they have
been a lifter in the gym,
developing numerous mus-
cle-building programmed
nuclei, they will recover so
much quicker than a non-
exerciser. It9s amazing to
see how fast some profes-
sional athletes rebound after
injury.
The timeline one is under
for these adaptations has
two factors. First, the actual
nuclei stick around for up
to three months. There is
however a genetic phe-
nomenon: This is where the
DNA of a person9s muscles
switches to producing more
after being in a period of
constant exercise for years.
This is why an athlete may
always have a more <physi-
cal= look to them. In studies
of Olympians from genera-
tions ago, their muscularity
was very different from the
Average Joe9s.
Fear not if extended time
away from fitness is a card
life deals out. Muscle can
be regained quickly. If you
are less-than-motivated to
strength-train, take these
lessons and consider the
implications. Next time
an injury, surgery, or sim-
ply winter season comes,
will muscles be lost for-
ever? Know that a strong
body is a capable and able
body, otherwise its decay is
inevitable.
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