Vor einigen Wochen schrieb Christoph Reich, Sportmediziner und Rheumatologe in Zürich, einen kleinen Beitrag für die NZZ. Es handelt sich dabei um einen Artikel, der dem zentralen Nervensystem und damit dem Gehirn eine ganz zentrale Stellung für herausragende sportliche Leistungen ebenso wie Verletzungen beimisst, eine Seltenheit im Bereich der Sportmedizin, deshalb möchte ich den Text hier möglichst ungekürzt widergeben. Ich habe selbst einen Artikel mit dem Titel »Auch der Kopf braucht Ruhe« geschrieben und freue mich natürlich über Unterstützung.
»Sportunfälle sind auf den ersten Blick häufig unerklärlich. Zu vielschichtig ist das Zusammenspiel zwischen Muskeln, Bändern und Knochen, zu komplex ist aber vor allem die Steuerung durch das Gehirn. Für den einzelnen Sportler gibt es trotzdem klare Ansatzpunkte, um Unfälle zu vermeiden. Bei allen kontrollierten Interventionsprogrammen hat sich gezeigt, dass der Verbesserung der koordinativen Fähigkeiten oberste Priorität zukommt. Die Gelenkstrukturen sind zwar vorgegeben, der eine hat straffere, der andere lockerere und damit verletzlichere Bänder, daran kann keiner etwas ändern. Wie gut die Muskulatur jedoch die Gelenkbewegung kontrolliert, das kann trainiert werden.
Zentral ist die Rolle eines konsequenten Einlaufens. Meist denkt man da ans »Aufwärmen« von Gelenken und Muskeln. Noch viel wichtiger ist aber der Aspekt »Aufweckens« des ganzen Steuerungssystems: Beim Einlaufen werden die Nervenverbindungen zwischen Hirn und Muskulatur, aber auch zwischen Hirn und Gelenkstrukturen aktiviert und »auf Sendung« geschaltet. Das reduziert die Reaktionszeiten, und die Muskelfasern, die eben noch auf der Ersatzbank gedöst haben, sind nun wach und einsatzbereit. Continue Reading →
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According to the German weather forecast a rainy weekend seems to lie ahead of us. Perhaps, you find some time to brood over potatoes, one of the staple foods of the world. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an herbaceous annual that grows up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall and produces a tuber – also called potato – so rich in starch that it ranks as the world’s fourth most important food crop, after maize, wheat and rice. The potato belongs to the Solanaceae – or “nightshade”- family of flowering plants, and shares the genus Solanum with at least 1,000 other species, including tomato and eggplant. S. tuberosum is divided into two, only slightly different, subspecies: andigena, which is adapted to short day conditions and is mainly grown in the Andes, and tuberosum, the potato now cultivated around the world, which is believed to be descended from a small introduction to Europe of andigena potatoes that later adapted to longer day lengths.
One more post on innovation from innovation playground. I think this slideshow gives you some keys on how detect your blind spots.
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Here one of the core statements: »Innovation as strategy implies breaking free from taken-for-granted assumptions about how each players compete and their intra- and inter-organizational ways of working.«
Yesterday I received an email that quite hit me and brought my motivation down to a rather low level. This morning, fairly smashed in my brain, I started to browse my news feed and found a post on Marketing & Innovation Blog that encouraged me in somehow. It talks about what it means to be innovative and to create prototypes. Today’s markets are spilled with brands and products, similarities and even more copies are flooding the marketplaces. The issue especially for small businesses is how to create the differences because difference for me is identical with be being noticed, with perception.
My experience made me think a lot about the so-called white space. It appears to me that our century, our western hemisphere got an immense problem to deal with breaches. We lost the ability to deal with white space, be it that we cannot keep silent anymore or that we don’t want to take risks by exploring unknown territories. Instead we are continuously (no pause here either) producing more of the same. Biestmilch’s history is the one of continuously entering white spaces. You can also call it a pioneer’s work. The substance unknown, the market a gigantic white area, the history and textbooks blank, the customer everywhere an nowhere. Therefore, I know it joyfully and painfully what it means to deal with white space.
If you are interested in marketing and innovation read about white space management.
Vier Tage haben wir auf Mallorca bei Hannes-Hawaii-Tours im Triathlon-Trainingslager verbracht. Wir hatten wunderschönes Wetter und wurden herzlichst empfangen. Hier ein Ausschnitt aus unseren audiovisuellen Aufzeichnungen.
After an extremely short night, today has been a tough day, work has been a tenacious not very fruitful process. Only at 3:00 am we came home from the island of Mallorca after yet another biestmilch mission. Four days we spent at Hannes’ training camp to introduce biestmilch and the biest booster to triathletes. We had a successful but tiresome stay. A lot of the guys have been sick. So, we were lucky, couldn’t have met a better condition for biestmilch to proove its efficacy.
After a day suffering in my office 
I just browsed my rss feed and popped into a sketch of Hugh McLeod visualising our way of working, not today, but usually we try to proceed this way. This sketch really stands for our way of thinking, working and acting. And whenever I’m tired and exhausted these sketches help me out. This is the case today again 
, thanks to Hugh.
