Part of what I love about the Denver area is that it’s home to numerous very good athletes and coaches–particularly of the endurance variety. We’re also not far from Colorado Springs which is home to both the Olympic Training Center and the headquarters for the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA), one of the top…
Guest blog post from Mike Piet Mike Piet is a former client of mine and a very good friend. He’s also an elite-level triathlete, multiple-Ironman finisher, participant in many strange and grueling adventure races, marathons and all types of long bike excursions. We speak often of endurance activities, weight training, nutrition, and mobility and restoration…
This past Sunday I had the pleasure of running the Colorado Half-Marathon in Ft. Collins, CO. My official results are as follows: Final time: 01:47:26 at a 00:08:12 pace. Overall place: 204 out of 1529 in the HALF MARATHON. Division placing: 13 out of 68 in class M35-39. I’m not too terribly disappointed in those…
The marathon is close and I’m feeling it. What does that phrase mean? I’m worn out! A summer of hard training, long runs, fast runs, a brutal trail race and the big 20 mile run Saturday-before-last means the organism that is me is feeling shagged out. My sleep patterns have been off a little lately,…
In Part I of this post I gave evidence that training beyond our limits or “training to failure” may not be the best strategy for enhancing athletic performance (or just every day performance for that matter.) Training smarter but not necessarily harder is a concept worth considering. The correct amount of training at the correct…
Wow! There’s a lot of good reading out there on the health & fitness front. I can’t comment on all of it but I’ll refer you to several articles that may pique your interest. I’ll get back to recovery strategies for endurance athletes later. Protein Sports Drinks Proven to Give Best Performance: This is pertinent…
Monday’s New York Times Fitness & Nutrition section recently featured an article titled Athletes take massage into their own hands. The article discusses the benefits to athletes of massage but more specifically we learn about self-massage methods and the tools for the job. The article states that ideally hard training athletes should get a massage once…
A day of severe gluttony is headed our way like a runaway chuck wagon. Therefore, how about a discussion of two articles on obesity? For the Overweight, Bad Advice by the Spoonful was published back in August of this year in the New York Times Health Guide. The other, Energy Gap Useful Tool for Successful…
The Sept. 16 New York Times Personal Best column discusses the benefits of group running. Several top runners and coaches are quoted as saying performance improves among athletes who train in groups. Advocates of group training say that athletes train harder with a group compared to training alone. Tim Nokes explains in Nokes’ Lore of…