Cycling teaches us plenty. How to take care of ourselves. How to take care of others. How to handle change. Some of us just pick up the learning more readily than others. We can rationalize, avoid, and attack the things that we don’t want to do, but the natural world eventually wins out. Sort of…
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Atrial Fibrillation and the Endurance Athlete
As a 58 year old competitive cyclist, Dr. Alan Bragman was out for a training ride when he didn’t feel well, so decided to call it a day and pedal easy on home. Then came the shortness of breath and chest pains that got him off of the bike and eventually into the hospital. The…
Cross Training: The Payoff For A Winter’s Worth of Work
Wanting to get better and stronger in your sport has produced many training regimens over the years and cross training has a solid track record, if you’ll pardon the pun, of coming across with the promised goods. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, it is dead easy and a breeze to integrate into your…
Resolved: Starting That Exercise Program
Still have that nagging New Years resolution hanging in the back of your mind? Feeling a little guilty maybe? Well good news for you procrastinators! There is no such thing as being too late to start-up your exercise program. Are you a former athlete who hasn’t participated in longer-than-you-care-to-remember? Re-entry into your sport (that probably…
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