Competing With Exercise Technology Technology that we use with exercise used to be our best friend but I am concerned about our developing addiction to this friend. The self-satisfaction of setting personal records (PR’s), competing with friends for bragging rights over a local hill or race, can all be quantified by portable gadgets that measure…
Perception, Athletes, and Everything Athletes perceive things differently. While the world looks outside and fusses about the things that it cannot change, athletes quietly look inward and change the one thing they can – themselves. We love that challenge to push for that extra rep, go beyond the pain, set a new personal record (PR)….
It’s time to drop Body Mass Index (BMI) from our conversations about what makes a healthy body. If for no other reason than it is too wrong too much of the time. The problem with BMI is that it is much like using a scale to tell us if we are Healthy. Five pounds of…
Athletes are weird. We all start off like every other person in the world but something happens in our sport experience that changes us physically, mentally, and emotionally. Our sport stresses our bodies and our minds. For everyone who had tried to do something athletic and reached that point where something inside of us says…
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…
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