Riding for Your Life: How Bicycling Makes a Difference. Bicycling is likely something each of us has participated in at some point in our lives. Whether it was spinning around the neighborhood as a kid, or something done with a little more seriousness as an adult, riding a bike always has a redeeming feature. It’s…
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…
Why use sports drinks? These nifty inventions, besides making their inventors and distributors a handsome profit, do actually help athletes of all levels perform well in their chosen event. So how do they work? Sports drinks, as their marketers trumpet in their advertising, provide replacement fluids and nutrients that are depleted in endurance events. What…
One of the many ironies, though some call them betrayals, that our bodies presents us with as we age, is that recovery from exercise takes longer. We expect that we perform a little slower as time progresses but what a surprise it is that it takes so much longer to bounce back from higher intensity…
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