It’s quickly approaching that time of year. Time to start gathering your thoughts and ideas towards success of your upcoming season. All I can say is, “Giddy Up!” I love this time of year, but I’m often approached by many athletes with questions of how to plan for a successful and stress-free calendar year. IfRead more
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Eat a balanced diet New Year’s Eve. Make sure you eat regular meals and snacks in order to satiate your appetite prior to any party where you’d be tempted to indulge in less-than-healthy alternatives. Some feel it is wiser starve themselves earlier in the day and indulge at night. unfortunately, those people can expect someRead more
Quite simply, I have never been confronted by a more constant and seemingly endless debate than the use of power data vs heart rate (HR) to classify the intensity of efforts on the bike. For me, as a physiologist, I can easily see it both ways, thus building arguments towards the implementation of both variablesRead more
“Go hard or go home”. How many times have you heard that pedantic statement? Probably too many to count, I’m sure. Normally, the mouth from which that originates is situated about a foot above a body clad in Under-Armor holding a Gatorade in one hand and some brightly decorated protein bar in the other. YouRead more
When one considers a strategy for supplying the body with what it needs for any type of sustained activity (by sustained, I mean activity in excess of 4hrs), it seems almost second-nature to include complex foods, rather than something more basic. The rationale for choices like this among the endurance athlete population is ubiquitous. IfRead more
Cyclists are a different breed, I grant you, but until you hear them (alright, US — you got me…) speak about their sport, you never realize the magnitude of departure from the norm. Just one conversation reveals this complex and systematic language packed with phrase after acronym whose meaning only draws credibility from the toneRead more