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A Belated Welcome to “Multisport Mutant, Jr.”
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A hearty, and belated, congratulation goes out to Steve Ilg and Joy Kilpatrick on the September 11th birth of their beautiful baby girl, Dewachen Catherine Ilg. I foretell a great multisport athlete is in the making. She has two talented, athletic parents and is living in God’s country of Flagstaff. Woe to her sea-level competitors during her first Big Wheel Hill Climb three years from now.
So, where did I come up with the name “Multisport Mutant?”
I didn’t.
That apropos name was given to Ilg from the editors at Outside magazine. The June issue ran a piece on aging fitness studs and included a short piece on Ilg, otherwise known as the Multisport Mutant. Click here to read the article “Aged to Perfection.”
Steve was also bestowed another honor by Outside in their 30th anniversary edition which is on news stands now. His cover shot from the 1992 edition earned him the top vote for the magazine’s worst cover in their three-decade history. Although this photo won’t let you read the interview they did with him about this honor, it’s worth picking up a copy. Gotta love that mullet.
Ilg refers to his philosophy of coaching and training as Wholistic Fitness. From my 14-year experience with Steve and his coaching, I’ve found his counsel to be a great foundation system. By foundation, I mean it can be used as springboard to other training philosophies, or it can be used as your only training system, or you can use it like I have, as the backbone of my Hak System.
After all, there’s more to training than just running, cycling and swimming, right? When I first hooked up with Steve in 1993, he seemed like the perfect coach. We had similar interests in many outdoor pursuits and I was always interested in studying a bit more of the Eastern philosophies from my exposure in the martial arts. The challenge for me was: How to put it all together in one training program?
Many new triathletes find the same challenge of trying to integrate everything that triathlon requires…which is probably why more don’t strength train. It’s not in most of the books or training protocols.
The key, of course, is to find balance. That’s why I look at Steve’s Wholistic Fitness as more of lifestyle training than fitness training.
To see what I mean, watch the seven-minute video that introduces Steve’s training philosophies as well as learn a bit more about the dude who put the multi in multisport.
Find your edge and dance upon it.
hak
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Nice video.
I still pull out my beat up copy of, The Outdoor Athlete and read it over once a year.
I agree that Steve is a great resource and I tell people about him all the time. Now if he would just switch over to Clif Bars ;)
Most Noble Hakado Ru,
unDOUBTEDly your most extraordinary piece yet!
;-)
head bowed,
heart open,
Dharma Blessings to all who read this with their Breath Low, and their Spine Elegant…
ps; Cliff Bars are candy; great for Halloween treats!
Well, Halloween is my favorite holiday… : )
Seriously, I would have made nearly that same comment about Power Bars, so I would be interested in hearing your thoughts about the differences as I’m always open to new ideas.
Yah…I’ll have to go with Kevin on this one. Clif Bars are a bit higher in carbs than I usually like, but they don’t taste as “synthetic” as PowerBars do. Perhaps it’s from having one too many frozen PowerBars on camping trips that has jaded my experience with this high performance taffy.
I used Power Bars for a long time - they were the first and only bar out way back when. I was racing bicycles and Power Bar WAS the food of choice.
I switched to Clif for a change and for a while used both. Clif is located near my home and after visiting a few times, reading Gary’s book Raising the Bar (which you should read if you have not), and wanting to move toward more organic food sources when I could, I made the switch completely to Clif.
Like you Hak, I like the taste better as well, but that’s me.