Can you train for endurance sports and still look good naked?

What we have in play here are two mutually exclusive goals: being competitive in an endurance sport and looking good naked.

On muscular soreness…

“Waiting until soreness subsides before doing the next workout is a good way to guarantee that soreness will be produced every time, since you’ll never get adapted to sufficient workload frequency to stop getting sore.” — Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

Don’t let your kids do single sports!

The “experts” are finally coming around to what we multisport freaks have known all along: balance comes from participating in physiological different sports.  Check out this article from the September 1, 2008 edition of the New York Times: Early Focus on One Sport Raises Alarms.

This brings to mind one of my favorite quotes from the [...]

More on my semi-retirement from triathlon

I’ve been trying to write a follow-up to why I have chosen to semi-retire from the sport of triathlon, but I keep getting myself into corners and making the damn thing far more melodramatic than the subject deserves. To keep it relatively short, I just turned on the webcam and started blathering away.

Fat loss & set points

The Einstein of body composition, Lyle McDonald, has started a great series about the physiology vs. psychology when it comes to losing body fat. If you have some time, tune your browsers over the first post in the series: Set points, Settling Points, and Bodyweight regulation, Part 1.

2008 Olympic triathlon coverage

Looks like I was asleep at the switch. The women’s triathlon was night. However, you can still catch the men’s race tonight (Monday) at 7 p.m. West Coast and 10 p.m. East Coast. You can try and catch it streaming online at NBCOlympics.com, but if it’s anything like the coverage of the other events, it [...]

Some words about my semi-retirement…

Allow me to start this off with an apology.
I have been negligent in my responsibilities in keeping this blog current and guilty of providing you with little in the way of interesting content over the last few months. I have failed to live up to my expectations and, most likely, yours. To try and explain [...]

Farewell Randy Pausch

Professor Randy Pausch, the Internet phenomenon and accidental inspirational lecturer, finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer yesterday at the age of 47. In August 2007, he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and was given six months to live. His YouTube video, “The Last Lecture,” was recorded one month after his diagnosis and has been seen by more than 10 million viewers. You need to set aside an hour to watch this.

Saying farewell to triathlon

The time has come to pull myself away from the triathlon lifestyle and the sport of triathlon. This decision, while fairly spontaneous, has been fermenting in my noggin’ for the past several weeks.

On understanding…

I came across this great quote today from a psychology text book: “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.” Benedict Spinoza, A Political Treatise, 1677