Most of us have heard that if we train at altitude, we can have a great boost in performance at sea level. While many elite athletes will train at higher elevation levels, there is no guarantee that training at altitude will boost your performance. This has led to a variety of [...]

If your anything like me, you probably throw a slab of beef on the grill, then give it the ol’ eye ball test to see when its ready. Not smart. Undercooked meat can lead to severe illness. With summer upon us and the official bbq season heading into full roar, I thought this would be [...]

Rachael Ray would be proud. I have started to become somewhat of an endurance foodie. I have to you see, in order to keep from getting bored, sick or bonking while cranking out these 16 and building hours of training each week. I am more than ever becoming creative about what I eat and drink [...]

Not cool sir Every gym has at least one. Yup, “that guy” or “that girl” that is continuing to annoy fellow gym goers all over the world. I was at the gym tonight running on the treadmill next to “that guy”, and decided this post is in order. If you don’t want to be “that [...]

                                                                                    Marty Kinsey As runners, we push our bodies to extremes. Our sport has been dubbed “the one that is the other sports’ punishment.” We push and we push. We sacrifice and we sacrifice. Then, the day arrives for us to perform in a race that will (in our minds) be the [...]

So here I am, 26 weeks out from my Ironman race and the volume of long slow paced endurance base is building. I started at 10 hours a week of only running and riding. By last week I was up to 15 hours of swimming, riding and run training. Basically it has reached the level [...]

New studies show that vitamin D is a key substance in fighting cancer. Cancer of the colon is one of the main cancers vitamin D helps, by destroying cancer cells that could be growing there. Breast and uterine cancer can also be prevented by the proper amount of D. Vitamin D lowers inflammations of the [...]

6 weeks into our journey together, you are probably getting a sense that I don’t take life too seriously. Yes, I am an average Jane excouchpotato who happens to be training for the toughest 140.6 mile race of her life, but my motto is “if it ain’t fun then I’m not going.” However, I don’t [...]

In the same respect that Crocodile Dundee said, “That’s not a knife, that’s a knife,” I tell you the same about what some call “salads”. Technically the would-be mugger in the movie had a knife, but compared to Crocodile Dundee’s knife, it wasn’t much. See video below. It may be called a salad on the menu, but [...]

How do you get back to your best so you can put your body through it all over again? Chris Randolph, a professional decathlete, knows all about training hard and trying to find the best ways to get back to form. The two-time NCAA National Champion in and 2012 Olympic hopeful not only trains hard, [...]