I love this time of year! One reason is that is gets warm finally so both my open water swims and early morning bike rides get far less painful. Reason two is that I’m far enough along into my triathlon training season now to really see and feel some progress. Three is that my fellow [...]
Runners come into my office with a variety of different lower extremity and leg issues. Please understand that just because you have pain in your knee, it does not necessarily mean the problem is based in your knee. That is just part of the way your body is adapting to the loads that you put upon [...]
Most people will figure out that they will have different strengths as a racer. Some people have great stamina and aerobic capacity to push a pace deep into a race, others have strong fast-twitch muscle fibers that allow them to kick strong towards the end of a race. Each of these [...]
An apple a day may send you the doctor’s way! The apple is the dirtiest of the dirty dozen. Each year the Environmental Working Group (EWG) examines data collected from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration and determines which fruits and vegetables will make the Dirty Dozen or the Clean [...]
San Francisco— Environmental and consumer organizations filed a legal petition today asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to implement stricter regulations to protect women, children and people who eat fish from mercury in seafood. The petition seeks a requirement that seafood sellers post warning signs about the danger of mercury in fish and seeks [...]
It’s a Texas sized life that only “The Heartbreak Kid” could lead. The former WWF and WWE wrestling super star, Shawn Michaels, recently came on our radio show and talked candidly about his wild ride so far. Paul and myself are hardly what you would call wrestling fans, but we definitely respect the fitness aspect of it [...]
How about the idea of a ‘Match.com’ for life mentors instead of just hot dates? Silly? No, because there is so much to be said about having experience and being willing to share that wisdom with others. Many times throughout my life I have been blessed to have mentors at work, in friendship and in [...]
From a fun amateur chemistry experiment in college, to a very successful and serious sports drink that a few sluggers on the Boston Red Sox are fueling up with. That’s just part of the Fluid sports drink story. The recovery drink first started in a salad bowl of Richard Smith’s college house in San Luis Obispo, [...]
This last rainy weekend really put a soggy damper on my Ironman training agenda when it kept me from my long 75mile ride on Saturday afternoon. Instead of joyfully spinning out my legs and lungs in the fresh air, I dusted off my indoor bike trainer and pulled out some training DVDs then rode virtual [...]
We all know the first rule in loosing weight or maintaining weight is to burn more calories than we take in. The best way to do that is cardio exercise to burn calories, along with resistance training to build muscle. Replacing muscle with fat increases your metabolism, making it easier to lose weight. Our personal [...]
