Meet Paul. Paul is a successful consultant, part-time single dad, and a self-proclaimed couch potato turned ultra-marathoner and adventure racer. He called me up in December 2013 to tell me about an intense week he had planned just two months in the future: a 24+ hour/80k...
Strength training has been on my brain for these past couple of months. In prepping my own strength program for endurance athletes, I sought out my old strength coach Michael Labovsky. Michael introduced me to powerlifting back in 2009. It had been a little while...
Burning lungs, lactate-filled legs, Z5 heart rate, the ‘heaves’: discomfort is part of the game. Most of us have experienced one or more of these symptoms at one point or another – sometimes all too often - during both training and racing. In training, physical...
Bike training in the city is often a mission. While true that the truly precise and accurate training can really only be done on an indoor trainer, this triathlete has had enough indoor saddle-time this past winter. With summer in full, sweaty swing, it’s a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I coach. I train. I am a husband. I am a son. I am a dog owner. I am a small business owner. I don’t have enough hours in the day. Then I think about some of my clients and how much they are able to...
Here they are folks - in one convenient location. The five X3 best practice tips for foam rolling: 1. Work the chain. A tender spot in a specific muscle calls for some foam roller love. Remember, however, that muscle groups work together. Make sure that you travel...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/1"][us_image image="1030" align="center" size="full" link=""][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Treadmill is a dirty word among runners and their subset of attention deficit brethren – triathletes. Most of us cringe at its mere mention, eyeing it with derision as a tool of the gym rat: the dude who has...
Do you squat? Do you deadlift? You really should. You wouldn’t know it by looking out the window – thank you unseasonable warm front - but fall is here. With fall, comes the end of a season for most of us in the triathlon world –...
If you’ve spent any time with triathletes – especially the gear loving, data obsessed, analysis junkies like me – you’ll have heard a lot said about aerodynamics. Triathlon discussion boards are laden with often heated discussion on what is aero and what is not, how...
A curious unintended consequence of triathlon training is peeing freely – often in public. Still with me? Allow me to explain. I listen to a lot of economics podcasts. I’m not an economist, nor am I educated as one. I just find the logic of economic deduction...