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Review: PhyoBerry

 

About 5 years ago, phytochemicals were the newest word in the health industry world.  Boasting its life saving qualities that will save humans from a common cold to cancer.  Now, with more research being done, phytochemicals have lost a bit of their steam. 

Before the product review, what are phytochemicals?  Phtyo means from [...]

Review: Steaz Energy Drink

Labelled as “Organic Fuel” for the mind, body and soul, Steaz Energy drink, is just another can full of sugar except costs twice as much ($1.99).  This product can be found in the organics section at your grocery store.  Over 80% of the ingredients are organic so there allowed to market it as such.  However, [...]

Review: Tanita Weigh Scales

 

Tanita was the first company to design and manufacture body fat monitoring scales for in-home use. The technology you get when you buy a home scale is based on the same advanced technology found in the professional body composition analyzers used by doctors, medical centers, professional athletic teams, fitness clubs and personal trainers.  Tanita continue [...]

training trips: back from Va

I just returned from sunny Wintergreen, Virginia, soaking up the rays and doing some cycling. Because there were so many things I could talk about, I got some people to send me questions asking about the trips particulars.

what was the format (was it planned or wung)?

- we had a [...]

Book Review: Racing Weight

Finished Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald last week.  Picked it up in California so I’m not sure if it is available in Canada yet.

The book is about how to eat (no kidding) for a better performance.  Fitzgeralds writing style is a bit wordy but I think anyone could get into it.  That [...]

Drink This

All of us have come to that point in a race where we turn to the aid stations for fluids.  I’d say 99% of the time it’s Gatorade.  You do a silent prayer that the person who mixed it followed the directions.  If not you either get a syrup that makes your head spin [...]

Training Logs - Which do you prefer?

You might remember that one of my chosen blogs is Steve Stenzel’s “Steve in a Speedo?!“? Well he’s been doing a series called “Does it Work?” reviewing tools that triathletes use on a day-to-day basis. Yesterday’s entry was Steve’s review of four online training logs … Beginner Triathlete, Buckeye Outdoors, Daily Mile, and Training [...]

Book Review: Off the Deep End

I found this book while doing Christmas shopping for my Mom.  In our family it seems like a lot of the literature that we pass around has been about running.  Well I wanted to change that.   So I started searching for a swim novel.  Enter the book “Off the deep end” by W. [...]

Fave Multisport Blogs

We all have our favourite “go to” sites when we’re in need of information – bike setup figures, swim techniques, new interval workouts – and they fill a very important role in the 21st Century athlete’s Big Bag o’Tricks, but what about blogs?

For me, there is a pretty hard set of criteria [...]

Dog in a Hat

Dog in a hat: An American Bike Racer’s Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium

Written by: Joe Parkin

This book is just like the title states, a true story of one mans insight into the world of cycling set in the 1980s.  Joe Parkin gives no BS into what [...]