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Something is better nothing

Let’s not make things complicated this year. Want to lose weight? Get to the gym. Want to run a 10K? Start running. Want to bicycle faster? Ride faster. This post is honestly one of the easiest to follow; I’m toning down my exercise physiology lingo.

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Figure 1 – As easy as it gets, [...]

Build the House

Over the past 2 months (has it been that long) I’ve been yammering about ‘Building the house’. My analogy was that training is just like building a house. What are the keys to a good house? By ‘good’ I mean an ideal home that won’t fall down and can stand the test of time. Materials, a solid [...]

Training Systems

Why do we train? Well some want to get stronger, some want to go further and some want to get faster. When you boil it down training means getting better at something.

Typically, the longer you train the “better” you get. Now this assumes that the individual continues to apply a stress that challenges the [...]

Recovery Part III

In the previous two sections (Part 1 and Part 2) I have established what methods and some warning signs to keep you on the road of injury prevention. Nutrition is my final topic for the recovery trilogy.

Nutrition in my house analogy is hard to quantify. It not only determines the height and width of [...]

Recovery Part II

***Instead of having a huge explanation, I’m going to try to keep it short and simple. My time seems to be slipping away so I figure more frequent posts will be better for LiveMultiSport.***

In the first section of recovery I reviewed the different techniques to keep you “playing”. Now I’d like to talk about learning [...]

Longevity in Sport

This is the first part in “Building the House“; compilation.

Building the house – I got sick and tired of reading countless magazines/books that all proposed their ideas as the right ones. On top of that, each author has their own system. Zone 5b, power level at CP30, swim at percieved effort 4; what the [...]