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Sports Performance

How to Test Yourself.

May 29, 2008

Benchmark yourself.
That’s right; hold yourself to your progress.  What I’m asking you to do is to test yourself.  Not in the Marines’ “Everyday you don’t test yourself is a day wasted sir!” way, but by performing a workout that tests your current ability against your past ability.
The athletes reading this post are all slapping their foreheads [...]

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Carb Loading – On Low Carb?

May 28, 2008

Scott posted a great blog about Intermittent Fasting and carb loading – check it out.
What’s most instructive about Scott’s post is the notion of a “controlled-carbohydrate” diet for athletes (particularly those involved in high-effort activities) vs. a traditional ketogenic diet.
(Now, I (being a geek of sorts) enjoy labeling and compartmentalizing things, so realize that none [...]

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Cheaters in Sport.

October 9, 2007

I previously blogged about cheating in professional-level sports and how athletes, though they’ve given their pound of flesh to achieve the lengths they do, are still cheaters if they use illegal substances (read: steroids) to enhance their performances.
Poor Marion Jones.  She was one of my two favorite female athletes from the track and field world [...]

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When Should You Exercise?

September 11, 2007

What’s the best time of day to exercise? Morning? Evening? Lunchtime?
The short and simple answer: Whatever time works for you.
For example, if you’re like most people, you may find that you don’t really get a choice – your schedule (and its relative inflexibility) decides when your exercise time is, even if it’s 5:30am.
For those of [...]

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Listen, Learn, Execute. Don’t Be Uncoachable.

June 12, 2007

Seth Godin delivers some great insights on coaching.
If you’re like most people, you have neither the time or the inclination to become a savant on exercise, nutrition, and the science of fat loss. The smart thing to do, in this case, if you’re looking to lose a little around the waistline, is to go [...]

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Train Your Strength, Not Your Skill.

June 11, 2007

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know that strength and skill can sometimes be confused. Usually, what happens is that you’ll see a smaller person doing something a larger, stronger looking person can’t. Like this, for example:
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Now, do any of you really (I mean, honestly) think that Glover Texiera is weaker [...]

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Juan Carlos Santana and "Spartan Training."

April 13, 2007

Ummm….pardon me, Juan Carlos Santana, but you wouldn’t be trying to take credit for all of Mark Twight’s hard work, are you? After all, he’s the one who trained the “300″ actors into Spartan shape, not you.
The Institute of Human Performance offers “Spartan Training?”
*tsk tsk* Capitalizing on a fad is one thing; taking credit [...]

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An Update to Spartans are Ripped! "300" Training.

March 15, 2007

So I will admit it – I was wrong about one thing in my previous post about the Crossfit training the cast and crew of “300″ underwent. The workouts were not totally random. Instead, they closely followed typical Crossfit-style progressions, using work, time, intensity, and focus as variables. And the actual “300″ [...]

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Spartans are Ripped! 300 and Musings on Hollywood Workouts.

March 2, 2007

I’ve been a big Frank Miller fan ever since my fanboy days in grammar school. I loved Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City (before it got the Hollywood treatment), and Ronin. Hollywood’s latest offering, based on Miller’s graphic novel 300 chronicles the struggle of 300 Spartan warriors as they face [...]

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More Ninjawarrior, For Michele.

February 27, 2007

Found some footage of 1 of the only 2 men (out of 2000+ competitors so far) that have bested the Ninjawarrior obstacle course.
Kazuhiko “Sir Crab” Akiyama was the first man to finish all four stages to win the tournament; seven years later in 2006, his fellow countryman Nagano Makoto became the second. Here is [...]

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