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Share How much protein do athletes need? What’s the best protein? When should protein be consumed around training for optimal results? >> Click here for the Ultimate Book on Protein Intake for all Strength, Power and Endurance Athletes This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletics“ held in Monaco [...]
Share This monster 425 page manual was written by Edward Derse and Skip Stolley, the AAF/CIF Coaching Program Coordinator. Who is the AMATEUR ATHLETIC FOUNDATION? The Amateur Athletic Foundation is the organization created to manage Southern California’s endowment from the Olympic Games. Located in the historic Britt House since 1985, the AAF has committed more [...]
Share If you are reading this from your web browser, you can’t help but notice the ads on this page. However, if you subscribe to my RSS feed, you can read the latest articles without the ads, except maybe for 1 embedded ad here and there. Why So Many Ads? The mission statement of Speedendurance.com [...]
Share If you are familiar with Meet-up and Meet-me, you’ll certainly love Sportsvite.com Ever wanted to join a team, but couldn’t find the right players? You tried Craigslist, but to no avail? Or, perhaps you moved to a new city and wanted to find a soccer, football or basketball team to join? Enter Sportsvite.com Sportsvite [...]
Share This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletics“ held in Monaco from April 18-20, 2007. Copies of the CD and booklet are available from the IAAF website www.iaaf.org. Nutrition for Travel Presenter: Tom Reilly (GBR) Travel across time zones and jet lag can have a profound effect on [...]
Share To make this contest fair, I entered all the emails from both the RSS subscribers and the Speedendurance.com newsletter using Random.org. This site is also good for choosing lottery numbers. The Winner of the Herb McKenley DVD Contest is “Coachus”. “Coachus” is a RSS to email reader, and the sign-up doesn’t ask for your [...]
Share I’ll be visiting my buddy Dave Horning from Enviro-Sports Productions this weekend. Every year for the past 4 years, I make the trip to Las Vegas en route to Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California. But I don’t go in July; I go in February. It often coincides with the Super Bowl, so Hotel [...]
Share There are some good rules and some silly ones. For example, rings and earrings body piercing jewelry is prohibited in the high school system. I remember a high school female long jumper setting a PB, but when she raised her arms in jubilation, she exposed her belly button naval ring, and was thus disqualified. [...]
Share There was a good article in the Wall Street Journal on the new National Football League CFO Anthony Notto and how his diverse financial background landed him a high level job at the NFL. Here are 8 good ideas to keep in mind when trying to land a job in the ever-so-competitive Sports Industry [...]
Share The shortest distance the IAAF recognizes for indoor world record performances is the 50 meters (approx 54 yards) run in 5.56 seconds set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. The irony is he was considered a poor starter! The current world record for 60 meters is 6.39 seconds set twice by American Maurice [...]
Share Nike designs new running spikes for Asafa Powell This article from The Jamaica Observer made me realize the power of branding in the marketing wars between Nike and Adidas. We all remember Michael Johnson for the Golden spikes in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. The first prototype won’t be revealed until Powell competes in [...]
Share This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletics“ held in Monaco from April 18-20, 2007. Copies of the CD and booklet are available from the IAAF website www.iaaf.org. Innovations in Training and Nutrition Presenter: John Hawley (AUS) The “train low, compete high” paradigm of glycogen levels has been [...]
Share UPDATE: for a 60 meter to 100 meter conversion, a rough guideline would be multiply by 1.53 or 1.54. CLICK here for Extrapolating 60 meters performances to 100 meters This article is a bit dated, but it outlined the conversion factors for Track and Field during the Canadian CIAU (now called CIS) in the [...]
Share Matt Bogdanowicz, current record holder of the 60 pull-ups World record, and former world record holder of the one hour pull-ups, will be attending the Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge in Los Angeles Feb 9-10, 2008. The Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge is a series of physical fitness events challenging athletes to maximize their performance in [...]
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