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Share The 2008 USATF National Podium Education Project takes place December 9-13 at the Tuscany Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, NV. The main focus of this year’s summit will be “How to Maintain Your Peak from the Trials to the Games“. It follows the same format as last year with the conference broken down into [...]
Share Available at USA retail stores Friday, October 31. In Canada January 2009 From NIKE Press release: BEAVERTON, Ore. – “ As LeBron James proved in a Gold Medal campaign this past summer in Beijing, he is a basketball player who can do it all and he requires a performance shoe that can keep up [...]
Share No athlete or coach should be denied access to information. That’s why we have Public Libraries (or Bitorrent to pirate free ebooks in PDF format). Or SpeedEndurance.com to find all the hidden gems and goodies for you. All available for free. As well, there is the Google Book Search. There are millions of copyrighted [...]
Share Just a reminder, Daylight Savings Time will end this Sunday, November 2, 2008 in North America. 65% of the readers from SpeedEndurance.com are from the United States and Canada. I’m not looking forward to 5pm workouts in the dark and finishing in total darkness. At least the weight room is indoors. The one hour [...]
Share From NIKE Press release: Nike Considered Design is Nike’s latest products which combine sustainability principles with the newest innovations for sport. While Nike has delivered consumers Considered products for several years, for the first time, Nike Considered Design will be featured in all of Nike’s six key categories: basketball, running, football (soccer), women’s training, [...]
Share From NIKE Press release: NIKE, Inc. today debuted Nike Considered Design, its latest products which combine sustainability principles with the newest innovations for sport. While Nike has delivered consumers Considered products for several years, for the first time, Nike Considered Design will be featured in all of Nike’s six key categories: basketball, running, football [...]
Share This video is a classic. It is 15 minutes long with speaker James Boschman from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is the President and CEO of Randolph and James Flax Mills. Where the heck is Prince Albert, Saskatchewan? Prince Albert, Saskatchewan has a population of less than 35,000 and is about 600 miles north of [...]
Share Can you imagine taking the reaction time out of the Sprinters’ final FAT time? After all, it is the actual time covered for the entire 100 meter distance. What would be the outcome if we did this? Especially in the 400 meters where reaction times are poor, or for those sprinters in the outer [...]
Share Being in Canada, I am not privy to the watching American commercials live. Even though we have ABC, CBS, NBC, the commercials are replaced by Canadian ones. Watching ESPN is tough, so I usually go to a Sports Bar and watch it on Satellite. Then again, TSN, our Canadian version of ESPN, shows lots [...]
Share The LA84foundation.org is the web site for the Legacy of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. This web site is a great resource for athletes, coaches, trainers and parents. Who the heck is the LA84foundation.org? The LA84 Foundation is endowed with surplus funds from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Their mission is to [...]
Share On September 16, 1810, the people of Mexico declared war vs. the Spanish authorities. This was the start of the Mexican War of Independence (1810 – 1821). To celebrate the 200th anniversary of this event, Mexico is planning to stage a “mini-version” of the Olympics in 2010 to help celebrate the country’s bi-centennial. If [...]
Share What do Kevin Trudeau and Jose Canseco have in common? Kevin Trudeau is infamous for being an infomercial mogul. First, he made is Mega Memory System a hit on the late night infomercials. His next big seller was the book Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About (2005). His follow up book [...]
Share Mark your calendars and set your PVRs (who still owns a VCR these days?) From the Jamaica Gleaner: Bolt to appear on top US sports show Less than a month after appearing on “The David Letterman Show” and “Live with Regis and Kelly”, two popular television shows in the United States, Jamaican triple gold [...]
Share The Canadian Athletics Coaching Center has a wealth of free coaching articles, including a great article I referenced on Valeri Borzov’s mental preparation before a race. Click here for a complete listing of their downloadable audio files. Another gem in their collection is a rare interview of Al Oerter, recorded about 4 months before [...]
Share Today is Walter Deming’s birthday. Who the heck is Walter Deming? William Edwards Deming was born on October 14, 1900. He is most famous for Deming PDAC Cycle, otherwise known as the Shewhart cycle, or the Deming Wheel’s “Plan-Do-Check-Act” (modified to “Plan-Do-Study-Act”). Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States in [...]
Share My good friend and fellow colleague Joe Sarti has a radio show on Voice America every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific. If you get a chance, be sure to tune in live, or go to the archives for past broadcasts. One of the more popular broadcasts on his show includes Jack LaLanne from September 10, [...]
Share POP QUIZ: Who has the World Record for the 4x100m fastest 100 meter relay split ? This is not an official event, as timing consistency varies, but we all love stats, right? Ever since I started watching the Olympics in 1972, historians always referred to “Bullet” Bob Hayes 8.5 second 4×100 meter anchor relay [...]
Share With Christmas approaching, I’m doing most of my holiday buying online as usual. Why battle the long lines and parking lot fiascoes? Just for fun, I tried surfing for Usain Bolt products and endorsements. Other than the Fastest Nation Jamaica T-shirt, a Lightning Bolt T-Shirt and the Usain Bolt Nuh Linga MP3 Download song [...]
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