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Share One of the Fitness testing ratios people love to throw around in the gym is BMI or Body Mass Index. To calculate your BMI, simply divide your body weight in kilograms with your height in meters squared. I am 1.83m and 85kg, which is 85 / (1.83)2 = 25.4 BMI (6 feet tall is [...]
Share I’ve long advocated that 7.5 or 9 hours is the perfect number of hours to sleep, give or take a few minutes depending on your REM cycles. Plus, this formula doesn’t account for the time it takes to fall asleep. I discussed sleep in How To Increase Natural Testosterone. If you are living on [...]
Share This is Part 2 of the article Testosterone Creams & Gels: Victor Conte Revisited. First, a DISCLAIMER. Artificial testosterone, whether creams, orals or injections, is a prohibited substance for tested athletes, including Masters athletes. So it’s best to raise your testosterone levels naturally. Here are 4 best ways to raise your testosterone levels LEGALLY! [...]
Share This is Part 2 of a 3 part series. Click here for Part 1. If you enjoyed the The Business Side of Track & Field Interview with Kris Mychasiw, then you’ll enjoy this one. People give credit to Carl Lewis as the man who setup professional Track and Field, where athletes got paid market [...]
Share There comes a time in your track career when (hopefully) you will get a chance to run at the Elite and World level. What are the ins-and-outs in finding an agent, landing your first sponsor, and getting into big meets? I had the chance to speak to Sports Agent Kris Mychasiw of Sprint Management [...]
Share The purpose of this article is to remind you the rules have changed on how you conduct yourself outside the track. When I was competing for McGill University from 1982-86, our initial conduct we had to follow was to behave ourselves when travelling on school “business”. That meant shirt and tie on airplanes, and [...]
Share DISCLAIMER: Artificial testosterone, whether creams, orals or injections, is a prohibited substance for tested athletes, including Masters athletes. This article is not to encourage you to take testosterone, but to educate you. It’s no secret men over 50 are getting testosterone injections to treat hypogonadism. The primary reasons are for increased sex drive, osteoporosis [...]
Share In Botswana where Setswana is spoken, there is a famous proverb: Poo, ga di nne pedi mo sakeng. Literally translated, it means: Two bulls can’t stay in the same corral. I know what you are thinking… “Jimson, you are drinking too much grappa! What does this have to do with Track?” But seriously folks… [...]
Share When I wrote about Methylhexaneamine and Supplement Contamination last fall, I didn’t expect death. Getting banned from your sport is one thing… dying trying is another! In a recent article from the NY Times (if it’s the in the NY Times, it must be true, right? heh heh), they reported the United States Army [...]
Share Every 12 years, the Dragon has to be the most popular Chinese animal made famous by the 1985 Mickey Rourke movie (not to be confused with the 1972 Bruce Lee movie, Way of the Dragon, and the famous Rome Coliseum fight with Chuck Norris). So January 23, 2012 marks the Chinese New Year, the [...]
Share The Alpe Cermis is the toughest race in the Cross Country Skiing World Cup. It’s the final stage of the Tour de Ski, a 9km course just outside of Trento (Trentino) Italy, with a total climb of 495 meters! Just search Google for photos and videos, and all the skiers literally collapse in exhaustion [...]
Share In Italy and other parts of the world, Carnevale (also known as Mardi Gras) is celebrated 40 days before Easter, which is February 22, 2012 this year. One of the popular treats is the bombe fritte or ciambelle fritte also known as the donut or doughnut. As a former member of Canada’s National Police [...]
Share If you are a reader of SpeedEndurance, you don’t need a reminder of who Lee Evans is. On the Track side, he is a 2-time Gold medalist from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in the 400 meters and 4×400 meter relay. He was the first man to break the 44 second barrier, along with [...]
Share 2011 has been a strange year starting with massive Flooding worldwide and then the Occupy <insert keyword here> movements. 2011 is also a very bad year in terms of Italy’s economics. We are in the news everyday, and since I live in Rome, I get so many emails from friends asking how things are [...]
Share Below is the audio and video from my radio appearance on ESPN (The Ticket) 1280AM yesterday. Many thanks to Ryan Foran of LivingtheRun.com for having me on the show Wednesday. The co-host is decathlete Paul Terek, a 2004 Olympian and on the USA World Championship team in ’03, ’05, ’07. Maybe I should title [...]
Share The new book The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World will be released on August 30, 2011. This is his FIRST autobiography co-written with Dave Zirin, and not to be confused with CD Jackson’s Why: The Biography of John Carlos With C. D. Jackson, Jr. When you think of the [...]
Share If you’ve followed this Blog for a while, you’ll notice a subliminal message behind the articles. Since I turned 48 years old today, I’m probably old enough to be your father for half my readers (based on the Internet stats and demographics) Behind all the training and nutrition tips, and all the post race [...]
Share Oscar Pistorius should be allowed to run. It’s an interesting human rights story, and thus you can’t deny his rights if he makes the IAAF “A” Qualifying standard. Rules are rules. But let it be known, he does has some disadvantages, and a lot of advantages. There comes an optimal point where one will [...]
Share Remember the story last month on Roger Black and how he chose athletics over academics? By failing one course changed the path to his destiny? Black trained at Surrey university’s campus gym before competing in the Olympics, and thus it is great to hear he has been given an honorary degree from the University [...]
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New Innovations in Track and Field
Share If we are going to succeed in having Track and Field as the number one sport again, we have to change a few things. First, we have to make it more TV and Internet friendly. I agree on making the meets 2 hours long, at least for TV, but the meet can be 3 [...]