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Share If you are interested in the free sample book of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery: Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance by Sage Rountree, click here for the 36 page PDF file from Velopress. This book covers all the possible modalities for recovery and regeneration, which I’ve covered on this blog over the [...]
Share Everyone is going light these days. Take a look around you, and you’ll understand why. When you’re watching your calories, you want every calorie to count. For example, Gatorade G2 is 25 calories per 8 ounce serving (~250 ml) which is about half the calories compared to the regular Gatorade. With the popularity of [...]
Share For those who swear by ZMA, you’ll be glad to know a new and improved formulation is now on the market. ZMA isn’t for everyone, because everyone will react differently to it, especially the vitamin B6 component which can keep you awake for hours. ZMA is meant to be taken at night prior to [...]
Share Thanks to Ken Stone for pointing this out to me. Masters [cycling] track racer Kenny Williams tested positive for the banned substance DHEA in a test taken at United States masters nationals in Colorado Springs. In a letter first published at cycle-smart.com, Williams called the decision to take the drug a mistake and [...]
Share Let me go on record with this fact: Once injury or osteoarthritis has occurred on a soft tissue such as your shoulders, knees, elbows or Achilles, there is NO magic pill to fix the athletic injury. Lower back pain also fall in this same category. That pain and damage you feel is from weeks [...]
Share It is amazing how many items in the local grocery store are supplemented with common vitamins and minerals. Table salt is iodized, to prevent goiter. Milk is supplemented with Vitamins A and D because calcium absorption to the bones decreases during the Northern winter months. Our past generation (before the supplementation) would suffer rickets [...]
Share It looks like the infamous Jeff “BALCO” Novitzky is at it again. There are more cases of athletic supplements are contaminated that can fail your next drug test. So buyer beware. Two products from American Cellular Labs (ACL), Tren Xtreme and Mass Xtreme, were pulled of the shelves from alleged contamination of 4-estra and [...]
Share With the upcoming meets in Lahti Finland (WMA) or Sydney Australia (WMG), some of you may be making trans-oceanic flights anywhere from 6 to 20 hours long. So here is a huge list to take with you. The 3 most important things are staying hydrated, good food, and sleep especially if you are traveling [...]
Share Now I’m getting worried. When an eight year old become sick from the unpleasant after effects from energy drinks such as Red Bull, I have to ask one thing: Where are heck are the parents? Seriously, there’s a huge difference in Gatorade, or Tiger Gatorade Focus, and Red Bull or Monster drinks. Honestly, until [...]
Share I discussed the topic of protein in great detail, and promoted Omega 3 fatty acids. I even promoted chocolate milk, which contains saturated fats, especially the whole milk variety. But what about fats? Here is a brief overview of the 3 main fats: Saturated Fats, Monounsaturated Fats, and Polyunsaturated Fats, and of course, the [...]
Share At every indoor meet, I still remember vividly the scent of Ben-Gay in the locker rooms. Now combine that smell of muscle rub ointment, sweat and the musty locker room, and you can guarantee that rancid combination is a smell you’ll never forget. Depending on your country, famous brands other than Ben-Gay (recently changed [...]
Share I’ve harped on the benefits of chocolate milk instead of high priced protein powders in the last few articles. Now research from The University of Texas at Austin has proved a bowl of whole-grain cereal is just as good . (Sorry, Fruit Loops, Coco Puffs and Lucky Charms do NOT count!) Because at the [...]
Share We all agree protein powders have an edge for convenience. Some are RTD (ready to drink), and some just require cold water and a shaker. But natural wholesome food sources have extra benefits beyond powders. Beef has iron. Fish has Taurine, Omega 3 oils, and B12. Dairy products have calcium. The Protein Book covers [...]
Share The Recharge with Milk website (see below) is sponsored by the Dairy Farmers of Canada, of course. I love their interactive demo on comparing Chocolate Milk with other drinks. While conventional protein powders contain many of the essential nutrients your body requires after a workout, they contain far more protein than most exercisers need [...]
Share As a rebuttal to the Gatorade Tiger Focus drink that you consume before and during your competition, you know the competition isn’t resting on their laurels. I’m not referring to the golfers, I’m referring to beverage companies. Everyone is trying to make a buck these days. What recession? Sports and high level performance are [...]
Share Newsflash: Gatorade and Tiger Woods have launched the reformulated Gatorade Tiger Focus which provides advanced hydration to help promote mental focus, as inspired by Tiger Woods’ legendary mental toughness. It’s the Masters weekend and I couldn’t help noticing the buzz with the Gatorade Tiger Focus, which is really an enhanced Gatorade Thirst Quencher, with [...]
Share What are shin splints? Shin Splints is more common in distant runners than sprinters, but I’ve seen long sprinters and 800 meter runners get shin splints from too much volume, especially “intensive tempo” interval training. In short, it is caused by overuse and abuse. The term “shin splints” refers to pain and tenderness along [...]
Share One of my very first articles on this Blog was the Top 5 supplements to take (or top 3 if you are on a budget). But what about natural wholesome food as supplements? I agree, in a perfect world, everything you need for your body is at the grocery store. Jeremy Wariner doesn’t take [...]
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