Physiological Elevation of Endogenous Hormones Results in Superior Strength Training Adaptations – Research Review

A long-held belief that has floated around the world of strength and hypertrophy training is that training legs (for a variety of reasons including hormonal) has a positive effect on either strength or size. Many, many systems of training are based around that (including Dan John’s Mass Made Simple which I recently reviewed) and the argument that you must train legs for maximum size (either in general or as part of a given training session) or what have you is often made.

Texas Road Rash 2011: Race Report Part 2

While I had said that nothing of real note happened in laps 2-5 that isn’t exactly true. Somewhere towards the end of lap 5 I screwed up badly. I mentioned that I had been alternatingly been getting dropped on and off the back of the line due to my poor paceline skills but somewhere in Lap 5 this went real wrong.

Loretta Update: Loretta Has Her Forever Home

We had two longtime residents adopted this week. Loretta’s journey involved many of us here at AHS, and began when she came to us with severe medical issues including skin and eye problems. Thanks to generous support and attention from donors, staff, and volunteers, she is in her forever home. It was a true team effort! Miles had been with us for over three months and received countless hours of attention from BRATTS. We wish all the best for these two pups!

Texas Road Rash 2011: Race Report Part 1

Ok, so to keep things confusing, I’m going to a different nomenclature for race reports but this is the follow up/conclusion to Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 10 that I posted on Friday. First, the short version for readers who don’t care about this nor want to read the details: I did not place, I raced to the best of my ability leaving nothing on the course, I am happy with how I did, I’m taking this week as a recover/transition weak because I am completely broken and I identified some weak points that I intend to fix for my next big race in Chicago in roughly 13 weeks that I’ll be detailing at some point in the future.

Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 10

Ok, it’s time to finally get to some sort of point given that the race I’ve been babbling about on and off for months now is in 2 days. To sum up for anybody just tuning in, after a long winter block, just as I was transitioning into my outdoor skate training, I had another close brush with overtraining. This is discussed in Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 7.

Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 9

But before talking about what I did and why, I want to go off on a quick tangent since it tied in with this training block. Mainly I’m trying to pad out the series to end the main bit on Friday right before the race. So today I’m going to talk a bit about equipment.

Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 8

But I had a couple of problems in returning to my training prep for that race. On the one hand I was still dealing with trying to juggle training on both skates and the bike without much resolution on how best to handle things. Going forwards I had decided on only 4 days of training, three doubled up days and the longer Sunday ride (either as a group or by myself). I hoped that the extra day of recovery would at least solve part of the problem.

Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 7

So it’s really not winter anymore making the nomenclature of Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 a little bit wrong. So I’m changing it, simply realize that this is a continuation from Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 Part 6. In that piece, I had outlined the progression I intended to make leading up to my first major race the Texas Road Rash in the second week of April.

Success Leaves Clues

Among several trite phrases (one of my current favorites is ‘Train like an athlete to look like an athlete’) that often gets thrown around in the fitness community is that of Success Leaves Clues. The premise, essentially, is that by looking at the habits of the best/elite performers, we can determine what does and doesn’t work since, by semi-logical extension, these folks are all elite because of those habits.