Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 11
Ok, time to get back to self-indulgent prattling mode, hopefully this won’t screw up my training again. Previously, in Texas Road Rash 2011: Race Report Part 1 and Texas Road Rash 2011: Race Report Part 2 I gave a detailed description of my performance in the elite marathon division of the race (my first time racing elite or at the marathon distance).
Austin Kitty Limits and Puppypalooza May 27th, 2011
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about the Austin Humane Shelter and while this post is short-notice (it would have been up earlier but I was having site issues yesterday) I wanted to put the word out about a big event going on at the Austin Humane Society tomorrow. That event has the somewhat silly name of Austin Kitty Limits (a play on Austin City Limits) and Puppypalooza (Lollapalooza); never let it be said that the folks who run the Austin Humane Society don’t have a sense of humor.
A 45-Minute Vigorous Exercise Bout Increases Metabolic Rate for 14 Hours – Research Review
In recent years there has been a focus on the calorie burn that occurs after training, referred to in science terms as EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption). A variety of different types of training (usually revolving around brief duration, high-intensity methods such as interval training or circuits) have been proposed with the major effect of such activity being in the EPOC that is created. Basically, the idea is that this type of training generates a massive post-exercise calorie burn that will lead to weight/fat loss.
The Bearing Story: Part 2
Today I’ll actually get to the real part of the story, as I mentioned in The Bearing Story: Part 1 only Caleb and I were at summer training consistently for the most part. Other skaters came and went but they were usually so much further behind he and I that, for all practical purposes, he and I skated together.
The Bearing Story: Part 1
And while I still feel that, for the most part, equipment is secondary to other things relevant to performance, there are places where it matters. One of those places is when your equipment is just horrible. In general, cheap stuff is just cheap; it doesn’t work well, falls apart, whatever. And it will hold you back if it sucks too hard. But once you surpass some price threshold, rarely does throwing more money at the problem generate massive improvement benefits. Sure, it matters for the top 1%. If you’re reading this, you’re not one of them.
The Sports Training and Adaptation Continuums
Ok, for those of you who got a glimpse of an article about Heart Rate Variability on Tuesday, don’t freak out. There’s a problem with it and until I can fix it (to ensure that the information is correct), I unpublished it. It’ll be back. Instead, I want to put this up; this is actually information that is elsewhere on the site, on the sales page for The Applied Nutrition for Mixed Sports Book/DVD bundle but since I doubt most look at that, I wanted to present it a bit more formally. I’m sure I’ll probably add some verbiage to what’s there.
