http://www.bodyrecomposition.com Training and Nutrition advice, straight from the monkey's mouth. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:37:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Start with No Regrets Part 1 and find your way through as needed. I'm actually going to accelerate things as this is getting long; I could detail what happened for every year of the 5.5 I skated but it's really not relevant except in overview.  I'm going to be updating every ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/no-regrets-part-5.html You'll want to read No Regrets Part 1, No Regrets Part 2 and No Regrets Part 3 first. A Primer on Skating Part 1: Are You Serious? As I mentioned in No Regrets Part 2, there is a small tradition of inline skaters successfully making the switch to the ice.  I ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/no-regrets-part-4.html You'll want to read No Regrets Part 1 and No Regrets Part 2 if you want the following to make any sense whatsoever. It Begins It would actually be about a week before I got a pair of blades for my boots so I couldn't get on the ice immediately.  My first ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/no-regrets-part-3.html If you didn't read No Regrets Part 1, I'd strongly suggest that you do or what follows won't make any sense at all. 2004: Ice Camp By the summer of 2004, my fitness was improving but I was still without a race circuit to attend.  I wasn't sure what to do. ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/no-regrets-part-2.html First a quick announcement: over the next two weeks, site updates will be a touch sporadic.  The reason for this is that I am in the process of moving (away from Salt Lake City, the best direction to be going) and may or may not be able to update as ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/no-regrets-part-1.html I've always loved training related gadgets and hope to look at some of those over the coming months in future articles.  While most of what I've been interested in related to training (e.g. heart rate monitors or what have you) some gadgets help with fat loss and body recomposition.  Digital ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-bodybugggowear-fit.html As readers may or may not know, I have been in Salt Lake City, Utah for the past five years involved in long-track ice speedskating.  While that chapter of my life is coming to an end shortly (and I'm returning to outdoor inline racing as described in a previous article), ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/winter-of-discontent-book-review.html A long while back I wrote an article titled The Importance of Rest pointing out that most people train too hard too often and would benefit from more recovery, both in an acute (day to day) and long-term sense.  In that article, in the context of a typical weekly schedule, ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/active-versus-passive-recovery.html This is going to be a bit of technical/unapplied article, I'm going to try to keep it short and to the point and mainly it serves as a background for some topics I want to talk about in the near future (especially alcohol) so just be forewarned as you start ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/nutrient-intake-nutrient-storage-and-nutrient-oxidation.html In recent years, there has been huge interest in the topic of around workout nutrition for promoting optimal gains in strength and muscle size (prior to that, most interest had to to with recovery from exhaustive endurance exercise).  And, as is so often the case, as research has developed, many ... http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/muscle-growth-and-pos-workout-nutrition.html