Training For Speed
I’m in a phase of training for speed/explosiveness, as you might guess from the PAP workout I posted last week. Along with my training I’ve been reading some old literature…
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Portrait Of An Athlete: Lindsey Vonn
brightcove.createExperiences(); Some of you may not believe me but I’m not always motivated. Sometimes I feel like going to happy hour instead of training. There are times when I question…
How To Choose The Right Exercise Program
In my last chat I was asked why P90X2 wasn’t as good for weight loss as P90X. Ironically that same week Tony Horton hosted some coaches for a workout at…
Full Body PAP
As promised, here’s the friggin’ awesome workout I’ve been doing. If you don’t have time to do PAP Lower and Upper separately here’s an idea for combining them. It takes…
Integration Experiment
Today I begin experimentation with a 10-day integration program designed to lead to a short performance peak. I’ve spent most of the last couple of months training indoors and need…
10 Things To Like And Not Like About Coffee
After a period of darkness in honor of Caballo Blanco, The Straight Dope is back with a different kind of dark. This one, black as midnight on a moonless night,…
If You Knew Caballo Blanco You Won
My friend Micah True (aka Caballo Blanco) passed away while on a run in the wilds of New Mexico last week. After an exhaustive search he was found by one…
Muscular Endurance, Part 2
Last week’s post on training muscular endurance generated some questions requiring further explanation. Let’s do a little q and a. Jonathan Mann asks, “Would this work well alongside marathon training?”…
BEEP Chat
[ustream id=21552641 hwaccel=0 width=480 height=296] Video streaming by Ustream This week’s Beachbody’s Eating and Exercise Police (BEEP) chat feature’s a 30-minute cooking show with Ani and Steph (Julia Child’s got…