Yesterday, Nick Pang over at the Natural Running Center had a great post on the runScribe running kinematics monitor. To me, the great takeaway from the article was the specific data points that we should be interested in when I’m evaluating running shoes. This is a mini-post sharing what I learned– and an idea about how to make this data even more awesome and usable. Continue reading
Year: 2014
Carry a Track Tubular for Your Spare– and Reasons to Race on Tubulars
I love racing and training on tubular tires. If you do too, here’s a couple of tricks that I came across that might make it a LOT easier to use them.
Prevent Running Injuries and Screen Your Running Shoes with RunScribe
A review of RunScribe just came in from Steve Magness and I thought it was so important that I had to share it with you immediately. If you care about your running and don’t want to keep getting injured, read on. Continue reading
20% off Compex for USAT Members Until End of Month
Wow, this is timely. The morning after I posted my review on my experience with a Compex EMS, USAT sends its members a notice that they can get 20% off Compex EMS devices at http://www.shopcompex.com by using code “USAT2014”. Offer expires September 1, so hurry!
Product Review: Using a Compex EMS for Recovery, Strengthening, and Injuries
For years and years, I’ve used and loved my Compex electrical muscle stimulators (EMS). I use it primarily when I get injured and when I need some intense recovery that I think is somewhat comparable to a massage. Here’s why I think they belong in every age group athlete’s bag of tricks.
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Recovery Nutrition on the Cheap
Athletic nutrition is a a ridiculously complex topic that I won’t claim to fully understand. In fact, I’m a bit of a nutrition idiot. For the most part, this doesn’t hurt me— I think that long-course or IM athletes are the ones who really need to treat race day nutrition as a “fourth event” in triathlon (or a third event in duathlon). But I do have some ideas about recovery nutrition and I think I have some of this down pretty well. The purpose of this short post is to share a quick tip for making this cheap and easy.
Product Review: CEP Clone
Running and cycling everyday can be pretty hard. For the last few years, there are two tools that I use to keep my body feeling fresh. One of them is CEP Clone compression gear.
Starting a Recovery Mini-Series!
Over the next few days, I’ll be continuing to build out one of the other essential pieces for the Athletic Time Machine site— RECOVERY! If you want to race and train like a younger athlete, you have to recover like one.
I’ll be adding three posts with less-known tricks I use to enhance recovery. Of course, all this will be archived on the site and also summarized under the Enter the Time Machine section of the site.
Thanks for reading and be sure to like the Athletic Time Machine Facebook page or follow this site to keep up-to-date with the latest.
Purposeful Carbohydrate Depletion
Yesterday, a post came across the Running Writings site that piqued my interest. It was about the weekly long run— a ritual of marathon runners— and it suggested that we all do them wrong. This post is a quick synopsis of why and what to do about it.
Lactate Clearance Intervals, MCT-1, Arrhythmias, and Why You Need Speed
A few weeks ago, I did some very short, high-intensity sprints in the middle of a zone two bike ride. The sprints left me feeling exhausted far more than they should have, so I thought it was probably a good idea to do two things: get some more low-intensity aerobic training in and to simultaneously work on some really high intensity interval work. This post explains why this might not be a bad idea after a couple of weeks of hard racing.
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