Apparently, I did a lousy job at choosing my parents. Sorry mom and dad, but the genes you gave me left me with a tendency to naturally develop high levels of LDL cholesterol. As we all know, this is a bad thing. My cardiologist originally recommended over and again that I should be on statins, which I dreaded because of their effect on athletic performance. Here’s what I did instead. Continue reading
Training
Polarized Training Update: Week 3
A couple of weeks ago, I started shifting over to a more polarized training pattern. Here’s a quick update on how it’s been going. Continue reading
A Poor Duathlete’s Recovery Pump
A few months ago, I blogged about CEP Clone compression gear. Compression garments are what most runners and duathletes think of when they hear term “compression.” Technically, it’s “passive compression” because it’s just a garment that isn’t doing anything “active” to remove lymph and improve circulation. There’s another much faster form of compression called “active compression” made famous by companies like Normatec, which makes compression gear that cost about as much as a pair of high-end Zipp race wheels. Being a cheapskate, I found a cheaper alternative.
A Better Way to Run MaxVO2 Intervals
I’m about to tell you about one of my absolute favorite workouts because it is so darn effective at making people fast at running. It’s a variation on a running workout that came out of some research about 14 years ago and it’s amazing. Continue reading
Day 24 Update: Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge
This week was Phase 4 of the Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge. I think some of the exercises have been pretty amazing– about as important as Phase 2 was two weeks ago. Here’s what I’ve been doing, as well as some additions I’ve made. Continue reading
The Importance of Lactate Threshold
I just wanted to write a short post clarifying my position on lactate threshold and some exciting new product information to help optimize your training. Continue reading
Improve Your Recovery Runs (Run|Drill|Walk)
Today I wanted to talk about a way to make your recovery runs suck less. If you find yourself struggling the day after a hard track workout with the awful feeling of running– and just can’t wait to be done with it– here’s a variation on an old idea that might really help. Continue reading
Day 12 Update: Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge
This week was Phase 2 of the Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge. While last week was useful and I could feel a slight difference, Phase 2 was revolutionary. Here’s what I found particularly useful and why. Continue reading
Revisiting Polarized Training
Every now and then, some new information comes along that just blows away everything that I was taught about training. Even more rare is the when older research gets updated and repackaged in a way that surprises me in startling new ways. Both happened to me last when I dug deeper into the research around something called “polarized training.” It may fundamentally change the way that I train– and you may want to try it as well. Continue reading
New Training Strategies Coming
This message is a quick head’s up about some changes that will be happening over the next few days here at The Athletic Time Machine. Continue reading
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