A friend just sent me this funny but thought-provoking ad featuring fellow-Tiger Glenn Dorsey. It's nice because it kinda speaks to the all-show and no-go mentality that many people take when they approach "core" training. The funny things is, many of the people disillusioned by the lure of a 6 pack probably won't even get that the joke is really on them. [...]
At the end of August each of the past five years I get to spend three days at University of Michigan with Jim Richardson, the head woman’s swimming coach planning the dryland training for the upcoming season. This is always one of the highlights of the year for me. Jim is a great coach who challenges me to think and innovate. He has done a great job of integrating the dryland training with the i [...]
Jorge Carvajal of Hollywood, Florida emailed me the following: "I was wondering if you could blog on your approach to reading. Do you read to increase performance knowledge? Do you read sometime just for pleasure? Do you read any magazines? How do you structure your reading to get the most out of it without getting information overload, yet stay current with respect to training information?"Read [...]
In the U.S., today is Labor Day, a day that for many marks the symbolic end of summer. With this in mind, I thought it would be fitting to touch on a couple of things going on at ET. In the past 2 months, we've surpassed our 1,000th blog post, 220th article in the article database, made a ton of changes on the site, and moved in to our 7th year in publication on the web. All this is great, but as [...]
These questions were posted on the ACSM email newsletter. I would be interested in the response of those of you who read this blog. I am going to reserve my comments for later when I have had more time to think about and analyze what occurred.What was the most significant sports performance by an individual and why?What was the most significant sports performance by a team and why?What country was [...]
