Understanding dark energy and determining the universe's ultimate fate will require further observations. Hubble and future space telescopes capable of looking more than halfway across the universe will be needed to achieve the necessary precision. The determination of the properties of dark energy has become the key goal of astronomy and physics today.Central Nervous System (CNS) Fatigue is simi [...]

Normally I’m not a big fan of leaning at the tape. It’s not so much because I don’t think it can be effective. I know it can. In fact, the best outcome I ever had in a high school race was due to a dramatic (at least to me) lean at the finish. As a coach though, I’ve seen mistimed leans do more harm than good. Part of the problem is that when a lean is most needed (in a [...]

Nothing. Just kidding. As with most things there's a good and a bad side to everything. Coffee is no different. So even though I am personally an advocate for all things java, I thought it would only be fair to provide a fair and balanced report on the magic fluid. We've already looked at why coffee is so healthy. Now let's take a look at some of it's drawbacks (both factual and fictional)Cof [...]

The August 4th Olympic Issue of Time magazine was a special issue focusing on the Olympics. It was the one with LeBron James on the cover (with duplicate covers for Liu Xiang and Dara Torres). The cover article gave brief rundowns of athletes that you should follow during the Olympics. I read through all of them. Half the names were familiar. One thing stood out though, and it's also come up in t [...]

Innovation is probably one of the most overused words in our language today. Innovation is closely linked with change, as it should be. What I notice is that people and organizations seem to be willing to talk about innovation and change, but when it comes to decision making time it is back to the same old way of doing things. I think what people do not realize is that to stay the same requires ch [...]

That ain't no woman! It's a man, man! A word to the unwise, volume and intensity are not mutually exclusive. Unless you're the coach of a stable of elite Chinese women distance runners consuming copious amounts of caterpillar fungus or the coach of hulking Eastern Bloc women, you can forget about handling high volumes AND high intensities for any extended period of time and getting away wit [...]

Soda, Coke, Pop, Soda-pop. Regardless of what you call it we all know what it is and more than likely you've enjoyed it at some point in your life. Personally, I drink the occasional diet coke (Coke Zero to be exact) but mostly I drink coffee, green tea, white tea, juice, and water. I just read the following article today and thought others would find interesting. Note that it is written by a [...]

Here's an interesting article from the Monday, Oct. 11, 1943 issue of Time:Sleep is just a bad habit. So said Socrates and Samuel Johnson, and so for years has thought grey-haired Richard Buckminster Fuller, futurific inventor of the Dymaxion* house (TIME, Aug. 22, 1932), the Dymaxion car and the Dymaxion globe. Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results. [...]

Barry A. Stockbrugger, MSc., CSCS, CEP wrote the following: I have been working with a University women's volleyball team for some time now (approx. 5 yrs). I use a functional approach to their training and have had quite good success over the years. Recently, 4 of our players attended a National U21 camp where they stood out as being the most fit group there. As part of the camp they had ses [...]

We have all heard the axiom that more is not better. But within each of us there is a fundamental insecurity that we are not doing enough, so we do extra work. This seems to be especially true in an endurance dominated event. The result is that we lose sight of our objective in training which is to become a faster cyclist, runner or a swimmer. The work should not be an end in itself but a means to [...]