Yesterday I posted a couple videos with some insight in to what MVP club coach Stephen Francis is doing with his athletes. The discussion on this blog entry got me off my butt to write another blog that I've been meaning to write for some time – The Reasons Why Jamaicans Dominate the Sprints. In case you were in a cocoon in 2008, you witnessed one of the greatest sprint years by a single [...]

I came across an ad for a supplement that claims to boost vertical jump performance. Skeptically intrigued, I checked it out. Boy am I glad I did. On there website they say that this supplement is "vertical leap in a tablet." Yeah. Right. While this stuff is no match for Jack Nirenstein's Running Mechanics instruction, this is certainly making a strong push for 2nd place in the Product of the Y [...]

Here's two new abstracts from the latest edition of MSSE. The first one in particular is new news because to the best of my knowledge it's one of the first looking at the effects on sprint running (sprint cycling has been examined quite a bit). The results aren't really unexpected but it's always nice to see our assumptions backed up by some hard evidence. Thanks go out to Jason for sending t [...]

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 [...]

Brain Juice. Java. Black Tea. Cup of Joe. Rocket Fuel. All of these are names for the ubiquitous beverage that is coffee. While there's a longstanding belief that coffee is bad for you (it dehydrates! makes your teeth black! disrupts sleep!) there's a growing amount of evidence to suggest that coffee may very well be one of the healthiest things you can put in your body. Here's a look at why y [...]