Results matching “Bird”

Blaine kicks off this month's look at things which deserve more attention with a great piece on Trail Running. It actually makes me want to go out and do a little off-road work.

Italian strongman, engineer and egyptologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni.

Via MarkFu : MSN Health has a nice piece on fighting age with a bit of muscle. If you need any convincing to keep training for as long as humanly possible, this is it.

Oh, and to answer Mark's question - running up the hill. Always.

"There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself."
- Lance Armstrong

Via Podium Sports Journal : A very interesting article by Sports Phychologist Carrie Cheadle - Optimal Focus for Racing. Although it focuses on competitive cycling, much of it applies to a range of sports.

Over at the Online Climbing Coach blog, Dave McLeod answers a very interesting question on strength training for rock climbers. It seems that technique and environment are just as important as raw strength. Good stuff.

Over the weekend, Jay Cutler took the title of Mr Olympia for the second time (full results here). This contest also saw the conclusion (streaming video) of Ronnie Coleman's superb career. Gracious, to say the least.

As with any major dietary change, things have stabilised somewhat since the original article. Over the past few years I've gone from a daily dose of 1 or 2 vitamin/mineral supplements, to a ridiculous 15 (at the time of the article below); to a manageable 3. If you're wondering, these are Vitamin C, a Multivitamin/Multimineral and Fish Oil.

Curing the vitamin addiction

My name is Scott, and I am hooked on vitamins.

It began a couple of years ago - quite innocently - with the usual suspects; Vitamin C and a Multivitamin. A bit of light reading added things like Coenzyme Q10 to the list (CoQ10 wasn't anywhere to be seen on the Multivitamin jar) and the daily intake gradually grew and grew. Once it became almost impossible to open the cupboard door without spilling various bottles across the bench I realised it was time to take action.

Selling small bottles of vitamins is an enormous industry. As with insurance, sales are based largely on fear. If you don't take x, bad things will happen to you. Your stress-free days and full nights of sleep will not simply become a rarity (assuming you have them now); they will cease to exist. How anyone managed to cope without several carefully selected pills each day is a mystery.

A few weeks ago I found myself in a health food store. Unsure of which vitamins I needed and which I already had in the cupboard, I bought a new jar of everything (everything on my list, that is - about 15 at last count). Since then I've noticed that my grocery shopping bills have been going down, and my diet has been gradually improving. My current thinking is that I'd not only save a considerable amount of money by skipping the vitamin supplementation, it might force me to keep thinking about the foods I eat. After all, vitamins from the right foods are better than those from a bottle. To me at least.

Vitamin intake : final thoughts

I'm very curious as to the supplementary habits of others (and I'm only talking about vitamins and minerals here). What do you take?

Via Mark's Daily Apple : Deep Fried Potato on a Stick. Mmmm.

Via Digg : First Page Fitness takes a look at some extremely unusual fitness gadgets from over the years. Very, very strange.

Over on EliteFTS, Eric Homan takes a look at the area of rehabilitation - specifically RICE. Or perhaps that should be MICE.