Beata Cseke is an extraordinary athlete and human being. Besides being one of the top ocean surfski paddlers in the U.S., she is an incredibly kind person who genuinely wants to help women and girls at any level get into surfski paddling and enjoy the fun and fitness it offers in the great … [Read more...]
I Don’t Want to Become a Stiff, Sore, Old Person
I don’t want to become an old person with sore joints. Is this inevitable? Maybe. Frankly, I’m already a middle-aged person with sore joints. But I have a hypothesis: Stiff, sore people get that way by “baking” muscular tension into their (our!) bodies. Whatever we practice, … [Read more...]
A Splash-Free Life?
What would it mean to lead a splash-free life? To splash is “to cause water or other liquid to move in a noisy or messy way.” In swimming, leading a splash-free life means gliding smoothly forward, without wastefully dissipating one’s own energy in messy, noisy, random … [Read more...]
Never Ever Give Up a blog post inspired by @diananyad
I don’t know Diana Nyad nor had I followed her extreme dream before this her fifth and final attempt of swimming the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. I found myself glued to the television cheering the 64 year old on and tearing up as she limped her way up the Florida shore. … [Read more...]
Never Ever Give Up a blog post inspired by @diananyad
I don’t know Diana Nyad nor had I followed her extreme dream before this her fifth and final attempt of swimming the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. I found myself glued to the television cheering the 64 year old on and tearing up as she limped her way up the Florida shore. … [Read more...]
Pregnant for Gold
With all the talk lately about doping, I’ve naturally been thinking about female athletes and performance enhancers. Ladies want to win just as much as men do, so it should be no surprise that women’s sports are replete with doping scandals. So, I decided to … [Read more...]
We make exercise scary: A failure of the physical education system
We make exercise scary. By 'we' I mean everyone involved in sport, physical activity, and health. I mean that 'we' as a collective group have failed at fostering a love for physical movement. A couple of posts ago I wrote about how excited I am to be able to impact how people … [Read more...]
My Athlete life by @emilyazevedo
My life as an athlete has been a small amount of luck, a hell of a lot of hard work and an indefinite amount of sacrifice. I wish I could say that an Olympic athlete’s life is as glamorous as society would assume, but our jobs are a bit unorthodox and often times leave us with no … [Read more...]
Training Quote of the Day
When I got to my computer on Monday morning, I opened up an email that included this quote and it has inspired my whole week: We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. Now that we’re about 7 weeks away from the start of training camp here in … [Read more...]
Finding the right yoga teacher
In order to find a quality yoga instructor, you need to know what to look for. Since there is no universal certification program for yoga teachers, not all of them are created equal as you can see by the following example. I had been practicing yoga in my home for a while when I decided to take some … [Read more...]