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X-Ring Boxing Workout (OR, Non-Boxing Training is NOTHING Like Boxing Training)
by The Glowing Edge
posted January 4, 2013 at 8:23am

Since my gym is connected to at-risk students, it’s closed over the holidays. Which simply means I train in a horrible, cheap-ass purple and yellow joint (because it’s $10/month), or in the park. All of which was fine, or so I thought, for the 3 we...more

5 Habits Worth “Giving Up” This Year
by Balanced Health and Nutrition
posted January 3, 2013 at 8:29pm

For many people, New Years Resolutions are set so they “make up” for all the “bad stuff” over the holidays. Usually the resolutions involve unrealistic and irrational goals and whole categories of foods they are going to “give up”, but that b...more

Trusting myself (byline to finish line blog)
by Byline to Finish Line
posted January 2, 2013 at 1:07pm

Confession time: It was a difficult holiday season. A family health emergency meant Christmas was spent in the emergency room with the following week in a high alert status, though most of it was spent in hurry-up-and-wait mode. The health emergency is no...more

Your one wild and precious life (Byline to Finish line blog)
by Byline to Finish Line
posted December 20, 2012 at 7:46am

One of my favorite quotes is a line from the poem The Summer Day by Mary Oliver. The poem closes with this line: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? I read this poem often. It serves as a type of prayer or mantra or ...more

Holiday eating strategy (Byline to Finish line blog)
by Byline to Finish Line
posted December 19, 2012 at 8:01am

The flat screen televisions hang in a row at the front of the room, perched as distractions for treadmill sufferers, like myself. Interval workouts this time of year (even with the balmy temperatures) put me inside on the treadmill. Boring? Yes. Unbearabl...more

What I Learned from Hot Yoga (Since I Didn’t Die)
by The Glowing Edge
posted December 19, 2012 at 7:56am

Let me just say how gratified I am that several people congratulated me on staying in the hot yoga room the entire 90 minutes without passing out or puking. It made me feel sincerely understood. Damn, that hot yoga business is hardcore. And I’m ...more

Advice to High School Students
by One Sport Voice
posted December 18, 2012 at 8:07am

Recently I was asked to speak to a student assembly at my high school alma mater, St. Cloud Technical High School in St. Cloud Minnesota. Go Tigers! Although I lecture to college students everyday, I suddenly was fearful I had nothing of worth to say to h...more

So this is Christmas. What have you done?
by Byline to Finish Line
posted December 14, 2012 at 7:47pm

I ran through the streets singing Christmas carols and reciting lines from “It’s A Wonderful Life.” The goal was to distract Linda during the 5K but really, it’s secretly what I wanted to do in the first place. Last weekend’s...more

Warm-up playlist: Time to get pumped up without being put down
by Fair Game News
posted December 14, 2012 at 7:53am

By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips Get ready, it’s game day!!!!! As you prepare mentally and physically, you want help getting into your zone. Which songs pop up on the warm-up playlist? Chances are, messages of female empowerment and gender e...more

How to Spar When You’re Dead-Ass Tired
by The Glowing Edge
posted December 13, 2012 at 7:36pm

I’m deep in training for my next fight, and recently had the opportunity to travel to a nearby gym to get sparring rounds with a group of people whose fighting habits I wasn’t already accustomed to. Amazingly (and for the first time in my e...more

Starting positions (Byline to Finish Line blog)
by Byline to Finish Line
posted December 13, 2012 at 2:26pm

I strapped my Garmin on my wrist, wrapped my head in fleece and headed out the door. It was a beautiful morning with a brilliantly blue sky, bright sun and crisp, cool air. The intention was to do 5 miles at my easy pace (determined by my friend and gener...more

Regrouping after a disappointing race
by Fast at Forty
posted December 11, 2012 at 7:59am

A key race comes with a lot of emotional and physical investment. The hours spent training and mentally preparing are too numerous to count. Anticipating the event can cause moments of excitement nestled in an anxiety ridden wrapper. Thoughts of well exec...more

Guess Who’s Pregnant? (@Laurenfleshman blog)
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted December 4, 2012 at 7:37am

Olympian Carrie Tollefson! #2 Jessica Simpson, maybe. Several of my readers, including my costar from Bear Butte Running Camp, Laura Hugo. This rinoceros Kate Middleton. Bitch totally stole my thunder today.   And me! Won't be wear...more

You Booze, You Lose. How Alcohol Can Wreck Your Athletic Performance
by Performance Nutrition
posted November 27, 2012 at 7:36am

It’s called a beer gut for a reason. But, over drinking will do more than just cover up those abs you’ve been working so hard for. Take a close look at how it will wreck your athletic performance: Athletic Performance & Recovery Alcohol ...more

The numbers game
by Fast at Forty
posted November 26, 2012 at 6:21pm

Are you numbers obsessed?On Sunday I am running the California International Marathon in Sacramento. I have a goal time, 2:40, which I have broken down into pace/mile, 10k splits and the half marathon time. Any way I look at it, the times are intimidating...more

How to Train FASTER
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 26, 2012 at 6:16pm

I’m officially about 8 weeks out from my next fight, which is just the right amount of time I need to set up my training goals. About a year ago I started categorizing the main areas of my boxing training, and since then I’ve refined my syst...more

Long run at Boardtown
by Meggan's Running Blog
posted November 11, 2012 at 10:02am

AM: 20.2 miles w/ 9 miles steady, 9 miles @6:15-6:25, 2.2 @steady This long run/long tempo was not well planned and it was all my fault. When I checked the website to see this weeks route, I didn't notice that the whole thing was gravel and that it was g...more

10 steps to a perfect race
by Fast at Forty
posted November 11, 2012 at 9:49am

I am a crossword puzzle and Scrabble fanatic; I love words. For that reason, the other day, for no other reason than mild curiosity, I entered “cool words” into Google to see what might pop up. To my utter surprise, there are actual websites d...more

Procrastination and new beginnings
by Byline to Finish Line
posted October 29, 2012 at 9:22pm

I am not a neat freak. In fact I am very much the opposite of a neat freak. There are times when my apartment looks as if it’s been ransacked. There may have been episodes when well-intentioned friends have thought about calling child protective ser...more

Sleep – a Critical Component to Sports Performance
by Performance Nutrition
posted October 20, 2012 at 4:53pm

Years ago hitting the gym and throwing around some steel was considered the most critical aspect of sports performance training. However, in more recent years a more comprehensive model of performance has developed based on decades of research on nutritio...more

The critical to-do list
by Byline to Finish Line
posted October 15, 2012 at 6:10pm

There were plenty of things to do on Sunday. My apartment was a complete disaster as I still had to unpack from Saturday’s amazing bike tour of Niagara County. The sink was full of dirty dishes. (I don’t have a dishwasher in my apartment. I kn...more

Listening to Your Coach: The Mind-Body Connection in Boxing
by The Glowing Edge
posted October 13, 2012 at 5:48pm

Seventeen young men, most of the court-ordered to be there, are standing with me in lose rows in their boxing stance, guard up. Coach “One Bad Jab” Massey calls the shots. “Jab, jab, jab, squat. Jab, pivot…jab,” he calls,...more

We must become like ourselves
by Byline to Finish Line
posted October 11, 2012 at 7:11pm

No watch. None. Not my fancy Garmin watch with pace and distance nor my Timex Ironman watch with the timer function, lap button and memory storage. My only clue to the time of day came from the ringing church bells, which always seem to beat the actual to...more

Mini Wednesday Workout
by Meggan's Running Blog
posted October 11, 2012 at 6:52pm

2 mile w/u4 miles @ marathon pace (campus loop), 60 rest,2 X 10min hard w/ 2 rest2 mile c/dI had no Garmin today. I left it on the charged and this morning when I woke up it was completely dead. Because I am tapering I had planned to run by feel anyway. I...more

Finding peace and bravery on a crisp autumn morning
by Byline to Finish Line
posted October 9, 2012 at 9:44pm

The warm glow of the autumn sunrise contrasted beautifully with the frost that covered the ground. The air was crisp and sharp but the palate of the changing leaves against the bright blue morning sky drew me outside. I had skipped my run yesterday under ...more

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