Published in Endurance Magazine in the November 2011 issue. Many athletes, from the first-timer to the experienced marathoner, struggle with what to do after a marathon or at the end of the season. There is a reason why great marathoners like Ryan Hall run only a couple of marathons a year. Marathons are exhausting, and the…

Survive and Thrive in Your Next Mud Run Originally Published by Endurance Magazine in Aug 2011 by Brian Diaz As an endurance athlete and outdoor enthusiast, I am routinely asked to do 12- and 24-hour adventure races, as well as 8- to 12-hour continuous mountain bike loops and road rides that challenge many aspects of…

Article published by The Wall Street Journal on April 19, 2011. Written by Melinda Beck John Jeffries, a 49-year-old money manager in Dover, Mass., had hip-resurfacing surgery in 2008 and is now coaching his son’s basketball team and long-distance cycling. Alex Douglas, a Wall Street software architect, had both knees replaced last year at 39…

Published in The New York Times by Gretchen Reynolds on April 15, 2011. Let’s consider the butterfly. One of the most taxing movements in sports, the butterfly requires greater energy than bicycling at 14 miles per hour, running a 10-minute mile, playing competitive basketball or carrying furniture upstairs. It burns more calories, demands larger doses of…

I always seem to have a little anxiety the night before racing, so it wasn’t a big surprise the night before my first triathlon that I was lying awake at midnight looking at the ceiling. But, when I found myself laying on the floor at 2am with my restless and screaming two-year-old son, Braden, while…

As the year is coming to a close, I am proud to say that I have witnessed and trained several athletes who made the jump to endurance events and completed their first 5K, half marathon, or triathlon this year. What a wonderful accomplishment that has left many of you wanting more of this in the…

Vitamin D for Athletes With all the rage about finding the newest supplement for performance and recovery in the endurance world, we may not need to look any farther then a tried a true vitamin that is quickly becoming a major fixture in ergogenic aids for athletes (see SportLegs.com). Vitamin D is best known for…

Every year I get asked the same questions around this time. Instead of hearing the same old rant from me, I’ll let Meredith Falcon, head personal trainer at ActivEdge Fitness & Sports Performance, answer: Ladies, here we are once again, in a new year with fresh goals, high expectations of ourselves, and the top button…

This is the second part of a two-part article covering different, alternative treatments of chronic tendonitis or tendinopathies. In the first part, I discussed the use of low-level laser therapy, or cold laser therapy, and its effectiveness in providing relief and recovery in quadriceps knee tendonitis. For the second part, I will cover another type of treatment that is gaining popularity in the United States, but is still not fully supported by the medical community, known as prolotherapy.

“Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus” was a popular book released in the early ‘90’s about the differences, mostly in personality, between men and women. But does this saying need to be applied to the gym setting as well? Are there really big differences between the way men and women need to workout?