Exercising Outdoors Alone: Should I Skate with a Gun? The Meredith Emerson Case
Great - now I have another excuse aside from exhaustion or the weather as to why I shouldn't skate in the evenings after work...the danger in skating, walking, running alone on a park...
View ArticleThe New York Times Weighs in on Workout Music
I love music maybe more than anything else, both playing it and listening to it. I always have something playing when I'm at my desk or reading or in a car, and there's an unplugged electric guitar...
View ArticleBenefits of Inline Skating (Rollerblading), Roller Skating, Biking Over...
Check this out! Meredith Cohn of the Baltimore Sun gets credit for a piece with a subtitle you can't beat:Hopkins study finds that kids who skateboard or Rollerblade stay fit longer that those who play...
View ArticleAmerican Tobacco Trail gets some press from Sunday's News & Observer (Raleigh)
The article can be found at http://www.newsobserver.com/2766/story/1001947.htmlIt speaks to cyclists on the ATT exclusively, but hey, that's active transportation in NC too, right?I'm sensing that...
View ArticleLower BMI Makes for a Great Night's Sleep: Slimmer Body Mass Index Helps...
It's Day 71 of the Brain/Body Makeover and I've become one of those very annoying morning people. I've been in Bellefonte, PA, since Thursday evening, visiting my oldest and dearest childhood friend...
View ArticleTater Rides Again: Country Park and the Scotland Neck Country Roads Bike Tour
If your weight is keeping you on the couch and off your bike (or skates), I've got the ride for you. Thanks to the wide reach of the Tour to Tanglewood, an annual skating and cycling event that raises...
View ArticleFeeling Satisfied -- Taking the Long View
Raise your hand if you can name the road that is paved with good intentions. I’ve taken that to mean that in most cases, my actions are far more important than my intentions or my words. But when it...
View ArticleEleven Fluffy Reasons to Sort of Consider These Seven Dorky Sports: Inline...
OK I made the 11 number up, and it is just to mock all the titles on health.com and so many websites, including this one sometimes, ha! Did I say dorky? Why yes, I did, but I only meant that this is...
View ArticleBurning the Calories Before Refueling? Should we be Exercising in a Fasted...
We've talked about the idea of bonk training before, and I don't claim to know a lot, but know I have done it. Often it was not "breakfast" time, but for various reasons it was still over 6 to 8 hours,...
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Off the Couch and Into Invincibility: Cartoons of Depression, Angst and...
Hello out there. Yes it's nice sitting with the laptop and reading all sorts of stuff, checking in with your efriends or ifriends, maybe even watching PBS or some awesome, enlightening movie from...
View ArticlePeriodization and the Preseason - or: I Thought I Could Do Those Inline...
So here we are in the Preseason, per Rob Bell's Periodization article I referred to for the Offseason. This should be a six week block of low-intensity technique work (drills), and cross-training (if...
View ArticleExercise! Sedentary Lifestyle More to Blame for Decline With Age Than Aging
Just spotted this one:Running Into Old AgeIan McMahan, Apr 22, 2015Quote:While some loss of strength is inevitable, the researchers found that older athletes who participated in exercise programs...
View ArticleInline Skating is a Good Workout
An article from the passenger-side newsfeed... A website name of "Popsugar" doesn't encourage one to expect a lot of substance in its content, but here's a nice enough account of someone returning to...
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