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The Cost to Run the Boston Marathon
Boston is just a week away. I thought I’d take a moment to write out the price tag for doing the race. If you’ve ever wanted to do Boston (or have done it) than you should know the race is … Continue reading
Swim Testing Results Part 2
I’m going to dissect the 400 TT further from my previous post. Let’s look at the differences in 100m times: 1st 100: 1:28 2nd 100: 1:32 3rd 100: 1:34 4th 100: 1:34 The Start The athlete who performed this time … Continue reading
Swim Testing Results
From the previous blog post I will now dissect how the individual should progress their training to maximize speed in the water. The individual is a competitive triathlete who is looking to focus on Olympic distance races. Here was his swim … Continue reading
Swim Testing
Probably the hardest sport to analyze the physiological improvements of training is swimming. Submersion in water makes V02 max testing very difficult, almost impossible. I’ve tried lactate analysis and had mixed results. Generally I find lactate levels are always high … Continue reading
Video 101: Watch and Learn
So the previous blog post was about the basics of using a video camera. This post focuses on how to successfully prepare a your video camera setup to capture human motion Before recording a video, what is it that you … Continue reading
Video 101: Watch yourself improve
Camera basics: There are many important factors when choosing a camera but the first two you should know about are frame rate, and shutter speed. Frame rate means the amount of individual frames the video camera can take per second. Shutter speed … Continue reading
You Are Not Average
A few years ago, I started questioning why everything is averaged. It probably happened around the same time when I was in charge of quality control of a company that manufactured baseball bats. This experience taught me that nothing is ever … Continue reading
Perfection in Sport
In sport, often you hear about athletes perfecting their performance. In hockey it could be a wrist shot or a tennis player’s backhand. Each athlete concentrates on subtle changes that help them get maybe a quarter of a percent better. … Continue reading
TPT Team Finishes Second
This past weekend, Jennifer Entwistle and Cliff Worden-Rogers raced in the TTT Ohio co-ed team event and placed second, less than 8 minutes behind the Pro Timex Team. This extraordinary event consisted of four triathlons with a combined racing time of … Continue reading
Jump to “Assess”
Sometimes you don’t need the fancy tests that TPT or other companies offer. A very simple way to see if improvements are happening with your own training is to do a simple jump test. Jumping is very good predictor of your … Continue reading
