I know this is always something that needs to be taken with a thought process that allows you a learning curve that is outside an obvious physical exertion but the relationship between the thought and the action is very conected
Kerryn McCann Marathon Ispiration dead at 41
Some things come along and just rock you and I felt this way when I learned of the death of the 41-year-old dual Commonwealth Games gold medalist Kerryn McCann from breast cancer. Damn I get a tear in my eye as I write this, you see so many tales of extrodanary feats but as an Ozzie when
she won gold in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006. i cheered for a bloody great effort by a real person her victory rightly taking its place as a great moment in Australia’s history.
Tributes have been paid to the humility and unassuming character of marathon runner Kerry at her funeral her death leaves behind husband Greg and children Benton (11), Josie (5) and Cooper (14 months).
McCann was diagnosed last year while she was pregnant but held off having treatment until Cooper was born.
Former Olympian and breast cancer survivor Raelene Boyle and long distance runners Steve Moneghetti and Craig Mottram were among the mourners.
Husband Greg delivered the eulogy,his hurt apparent by his statements of heartfelt descriptions of his champion wife of 17-and-a-half years,
the memory of a vibrant,sweetest person I ever met
Photo: Danielle Smith
there was a short time there we had absolutely everything. We couldn’t have wanted any more.”
He said she made sure their family was OK before she died.
“Just before 20 past 11 at night she said goodbye. She was so exhuasted but she never gave in,” he said.
Kerry has been an inspiration to many Australians and Australian athletes… she will continue to be an inspiration,
her legacy stretched beyond the track and pavement, for mothers across Australia, Kerryn McCann was their athlete
all mourn the loss of a wonderful wife and mother, a champion athlete and a truly great Australian.”
Sprint star Raelene Boyle, a breast cancer survivor herself, said her friend was as brave in life as she was in running
She said she spoke to McCann just a week ago and the mother of three was still speaking hopefully of making progress
against her aggressive form of breast cancer. “She wanted to win,” Boyle said.
McCann was diagnosed with breast cancer in August last year while she was pregnant with her third child.
McCann noticed the lump in her breast months before she did anything about it
She had a 2.5cm lump removed from her right breast when she was 31 weeks pregnant, but McCann delayed having chemotherapy until after the birth of her son Cooper Patrick.
She underwent an 18-week course of chemotherapy after the birth, with her treatment ending in January this year.
Soon after McCann was diagnosed with secondary cancer in her liver.
McCann won the hearts of Australia
McCann’s marathon win was judged the most memorable moment of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and made into a stamp.
McCann was aged 38 when she provided one of the dramatic highlights of Melbourne’s 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Exchanging the lead several times with Kenyan Hellen Cherono Koskei as they approached the MCG, McCann hit the front and entered the stadium to a massive roar from the crowd.
As the pair battled the final stretch around the stadium, McCann lost the lead before summoning an inspiring home straight burst to eclipse Koskei and snatch victory by two seconds.
She described it as “probably the greatest victory I’ve ever had, or the greatest race I’ve ever run”.
She also won gold in the marathon at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 and represented Australia in the event at three Olympic Games.
When McCann revealed last year that she had beaten breast cancer after it was detected during her third pregnancy.
“The surgeon was confident he got it all and he was right. It’s fantastic news,” McCann told New Idea in October 2007.
However, in September of this year, her husband said his wife was undergoing a “few problems”.
Leaving you with a statment from Kerry do you think she stepped up to the start line, Oh people be bold, you do not know when the sand empty’s from the hour glass of our time here, step up to the start line now
But you ride with it. Yes, it’s just the way it had to be
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There is a Toad in my shoe
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There is a toad in my shoe
Here in Australia you are always told as a child that if you get into the habit of checking your shoes
left on the porch or outside you will ensure no little critters will get into your boots and attack your
toes as you slide your foot in. I was not thinking of this when I sat down on the porch
and pulled my shoes on getting the most horrible shock, when after realizing my foot was not going
to slip in, I hastily withdrew my foot and up ended the shoe, only to have a very startled
toad drop out and hop off.
Now this can be a cause for a laugh as we both got quite a shock but after I got over it I
started to reflect on why the toad was in there in the first place.
Toads as in the manner of all creatures, are not pushy types and they will make a home in a cool environment
that not being used for anything else .
My running shoes have not been used for a while, now admittedly I have an injury that keeps me from running so they they not much in demand.
I paused then to reflect on the possible learning that could be in this incidence without being too deep and meaningful.
I realized that by not accepting I could not train and run competitively and cast of my shoes , I had really pushed away a lifestyle and an Identity that I had before my injury, tying self and identity to success in my sport.
I used my sport as a lot of things, one was a tool in keeping my depression under management and feeling good about myself
By finding a worthiness in being a high achieving athlete, I had created a void that I have been experiencing
since my inability to compete.
What had happened is that I had forgotten about life outside triathlon, long runs
and Sunday races that’s why when I tried to slip into other boots that haven’t been
used for a while I discovered a toad in them.
Struth bit of a wake up call so where do I go from here ,well I will check my shoes before I put
my toe’s in them that’s for sure, but back to the lesson.
Being fixated on one thing, and it is real easy to do in an athletic pursuit
you have to remember that there is more going on than your narrow point of focus
or may be that is just me?
Finding out I could not run was a very big thing for me, which turned up the depression knob,
but the realization that I really struggled with, was I had so much identity attached to being a
successful triathlete that I could not even think about doing something for fun and not having
to be the best, or as I am prone to saying, to being at the pointy end of the race.
So lesson learned, enjoyment in sport is about social connection, participation at what ever level
you get your success from , having an understanding and appreciation that all aspects of life
are contributers to success.
So do not leave areas of your life to sit outside, and be cast off or you might just end up with
something worse than a toad sneaking in to to bite you on the toe.
Talking about shoes sort of :-) These Guys have gone out on a limb and put a new trail running shoe on the market
For the past 15 years have designed top-of-the line gear for almost every major athletic company. They started as staffers for Nike in the late 1990s and most recently were independent contractors assisting Under Armour launch a line of football cleats.
But late last year the two launched their own company, 20 Degrees North, and started seeking their own piece of the $46 billion outdoor-recreation market.
“It’s probably not the best time to start a shoe company,” “But we’ve been designing for everyone else for years, so why not do it ourselves? How hard can it really be?”
Last month the duo launched their first product, a line of bright-colored running shoes for the 40 million
American joggers who run on off-road trails, here in Australia we are seeing a big interest in of road
Triathlon where the uneven terrain of mountain passes, beaches, and forests necessitates a wider, more
stable running shoe than those worn by track-and-field athletes.
About a dozen companies, including Adidas and Asics, already sell trail-running shoes, but 20 Degrees’ founders say the market lacks a clear leader.
For research, they examined photos and Internet footage of big cats’ paws, discovering that their pads - not claws - wrapped around rocks and uneven terrain to give them better stability.
“Other companies look at putting hard teeth and large pieces on the bottom of shoes to give them stability - that adds weight,”
Instead, 20 Degrees fitted the bottom of its shoes with lightweight, blown-rubber traction pads and grooves to make them work more like paws. The company also used an injection-molded manufacturing process that is generally associated with Crocs not high-performance sneakers. And although that makes the shoes almost twice as expensive to make, it resulted in a trainer that is almost two ounces lighter than competitors’.
But no matter how light and agile their shoes are, it’s hard to break into the shoe market, especially in such a niche.
To build credibility among die-hard athletes, 20 Degrees is targeting the some 28,000 runners that participate each year in Xterra races, a series of triathlons held all over the world. In 2007, 20 Degrees inked a deal with Team Unlimited, the Maui firm that runs the Xterra races, and is selling its shoe under the Xterra name. The Maui location is also the inspiration for 20 Degrees’ name: Hawaii is found at 20 degrees latitude.
As a result, the Xterra shoe will get exposure at races and on Xterra Planet TV, a sports cable network that, according to Team Unlimited CEO Tom Kiely, gets about 50 million viewers a year. The company also has access to five Xterra-sponsored athletes, competitive runners who have been testing 20 Degrees’ shoes since spring.
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Sufers Paridise to Cooktown Kayak trip
Do you ever get into this time warp place, where you are going to do something
and the next time you look it is a week later or something like that,
darn that seems to happen to me all the time.
Life gets in the way of doing the things that really float ya boat,
instead of shaking your fist at a world that can seem so mind numbingly boring
filled with all the things you are supposed to do, you now buy a house,
have a nice car, save for the pension plan,yadda yadda !!!
It was great to meet a couple of guys who decided they would live
a dream and go on a small kayak paddle southport to cooktown actualy
only a short trip 
I met up with Pete and Matt last week as I was going for a an Mtb ride
that took me down by the Pumicstone passage. Pete is an outdoor activities
guide and Matt is an intensive care nurse, who decided that they wanted to experience
life in a simple mode.
So a four month Kayak paddle up the east coast of Australia seemed to be a good thing
to do.
I saw the guys pull and had a yarn with them I took a bit of audio and
some pics, try as I might i could not get the audio onto the player a
technical challenge that has stymied me at this point in time.
The guys have only just started the trip it is not a sponsored passage
or anything other than two people stepping up and making life go the
way they want it they promised me a few pics on the way around
so I hope we can follow there journey
I caught up with them as they finished there lay day at Bribie Island it
was starting to get a good breeze going as they set of fortunately in the
right direction for them.
The offer to load all the gear into the back of my work ute for the haul to water was greatfully accepted as they had the other occupants of the caravan park staring at them strangely when they brought everything into the camp using a borrowed wheelbarrow.
As the lads stowed everything into the boats I wished them well,
said Bon voyage and headed back to work, knowing that my time was
coming soon to experience the sense of well being that goes along
with committing to a goal and to stepping up to the start line of life.
If you are a reader of this blog for any length of time you would know of
my upmost admiration for those who take on life,
and live the wonders that so few forget that is available.
There is no reason, not to be able find in life, the ability to live like there
is no tomorrow and dance like there is no one watching.
To be able to read stories of simple acts of courage, to amazing feats
of endurance, is a most uplifting thing to be able to understand
every action we take we are an event in some body else’s life.
Go out and get on the start line enjoy this wonderful thing called life
Cancer drives Man to Triathlon
Sister’s memory drives triathlete
Southlake man raises funds to fight cancer through Ironman races
Jonathan Walkup credits his sister with providing the inspiration he needed to qualify for Saturday’s World Championship 70.3 Ironman in Clearwater, Fla.
Julia Walkup Middleton lost her seven-year battle with cancer on Sept. 1.
“Julia will not be far from my mind,” Walkup, 46, said.
Walkup, a Southlake resident, began triathlon training in January 2006 to improve his health. He placed in his age group in his first sprint triathlon races, which fostered a desire to continue training.
He then decided to raise money to help fight thymoma cancer, the type his sister had. Through research, he learned that the Janus Charity Challenge donated proceeds to the charity of one’s choice. The only catch: Janus’ fundraising program was tied to Ironman events.
“Julia was in her sixth year of this battle,” he said. “She should have only survived two. In the back of my mind, I knew I was running out of time.”
With five months to train, Walkup entered Ironman Arizona last April. He raised more than $14,000 and finished. He narrowly missed a spot in the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.
Walkup then entered the Buffalo Springs Half Ironman last summer. Again, he missed earning a Kona spot, but he did qualify for Clearwater. He said the event will be a family celebration of Julia’s life. Even his dad, Bob Walkup, who was just re-elected to serve his third term as the mayor of Tucson, Ariz., plans to be on hand.
Jonathan Walkup is among 18 area triathletes who qualified for the Clearwater race.
Another, Jack Weiss, has recovered from a September bike wreck and multiple surgeries that followed. Weiss also qualified for the Duathlon World Long Course Championships in September, but he wasn’t physically able to participate.
“I’m in Florida,” Weiss said. “I can’t say how well I will do, but I am here.”
I hope I do get the message across with some of these stories that life is all about taking a stance and stepping up to the start line, life can throw you so many curve balls ( to use another sporting saying) that you can be bruised and battered but it is always the measure of the desire to be a participant that get you to the end of the race
Miserable Pommy
I wrote about the Triathlon World Championships in Hamburg in early post
http://www.watzzupsport.com/2007/09/07/hamburg-triathlon-age-group-hero/
One of the contestents Emma-Kate Lidbury, is now down under it is amazing the way life takes you if you are prepared to steup to the start line
A news reporter has swapped the gloomy British winter for some sun down under.
But it’s not all lazing on the beach for as the journalist is putting herself through a strenuous triathlon training regime.
Two years ago Emma-Kate decided to take part in a triathlon for a feature for the Oxford Mail.
She enjoyed it so much that she became hooked on the three-discipline sport and is now training in the small town of Noosa, north of Brisbane.
Bosses at the Oxfordshire daily have given the 27-year-old unpaid leave so she can race and train in Australia until the new year.
In September, Emma picked up a bronze medal in the women’s 25 to 29 age category at the Triathlon World Championships, in Hamburg.
She said: “Things are going brilliantly in Oz, I’m absolutely loving it. I’m certainly not missing the notepad and newsroom much when there’s permanent sunshine, gorgeous beaches and brilliant training facilities here in Noosa.
“I am training with some of the world’s best triathletes and I’m building on my fitness day by day ready for a stonking season next year. Life is pretty damn good and I do have to pinch myself sometimes to remind myself that this is all real.
“Most days go a little like this - up at 5am for a 5k swim session in the pool where Aussie Olympic swimming hero Grant Hackett is currently training. Then it’s back home for breakfast and a mid-morning snooze before catching up on e-mails and writing up training logs before lunch.
“I do a late-afternoon bike or run then a stretching session, shower, dinner and bed. Obviously not all days are like that - some have involved the beach - and I’ve also done a bit of sightseeing. “I’m off to the idyllic Whitsunday Islands in a fortnight or so for a few days R&R so all in all pretty darn brilliant. It’s crazy to think I only got into this triathlon lark in order to do a feature on it.”
So I guess her life has changed somewhat to a place that it was before she stepped up to the start line
Heart Scare For Emma Carney
FORMER world triathlon champion Emma Carney has been warned not to push herself in competition after she suffering a heart scare
Three years ago Carney was diagnosed with ventricular tachycardia — a condition that causes the heart to accelerate to abnormally high levels — and had a defibrillator implanted.
Despite being advised she would never exercise again, Carney, 36, could not accept a life without sporting challenges and was keen to complete the 299km Melbourne-to-Warrnambool.
On Saturday she was 20km into the race when she had to slow down to negotiate some cyclists who had crashed.
Momentarily forgetting her heart condition, Carney went into race mode and attempted to chase down the leading pack.
“I got held up and my reaction was to chase the lead pack,” Carney said. “I didn’t think about my heart condition.”
Just as Carney caught the front group her defibrillator went off, restoring a normal heartbeat via electric shock. “I thought, ‘S—, I better pull over’,” she said.
“My defibrillator went off again and I’m sitting on the side of the road in Werribee thinking, ‘I wish I was normal, why am I doing this? God, I’m an idiot’. Then the next day I’m back training again.”
Her cardiologist, Prof Richard Harper, said she pushed herself too hard and her heart responded by getting out of rhythm.
“She has damaged her heart from repeated over-training,” he said. “She was doing 10 to 16 triathlons a year, and she had an extremely rigorous training program.
“It’s possible to do too much training, and as a result of this, her heart can get out of rhythm.”
He advised Carney to enter fun bike events, or take up coaching.
“The problem with that, she says, is that the athletes don’t train hard enough,” he said.
Warned not to push herself too hard competing, Carney said: “The problem is that when they put a number on my back, I become a different person.”
Carney is training about three hours a day and hopes to contest a couple of Gatorade triathlon events this summer, despite Saturday’s scare.
Prof Harper has not met a more determined person: “She is in uncharted waters . . . considering the damage she’s done, I’m amazed she can do what she does.”
Throughout her ordeal Carney has sought to honour the memory of her sister Jane, who died of melanoma almost two years ago.
“I’ve seen how quickly life can be taken away with Jane. It’s such a fluke that I’m here and I’m alive,” she said.
Cyclist Anna Meares fractures neck in Velodrome race crash
I like to sit down in front of the idiot box to watch a bit of news and sport and I watched a nasty prang that Anna Meares had, I guess giving her a hard task to get to to the Olympics.
In an interview She said
“I realise that I’m pretty lucky with the injuries I’ve come away with,” admitted Anna “The C2 vertebra, so I’ve been told, is the one that controls your breathing and if that goes so too does your life.
…Wow….. she is a professional sport star, it is good to read that she understands that life is more important than results on a sporting arena.
Folks take a cue, engage in your sport for the right reasons. The tragic death of
Amy Gillett rocked the Australian cycling fraternity, hey shit like that happens. Life can be like that, you can not see what is coming around the corner.
If you survive, the lesson is in how you deal with it, if you don’t, the lesson is for those who are left behind.
The act of participating, is the reason to be at a place different from where you are, whereby gaining a foothold on a life that may have been,that would have never could be.
That’s why, by you stepping up to the start line, you engage with life, and dream to arrive at a place that you have elected to strive for.
In addition to the heavy skin grazing, torn tendons and muscle tissue. Anna dislocated the AC joint in her right shoulder and sustained the hairline fracture to her C2 vertebra.
The Los Angeles accident was the first serious crash Anna has been involved in since 1999, while her last track crash of any form was during her first year as a senior in 2002.
The accident in Los Angeles has a very real impact on her Beijing Olympic Games bid. she is currently ranked fourth in the qualification standings for August’s games, the four to six weeks she’s expected to spend off the bike will mean she will miss the final two qualification events – the Copenhagen Track World Cup round and the Manchester World Track Championships.
Anna Meares’ determination is to be ready for the Olympic challenge, from the day after the accident it was evident she has already began preparing for the road ahead.
When asked how the accident has affected her emotionally with regards to returning to the bike she responded with saying
“Right from when I was conscious after the accident I could feel both of my legs and I had no trouble with that,” she explained. “The time that I really started to worry was when the doctors came in and said there was a hairline fracture and that they needed to go back and look through the x-rays, I was pretty heavily sedated by that stage so it didn’t really sink in until a few days later. “I don’t really think at this stage I’m too scared of getting back on the bike, I’m quiet eager to get back on the bike. I guess the main thing there will be when I get back on the velodrome and see how that goes.”
GO girl go thank you for your courage, dare to to dream your own dreams folks step up to the start line
Triathlon Destroyed the Woman
Kerrin Lester always thought the only way to run or ride a bike was to have one foot follow the other.
But now she is portion of the woman she used to be, destroying the other 1/3 by training for triathlon
DAMN I love these stories
A story about a triathlon training group in Ashburton four months ago proved to be the start of an amazing journey for Miss Lester, who once weighed in at 97kg.
At age 21, Miss Lester said she was “horribly overweight” and she got sick. After being admitted to hospital and not being able to eat for two weeks, she lost 7kg. That was just the start.
That experience prompted her to change her whole lifestyle,
THis is where the change happens when the
PERSON ie. the internal you say’s Shit !!!!! I have to do something this is not who I want to be.
She started going to the gym and doing weights. Slowly but surely the weight started coming off.
She has gone from a size 20 to a size 10 and the 62kg teacher is preparing to take part in her first long course triathlon.
In 2005, a mother approached her about swimming in the Special K women’s triathlon in Christchurch.
Having been a keen swimmer from a young age, she decided to give it a go.
The feeling she experienced crossing the finish line was like no other, she said, and it motivated her to keep going.
This is a key to further motivation the Natural high from completion of a goal must always be backed up by further challanges
Although her first dip in the lake had been a shock to the system, swimming came naturally to her, her biking was getting better and her running still needed some work, she said.
First starting running 4km was a huge challenge, This is where I will always advocate a good chiro to check out the backbone make sure all is in line, I will also say don’t worry about long run get form and strength, even more controversial find a place to run barefoot.
She has now competed in the Four Lakes race at Tekapo and completed the 18.5km pyramid run.
Since she began training six days a week in June, Miss Lester had lost a further 10kg and is a happy and healthy 28-year-old. She sleeps a lot better now and wakes up with a new-found energy in the mornings. Many of the things she ate before now make her feel ill.
This where having a good diet come into play, I do not advocate any thing but a balanced diet and good water, you can pee out in great volume useless supplements.
I am a strong proponent of raw foods and non animal tucker but in saying that, it is a way of eating that is a lifestyle and needs to be understood for a great story about raw food and one persons success go here
Seeing the changes in his daughter also prompted Miss Lester’s father into action. The pair go on bike rides when she visits home and her mum even has a bike now too.
This is a great side effect that you will inspire other people to take stock of where they are when you step up to the start line
“I stopped buying clothes at size 20,” she said. “If I didn’t fit it, I didn’t get it.”
She was recently asked by someone who did not recognise her at first, where the rest of her was. She was able to reply, “oh, I left it at home”.
The Lake Hood triathlon will be Miss Lester’s first long-course triathlon and will see her tackle distances double what she has done before.
“But I don’t think I could be any more prepared than what I’ve been doing,” she said.
Such is her passion for what she is doing, she would love to get her students involved in the Weetbix Tryathlon next year.
Having something to aim for is vital, I hope that stories such as this get people inspired I wrote a post earlier that I got a bit of flack for, regarding unprepared, illtrained, overweight, competitors the intention was to encourage participation but have safe entry into the sport for all concerned
Train safely, enjoy the journey
Triathlon breast beating
Like training for a triathlon, beating breast cancer takes strategy.
And for the six breast cancer survivors on the Roaring Fork Women’s Triathlon Team, strategy involves passion and endurance, perseverance and camaraderie.
All parts of life are held together with the determination to be at a place that is comfortable and to a level that is dependant on the motivating drive behind the desired outcome
One of the reasons I do this is because I don’t want to have any regrets if it comes back,” triathlete Debi Wright said.
Wright, of Glenwood Springs, is a six-year survivor and two-year member of the team. she described being diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoing treatment as an out-of-body experience.
Triathlon training serves as a reality check.
“Just to know you can get your body back,” she said.
The six women share a passion for their sport, which helps them lead healthy lifestyles, even during the toughest of cancer treatments. Their determination to not let cancer win extends from the courses they run to the courses of their everyday lives.
“Fitness is absolutely non-negotiable in my world,” triathlete Jill Jarling said. “There is absolutely no doubt fitness helps fight reoccurrences.”
Jarling, of Glenwood Springs, is in her first year on the triathlon team. She celebrates four years of being cancer-free Saturday, and suggests exercise in any form to help cope with cancer.
On Aug. 19, Halladay marked two years being cancer-free. Triathlon training keeps her motivated to lead a healthy lifestyle, she said.”Having a goal … training for a triathlon, it gave me something to focus on,” said Halladay, a five-year triathlete. “And Tri for the Cure (Sprint Triathlon for breast cancer), it’s got a lot of meaning for me now.”
Nancy Reinisch, the team’s co-coach, said Halladay was an inspiration after her breast cancer diagnosis a year-and-a-half ago.
“To me, Heidi was my mentor,” Reinisch said. “I don’t want my life to be cancer. And athletics are a part of that, part of the power of knowing other breast cancer survivors. It’s important to have role models.”
Mary Jay was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago and became interested in triathlon training to support other women.
She finds participation empowering.
“I joined for the motivation and support, and the accountability to get up in the morning,” she said.
Anderson - a breast cancer survivor of one year - joined the team long before she knew how important the 50 triathletes would be in her life.
“Nancy (Reinisch) really inspired me. … She was just four months in front of me,” she said. “I also knew I had to get back in shape after.”
“What research is saying is that exercise actually blocks the hormone level for return of tumor growth,” she said. “It’s not just for our appearance - it’s life or death.”
Wright said exercise keeps her mind and body in check.
“It’s the mental aspect of it,” she said. “I don’t like to take drugs. I’d rather go out for a run.”
Or swim. And a bicycle ride.
Obese guy triathlon training
Vic Biberston knows what it’s like to be the fat guy, the last one chosen for sports teams. He knows what it’s like to ride the diet roller coaster of weight loss and gain.
As he says Let me be clear, I alone am responsible for my physical condition. My weight is the empirical evidence of simple nutritional mathematics, I have eaten more calories than I have burned. When calories in is greater than calories burned you gain weight. Do that year over year, and you end up shopping in the big and tall men’s store because the other stores simply don’t have your size.
Weight and the ability to control it has many causes but at the end of the day how you treat your body by what goes in and what measures you take to exercise will by the result you look at in the mirror.
One of his co-workers, a former triathlete, casually mentioned he’d like to get in shape to compete again.
For the past nine months, he has made it his goal to take part in a triathlon. He even created a Web site, www.obesetotriathlete.com, to share his experiences and track his progress.
I so encourage this sensible approach to using sport as motivational anchor to make positive changes to your life, when problems arise from weight challenges it is a tilt towards the real depression cycle that impacts a wider circle of people.
Any time you undertake a training program The list of general , specific training activities need to be organized.
With any program, skills must go from general to specific, basic to complex.
* Athletes must establish general conditioning , this is a most important factor I have seen so many athletes get hurt and disillusioned by not being prepared
before doing complex lactic acid workouts.
* You must develop the ability to accelerate before doing speed endurance. Again this could be a issue to be debated but I believe good form and the ability to
know how to run fast is the first and intrinsicely important element of training
* And beyond that these skills must be broken down further as well as addressing other biomotor abilities
Establish a clear, specific goal for the training plan.
Do you want to win a State Title ? beat joe bloggs on the bike who always trashed you last season, but you had him in the run.
You have to set your intention on a specific goal by focusing on the end result and then working backwards.
This is one of the most overlooked , difficult components of the training plan.
1. But if you don’t start with the end goal and end date and work backwards, you can’t get a true understanding of how to progress your training.
Don’t forget that competitions must be factored into the overall conditioning plan as well.
You can get going with out the surgery of gastric partitioning or gastric stapling that Joe went through.
I know diet is a four-letter word.But if you need something as a motivator and tie it inClick Here! with your training remember though… If you’re dieting, that’s a temporary state of being. At some point, the diet has to end.’’ look at eating as nutrition: ‘‘Let’s call it that. It’s a lifestyle.’’
Go Joe and everyone else out there that has the courage to step up to the start line
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