The Straight Dope
Monday, June 30, 2008

Training in the Heat

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It's been hot lately. Really hot. Like North Pole hot. Okay, maybe not that hot, relatively, as there is still more snow in our mountain...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Dreamtime

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This morning I overslept on purpose. Yesterday, I spent a good part of my work day researching sleep and, after what I'd found, getting...

Motivation

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Nothing, NOTHING, is as important as motivation when it comes to getting fit. With enough motivation everything will fall into place eventu...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Mind Over Mountains

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My friend Hans is up to something pretty cool. He and Yuji Hirayama are trying to break the Huber brothers' speed record on The Nose. Th...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Good Old Fashioned Weight Training

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I've been incredibly sore all week. Part of this is from doing a race as my first run of the year. The other part is from picking up the...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

"Cardio"

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When I'm doing a doubles routine a skip a lot of the more aerobic-oriented workouts in X because I'm generally getting heaps of this...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Block III

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My legs were pretty cooked from yesterday's adventure so I began the third 90x block with Back & Biceps and now I'm so pumped t...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

BAM - A Race Report

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Since Tony likes to say "bam", it seems fitting that it would be the name of my first event during this round of 90X. My friend M...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Diet

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I haven't been too strict with diet over the course of the program. But since I always eat decently my results are progressing just fine...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Thanks Tony

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Actually it's thanks Beachbody, which you'll find here on our wedding site , but since this thread is about P90X I thought I'd t...
Monday, June 09, 2008

Dilemmas Of A Weekend Warrior

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The main problem with being an advanced weekend warrior is that even when you’re in shape for one sport you’re out of shape for another. Sin...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

How Long Should Recovery Cycles Be?

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This morning Romney and I got up at 5:30 to do yoga. She had a class. I joined Tony. I got out of bed as stiff and sore as I was last week ...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Things Are Startin' To Stretch

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Bagged Yoga today after the first few sun salutations and popped in X Stretch instead. I'm still tired and what I really needed today w...
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Core Synergistics

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I generally find this to be one of the more fun workouts in the 90x arsenal but yesterday it destroyed me. This is the sign of a good workou...
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Monday, June 02, 2008

Recovery Week

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My second block of P90X has ended with our marriage/housewarming party this weekend. I think just hosting the party was enough to cause over...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Overtraining

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"This is the most blantant case of overtraining I've ever seen. God, I love it!" - David Brainard, to me, climbing Old San M...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Weekend Plans

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When I planned the virtual Giro I had no idea that the weather would cooperate so well. It's gone back and forth from hot to cold just l...
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Legs & Back

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I think this is my new favorite X workout. I switched my schedule this week so that I could work my legs today and rest them before my big r...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

No Pain No Gain

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This morning I'm extremely sore. It's a good sore--the kind of blissful all over soreness that comes from a big day out. The problem...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Doubles

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While I was concocting the doubles routine for the 90X book Tony asked, somewhat rhetorically, "does it really do you any good to train...
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I'm a human lab rat and head of fitness and nutrition development at Beachbody. If our products don't work you can blame me. When I'm not testing training and nutritional theories on myself I'm studying, writing, climbing, riding, running, racing, exploring, or playing with my wife and the dogs.
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