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The Total Care Practice in Palo Alto
Remember when you were a kid and you got hurt or sick, and you just went to your family doctor and that guy seemed to be able to see you whenever you were hurt or sick, and just about knew exactly what to do no matter what happened to you? I do. I thought all…
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Training HOT Update
Since I began this heat acclimatization training back in June, I’ve finally begun to see some nice results. The Bay area has experienced some truly unbelievably hot weather this summer. I’ve never seen it reach 90+ or even 100 degrees in Palo Alto until this year. However, it’s perfect for preparing my body for hard…
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Overtrained Week 3
I went to the doctor this last Wednesday. He thinks it may be some kind of mild constriction of the lung’s airways, most likely due to some allergy or some other trigger. I got an inhaler and have been using it the last few days. Amazingly, it has started to clear up almost immediately. Now…
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Overtrained Week 2
I’m into week 2 of my overtrained state. I did nothing for 4 days, and then yesterday I went for a test swim as I was going stir crazy. Besides, I am big on active recovery and not just sitting around. I took it very easy, and then tested some very short sprints (25m). HR…
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Overtrained Arg!
Well, I did it. I managed to put myself into an overtrained state. Good thing to have caught it early and not have it drag deeper into an overtrained state or else it would probably take longer to get myself out of. In some ways, it really sucked because I didn’t know how much my…
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Notes on Recovery and (Old) Age
I just read an article in the NYTimes about Dara Torres, the swimmer who made the Olympic swim team at 41 years of age. The first amazing thing is her age, which challenges the notion that as we grow older we must slow down. In fact, the NYTimes article cites many studies that refute that…
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Compression Works Part II
This last week, after my long ride, I decided to try a pair of compression tights which cover my entire legs instead of just my calves. I was curious to see if they would work on my entire legs, versus just in my calves. I had a pair of 2XU Tights which I hadn’t tried…
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My Fascia, My Nemesis
Fascia is this connective sheath that surrounds and holds all of your muscles together. It can contract and relax and helps support the function of the muscles within. As I train for Ironman, I find that this year, my fascia is creating some more interesting problems. It seems to be tightening up more this year…
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Compression Works!
This last month I’ve been slowly ramping out of the base phase and getting my running up to about 1.5 hours. I’ll maintain this for many months and don’t really need to run more just yet, as I’ve still got about 6 months to go until Ironman Florida and don’t want to burn out. Last…
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Anatomy Trains
My physical therapist turned me on to Anatomy Trains. In their own words, Anatomy Trains are: “Anatomy Trains provides a precise map of the ‘anatomy of connection’ – the whole-body fascial and myofascial linkages, leading to holistic strategies for health professionals, movement teachers, and athletes to resolve complex postural and movement patterns.” What all that…
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Compression Part I
I arrived home after Ironman Western Australia thinking about compression. Compression socks and tights both for during competition and recovery. It was something that seemed to be gaining in popularity now. This year’s Ironman World Championships in Kona saw Torbjorn Sindballe wearing an all white outfit. It looked rather funky but apparently was a product…
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Graston in the Privacy of My Own Home
The other week I went to my physical therapist and in a sudden moment of inspiration wondered why I couldn’t do Graston at home. I asked him if other patients had pondered this, and also remembered when my other physical therapist once told me that she had done Graston at a race with a butter…
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Graston, ART, and Kinesio Taping Saving My Groin Muscle…and My Late Season Races
After Pac Grove, my left adductor/groin muscle really started to act up. That tightened up and swelled against my hamstring, preventing that from moving freely and thus made that start to tighten up, and then both of those pulled upward on my calf making that all nice and tight as well. For 2 weeks I…
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Ice Baths in the Summer
Note to self: Need 3 bags of ice in the summertime. The temperature of “cold” water is now much higher, as well as the ambient room temperature. This causes the ice to melt faster in an attempt to lower the water temperature. 2 bags of ice ran out at about 8 minutes. I think 3…
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The Spontaneous Formation of Adhesions
Ow ow…tight tight..ow ow… Those were the words I expressed when I got up this last Thursday morning. My hamstrings were really tight, probably in part due to the strained poplitiuses (poplittii?) on both legs, with my left poplitius being the worst for wear. But having taken the day off on Wednesday, I knew it…
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