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Consistency in your training.
Learn to show up everyday. Demand it of yourself. Train everyday. You can always modify your training depending on your health. When a cervical disk blew in my neck, I had to modify my training. It...
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A pain in the neck for triathletes.
Pain in the neck is a sign of trying too hard and straining. Like a dog on a leash, eventually the dog feels it in their neck and stops fighting the leash. All along, while training, I could be...
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Sore neck, shoulders and back.
You are the cure. Most of the time, we can heal ourselves if we take action. And the sooner we take action the better. Ignoring pain and bad habits leads to illness or injury so when your body is...
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Lower back and abdominal exercises for older and overweight adults.
While teaching triathletes to swim, a common weakness is lower abdominal and lower back strength. When we sit, stand, walk or lie down we can get away with little abdominal strength. It’s only when we...
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Weight lifting for older and overweight athletes.
Once we get so old, size becomes less and less important. It’s less of a plus to be big and strong if that means it’s hard to move our weight around without hurting. Big and strong used to be a big...
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Weight lifting for older, injured and sore triathletes.
Along the line of approaching exercise and fitness from differing angles is the concept of lifting weights slowly. It’s good to vary swimming, cycling and running so we don’t get in a rut and develop...
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What is working well for this older triathlete.
A good story involves overcoming obstacles. Here are some obstacles that have worked out favorably so far. Back pains have been worked out through strengthening. Strengthening my core muscles, abs, has...
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Neck pain and back pain.
If it hurts, I’ve been doing something wrong. The cure is usually working something in the opposite direction or in other words working the opposing muscles. Here is a simple exercise for those of us...
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Pain and the older athlete
The pain never goes away. Pain tradeoffs can be made though. There is the pain of a workout rather than the pain of not working out. We all have friends and family who don’t workout and they experience...
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Sit-ups, leg lifts and core work for the older triathlete.
Most young people who haven’t discovered sitting and video games have strong core muscles. For older athletes, these were the yesteryears when we could play on the playground all day long without...
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