Slowing down isn’t bad or wrong. Not at all if you have your menstruation cycle on. I slow down on my running – keeping my runs shorter and slower and sometimes don’t run if I feel drained out. But when it comes to Yoga – my approach changes! But the controversy stays. Is it good […]
When you think of people who are high-achievers, who are always able to eat healthy, excel at work or school, workout and do everything on time might have some superhuman powers. But while it’s easy to brush this away as something achievable, it is actually all down to habit. And habits can be begun to […]
EVERY OLYMPIAN AND WORLD CHAMP WAS A NEW RIDER ONCE—HERE’S WHAT THEY WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD THEM WHEN THEY STARTED OUT. Even Olympians and world champion road racers, mountain bikers and gravel experts were new cyclists once. They wore underwear with bike shorts, overtrained, under-fueled, and toppled over on their bike while using clipless pedals for the first […]
Who you are is not based on your swimming accomplishments. The qualities and capabilities you learn in training to be a swimmer help contribute to the person you are and who you will become. One of the inevitabilities of swimming competitively is coming to terms with winning and losing. It’s common for people to evaluate […]
And you’ll still have 1,430 minutes left in the day. Everyone seems to want strength—and we want it right away. What we overlook in our impatience is the fact that we become stronger from the repeated application of physical stress and effort applied over time. In other words, you won’t become stronger from a single yoga class. […]