Yoga for IT Band and Hamstrings

Our good friend Fred Williams at Endurance Yoga wanted to share this Yoga video with us.  It's great for triathletes and cyclists!

Nobody Has More Time Than Anybody Else

You often hear people say they don't have enough time.  We even say that other people are successful at a goal while we are not because they have more time than we do.

This is a wrong view.

Time is an illusion.  "Time" was invented by man to attempt to make some sense of the Universe and compare series of events to one another.  But as Einstein and others have proved, time is relative.  Time slows with speed, so it actually isn't a constant at all.  Toss it out.

Since time is a concept and not an actual thing, now you can see that you can't make it.  When somebody says they will need to make time to do something, he is actually saying he will use his series of events more efficiently to get more done than the previous standard.

Bill Gates had no more hours in the day than you did.  He did not "make time" to build a billion dollar fortune.  He used his time, the same amount that you had, to focus on and execute the tasks to make his fortune happen.

Craig Alexander didn't have more time than you to win the Ironman World Championships.  He spent his time training, mastering how to most efficiently string together three events of physics, namely swim 2.4 miles, bike 112, and run 26.2. 

When you say you don't have time to train for triathlons or eat healthy, that's not true.  What is true is that you are currently living the lifestyle of somebody that has decided, through a series of choices, to not be able to string together the events and tasks to make a healthy triathlete happen.  You can change this with a new series of choices on how to spend your time.

David Allen, the founder of the GTD movement, teaches about how nobody has more time than anybody else.  Rather, we choose how to spend our time, and that makes all the difference.  Below is a video of a talk he gave to employees at Google.  Enjoy!

Rest and Nutrition are Your First Workouts

People are constantly displaying the symptoms of "food is mood."  When you try to work out for any extended period of time and don't feed the body right, your mind actually tries to sabotage your efforts.  It makes you depressed and moody, and it does this on purpose, because it's trying to stop you from doing what it already knows you can't do - perform well on less than ideal nutrition.

You have to eat, drink, and sleep well first, then exercise.  Treat nutrition and rest as your primary workout, because everything else feeds off of that energy supply.  Until you do that, you are constantly cutting off your own potential at the knees.

Video Review - 110% Compression Gear

Check out these compression leggings from 110% Play Harder!  I used them to help recover from a calf injury and also for my longer runs before running the Rocky Raccoon 50, and they definitely helped.

Not only do they have pockets for the included cold/heat packs, but they look cool as well.  Do you want to be rockin' on the podium in 110% knickers or a pair of these?

Jane knew she made a mistake when she bought her leggings from the Tron Factory Outlet.

You can wear them on the podium to the plane, even around the house.  Just tell your kids you've "gone pro."  They'll know what you mean.  

Check out http://www.110playharder.com/ for more information and a list of local retailers.

The Easiest Way to Keep Getting Faster

Have a few "indicator" tests spread out over the week where you measure speed over the same exact distance (uphill climbs are good for this).  Once you can't beat your last time, any more work you do is not helpful.  Go very easy or don't train at all until you're more rested and feel like you're ready to attack and beat the challenge again.   Plan your mileage and easy/hard workouts around that schedule and you'll always improve.