True Desire is Never Borrowed
A few weeks ago, I started “word of the week” with one of my coaching clients, Peter. Peter, like many of my clients, wants to get to Kona and the Ironman World Championship. He wants to take the more difficult path and qualify by finishing near the top of his age group in another 140.5-mile Ironman race. As his triathlon coach, I’m going to help him get there. The idea behind “word of the week” is for me to come up with a word that reflects a theme of where we are in Peter’s journey to Kona. This week’s word is “desire.” A month...
Read MoreSetting Marathon Goals: Client Perspective
This winter in the Baltimore and Washington DC area – as well as much of the U.S. – has been especially tough for training for longer events like marathons and Ironman triathlons, as we’ve had three snow storms since December and temperatures that have stayed around the freezing mark, making riding and running outdoors difficult and sometimes impossible. Throw in a demanding job (think “constant crisis mode”), a newborn and taking care of a dog, and you have my client, Scott, who is training for the Tampa Marathon at the end of February in the short term then an Ironman at...
Read MoreIntramuscular Manual Therapy AKA Trigger Point Dry Needling
My body is full of trigger points – tiny little contractions in my muscles that feel like “knots” and are often tender to the touch – especially in my legs. Trigger points develop in a muscle when it is injured or overworked. Trigger points can also cause pain elsewhere. An avid triathlete since 1995, I’ve logged thousands of training hours training for 26 Ironman-distance triathlons plus dozens of other races. I’ve also crashed multiple times on my bike and fallen just as many times running. Consequently, some of my trigger points have probably been...
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