From the category archives:

Cardiovascular

Getting Off On The Right Foot

by pribut on January 1, 2009

Each year the calendar starts afresh, but hangovers linger from the last year. What you are right now, you’ve been building to, or fallen to by virtue of what you’ve done over the last year. This holds for you as an individual, and for bigger things like the economy.
Many say it is not good to [...]

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Genetics: A Part of the Big Picture

by pribut on December 30, 2008

Training, dedication, and hard work (along with a good diet and a bit of rest carefully added) will go far in helping you improve your conditioning and body composition. Your performance will increase. But for most of us, we will not become world class athletes, or even national class athletes. That is no reason not [...]

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Running & Being and Running & Dying

by pribut on November 3, 2007

George Sheehan’s book “Running & Being” is one that every dedicated runner should read. George, a cardiologist, and one of the early, great running philosophers and gurus has been an inspiration to all old school runners.
Many years back, some people, Jim Fixx included, thought that running marathons would give an immunity to fatal heart disease. [...]

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