Health & Fitness

Guts and Glory: Why Your Friends Avoid Gluten

Like many of you, I have been pretending to be gluten intolerant for years. It is only one of the plethora of trendy conditions I ...
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Planless: A Journey Back to Loving What You Loved

When I first started doing crazy things like running marathons, I felt compelled to have plans. I would buy books on training, obsessively surf the ...
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Eating Well in the Woods: Healthy Camp Food Tips

One time, and one time only, I ate one of those Mountain House dehydrated meals. I had been misled into believing that real outdoors people ...
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Can Structural Integration Boost Endurance Athlete Performance?

With race season upon us, many competitors have already begun to reacquaint themselves with their in-season training routines. Often times, this may mean confronting the ...
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Eat Your Vitamins: The Surprising Value of Real Food for Athletes and Everyone Else Too

There is a woman standing in my office with a shopping bag full of vitamins. She sets them one-by-one on my table and explains how ...
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Pity Parties and Other Steps to Injury Recovery

There are few things I can say are an absolute truth with the exception of this fact: Being injured sucks. In fact, injury is kind ...
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"The closest I ever came to Dumpster diving was a direct result of my brain trying to outsmart me. "

Fuel for Thought: Eat to Keep Your Brain Working

Nutrition advice, from expert Ammi Midstokke, to fuel your brain and body and avoid bonking during intense exercise.
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Sports medicine professionals can help you not only prevent and recover from injury, but also reach optimal performance.

It Takes a Village to Keep Endurance Athletes Healthy

Spend much time with an endurance athlete, and two things will likely happen: They’ll attempt to talk you into signing up for a race, and ...
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Relationships outside of the immediate household experience strain as well. A straight-talking friend leveled with me: “Nobody is going to understand or sympathize when you don’t show up to an event because you had to ride your bike for five hours.

Training for a Triathlon: Living with (or putting up with!) an Ironman-in-Training

Editor’s note: This is part two in a series on training for triathlons. At the Coeur d’Alene Ironman a few years ago, I ran into ...
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