At the 2010 SIA show, I ran into the team from Opedix Apparel.  A number of my athletes use their S1 and R1 tights and I wanted to get a little more "info" for myself.  Check out our interview at the SIA Show for the low down on their products.

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Aerobic capacity is a direct measure of the overall power of the heart as an 'oxygen pump' and of the muscle cells' ability to utilize oxygen sent to them via the cardiovascular system. The higher your aerobic capacity, the higher the rate at which energy can be produced to sustain endurance activity. To improve your aerobic capacity add the following workout to your training regime two or three days per week.

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B Fit 4 Winter is a standards-based fitness oversized “board game” that enables up to 100 children to learn, in a fun way, basic condition exercises that will help prepare them for participation in a snow sport including alpine skiing, snowshoeing, cross country skiing and  snowboarding. The game is a collaboration between SIA’s award-winning Winter Feels Good initiative and Skillastics®, an education-based company that produces a variety of games that encourage physical activity, sports and recreation among children.

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Sage Rountree

Today I was asked why we call hip stretches "hip openers." I don't have a good answer! Are we opening something that's locked? Is "openness" of the hips even desirable, given the stiffness that's required for good running? I decided that a better term might be "hip balancers," since there's so much going on anatomically around the pelvis, and much of our work in yoga is to stretch the tight parts and strengthen the weak parts.

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John Berardi of Precision Nutrition, wrote in his blog last week about two recent studies (you can find them here) that tell us how consuming 20 or 30 grams of protein per meal is all one needs to improve recovery and protein synthesis.

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