You’ve Swam Farther. You’ve Swam Faster. Now What?
Imagine you had some sort of a restriction that only allowed you to swim a strictly limited distance or limited time in each session, for the next 10 years. Let’s say you could only swim 30 minutes or 1500 meters and then you had to stop. How could you still...
Keep Going, Your Reward Is Ahead
On average, in addition to all that I read for work, school and personal interest, while doing physical tasks I listen to probably more than 10 hours a week of audio books, lectures, long-format interviews with people who are specialists/experts in their field, or...
What is YOUR Kind of High Performance?
In popular culture and media, when we hear the term ‘high performance’ we readily picture something like fast athletes or fast cars. That impression comes easily because getting to a destination most quickly is highly prized in our society. Photo by Paul...
Fitness Fatigue vs. Extraordinary Fatigue Part 2
This is the second part of Fitness Fatigue vs. Extraordinary Fatigue. What happens when we have an extraordinary athletic achievement but go past some internal limits to do it? In the first part I told the story of my longer-than-normal long run, and in this second...
My Return To The Water After Exile
In my home state of Oregon USA, the various businesses and facilities are able to open up , county by county, as each meet certain requirements. The local fitness club where I swim and teach opened up a few weeks ago and then the pools did also. Tuesday I finally made...
Fitness Fatigue vs. Extraordinary Fatigue Part 1
Before I get into the story of my long run and lessons I learned from it, I want to make sure you don’t get distracted by the distances I am running, as if this is too long (or too short) to apply to your situation. I am telling the story in order to describe...What Is Your Philosophy And Ethic Of Sport?
One of the figures in body work that has inspired me for many years is Kelly Starrett of The Ready State. He does more than develop solutions for athletes, he is an advocate for the wider well-being of people of all types and ages. Kelly has such a wonderfully far...When Breathing Is Fearful
I am finally completing the last chapter of my book Better Breathing In Freestyle (a working title – it may not be the final one) and preparing a draft for a first round of editing. This final chapter is the one I have been most eager to bring to light because...