Times online raised an interesting topic a few days ago. And as I am surrounded by triathletes almost all day long, I think it may be of interest to reflect some of the problems of exercise addiction. The endurance movement is increasing steadily. More and more amateurs perform the most extreme endurance races one can imagine. Charity has become one of the major motivations to do so beside beauty and body shape. Continue Reading →
In my last post I was reflecting on body sense awareness, a complex topic that seems to me very essential, if you want to be able to retrieve peak performance at a given time. In sports it became normal routine to measure various parameters like heart rate, oxygen uptake, lactate, urea etc. Moreover you have devices like power meters that give you control of your watts output on the bike. The various devices used got integrated programs that pretend to give you more detailed information of your body’s condition (lactate threshold, energy and calorie consumption, basal metabolic rate etc.). Did it ever occur to you that the data you receive are based on algorithms that are referring back to the mean of a sample and not to your individual body condition? Continue Reading →
Sports are dominated by all kinds of machinery that measure body parameters to improve and control performance. More and more devices are construed to give more and more detailed information about our body’s condition. Nevertheless body sense is a term that in the end always comes into the game if parameters are not conclusive, and in many ways they are not.
I found an article in the Psychology Today Blog that underlines the importance of the body sense and the ability to assess the condition of well-being. Continue Reading →
Tomorrow we leave China. It was an incredible experience. Today Fritz an I have been to the old market… breath-taking !!!! Continue Reading →
My alarm is set for 4:20 am … the last jobs of the day are done. I leave you for now, and hope to get back to you with good news. Keep your fingers crossed for our biest athletes Nicole Leder and Chris McCormack.
Dog with a pink strand of hair…
I have been in many places on this globe, but this is one of my most breath-taking experiences. Continue Reading →
