As many of you are heading for Kona and therefore are in their very hot phase of training I assume that the most helpful post would be to summarize the essential but discrete signs you have to watch out for to avoid overtraining.
Especially from studies that dealt with the effects of human growth hormone – a substance that is definitely on the WADA’s list and considered as doping – we know that performance enhancement is very closely related to recovery times. Continue Reading →
There are only 9 weeks left until Kona. The IRONMAN world championship on the Big Island, Hawaii is for many an athlete the highlight of his or her career that one should enjoy. I am not talking about pro athletes, for them it is an obligation and in many ways not a question of joy. But for the many age groupers racing there should be joy. Be it as it may, it is hard work to get to Hawaii and it is hard work to finish there. Many currently linger along this very thin red line between overreaching and overtraining, and try to solve the riddle how to achieve peaking on time. Continue Reading →
Don’t forget our raffle. If you have a Kona slot, your chances to win are rather good. The new image guiding you to Zurich is online. Here we go … Continue Reading →
Since I am involved with biestmilch/colostrum, the diagnosis of lactose intolerance seems to have spread like an epidemic. Self-diagnosis and the diagnosis made by physicians – sorry to say so – as an easy way out for all kinds of functional gastrointestinal disorders has become so common that one has to develop reservations.
If you take your time and read the latest research done on this topic … Continue Reading →
… or a more closer look on the other side of the coin
Isn’t it amazing how science and its view on the body changes over the years, decades and centuries. Just to give you some examples: Neurones and nerve tissue were considered to be without any potential for regeneration, the muscle cell was coined as a cell without abilities to multiply and adapt, and adipose tissue still has got this negative flavor of being a burden (aesthetic view) and health hazard (medicinal view) only. Fashion on the one hand and medicine on the other hand stand for these extreme positions. Continue Reading →
