Break out of your normal running race rut with the updated River Town Race Series hosted by the Montour Area Recreation Commission. The series gives racers the ultimate season-long, cross-discipline race experience and winners take home some serious cash and even better memories. Races take place in and around the Susquehanna River in rural PA [...]
Presented by Jarrod Robert Shoemaker, 2011 USA Elite Sprint National Champion, and Jeff Matlow, CEO of I Am Athlete Mr Shoemaker and Mr. Matlow bring their years of knowledge and succes to help you with putting the best plan forward. Jarrod Robert Shoemaker, has won Duathlons and Triathlons Nationlly and Internationally on the Elite level. [...]
By: Brad J. Bernardini, MD, FAAOS “Its from overuse…” If you’re a runner, you’ve probably heard this phrase before! Unfortunately, this doesn’t really explain the cause of your running related injury. What specifically about your running has caused your injury? Well, I’m here to try and shed some light on this subject. Most injuries can [...]
By: Todd Wiley with Fernando Paredes, CPT I always tell my athletes you must train your CORE to perform as a triathlete. The successful ones do it right, the unsuccessful, not that great. Since I’m not an expert on exercise training for fitness and performance, let me introduce you to my go-to guy in this [...]
By Darrell W. Butler, Parisi Sports Performance Coach; ACE, NFPT CPT Most people get so wrapped up in prerace training and exercise that they forget about focusing on nutrition until the last minute. However if you’re going to train like an athlete, you’ll also need to eat like an athlete. So just as you’d map [...]
By Brad J. Bernardini, MD, FAAOS Endurance sports have become an increasingly popular part of modern day exercise and training programs. Currently the triathlon is one of the most rapidly growing recreational sports in the nation. Unfortunately, it is also responsible for a significant number of common overuse injuries in and around the knee and [...]
By Darrell W. Butler, ACE, NFPT, ISCA Certified Personal Trainer Apples are high in fiber, oranges are good for vitamin C, bananas are high in potassium, and cranberries are good for – um – mixing with vodka? Although most of us have heard how nutritious berries are, few can actually tell us why. So here [...]
Story by Mary Kelley Photos by Laurence Kelly You have a job, family, friends, hobbies, social obligations, and (if you’re anything like me), a house that desperately needs to be cleaned. Now you want to do a triathlon, marathon, or bike race. Here are a few tips to help you fit training into your already [...]
By Robert Portman, Ph.D. Endurance athletes have to be excellent time managers as they try to juggle jobs and family responsibilities with training. Too many athletes try to pick up additional minutes by cutting down on their sleep. This may be self-defeating, however, as research indicates that sleep deprivation impacts endurance performance in three ways: [...]
Story by Rob Kelly, DO and Stephan Esser, M.D. Needles seriously you’re kidding me, right? That was our initial response, too. As avid athletes and conventionally trained medical doctors, the idea of getting poked with a bunch of needles was not very high on the to do list. We’re talking about Acupuncture, of course- that centuries-old [...]
