Every athlete has setbacks. Everyone has setbacks in their lives, you don’t have to be an athlete for this to happen. It is just part of life.
Champion boxers who have never been defeated are rare. But rare as they may be, there are some who go through their whole careers without losing a fight. Now a boxer who has never lost a fight, has at some time lost rounds on points. He may have been the eventual winner, but if you were to look at the judges score cards, some of …

We’re all busy, we fit more into a life than most. To keep doing what we do and to stay healthy while maintaining a lean, muscular physique. We need to make sure we get enough vegetables in our diet. It’s very easy to fall into the trap of getting most of our carbs from wheat products.
There are a lot of athletes who would perform better if they got less of there carbs (energy) from wheat products. The “food pyramid” which shows grains/cereals as the base of our diet is something promoted …

A coach friend who has trained with us to NZIM in the past and is now a gymnastics coach, sent me the article below.
It’s part of a larger article talking about how many countries in the world have “High Performance” programs in place. Governments around the world have spents millions of dollars on these programs to produce winners.
The winners still seem to come along by many different paths. The coach who has produced more triathlon World champions and Hawaii Ironman winners is not part of a “High Performance Program”.
It seems …

The human body’s basic design has remained unchanged for a few thousand years. It seems we’ve reached a point where further evolution/development of the model was unecessary. Things are working fine.
Most of the problems with health. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc can be resolved by going back to a diet similar to what our ancestors survived on.
The human body was designed, or developed to walk and run with bare feet. As our ancestors ventured into prickle country, the sandal was developed. This simple foot protection device, didn’t have a steel …