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1. Emilie's Run - The Emilie Mondor Memorial 5K Race for Women - Canada's
Fastest Women's 5K
Emilie's Run is over for another year. Almost 300 women completed the race with
38 women running under 20:00
The 2009 race will be run on June 20th.
For more on the race visit the website at:
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2. Cruise To Run -2010, THE ULTIMATE RUNNERS VACATION
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Registration is open for Cruise To Run 2010. If you are interested in going on
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As the organizers of Cruise to Run we have emphasized that we have put together
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makes Cruise To Run special is the runners who attend. Over 300 runners together
on a vacation doing what they love to do. How can
we go wrong?
The 2010 Cruise will leave San Juan Puerto Rico on the Caribbean Princess and
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The Cruise is meant for everyone to enjoy from the serious to recreational
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8. iRun Magazine
More than a million Canadians are runners, making it this country's most popular
recreational and fitness activity. Canadians run
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Until now, Canadian runners haven't had our own running magazine. But now,
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on the activity and the sport. Published six times a year, iRun educates,
informs and inspires Canadian runners.
The Team
Mark Sutcliffe, Publisher and Editor
Mark has more than 20 years of experience in the Canadian media business. An
avid runner, he has completed five marathons and 10
half-marathons. He writes a popular weekly column on running in the Ottawa
Citizen and co-hosts The Running Show every week on The
Team 1200 radio. Mark is the former Executive Editor of the Ottawa Citizen and
has also launched several publications, including the
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Macleans and Canadian Business.
Ray Zahab, Contributing Editor
Ray Zahab is Canada's most renowned ultramarathon runner. A former pack-a-day
smoker, Ray transformed his life by becoming a
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foot races. Beginning in November 2006, Ray and two
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per day without a single day's rest. Ray is an
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striving to achieve their own goals.
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THIS WEEK'S PERSONAL POSTINGS/RELEASES: We will only post notes here regarding
running and triathlon topics of interest to the
community. We have NO personal postings this week.

THIS WEEK'S DIGEST ARTICLE INDEX:

1. Women Who Run May Benefit From Extra Folic Acid
In athletes who stop menstruating, supplements boost vascular function, study
finds.
2. Ballerinas And Female Athletes Share Quadruple Health Threats
3. How Many Calories Are You Really Burning?
Don't believe everything you read.
4. VO2max - The monthly newsletter of RunCoachJason.com
5. Runners4Runners
6. Fewer Americans following a healthy lifestyle
7. Sport psychology: take mental charge of your performance
8. Top Tips for Long Distance Racing
9. Work Hard or Work Smart: Which Way To Fitness?
10. Triathlon Training: Managing Your Appetite
11. Good mood can run a long time after workout
12. Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health E-Zine
13. 18 Supplements That Could Help Your Body Heal Faster
14. Anti-Inflammatory Foods
15. Digest Briefs

RUNNER'S WEB WEEKLY POLL:
"How long have you been running?"

You can access the poll from our FrontPage ( http://www.runnersweb.com) as well
as checking the results of previous polls.

LAST WEEK'S POLL RESULTS:
"The women's world record for the mile is 4.12.56 set by Svetlana Masterkova of
Russia in 1996. Will a woman ever break 4 minutes
for the mile?"
Answers Percent
1. Never 25%
2. 50 years 6%
3. 25 years 13%
4. 10 years 25%
5. 5 years 13%
6. 1-4 years 19%


FIVE STAR SITE OF THE MONTH: MirindaCarfrae.com
Name: Mirinda Carfrae
Nationality: Australian
Height: 161 cm Weight: 52 kg
Birthday: 26 March 1981
Occupation: Professional Triathlete
Coach: Siri Lindley: www.siri-lindley.com
Hometown: Logan City, Queensland
Training Camps: Queensland, Australia; California, USA, Colorado, USA
Federation Links : Triathlon Queensland and Triathlon Australia
Mirinda started sports at an early age, playing basketball and a variety of
other school sports. In 2000, at the age of 19, she
competed in her first triathlon. Even though she did not have a background in
swimming, running, or biking, she experienced success
in 2001 when she made the Australian Junior Elite Team. Mirinda then went on to
represent Australia at the ITU Triathlon World
Championships from 2001 through till 2005 earning silver medals in 2002 and
2003. More recently Mirinda has focused on the longer
distances. She won the Nice Long Course triathlon in 2004 and got silver at the
ITU Long Course World Championships in Denmark in
2005. With the introduction of the Ironman 70.3 series in 2006, Mirinda claimed
the St Croix and Baja titles early in the year,
going on to win a bronze at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in the same
year. In 2007, Mirinda came second in 4 half ironman
distance triathlons before winning the 2007 Ironman 70.3 World Championships in
world record time.
With four 70.3 wins already in 2008, Mirinda has clearly claimed the 70.3
distance as her own and leaves no doubt that she's a force
to be reckoned with in ironman racing.......
Check out her site at:
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BOOK/VIDEO/MOVIE OF THE MONTH: Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams At Any
Stage In Your Life
By Dara Torres
Product Description
From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational,
inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and
pursuing your dreams.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she
launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age
of forty-one-years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight
years since her last Olympics. When she took three
silver medals in Beijing-including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the
gold medalist in the women's 50-meter
freestyle-America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her
good-natured acceptance of the results.
Now, in Age Is Just a Number, Dara reveals how the dream of an Olympic comeback
first came to her-when she was months into her
first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned
to serious training-while nursing her infant
daughter and contending with her beloved father's long battle with cancer.
Dara talks frankly about diving back in for this comeback; about being an older
athlete in a younger athletes' game; about
competition, doubt, and belief; about working through pain and uncertainty; and
finally-about seizing the moment and, most
important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate
with women of all ages-and with anyone daring to
entertain a seemingly impossible dream.
About the Author
DARA TORRES has set three world records and has brought home twelve Olympic
medals, including four golds. She is the first American
swimmer to have competed in five Olympics. She lives in Florida.
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:

1. Women Who Run May Benefit From Extra Folic Acid:
In athletes who stop menstruating, supplements boost vascular function, study
finds.
High-dose folic acid supplementation improved vascular function in young female
runners who stopped menstruating (amenorrhea)
because their caloric intake was lower than their energy output, researchers
say.
The findings suggest that folic acid may decrease cardiovascular risk and also
improve performance in young female athletes,
according to the Medical College of Wisconsin researchers.
"Previous studies have shown that amenorrheic women runners have decreased
dilation in the main (brachial) artery of the arm in
response to blood flow. Athletic amenorrhea has a hormonal profile similar to
menopause, when the earliest sign of cardiovascular
disease is reduced vascular dilation, which can limit oxygen uptake and affect
performance," study author Dr. Stacy Lynch, a women's
sports medicine fellow, said in a news release.
The study included 16 female college or recreational runners, aged 18 to 35, who
weren't on birth control pills and had been running
at least 20 miles a week for the past year. All the women were healthy, but six
of them had reduced vascular function and irregular
or absent menstrual periods.
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/hscout/2009/05/31/hscout627440.html?feed=rss_forbesl\
ife_health


2. Ballerinas And Female Athletes Share Quadruple Health Threats:
A study led by sports medicine researcher Anne Hoch, D.O., at The Medical
College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has revealed that young
female professional dancers face the same health risks as young female athletes
when they don't eat enough to offset the energy they
spend, and stop menstruating as a consequence.
"These two components of the female athlete tetrad put them at higher risk for
the other two; the cardiovascular and bone density
deficits of much older, postmenopausal women," according to Dr. Hoch, associate
professor of orthopaedic surgery and director of the
Froedtert & the Medical College Women's Sports Medicine Center.
The researchers studied 22 professional ballerinas, all members of the Milwaukee
Ballet Company, to determine the prevalence of
disordered eating, amenorrhea (lack of menstruation), abnormal vascular function
and low bone density. Study findings were presented
at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting in Seattle, May 30.
More...from Science Daily at:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090530094456.htm


3. How Many Calories Are You Really Burning?
Don't believe everything you read.
Hustle to the locker room-there's less than an hour to spare. Strapping on a
heart rate monitor as you head to the front door, you
notice the rain clouds have turned into a storm. The multiple flashes of
lightning and the forceful crash of thunder suggest running
outside just isn't worth the risk. Too bad there's not enough time to wait out
the storm. Looks like a day for the treadmill.
As you plug away, you can't help but notice the calorie expenditure window on
the treadmill making its climb. Slowing the treadmill
for a cooldown walk you read nearly 800 calories burned. "Fabulous," you would
like to think, but you have reason to be confused,
given that your heart rate monitor claims you burned more like 550 calories.
Those who rely on that calorie window at the gym for daily caloric goals may end
up feeling only disappointment. It's not uncommon
to be deceived by the calorie expenditure reading of your favorite piece of
equipment. For starter, the caloric tally is often based
on the average 150-pound male. Moreover, even if you fit this build your calorie
expenditure could be quite different.
More...from Running Times at:
http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=16669


4. VO2max - The monthly newsletter of RunCoachJason.com:
** Bones (excerpted from Karp, J.R. The Bare Bones. IDEA Fitness Journal. May
2009.)
Just like your muscles get stronger when you apply stress to them, so do your
bones. The elegant adaptation of bone to withstand
stress is called Wolff's Law, and is explained by the changes to the internal
strain of bone caused by external stress, which
activates mature bone cells called osteocytes that alter the balance between
bone resorption and formation in favor of formation,
leading to greater bone mass. External stress is so important to bone health
that the absence of stress by immobilization results
in losses in
bone mineral density (BMD) of 1 percent per week. If you have ever elevated a
leg off the ground by using crutches, you have seen
the massive muscle atrophy that occurs when not bearing weight on the injured
leg. Interestingly, the lack of stress on your leg by
not bearing weight affects your bones just as much.
While weight-bearing exercise is better than non-weight-bearing exercise for
burning calories and losing weight, it's also better
for your bones. Research has shown that people who participate in sports
involving running and jumping, such as soccer, distance
running, basketball, gymnastics, and volleyball, have greater BMD compared to
non-active people and even compared to athletes in
non-impact sports, such as swimming, cycling, cross-country skiing, and rowing.
While some running is good for bones, more running
is
not necessarily better, as research has shown a negative association between
running mileage and BMD when people run more than 20
miles per week. Comparing athletes in different sports, a number of studies
have found that athletes in high-impact activities,
like gymnastics, have the greatest BMD.
Despite the repetitive stress of running, which imposes two to three times your
body weight with each landing of your foot on the
ground, the large forces associated with weight training have an even greater
impact on BMD. The strong contraction of muscles as
they pull on the bones to which they attach influences the magnitude of stress
on the bones themselves. And the magnitude of stress
on the bones is more important for increasing BMD than the number of times the
stress is repeated, so you only need one set of a
heavy weight to increase BMD.
For bones to maximize their adaptive response to exercise, they require a
dynamic, rather than static, stress; either a
low-frequency, high-intensity stimulus (e.g., heavy weight training with few
reps per set) or a high-frequency, low-intensity
stimulus (e.g., running five miles at an easy pace), with a high-intensity
stimulus being more effective; and a direction and
magnitude of stress different from what are normally experienced.
** The Runner's Heart
The heart is the symbol for our most powerful emotion, love. It can be found
among the scribbles in a lovestruck girl's high school
notebook, as a figure of speech when we thank people ("from the bottom of my
heart"), and as a metaphor for life and death when
beneath the delicate hands of a surgeon as he performs a bypass operation. Even
when we salute the American flag and sing the
National Anthem, we place our hand over our heart as a symbol of loyalty to and
respect for our country.
The ancient Greeks may have been the first to acknowledge the existence of the
heart, which they named kardia. Our words cardiac,
cardiovascular, electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), echocardiogram, and cardiologist
are all derived from that word. The Greek
philosopher Aristotle thought that the heart was the seat of the soul and the
center of man. But it is certainly also the most
extraordinary muscle in the human body. It is always working, from before we
are born until we die. It has both the unique ability
and responsibility of delivering the most important chemical
element--oxygen--throughout the body to sustain life. And it is how
our most vital body fluid--blood--is delivered to our organs and running
muscles. With running, we can actually train the heart to
pump more efficiently, to pump more blood (and hence, oxygen) with each beat.
The amount of blood the heart pumps with each contraction of its left ventricle
(the heart's largest chamber that is responsible for
sending blood to every part of the body except the lungs) is called the stroke
volume. Multiply the stroke volume by the heart
rate, and you get the amount of blood pumped by the heart each minute, called
the cardiac output.
The first documented case of an enlarged heart in a distance runner may have
been Clarence DeMar, who won the Boston Marathon 7
times between 1911 and 1930. A large heart is so characteristic of genetically
gifted and highly trained runners that it is
considered a physiological condition by the scientific and medical communities
called Athlete's Heart. Specific training can make
your heart larger and increase your maximum stroke volume and cardiac output.
Since cardiac output is one-half of the equation that
determines VO2max, when maximum cardiac output increases, so does your VO2max.
Intervals of 3- to 5-minute work periods provide the heaviest load on the
cardiovascular system because of the repeated attainment
of the heart's maximum stroke volume and cardiac output (and, by definition,
VO2max). In response to the imposed threat of running
at the heart's maximum ability to pump blood, the heart responds by increasing
its contractility (pumping strength) and by enlarging
its most important chamber (left ventricle) so that more blood and oxygen can be
sent to the working skeletal muscles. The larger
your left ventricle, the more blood it can hold; the more blood it can hold, the
more blood it can pump.
If you can't get to a laboratory to tell you the pace at which your VO2max
occurs, you can use your current race performances or
heart rate. VO2max pace is close to 1.5-mile race pace for recreational runners
and close to 3K or 2-mile race pace (10 to 15
seconds per mile faster than 5K race pace) for highly trained runners. You
should be within a few beats of your maximum heart rate
by the end of each work interval. Examples of workouts are: 1) 3 x 1,200 meters
(or 4-5 minutes) at VO2max pace with 3 to 4 minutes
recovery; 2) 4 x 1,000 meters (or 3-4 minutes) at VO2max pace with 2.5 to 3
minutes recovery; and 3) 6 x 800 meters (or 3 minutes)
at VO2max pace with 2.5 to 3 minutes recovery.
** Rest Periods
If you lift weights, do you ever wonder how long you should rest between sets?
A study published in the January, 2009 issue of
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that resting 2.5 minutes
between sets caused a greater increase in muscle size
after 10 weeks of strength training than resting for only 1 minute between sets
in men who had not weight trained before. The
longer rest period enabled the subjects to use a higher percentage of their
one-rep max for each set, so it's possible they
recruited a greater
percentage of the available muscle fibers, giving them a greater hypertrophic
response.
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5. Runners4Runners:
Every once in a while we encounter a real-life story that touches our hearts and
breathes hope for the future, revealing the best in
human nature. This is one of them. Please take a moment to look at this webpage
and catch the spirit www.urdt.net/runners/
The girls at URDT in rural Uganda are totally committed to running and working
to help others, in spite of very challenging
circumstances. As an athlete I am truly inspired by the girl's story. As I
raced to a personal best and set a new Canadian record
in the half marathon recently, I found myself thinking of the girl's. Without a
doubt any amount of pain or fatigue that I was
feeling seemed insignificant compared to the challenges these girls face on a
daily basis. Their strength and determination kept
me focused and I know their story will touch your heart and do the same for you.
So, let's make a commitment, to running - running
not for ourselves but for the betterment of others. These girls are truly
inspiring and their story shows us what we can accomplish
when we commit to a goal.
Here's how you can help. Once you have visited the website and read the girl's
story there are a number of ways you can choose to
support this great cause. You can choose to create an individual and/or team
webpage, or you can simply join an existing team's
webpage. As runners there are a number of ways you can target your fundraising
goals - running in local road races; or perhaps
competing in various track and field/cross country races if you are on a school
team or a competitive athlete. The possibilities
are endless. Most importantly, if you are planning to support a local cause you
can feel good supporting the girls in Uganda at the
same time. The two are complementary - local, and a worthy cause in Africa. It's
easy to join in. You can also forward this to
other people who aren't runners whom you think would be moved by this story and
may want to donate directly; that's great too.
"As both a woman and a runner, I am proud to support Runners4Runners. Growing up
in Canada and having the support of our education
system made me realize how truly fortunate we are. For the girls of Uganda, an
education is a life changing opportunity; to be
able to better themselves, strengthen their communities and learn to be leaders.
Through education and sport we can make this connection. In supporting these
girls I join their cause and I challenge others in the
running community to do the same. Let's make a commitment to running- running
not for ourselves, but for the betterment of others.
These girls are truly inspiring and their story shows us what we can accomplish
when we commit to a goal. I'm very excited to be
involved in such an amazing cause and I'm really looking forward to doing what I
can to help.
I'm very excited to be a part of such an amazing cause and with your help I know
we can make a difference. I can't possibly Thank
you enough for your support of these remarkable young girls in Uganda. I know
they will never forget it. All the best, Tara
Quinn-Smith - Canadian Marathon & Half Marathon Champion."


6. Fewer Americans following a healthy lifestyle:
The number of middle-aged and older Americans who eat right, exercise and keep
their weight down has declined substantially in the
past two decades, a new study finds.
Using data from a large government health survey, researchers found that in
2006, only 26 percent of Americans ages 40 to 74 said
they ate five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day -- down from 42
percent in 1988.
When it came to exercise, 43 percent said they worked out at least 12 times per
month, versus 53 percent in 1988.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the rate of obesity went in the opposite direction,
from 28 percent in 1988 to 36 percent in 2006, the
researchers report in the June issue of the American Journal of Medicine.
More...from Reuters at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5505MX20090601


7. Sport psychology: take mental charge of your performance:
Mental stress can hurt your performances in a variety of different ways. It can
raise heart rate and oxygen consumption, harming
your exercise efficiency and causing particular workout and race speeds to feel
tougher than they actually should. It can increase
muscle tension, reducing stride lengths (if you are a runner) and making your
legs and arms considerably less 'springy' and
powerful. On a cognitive level, stress prevents you from 'mentally managing'
your tough workouts and races; instead of relaxing and
focusing on the task at hand, you are preoccupied with stressful thoughts and
emotions, so the quality of your performance
decreases.
If you feel stressed-out before and during your competitions or hard training
sessions, what can you do to control the stress, and
thus increase your chances of performing at your highest-possible level? Sport
psychologists have proposed a number of different
stress-managing techniques over the years, but one of the most successful has
been something called 'stress-inoculation training'.
Developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Donald Meichenbaum, a
psychologist at the University of Waterloo in Canada,
stress-inoculation training takes its name from the fact that it exposes
individuals to stress in manageable but gradually
increasing amounts, thereby enhancing 'immunity' to stress for the persons
practising the technique.
More...from Peak Performance Online at:
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/stress-management-sport-125


8. Top Tips for Long Distance Racing:
By Monique Ryan, MS, RD
Nutritional preparation for Ironman racing is both a science and an art, with
each competitor formulating their own mix of training
and race nutrition strategies. However, there are some essential ingredients to
race-day success. Below are some nutrition tips
deserving of your time and attention in preparation for race day.
Your Daily Diet
Of course the quality of your daily diet is important for your health, with
whole grains, fruit, and vegetables comprising the
majority of your carbohydrate intake. Lean proteins, and adequate amounts of
healthy fat also provide dietary balance. But much of
what distinguishes your training diet and affects your recovery is how you
portion and time your food intake.
Match your nutrition plan to your training plan
Often referred to as nutritional periodization, this simply requires that you
eat just the right amounts of carbohydrate, protein,
and fat for that day's training. You can have the best nutrition on race day,
but if you do not feed your body appropriately every
day, you will not arrive at the race in the best shape possible.
Long training days and intense training sessions mean that you burn through more
muscle glycogen for fuel, and underconsuming
carbohydrate can compromise muscle glycogen recovery. Your body also needs
plenty of protein when you are building your training
program for muscle tissue repair and a strong immune system. Super long cycling
days may require that you take your fat intake up a
notch.
More...from USA Triathlon at:
http://usatriathlon.org/content/index/6447


9. Work Hard or Work Smart: Which Way To Fitness?
I took myself for a swim today, part of my 'easing back into exercise' program,
and had a couple of revelations.
I'm by no means a great swimmer. I learned to swim with any degree of
proficiency as part of my first few outings as a triathlete
in 2005, and was lucky enough to get some coaching from a guy named Clay Evans,
an Olympic silver medalist who now runs a very
popular master's swimming program here in Southern California.
Clay taught our class of budding triathletes the basics of the crawl, but he
also taught us how to structure a swimming workout. At
the time, I was prepping to race distances from a quarter-mile to a full mile,
and before I started training with Clay's group,
would just swim lap after lap, vaguely trying to improve on my previous
workout's record.
According to Clay, that's not the way to learn to swim better. Clay handed all
his charges a sheaf of pages with some standard
workouts on them, and though they all varied in difficulty, length, and
complexity, they all followed a basic pattern: drills that
built technique alternated with drills that built strength and stamina.
Example: you'd do a few laps with your hands in fists--which teaches you to use
your whole arm efficiently--and then you'd do a few
100-meter repeats on the 2:00, trying to go faster and faster each time. The
first drill emphasized and built on one particular
aspect of your stroke; the next one put it into practice. The first one forced
you to slow down and think, the next one forced you
to speed up and get out of your head.
The ldea was that in a race, the two different approaches--the one which taught
you to swim well, the other to swim hard--ultimately
would blend, giving you a technically sound stroke that was also strong and
enduring.
More...from Male Pattern Fitness at:
http://www.malepatternfitness.com/2009/6/3/898055/work-hard-or-work-smart-which-\
way


10. Triathlon Training: Managing Your Appetite:
Appetite is important. It is your body's built-in mechanism for food intake
regulation. Its job is to drive you to eat enough to
meet your body's energy and micronutrient needs, and no more. The appetite
mechanism works very well under normal circumstances.
Obviously, it never would have survived millions of years of evolutionary
testing if it did not work to the benefit of our health.
But our modern lifestyle does not constitute normal circumstances in relation to
the environment in which most of our evolution took
place. Consequently, our appetite cannot be entirely relied upon to ensure that
we don't overeat and get fat.
The crux of the problem is that many modern processed foods, such as
cheeseburgers, are far more calorically dense than most natural
foods, such as carrots. Consequently, we can eat 500 or even 1,000 calories in
just a few minutes when dining on cheeseburgers
compared to scarcely 100 calories in the same amount of time when snacking on
carrots. Because appetite is not satisfied
instantaneously when food is swallowed (there's a lag time of 10 to 20 minutes),
it's possible to eat far more calories than you
need to satisfy your appetite when consuming cheeseburgers and other such foods.
In essence, the modern diet does an end run around
our appetite control mechanism.
Exercise is a great way to counterbalance this problem. Exercise increases
caloric usage more than it increases appetite, so when
you work out regularly some of those excess calories from processed foods don't
end up being stored as belly fat. As a triathlete,
therefore, you are in a better position to control your body weight than is the
average couch potato, despite the manner in which
our modern food environment sabotages our appetite control mechanism. However,
even most triathletes struggle to reach or maintain a
satisfactory body weight, which we may define as a weight that not only makes us
look good but that supports optimal triathlon
performance as well. A recent survey of more than 3,000 endurance athletes
reported that 54 percent were dissatisfied with their
current body weight. Clearly, then, there is a need for triathletes to manage
their appetite and avoid excessive caloric intake too.
Following are five appetite management methods that will enable you to prevent a
rumbling stomach from sabotaging your efforts to
reach and maintain your optimal racing weight.
More...from Competitor Magazine at:
http://triathlon.competitor.com/uncategorized/triathlon-training-managing-your-a\
ppetite/


11. Good mood can run a long time after workout:
Exercise experts have known for years that moderate physical activity improves
mood. Now a study shows that people are in a better
mood for up to 12 hours after they work out.
Researchers at the University of Vermont had 24 college students ride an
exercise bike for 20 minutes at a moderate intensity.
Another 24 people did no exercise during the same time period.
Afterward, everyone in both groups filled out questionnaires that evaluated
their overall mood at several intervals: one hour, two,
four, eight, 12 and 24 hours. The questions addressed tension, anger, vigor,
fatigue, confusion and depression.
The researchers found that people in the exercise group experienced a
significant improvement in mood immediately after the
exercise. They also had improved moods after two, four, eight and 12 hours
compared with the people who didn't exercise, says Jeremy
Sibold, an assistant professor in the university's Department of Rehabilitation
and Movement Science.
More...from Reuters at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-06-02-exercise-mood_N.htm


12. Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health E-Zine:
** Burning During Exercise Differs from Muscle Pain After Exercise
The burning you feel in muscles during intense exercise is different from the
burning and pain you feel after exercising. Burning
during intense exercise is caused by the acidity from accumulation of lactic
acid. When your muscles cannot get all the oxygen they
need to convert food to energy during intense exercise, lactic acid accumulates
in muscles, makes them more acidic, and the acidity
causes a burning feeling. Excess lactic acid is cleared from the muscles within
seconds after stopping exercise.
Lactic acid is good because it is the most efficient fuel for muscles during
exercise. It requires less oxygen for energy than
virtually all other fuels. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
neutralize lactic acid in muscles during intense exercise and helps athletes to
exercise longer (Medicine & Science in Sports &
Exercise, October 2006). Caffeine (the amount in four cups of coffee) reduces
muscle burning during intense exercise (International
Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, April 2009).
Burning or pain eight to 24 hours after exercising is usually caused by damage
to the muscles themselves. The longer you stay in
the burn during exercise and the greater the
force on your muscles during exercise, the greater the muscle damage. Most
athletes train by taking a hard workout on one day,
damaging their muscles and feeling sore on the next, and then going at low
intensity for as many days as it takes for the soreness
to disappear. When muscles heal from hard force on them, they become stronger.
Athletes recover from hard exercise actively by
exercising at low intensity. They rarely take days off. Exercising at low
intensity during recovery makes muscles more fibrous
which protects them from injury when they are stressed again.
** Dear Dr Mirkin: My doctor told me that my irregular heart beats won't harm
me. Should I continue to enter bicycle races at age
65?
Nobody knows. Exercise cannot hurt a healthy heart. However, some heart
problems are silent and a person may not know that he has a
problem. This is a very controversial subject. We know that master athletes have
a very high incidence of irregular heartbeats, such
as intermittent atrial fibrillation (Annals of Internal Medicine April, 2009).
Many doctors put these people on anticoagulants but
we do not know if this is necessary for them. You probably have a harmless
irregular heartbeat that should not keep you from
competition. However, it is always possible that you may have hidden heart
problems.
Personally I still compete at age 75, take no medication, and do not restrict
myself. When I started to compete again after many
years of less regular exercise, I would suddenly lose my breath, which can be a
sign of irregular heartbeats. By the time I
recovered my breath, I would be so far behind that I could not catch anyone. I
may have taken great risks, but now that I am riding
regularly and following a good training program, it does not happen anymore.
From Dr. Mirkin's e_zine at:
http://www.drmirkin.com


13. 18 Supplements That Could Help Your Body Heal Faster:
If you find yourself injured or laid up with inflammation, follow this exact
protocol for enhanced connective tissue healing, fast
recovery from injury-produced inflammation, and a quick return to your training
and competition after a strain, sprain or crash.
This information is not provided by a physician for medical treatment purposes,
but is rather a simple guide to natural supplements
that can assist with healing.
1. Glucosamine, ~500mg. Best when combined with Chondroitin, ~400mg. Spread it
through the day in three separate doses.
2. Chondroitin (see above).
3. Vitamin C, ~1000+mg per day. You could take this in an "immune system
booster" like Airborne, from high fruit and vegetable
intake (*ahem*, one apple only contains 8mg, however), or from a multi-vitamin
that includes Vitamin C (AKA ascorbic acid).
4. Zinc, ~50mg. Often, zinc can also be found in an "immune system booster" type
of effervescent powder.
5. Vitamin B3, ~250mg. Also know as Niacinamide. Tuna is one of nature's richest
sources, but you'll only get about 15mg from one
fillet. You're getting the idea - use a supplement form for convenience, rather
than mowing down 17 tuna fillets.
More...from TriFuel at:
http://www.trifuel.com/training/health-nutrition/18-supplements-that-could-help-\
your-body-heal-faster


14. Anti-Inflammatory Foods:
GI Distress, Inflammation and Diet
By Patricia Rosen MD, & Becky Witinok-Huber
There are multiple reasons for GI distress in endurance athletes. Some of the
most important reasons are: decreased blood flow to
stomach; high osmolality in foods and drinks and improper dietary preparation.
Adequate blood flow to the stomach requires that the athlete have an adequate
hemoglobin, meaning not have anemia. Runners and
endurance multisport athletes loose blood in their gut from the pounding of the
intestines during the run and the use of
anti-inflammatory medicines. This group of athletes are most prone to anemia. It
is important to check your hemoglobin or red blood
cell count on at least a yearly basis and to use multivitamins with iron if
indicated. An easily digested multi-vitamin with iron is
recommended to avoid gut issues with the vitamin. Slow release or iron that is
attached to a carbohydrate is more easily absorbed.
If you have anemia and require iron, try different formulations to find one that
is easily tolerated, like MultiV from First
Endurance.
Adequate blood flow to the GI tract also requires that the athlete have adequate
fluid on the run and prior to the race. Consume a
sports drink that provides sufficient energy and electrolytes, is rapidly
absorbed, has a good palatability, and quenches thirst. It
has been suggested that a reduction in mesenteric blood flow by more than 50%
causes a linear fall in the rate of glucose
absorption. Liquids are the preferred source of energy during strenuous physical
exercise. Note also that the body can sweat out two
liters an hour but the stomach can only absorb 800 ml per hour, less than one
half that amount. Thus it is important to hydrate
before the race and if doing multisport racing, while on the bike. Due to
oxidative stress and loss of blood in the gut, Ironman
athletes and long distance runners, may have a higher susceptibility to ischemic
colitis and various inflammatory diseases.
More...from First Endurance at:
http://blog.firstendurance.com/2009/06/anti-inflammatory-foods/


15. Digest Briefs:
** Absorb, Process, Persevere
By Coach Matt Russ
One of the key ingredients to being a successful athlete is not motivation, or
talent, or mental focus, it is the ability to learn
from your mistakes. Bad races happen to everyone and they will likely happen to
you at some point. A race is only "bad," however, if
you do not walk away some knowledge that will help you in the future.
Having worked with many elite athletes, I can tell you one of their key
characteristics is the ability to absorb an injury, bad
race, equipment failure, or other setback, learn from it, and move on. I have
observed talented athletes that did not have this
ability fall by the wayside, victims to their own discouragement.
It is ok to be disappointed, but then you must look for answers. If it was
something out of your control such as a mechanical,
weather, or illness then you must simply shrug it off. There are numerous
accounts of unlucky athletes that stuck with their sport
and came back to achieve their goals. If it is a factor within your control,
break it down, come up with a plan over come it, and
keep moving forward. A successful athlete is like Teflon; they do not let
negativity stick to them.
Matt Russ has coached and trained elite athletes from around the country and
internationally for over ten years. He currently holds
expert licenses from USA Triathlon, USA Cycling (Elite), and is a licensed USA
Track and Field Coach. Matt is head coach and owner
of The Sport Factory, and works with athletes of all levels full time. He is a
free lance author and his articles are regularly
featured in a variety of magazines such as Inside Triathlon, and Triathlete.
Visit www.thesportfactory.com for more information or
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