I’m excited to launch my fundraising page for the 36th annual Ben to the Shore Bike Tour. The Ben to the Shore Bike Tour is the event that helped solidify my desire to complete the Ruthless Performance Ride America in 2019, which was a 4,000 cycling journey, completed over the course of 43 days. Even …
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Let me start by saying that I don’t much consider myself a cyclist. I’ve just found myself in the position of long-distance cycling on a handful of occasions. The Capstone, of course, was the longest cycling event that I’ve completed, which was a cross-country cycling tour from San Francisco, CA to Pottsville, PA.–but this 4,000 …
With my upcoming bike tour from Philadelphia to Atlantic City (in the midst of a heat wave), I wanted to make sure that our cyclists have a quick guide for considerations on race-day performance in the heat. This is in no way a comprehensive dive on the subject, but rather a way to get athletes …
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I’m going to jump into this week’s Featured Content as quickly as I can, but first, I wanted to mention my participation in this year’s Ben to the Shore Bike Tour. The tour is scheduled for this upcoming Sunday (July 24th), and this year I’ll be bringing along Kronos, my pitbull from Hillside SPCA here …
Welcome to this week’s installment of Featured Fitness Content. As a regular reader of this series, you’re setting yourself apart by going above-and-beyond in your search for new material in fitness and sports performance from the industry’s leading experts. You can peruse last week’s installment here. But before we get to this week’s featured content, …
In the first half of this article series, I discussed my draw to Utah and some of the reasons why I’ll be returning this August to ascend King’s Peak–the state’s highest point at 13,527 feet above sea-level. I also explained how this differs from a traditional western peak summit; rather than climbing this at a …
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After my 4,000-mile, 43-day cross country cycle, my memory was left with a highly detailed map of this country and the route I took. Though I’ve done a handful of cross-country trips by car (probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 coast-to-coast road trips), my understanding of the country and its form was compounded during …
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I’m proud to announce the official launch of the Human Advancement Podcast. I’ve been compiling audio from various events, interviews, guest lectures, expert panels, and more since October; now we have months worth of content logged to supplement our ongoing effort to bring industry experts, high performing athletes, and sought-after personalities to your phone, speaker, …
Before I get into our latest fitness content round-up, I wanted to mention that I’ll be hosting a free, online workshop TONIGHT at 7:00 PM. The workshop is At-Home Performance Enhancement Strategies. This will be highly interactive and free-form. I’ll be covering various tactics to keep your physical and mental performance at its peak while …
Regardless of your preferred cycling style, be it mountain biking, distance, or sprint if you’re spending a lot of time pedaling, it is very easy for the ratio of quadriceps to hamstring input in each pedal to get further and further out of whack. In a perfect world, you would have a near even input …
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