If you’re in decent shape, the only way to find your real maximum heart rate is to do intervals and SEE it. My max seems to be going down …from 170. (the 220 minus your age formula would give...

Sad to report that the instant relief from yesterday’s cortsone shot to my hip did not last today, in serious down-hill skiing. I was really bummed until I read the learned (and bang-on) comment of sports doc, Chris Watt...

After ten weeks of physical therapy I finally took the uneasy step of getting a cortisone shot for my hip, which, mercifully, is only bursitis and not someting worse. The shot was interesting. Seemed to work instantly, if not...

Chuck Anastasias, on his blog, notes the passing of a terrific YNY contributor, Doug Fish, after a long fight, of squamous cell cancer. Like Chuck, I never met him but enjoyed his blogging and his spirit generally. Sad, sad,...

For the past week, I have been working out with some star-trainers, here in Aspen, to get some new insights into what leading trainers are saying these days. A highlight: doing “intervals” with Jean Robert. For this famous Aspen...

At the insistence of our web-page “handlers”, Mike Lannen et al, I have joined Facebook and am desperately trying to get the hang of it. Sign on and say hello…watch me struggle. They tell me – and I know...