Performance, Fitness and Health
Cycling has been a major focus of mine over the last 3 years. It started with an indoor trainer to get some more regular aerobic activities, but one thing led t...
Category: Fitness
Every year I yo-yo, losing weight and gaining fitness in the summer, but finding myself back where I was come spring. I’m working to gain fitness year over year by being better trained by summer’s end and maintaining through the winter. The key, I believe, is consistency.
2008 Fitness Summary
Concrete Study, originally uploaded by jjvornov. I use Ascent to track my training recorded by the Garmin Forerunner 305 Since it organizes by weeks, months and...
Year End Fitness
Lichen on Log, originally uploaded by jjvornov. Sometime in August, after the family vacation, I turned entirely to running, putting the bicycle aside. I had de...
Training Goals
Topping Out Tuckerman’s, originally uploaded by jjvornov. One of my main goals for fitness is to be able to undertake something like this hike. While it w...
Summer Base
Haystacks, originally uploaded by jjvornov. I took this image with my iPhone during my long ride on Sunday. I had brought the Sigma DP1 with me once or twice an...
Reverse Periodization
The kids are all out of school and I’m in a bit of a lull in the travel schedule. Since I decided to try hard to work my exercise program around my schedu...
Carmichael Field Test Result
This week was an R&R training week, so today I did the first CTS Field Test of the year. While the idea of period all out testing to track progress isn̵...
Fitness Update
Illuminated Leaf, originally uploaded by jjvornov. It’s now the end of April and I haven’t written here in the fitness category for some time. Havin...
Work Capacity
Vern Gambetta: Functional Path Training: Connections: “You will find if you grasp the idea that you will need to do less %u201Cfitness%u201D oriented trai...