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Training: Position yourself for athletic success
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 10:44AM
Are you discouraged by your results in your favorite sport? Have you wondered why you can't seem to improve, no matter how hard you train? If so, the answer may be found in the way you position yourself. Literally.
Mountain bikes now have three wheel sizes
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 5:09AM
Last spring, I was cruising the Foothills on my full-suspension mountain bike with 26-inch wheels. Like a lot of mountain bikers, I was curious about mountain bikes with super-sized wheels.
Mud runs gaining popularity
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 5:09AM
Amanda Alarcon Banks likes to spend her afternoons crawling on her stomach trying to avoid touching dangling wires carrying live electrical current.
Motivational quotes and posters can get you going
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 5:09AM
Long before there was Pinterest and Google Plus, I loved a good exercise quote splashed onto a workout themed image.
Off the beaten path on Pikes Peak
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 5:09AM
Pikes Peak is much more than a 14,115-foot heap of uplifted granite.
Lookout at San Francisco's Lands End
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 5:03AM
Irrational, I know, but it bummed me out, in a breaking-the-spell sort of way, when two tour buses pulled up at the recently remodeled Lands End Lookout visitors center and dumped off a gaggle of slumping, weary tourists.
Fitness Success: 5 great ways to make fitness and weight loss easier
Published May 16th, 2013 - 10:04AM
Most people think that the key to taking off the weight (fat) and keeping off the fat (or staying in shape) is just willpower and self-discipline.
Training: Fix it yourself
Published May 15th, 2013 - 11:35AM
You're ready to ride. Then you see it - your bike has a flat tire. As always. As it does very single year!
Surfer moms are catching the wave more and more
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:20AM
Beth Schub started surfing with one of her uncles on Long Island when she was 13, but she went off to college in Pennsylvania and later settled there after getting married, she thought she was pretty much done with the sport.
You're ready to ride, but is your bike?
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:15AM
If you grew up in the Schwinn Stingray era, all you needed for bike repairs and maintenance was a crescent wrench and a can of WD-40.
Kids learning to ride a bike? Book may help
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:15AM
Chris Raschka, a winner of the Caldecott Medal, which honors the year's best picture book for kids, has released "Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle."
A spin class with veteran Olympic swimmer Dara Torres
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:15AM
Five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres is on tour to promote new Koss earbuds for fitness-minded, active women. She joined a spin class at Elite Sports Club in Mequon, Wis.
Joshua Tree enchanting in its magical, quirky way
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:15AM
Deep in the desert, searching for enlightenment at a spot called Samuelson's Rocks that is unmarked on any map, all I find are shaggy, gnarled trees that give this area its name, bulbous monzogranite rock formations and the triad of cholla, creosote and prickly pear that scar my legs and test my resolve.
Yaffbars: Share this people food with 'your best friend'
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:15AM
Into the overstuffed outdoors energy-bar market comes a new entrant � YaffBars.
Fitness buffs embrace pyramid training
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:15AM
To most of the world, pyramids are synonymous with ancient Egypt, but to fitness buffs it's the favored form of resistance training.
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