Curing Childhood Cancer through Endurance Athletics

"If you want to lift yourself up lift up someone else"

In December of 2008, I was in the midst of fighting kidney disease.  During that period I spent a lot of time on dialysis.  I will never forget one time when I was on dialysis at University of Penn Hosp when I made friends with a 9 year old girl that was on dialysis as well.  In fact, I met her while we were both having our treatments.  She was miserable, scared, and frustrated; so was I.  I told myself that there was no way I could "feel sorry" for myself when she was next to me.  For the next 2.5 hours we watched cartoons, played eye spy, and just talked.  For that few hours, she forgot she was on dialysis and so did I.  

Ever since that day, I knew that when I was healthy, I would do whatever I could to help children with chronic illnesses.  A few months ago, Jennifer Kelly, an employee of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), attended one of my seminars at The Running Place in Newtown Sq.  She then told me about a program that ALFS has called Team Lemon.  Participants that sign up for Team Lemon raise money for ALFS while training for a specific endurance event.  This event could be a running or triathlon based race.  Well I'm very excited to announce that I will be the head coach for ALFS Team Lemon in the 2011 season.  I'm thrilled to be helping athletes of all shapes and sizes with their training for their specific endurance events in honor of ALFS.  

To learn more about ALFS and Team Lemon you can go here:  http://www.alexslemonade.org/campaign/team-lemon

Maybe you can be a part of curing childhood cancer?!

Coach Jason 

Backpacking and MRIs

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of backpacking in North New Jersey.  The trip itself was indeed an experience between the cold and lugging around a 30lb back pack.  Although I only hiked a few miles my knees and hips were killing me.  Granted i did have a 30lb back pack on, but we really did not hike that much!  After telling my doctor about all this he thought it would be a good idea to get some more recent MRIs to see what is going on. 

Another fork in the road, but lets hope this is one step closer to figuring out everything and being able to race soon! 

Coach Jason

Bike Fit Experience at Elite Bicycles

I had the pleasure of being fit by David Greenfeild owner ELITE bicycles today and it was the best bike fit experience I have ever had.  I have had my fair share of hip and knee injuries and David’s approach is unlike know other. Having a background in exercise physiology and biomechanics I was very impressed with his knowledge of biomechanical and muscoskeletal concepts and how they pertain to bike fit.  I honestly have been to bike fitters throughout the East coast, and his approach was hands down the most detailed and quantitative.  I personally feel the only way you can get more quantitative is being assessed in a wind tunnel facility.  David incorporates his knowledge of biomechanics, power based training, and physical therapy to enhance the cyclists fit and performance. 

Just as take my athletes individual physiological needs into account when coaching, David does the same his clients biomechanics and as they pertain to the bike. As David says "everyone is like a snowflake".  No one size fits all approaches here! 

Train Smart!

Coach Jason

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Active Warm Up Revisted

Dr Steve Young was kind enough to re shoot the active warm up video.  This time you can hear the specific goal behind this warm up and how it can benefit you.

Active Warm Up Video by Dr Steve Young

Enjoy!
Coach Jason

Visual Thought for the Week

Your VISUAL thought for the day regarding Scientific Evidence for popular dietary supplements. I think the key note behind this chat is that large, human, randomized placebo-controlled trials were used in the data scrape – wherever possible. No animal trials. No cell studies. Many of the health claims made by the $23 billion supplements industry are based on non-human trials.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-supplements/

Train Smart. Eat Smart ;) - Coach Jason