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  Steroids and Home Runs
Mar 26, 2011
My paper is published just in time for the baseball season.
  Super Bowl
Jan 27, 2011
The stuff men eat and drink during Super Bowl Sunday may be hazardous to their masculinity.
  Carbs and Endurance
Nov 18, 2010
There is no difference in substrates used to power movement when carbs are ingested or not. What the carb-eating endurance exercisers accomplish is to lessen their ability to utilize fat. But, the body finds another way to make up for it so, in the end, there is no difference in utilization of fuels or performance. 
  Signing with the Hollywood Stars
Oct 28, 2010
A trip down memory lane for me; my publisher wanted an old baseball picture. So here is a funny old picture of me announcing my signing with the Hollywood Stars, back in 1956.
  DEATHS IN THE NFL AUGUST 22, 2005
Jun 21, 2010
We are seeing dangerously high player weights in the NFL.
  Release the Club
Jun 14, 2010
As I get ready for a little local long drive competition here at Coral Canyon I have been looking at Jamie Sadlowski's swing. 
  Golf and Geezers
May 13, 2010
I played a bit of golf yesterday and an odd thing happened at the gym the day before. Both involved geezers, which is to say people my age.
  Lard as a performance fuel?
Apr 21, 2010
My take on cabhoydrate loading athletic sports is that the participants use exercise to give them permission to binge on carbs.

The theory behind carb-swilling-eating sports advocates that the more glycogen you have stored in muscle, the longer you can run or cycle. The simple theory is, of course, wrong because it does not incorporate the feed back loops and adaptations that occur in energy use and muscle enzymes when you change to a low carb diet. Second order effects are often ignored in most of the prevailing theories of physical performance and this is just another instance of that. I describe an experiment that shows that rats on a low carb (1%), high fat diet far outperformed those fed a standard diet (69% carbohdrate). 

The next high performance fuel will be fat when the research finally gets it right. It is simple, our ancestors were capable of amazing performances and did it on fat, not carbohydrate. But then, could a performance supplement industry exist selling lard as the preferred performance fuel? 
  Power Law Training and Self-similarity
Mar 28, 2010
My favored training is the hierarchical sequence of 15-8-4 repetitions of increasing weight done with no rest between sets. But, consistent with power law physiology (fractal physiology), I do similar variations on different scales.
  Speed and training
Mar 28, 2010
How you train does alter your speed. This article pertains to baseball players in MLB. Of course, as you may guess, it obliquly kills the connection between bat speed and weight training to gain mass---the alleged connection between steroids and home runs.
 
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