Track Stars Sophia & Lauren Close Out Winter Track Season Taking Firsts at the Polar Bear Meet Congrats to Sophia Lally, a track star that Tracy Peal trains in New Jersey, for her fastest 200-meter race this past Saturday. Lauren Clark, another track star that Tracy trains, went undefeated in the three Polar Bear meets…
Peal Sports Performance Indoor Bike Fitting: Correction, Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation Program Tracy Steven Peal/Peal Sports Performance/Corrective Movement Specialist introduces his latest pain-relieving movement solution to the current trend in bike performance injuries Tracy Steven Peal, Sr., Corrective Movement Specialist and owner of Peal Sports Performance, recently introduced his latest pain and rehabilitation solution, Indoor…
STOP RUNNING STUIPID If you don’t know Adam Robinson, you should. By all accounts, Robinson is a modern-day polymath: robustly opinionated and ubiquitously coveted for his expertise. His palmares include being an American Chess Master, obtaining a law degree from Oxford University, co-authoring the New York Times best-seller Cracking the SAT, co-founding The Princeton Review,…
TILTING AT MORE THAN WINDMILLS Albert Einstein once remarked, “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” The philosopher and essayist Henry David Thoreau emphasized “Our life is frittered away by detail …simplify, simplify, simplify.” Columnist and author Amish Tripathi forewarned “[if] you want to convey a…
THORWING THE CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS What were you doing at 18? Me? I was trying to get my footing as a student-athlete at Penn Sate. The lure of fraternity and dorm parties was definitely at odds with any academic rigor I could muster. Coupled with a less-than-productive end to my first varsity basketball…
STOP YOUTH SPORTS INJURIES: What Every Parent Needs To Know “The gravitational field of the earth is easily the most potent physical influence in any human life. When human energy field and gravity are at war, needless to say gravity wins every time. It may be a man’s friend and reinforce his activity; it…
HAPPY NEW YEAR On this, the last night of 2017 – with the temps in single digits and the LOML, charitably, making a difference in a less fortunate part of the world this week – I figured what would be better than settling-in with a glass of wine, keeping warm and writing a year-ending…
NOW YOU SEE HIM, NOW YOU’RE NOT SURE WHAT YOU’RE SEEING In Luke Dittrich’s July 22, 2012 Esquire article “A Lament for Tyson Gay,” he explains it this way: By almost every criterion, Gay is the better runner. He trains harder, gets off the blocks faster, has superior form. Even in purely physical terms, Gay has the…
LOST IN TRANSLATION: The Beauty of Efficient Movement About four months ago I started cooking. Life circumstances nudged me away from the kitchen for over 20 years, and current life circumstances have pulled me into this previously unfamiliar space in my home. I didn’t know what to expect when I first delved into the…
THE QUESTION OF VARIABILITY: Runblogger and Burfoot and Biology, Oh My! I recently read, and was dumbfounded by, two of Pete Larson’s (anatomy and exercise physiology professor at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH) companion internet posts – last year’s “On Running Form, Variability in Elites and What This Means to You (And Me)”…