March 16, 2023 Anti-Aging: 7 Mental Skills to Make You Faster By Coach John Hughes “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” — Yogi Berra, 18 time Major League Baseball All-Star. The same thing applies to cycling, especially to going faster. The days grow longer (and hopefully drier and warmer). Let’s ride!…
March 9, 2023 Anti-Aging: How to Improve Your Diet and Performance This Winter By Coach John Hughes Healthy nutrition increases longevity and performance. Eating a good diet reduces your risks of the most common health conditions as you age: heart disease including stroke; diabetes; being overweight, which increases your risk of heart disease and diabetes;…
Anti-Aging: Cardio? Strength? Both! By Coach John Hughes Two new large studies suggest a combination of regular cardiovascular exercise and strength training reduce the risk of premature mortality more than just cardio or just strength workouts. Read more. Your Questions Answered: Pumps that Blowback; Gearing for Epic Climbs; Cabling Tips Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim…
February 16, 2023 Anti-Aging: Exercise like Carl, not like Coach Hughes By Coach John Hughes Work on your Weaknesses 2022 was a tough year for my 68-year-old buddy Carl. His mother passed away, he was grieving and he was situationally depressed. At the same time he was working with attorneys on her estate including selling…
February 9, 2023 Anti-Aging: VO2 Max By Coach John Hughes “Cardiorespiratory fitness, as measured by maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), is related to functional capacity and human performance and has been shown to be a strong and independent predictor of all-cause and disease-specific mortality.” (Survival of the fittest: VO2max, a key predictor of longevity?) Further, physiologists…
