Review: Garmin Forerunner 305

The Good
-Fairly accurate measure of vertical feet skied
-GPS keeps you from getting lost when skiing the backcountry
-Keeps track of calories burned so you know how many calories you need to consume to properly refuel
-Accurate heart rate monitor that can help you improve your aerobic fitness and anaerobic threshold.
-Keeps track of your average […]

Andrew Hooge, CSCS
Ahhh…there’s nothing like the feeling of fresh snow underneath your skis during the first few days of the season (until a champaign powder day comes along of course). After a long day in the air I finally landed in Crested Butte, Colorado last night. I was like a kid in a […]

The Importance of Wearing a Heart Rate Monitor
In a recent tip of the day I mentioned the importance and effectiveness of wearing a heart rate monitor. Since I received so many emails regarding how to properly use a monitor I decided to discuss it here.
Think of a heart rate monitor as a gauge, a tachometer […]

How to maximize overtraining
To many, maximizing overtraining may sound a bit like an oxymoron. In the late 1960’s Russian exercise scientists discovered that after 3 weeks of “very hard” strength and conditioning work the athletes needed to back off a little on their training. They found that applying 60 percent of the workload in the […]

I was talking with one of my coaches this morning and he said, “did you see that Bode was back!”
Was I confused? Did Bode actually go somewhere? Was he abducted? When I asked him, “should we tell the media to turn off the “Amber Alert?” he didn’t seem amused.
Kidding […]