“In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.” BodyRaceOppositesYour BodyHandleEnduranceSwimmingRunnersAthletics Author:Kirsty Coventry
“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.” PeopleYearsStatesDoneBodyEvilStudyFeetAdviceNeededTrainingPercentBiggerStrongerDistanceEightFatsIdiotDietsPoundsPerformersSeniorRunnersWorkoutProteinUtahDistance RunnerMotivational WorkoutCarbsCarbohydratesGrazingBody Fat Author:Dan John
“The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.” BodyBrainEssentialsAssetsRunnersCalculatingConfidence And Courage Author:Franz Stampfl
“In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.” IfsFirstsBodyEyeCertainRealizingReadyWeightFatsDevelopingRelatedMilkReservesRunnersFeedingSeventiesPercentagesDepositsFetusHoveringCalciumBody Weight Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Arnold is now the front runner. Everyone was snickering about it a month ago, now it looks like he will be the next governor of California. He is so confident he has already chosen a body oil for the inauguration.” LooksBodyNextFrontsMonthsOilChosenCaliforniaGovernorsRunnersInauguration Author:David Letterman
“Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.” KnowsFeelsBodyClothesShiningRunnersBaggy Clothes Author:Ellie Goulding