Its official – Lance Armstrong has announced that Radio Shack will be the major sponsor for a new U.S. cycling team scheduled to start up in 2010 with Lance as one of the featured riders. Now the fact that a major electronics and computer hobby shop as signed on as a major sports team sponsor [...]
If you want to see what an amazing lead looking like at the end of the swim, check out what American Hayley Peirsol (younger sister of Olympic swimmer Aaron Peirsol) did to the rest of the women’s field in her first ITU Triathlon World Championship Series race. Oh, and she’s only been a triathlete for [...]
Here’s a article topic that I never thought I would see, the June 2009 issue of Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease had an article from the University of Louisville looking at the possible risk of developing “Mad Cow” disease or Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in people that eat farm-raised fish that have been fed fish food that [...]
Finally settled and caught up on sleep today (Thursday) after a long trip from the West Coast (San Diego) through Washington D.C. to Munich, Germany and then a 2 hour car ride into the mountains to our final destination of Kitzbuhel, Austria for the next stop on the ITU Triathlon world Championship Series. Kitzbuhel is [...]
Our very own local San Diego sports doctor, Dr John Martinez is in Kitzbuhel, Austria right now as the sports medicine doctor with the USA Triathlon team competing in this weekend’s ITU Triathlon World Championship Series race. He has also accompanied the team on their trip to Madrid, Spain for one of the earlier season [...]
Sports Massage for Triathletes One of the most common misconceptions in the athletic world is that massage for triathletes, or other types of athletes is not good within 3 days of participating in a sporting event. This is simply untrue, as pre-event massage for triathletes can be very important to enhancing an athlete’s performance. The [...]
San Diego Acupuncture for Injuries & Recovery Massage Today, two of the most effective alternative medical treatments available are acupuncture for injuries and recovery massage. When used to enhance a traditional medical treatment; they are very effective for both pain management and long term healing. For thousands of years the Chinese have used the technique [...]
San Diego sports medicine doctor’s top 5 safety tips on picking a fitness boot camp in San Diego. It’s obvious that Fitness Boot Camp workouts are the latest fitness craze. Fitness Boot Camps offer an inexpensive alternative to individual one-on-one personal training with a strong social and group training atmosphere but with professional instruction by personal training staff.