Good, but it Needs A Little Salt “Low salt”… “Salt free”… “Low sodium”… these products are all over the shelves of your Whole Foods and HEB. Is this what we should eat? What is Hyponatremia? (hi-PO-na-tree-mee-uh) Table salt, sodium chloride, is lost in sweat and urine and replaced by food. The sodium part (of sodium [...]
R U Immunized? The NCAA recommends vaccination for all athletes Hepatitis B virus (HBV) may be spread thru sweat according to a study published this year in the British Journal of Sports medicine. The virus can survive outside the body for 1 week and can penetrate broken skin. HBV causes a serious incurable disease that [...]
Top 10 Marathon Training Errors 10 Running all the time 9 Overhydrating 8 Getting in the car 7 Throwing in “junk miles” 6 Using the same ol’ shoes 5 Blaming the shoe 4 >10% 3 Beating the competition 2 Being unprepared for race day 1 Not having fun 10 Running all the time Cross train [...]
What Should I Do When I Have a Cold? Burrr! It is getting cold for Richmond’s athletes. Fortunately, cold weather and wet hair are not part of the current viral theory for causes of the common cold (sorry Mom!). Working out in the cold is however immunosuppressive. In other words, it decreases your ability to [...]
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