Gravsports

The following is my best understanding of what actually happened on the Lama trip, and then some analysis. Anyone who wants the story so f...

GPP, or General Purpose Training, and the 100 point system. Note--for those of you waiting for the Lama post, I've written that and am j...

I love this time of year: Climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, running, paragliding even skiing are all right out the door, and here in Canm...

Naismith's rule . A basic planner for figuring out how much distance a reasonably fit person on reasonably friendly terrain can cover. ...

June 11th note--I just had a long call with David, learned a lot, and will fit those pieces together once I also talk with a few other peopl...

Last winter a 19-year old Austrian youth, David Lama, went to Patagonia to try to free the Compressor Route. The actions of his film team an...

I spent the weekend cheering/coaching my wife, Kim Csizmazia, and all the other athltes at the Canada Crossfit Regional Games, which are a...

It's been a really good spring for interviews with top rock climbers. Climbing's "The Low Down" just did an OK one with D...

There's a lot of information on the web and in print about how to get stronger for rock climbing, but very little on how to actually get...

Floyd Landis finally admits he WAS doping . I had a conversation with a friend about this just last week; I thought it likely that Landis wa...

As most who follow Alpinism know, Steve House had an accident on Temple a month or so ago. I saw him in the hospital, he was a mess but in f...

I injured my back last monday, and made it a lot worse on Thursday. Now, injured is a relative state--I define an injury as anything that ke...

A year or so ago I read an interesting book by Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers . Gladwell looks at why some people on the edges of human potentia...

Learning to do handstand pushups in my backyard... This was taken months ago, Kim did 30 of 'em (in sets, but still 30!) last week for a...

My own training is in a state of flux; I haven't set new concrete new physical goals for the rest of the year, but I need to maintain so...

A few of the comments and emails I received on the last nutrition rant made me realize that I wasn't as clear as I could be about what ...