Common diet mistakes: Getting healthy "Not-to-do's"

In the gym, on the hills, with the weights, in the pool, on the stairs, beating down a local path, lying on the floor doing 100 crunches or creating art sweat on your yoga mat. It doesn’t matter its shape or form – all this hard work you have been doing is incredible and if [...]

As a Canadian, Thanksgiving has always made it’s delicious, tryptophan-filled appearance in October; just before Halloween and quite a ways from Christmas. As a winter athlete, it also typically marked the beginning of a new sliding season. So while I had already celebrated Thanksgiving this year, my race circuit put me in Lake Placid, NY [...]

So last weekend, Garrett gave a swim and nutrition clinic in Texas.   I was visiting and decided to keep him company on the three hour drive from Austin.  It was to be a long.  Early morning swim practice, three hour drive 3-4 hour clinic and then another three hour return drive.  What a treat [...]

Arriving in Copenhagen for my three week stage at Noma, I was both excited and a bit anxious. From staging in Italy, France, New York, Milwaukee, and Austin, I knew the work would be long, tedious, and physically difficult. I flew to Copenhagen only one day after finishing my swim season which took me to [...]

Heading into every training period or meet it’s always ideal to have a few specific goals. The beauty of goals, much like most things in life, is that they can be whatever we decide to make them. Goals help us get better by forcing us to develop a plan of attack to achieve them. When [...]

Since March 14 I’ve been in San Diego training at the US Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Chula Vista. USA Swimming organized a training camp for professional athletes like myself so we could get a change of scenery, and also train with some different athletes. This camp comes at a perfect time as many of [...]

At 185 pounds Steve Mesler was a quick, strong, and competitive decathlete at the University of Florida. Unfortunately, for five years he battled injury after injury. Towards the end of his track career, with his competitive drive still alive, Mesler needed to find a new way to compete.
It wasn’t long before he started learning about [...]

Recently I caught up with fellow Texas alum and reigning World Champion in the Decathlon, Trey Hardee. Trey competes in a grueling sport that contests ten different events over a two-day span. Trey’s success didn’t come overnight.  The evolution of the “World’s Greatest Athlete” was a constant process. In his early years, Hardee admits, he [...]