Video
Five climbers have died in six weeks on Colorado’s Capitol Peak, a 14er near Aspen. It’s been several years since I climbed Capitol Peak but the video above is a great reminder of the experience. The most perilous part of the climb, the famous Knife Edge ridge, is
DIY
Ben Cusick demonstrates how to build a simple wood burning camp stove out of a recycled soup can. The stove in this video is an excellent little wood stove that burns fuel cleanly, and unlike DIY alcohol stoves can burn for long periods of time without needing to be extinguished
Cycling
One of my favorite things about cycling and watching pro races are the amazing landscapes and places a bike can take you through. The Tour de France, for example, is as much a bike race as it is a tour of hundreds if not thousands of years of history, culture
Video
You have got to watch this video of Downhill World Champion Rachel Atherton dislocating her shoulder, then reducing it with the help of a spectator before getting back on her bike to finish the race. “My shoulders are my weakest point after multiple dislocations over the last 15 years, and
Food
When you leave the hospital with a bottle of medication, it comes with a warning label or two; “Don’t operate a motor vehicle while taking this medication.” When you leave the hospital with a newborn, however, you’re handed a baby and told good luck. My daughter should have
Exercise
When it comes to strength training and bodybuilding the desired traits of training usually include raw strength, power, speed and putting on muscle mass. Mobility, how well your joints move, is often left by the wayside or confused with flexibility. Mobility, however, is key to developing strength and size efficiently
Exercise
A few months back I hurt my shoulder performing bench press. I put on a little too much weight and let my form go and ended up with a sharp pain in my shoulder and the inability to sleep on my side or bench more than about 95 pounds without
Film
Take 5-minutes and watch this awesome video from Diamondback Bicycles. Dreamride 2 featuring Mike Hopkins and filmed by Scott Secco, Jordan Manley, and Bruno Long. The short-film really captures what I love about mountain biking; escaping reality and surrounding myself with nature. The location and film work are fantastic as
Cycling
Those of you who frequent the site know I spend some time over on Reddit. I was checking out some stuff on r/Fitness recently and I came across this Chest 101: An Anatomical Guide to Training post and I just sighed to myself and moved on. But later on
Video
We’ve previously covered how to ride any Zwift course at any time on Mac or PC, but now that the app is available on iOS it’s time to provide an update. Currently, Zwift HQ publishes a monthly course schedule which is posted in the app and over on
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First and foremost, if you go to a gym to work out, the answer is never. It is never ok to drag your sniffling ass in there and infect every machine, bar and bench in the place. If you’re going for a run, or you have a home gym,
Cycling
This video brings me back to seeing dudes at the powerlifting gym I used to go to in college, they would smoke either crack or meth (not sure, not really an expert on the smell, but the glass pipe was a dead giveaway) before hitting the weights. They sweated a
