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 Breathing Lessons - If you want to skate far and well, you need maximum oxygen intake with each breath
Fuel for Serious Skaters - Every body is different: here are Liz's own guidelines for a performance diet.
Off-Skates Fitness - In 6 weeks, Liz skied, biked, hiked, and backpacked. Variety will improve your skating.
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From Spin to REAL biking - Liz was humbled to learn she is a big scaredy cat outdoors!
My Head is Spinning! - Several blog entries about how Liz evolved from total beginner to competent spinner.
Rolling into the Off-Season - Autumn in California is a great time to train for skiing by skating up and down gentle slopes.
Take Care of Your Spine – Tips on stance, technique, stretching, and manipulation for spinal health.
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Calculators to Personalize Your Fitness Plan – Get accurate numbers to guide your health and fitness goals.
Holistic Approach to Skating Success - The holistic skater does much more than just strap on the skates and roll.
Wintertime Fitness - See a video clip showing how I stay fit on those days when the weather is too ugly to be outdoors.
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Skating Pre-Requisites - How to build the three advantages natural athletes have as beginners.
Balance
Lunges integrate a variety of key skating and fitness
components in a single off-skates exercise. They’re
a great warmup too!
Guest
author Richard Dafter wrote Weight
Management and Heart Rate Monitors, offering help for the calorie
balancing act.
Risky
Behavior: Inactivity! -
Hazards of a winter fitness break.
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Ross
Does Roller Skiing - How one skater gets total-body workouts on roller
skis.
Announcing
Off-Skate Training for Fitness Skaters
A graduated program for
coordination, strength, and flexibility.
Understanding
Balance - Practice (and knowledge) really does make perfect.
How
to Get Hooked on a Fitness Lifestyle for the long run.
Yoga
On Skates? Try This Pre-Skate Warm-up
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Got
Rolling - Got FIT - Read about the first graduates of the fitness
inline training series.
The
Marathon Phenomenon Resources to take it to the next level.
Honor
Your Skating Machine Learn
to skate with increased health awareness.
The
poses in Yoga
for Inline Skaters offer stength, balance and flexibility.
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Core Strength: Your Secret Weapon for
Better Performance Get strong from the inside out for better balance,
flexibility and stability.
The
Benefits of Inline Skating on a Precor Elliptical Trainer. Power up
your strides and glides, by Guest Author Michael Rissman.
Wintertime
Cross Training Stay in shape while the weather is bad.
Inline Speedskating 101 by Guest
Author Jim Fink - What it's like to go from skating exclusively outdoors
to exploring indoor speed training.
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My Introduction to Yoga Liz keeps
a diary about Yoga's benefits.
Get a Little Balance in Your Life
Improve balance through 6 exercises.
Plyometrics for Advanced Skating Performance
Looking for a way to take your sports performance to a new level? Try
Plyometrics.
Skate "With Purpose" for
the Best Fitness Benefits - An excerpt from Liz's recently published
Advanced In-line Skating on how to get the most out of your in-line
skate workouts.
Do You have Boomeritis™? - A
new, free pamphlet spreads the word about pursuing that fitness lifestyle
in spite of it all.
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Fuel and Athletic Performance - Increase
performance by understanding how your body uses food.
Let Your Wheels Be Your Coach
- What your wheels say about you.
How Hard are You Really Working? -
Using a heart rate monitor to improve your workouts.
Ramp Up to Roll-Aerobics
- How to improve your roller workout.
In My Opinion - Inside
Out? - Get out of the gym and on your skates
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Fitness Scene - No Pain,
Only Gain - Inline skating provides an effective workout.
The Zone - How I Learned to NOT Eat
Pasta - Improving performance and losing weight by ignoring the conventional
dietary wisdom.
The Zone - Return to the Zone
- Dan answers your questions about The Zone.
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Comments or Questions? Ask Liz