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ArchiveOutside magazine, July 1999 Stealing Home I found your recent article on dream towns (“Are You Where You Ought to Be?” May) quite interesting and wanted to raise two important issues everyone should consider before moving.
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Turning Winter into Spring Training Forget about waiting for the thaw. There’s a foot of fresh resistance out there. By Mark Jannot Ray Browning takes the same approach to winter training as every other world-class triathlete: He heads…
 Outside magazine, October 1995 The Ubergirl Cometh The age of Gabrielle Reece is upon us. She’s big, she’s strong, and with thousands more like her out there, she’s replicating fast. Can you deal with that?…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Don’t miss: Our special online forum with epidemiologist James Mills Health: Warning–Killer Microbes Next 20 Miles Is hantavirus lurking in your favorite neck of the woods? By Miles Harvey…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Who Needs Steroids? The legal (if odd) new way to give yourself a boost By Rob Coppolillo Blood-doping or injecting yourself with EPO may have alluring results, but shouldn’t there be…
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Women Outside, Fall 1998 Beauty I Slough, Therefore I Am Words of wisdom from Nietzsche, Lao-tzu, and other skin-care experts By Mary Roach GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Keeping in Step with Summer Preparation for these sunny times shouldn’t stop at the quads or biceps. Your feet need a hand, too. By Sara Corbett Summertime–when we trot up and down mountains, sashay through 10k races, leap…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Recovery: Massage’s Unscientific Secret By Dana Sullivan Six-time world-champion mountain biker John Tomac works massage therapy into a training regimen that also includes riding 20 hours a week in Durango’s hill country. “Massage seems to decrease my recovery time,” he…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Get All Your Muscles in a Row For a superior full-body workout, take a sliding seat By John Brant A pair of trick sunglasses has made Vesko Nenchev’s day. They’re cheap specs that a friend found in a…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Shouldering the Summer Load Before you climb, paddle, spike, or throw, make sure your shoulders are ready for the special strain of this season’s sports By Cory Johnson Christian griffith spent hours in the gym working every conceivable…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Regimens: Gaining Ground on the Treadmill By Dana Sullivan Running six miles is easier on a treadmill than in the real world of wind, unforgiving pavement, traffic lights, and dogs. So if bouts of nasty weather move some of your…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Conditioning: Preparing for 100 Miles in 11 Saturdays Flat By Douglas Gantenbein Training for a century ride, the 100-mile benchmark of road-cycling fitness, doesn’t mean sacrificing much more of your life than spending several Saturdays in the saddle. In fact,…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Winter Training, Any Way You Carve It Snow-sport dabblers, beware: The more pursuits you take up, the more varied your regimen should be By Sara Corbett Impressed last winter by the flocks of pirouetting telemarkers and snowboarders, I…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Spontaneous Consumption Bahìa Magdalena was to be merely a pit stop. Then he met Paloma, Queen of Ceviche. By Randy Wayne White It was Paloma Magallanes, a spirited but untraveled grandmother, who unwittingly convinced me to…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Drop and Give Me … a Nap Why hitting the sheets may be better than hitting the streets By Peter Lewis In our endless quest to stay fit and healthy,…
Fitness special, August 1998 Bring It Home: Coach V’s Four Week Plan By Andrew Tilin Can’t make it to IPI? Well, you’re not getting off the hook that painlessly. For those too busy to come to him, Mark…
Bodywork, May 1999 Eyes Wide Open No need to settle for so-so sight. Not when an ocular workout can bring your game into focus. By Tish Hamilton Two seasons ago Greg Vaughn was,…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Regimens: Tuning Your Body’s Suspension By Dana Sullivan “Stretching and strengthening all of the ligaments, tendons, and muscles around the hips will stabilize the region,” says Dr. Lyle Micheli, author of The Sports Medicine Bible. In principle, Micheli approaches…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Regimens: Getting a Foot Up on Overuse Injuries By Sara Corbett Modern athletic shoes may have given us too much of a good thing. “They’ve allowed the muscles that naturally stabilize our feet to weaken,” says Tom McPoil, an associate…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Climbing: Moves Like You’ve Never Seen Before By Douglas Gantenbein “You can have someone right there in your face when you climb,” says Michael Jacob Sinclair, a San Francisco-area pediatrician who’s pushing what he hopes will be the next big…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Prescriptions: Doctoring for the Downside By Andrew Tilin The flip side of downhill training is that it can be hard on your joints and tendons. “Ankles are an obvious concern when you’re running downhill,” says Richard Watkins, a strength and…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Prevention: Keeping Ankles from Taking a Turn for the Worse By Martha Thomas Unless you’re a swimmer, there’s a 75 percent chance that your sports injury will be ankle – related,” says William Hamilton, senior attending orthopedic surgeon at St.
Outside magazine, August 1995 Prescriptions: The D.I.Y. Approach to Sport-Specific Massage By Nancy Prichard The full-body rubdown is to sports massage as the cross-training shoe is to training: It feels passably good, but if you concentrate on one activity, you’d be better served by…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Regimens: Aprês Ski: Downhill Workout For the Indoors When members of the U.S. Ski team come off the slopes and into the weight room, aside from doing zillions of leg extensions, they work their “downhill” muscles. And…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Proprioceptive Neuromuscular What? These days, there’s a lot more to stretching than feeling the burn By Andy Dappen A month or so before the 1989 U.S. summer National Championships, swimmer…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Bicycling: Straighten Up and Ride Right The National Mountain Bike Patrol aims to help fat-tire riders buff a tarnished image By Florence Williams Ross Blasman hates to admit it, but he looks like a cop, and when…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Regimens: Getting a Grip By John Brant Keith Cedro, a former strength and conditioning coach for the New York Mets, has seen plenty of good athletes with bad hands. But his prescription isn’t just for million-dollar ballplayers.
Outside magazine, January 1996 When the Hips Are Down …even a simple stroll is a trial. How to keep the big ball-and-sockets rolling through the snow. By Dana Sullivan The hips are the postal workers of the human body: They’ll diligently do…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Riding Less to Achieve More By Alan Cote “It’ s kind of trite, but it’s true: getting in shape is more about quality than quantity,” says mountain-biking legend Ned Overend. Maximizing the quality of training time is something he…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Foolproof, Titanium-Enriched Cure for Insomnia By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) Is it the future of mountain-bike racing, or just a trendy aberration? “My goal is to take mountain-bike racing out…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Downhill Bracer For runners, hikers, and skiers in training, the best offense is a good descent By Andrew Tillin When Bill McDermott crests the hill near the 23-mile mark of his beloved Catalina Marathon, he approaches the…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Strategies: No Time (and Temperature) Like the Present By Mark Jannot The beauty of winter’s aerobic triumvirate — cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, and snowshoeing — is that it offers a comprehensive fitness program. One sport will challenge your upper body,…
Outside magazine, July 1999 The Wheelie The Diving Dig | The Cartwheel | The Figure Four | Take the Stairs | The Crossover Dribble |…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Regimens: Positive Apres-Effects By Dana Sullivan You wouldn’t think of interrupting a mountain-bike ride or a trail run for a cocktail, but alpine skiing is different. It’s worthy exercise, sure–but it’s a party, too. If you’re interested in actually skiing,…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Skills: Ride Out the Revolutions By Dana Sullivan Titanium pedals are fine if you have the money, but there’s a more basic way to improve your cycling stroke. According to Jeff Broker, a biomechanics expert with the U.S. Olympic Committee, most recreational…
Bodywork, March 1999 It Pays to Be Flexible A few new moves to get you out of that stretching rut The best way to choose a type of stretching that suits your style is, of course, to try them all. But whether you…
Outside magazine, June 1994 You Could Use Some Helping Hands You’re only as good as your grasp, so before you pick up the pace this summer, pick up the silly putty By John Brant During my freshman year in college, a…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Strategies: The Orthotics Option By Dana Sullivan Close might be good enough in horseshoes, but a difference of as little as a quarter of an inch in leg length can set you up for a bad case of iliotibial band…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Medicine: Pills for Pain–Not Performance By Gretchen Reynolds “Vitamin I, vitamin K, vitamin N: that’s ibuprofen, ketoprofen, naproxen. They all have little pet names,” says Jenny Stone, a certified athletic trainer in charge of clinical programs for sports medicine at…
Bodywork, April 1997 Regiments: The Painful Truth is Intervals Are Good By Ken McAlpine “The name of the game is who can hold off the lactic-acid onslaught,” says Matt Giusto, 30, who last year coached himself to the season’s fastest American road…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Intake: How to Dodge the Wall This Fall By Lisa Twyman Bessone With the big-city double-header of marathoning coming up–Chicago on October 20 and New York two weeks later–many runners are boosting their mileage. But in concentrating so intently…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Endurance: From Our Search for All Things Woolly… By Todd Balf John Stamstad is the acknowledged master of wilderness endurance races, so it surprised nobody that last February in Alaska he overcame the woolliest Iditasport Human Powered Ultra Marathon in…
Outside magazine, July 1999 The Twisting Somersault The Diving Dig | The Cartwheel | The Figure Four | Take the Stairs | The Crossover Dribble…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Curl When They Least Expect It Just when your muscles are getting the hang of a weight-lifting regimen, it’s time to shake things up By Ken McAlpine Three days a week for a year now, I’ve ducked into…
Here's the deal: Ten breakthrough workouts from the best fitness experts and coaching pros around. Great tips for nutrition, gear, and fine-tuning your form. Killer ideas to keep you motivated. Ten high-performance meals you can prepare in less than ten minutes. It's everything you need to start fresh, keep your options wide open, and realize your fitness dream
Learn how to do all the essential exercises, from basics like the bench press to advanced medicine-ball moves, in our ONLINE WORKOUT GLOSSARY.Coming April 23…
Can Underwear Make You Stronger?* fitness tips *No, but it sure looks (and feels) that way Who knew that a stretchy T-shirt made from a more breathable version of the fabric found in ladies’ girdles would become the base layer of choice for athletes as diverse as baseball…
Meet your secret muscles—and find out how these hidden assets can leverage your leap to peak performance
Travel can be a minefield of fatigue, jet lag, strange food, and fitness regimens shot to hell. It doesn't have to be that way. With our road-warrior plan, you can fight back—and win.
We're going to show you how to find your flow. The place where everything clicks and comes easy.
LISTEN UP: There's way more to achieving peak fitness than strength and cardio training. Here's how to unite body, mind, and soul to transform yourself into a Whole Athlete
I will be going hiking and kayaking in Hawaii next summer, but I concerned about the sun because of my very fair complexion. What are some good choices for clothing to help protect me from the ravages of the sun? Jeff Minneapolis, Minnesota
As anybody who's been hiking on the West Coast knows, getting "poison oaked" is a miserable experience. So, have you ever heard of Zanfel? According to the company's Web site, this soap is supposed to remove the urushiol from poison oak even after you get the rash. Unfortunately, it's really expensive—about $40 for a one-ounce tube! Does this stuff really work, or is it just snake oil? Rusty San Francisco, California
Stuart Stevens’s November story “Drug Test,” on the use of performance-enhancing substances in sports, incorrectly reported that cyclist Alexi Grewal, who won a road-racing gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, prepared for that year’s competition with the use of blood packing, a transfusion technique that increases…
Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist into the back rooms of sports medicine, where he just said yes to the most controversial chemicals in sports.
How is weight training for snowboarding different from weight training for skiing? Anne Davis Boulder, Colorado
I get sunburned every time I go skiing. What SPF should I be looking for in my sunblock? Dian Goodspeed Albany, New York
The brave new world is coming—fast. With sci-fi fantasy turning into performance-enhancing reality, we separate the hype from breakthroughs you can use.
Beta-tested by Olympians and elite athletes, the wizardry of neuromuscular training will hardwire you for peak performance
Bill Phillips, the most successful fitness author in history, is a Colorado recluse who got his start teaching muscleheads how to use steroids. He's cleaned up his act—his Body-for-Life program runs street legal, and it works—but he's still banking on a timeless American urge: Everybody wants to be huge.
Pass the summer splash test with these rowdy water fitness contests
Are the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients packed into everything you chug and chew the real secret to becoming a finely tuned sports superstar? Turn the page.
The Fountain of Youth is a myth. But take heart: Intelligent training and an adventurous spirit will keep you running, kicking, screaming at the peak of your potential for years to come.
Forget the creepy promise of techno-longevity. Instead, take our advice: Live fast, die hard, and leave behind a worn-out, used-up, good-looking corpse.
Want an easy plan to prepare you to climb a mountain—say, 14,494-foot Mount Whitney? Here's a five-week program that'll whip you into summit-worthy shape.
Grueling workouts are the only way to get ready for long-distance endurance, right? Wrong.
The fittest firewoman alive is transforming her colleagues into elite athletes. When she's done with them, she's coming after you.
Juliet Draper may be the fittest firewoman alive: 185 pounds of chiseled, hollering, highly motivated tenacity. Now she wants to go global, teaching firehouse heroes everywhere how to shape up. Sounds like a pipe dream—but are you going to tell her to back off?
Here's a one-day meal plan fit for a noontime event or workout.
If mom had told you what fruits and veggies can do for your game, maybe you would've listened. But it's not too late.
This month in New Zealand, the crew of Oracle/BMW will try to win the America’s Cup with the help of some unorthodox conditioning: grunting up and over sand dunes, terra firma’s closest approximation of a yacht rolling at sea.
With $100,000 for the winners, the world's most relentless teams, and a 138,000-vertical-foot Rocky Mountain course, the Subaru Primal Quest seemed poised to give big-time adventure racing a smashing return to U.S. soil. But then the race began—and all hell broke loose. A front-line report from the wildest, bumpiest game in the wilderness.
IN THE MARKET FOR AN INTERNET COACH? Then you’ll need to decide between a virtual coach (costs range from $0-$20 per month; no personal interaction included) and a bona fide online coach (costs range from $60 and up per month; live coach at the other end of the line). A…