Truth

Posted by Terry on 11/26/08

Knowing is not enough, we must apply

Willing is not enough, we must do 

-Bruce Lee 

Are champions born or made? Can class and dignity be taught?

Posted by Terry on 11/25/08

The photo is a Former Olympian and Pro Female Triathlete that I trained, coached and developed along with another coach into a 2008 World Record and Championship in Half Ironman Triathlon.

They say champions are born. Some coaches boast that they made the athlete a champion. Some athletes like the one in the photo have won many major events but had never reached the pinnacle of success. In 2007, I looked for a female professional triathlete that I knew had the physical potential to becoming a world champion. I found that athlete and 17 months later at the age of 38, she realized that dream in world record fashion.

When it comes to success, both the athlete and it's team have to have the knowledge and skill to succeed. As sports become more and more competitive, the likeliehood of older athletes succeeding becomes thinner and thinner. There are exceptions of course and natural exceptions free from performance enhancing drugs. Many of these exceptions to the rule have been under performing their entire athletic careers. Sports science has taught me all of the important physiological nuances that are critical to development. Such as communication, nutrition, measuring training stress accurately and writing programs that have a foundation in logic.

Experience has taught me that behavior, skill of application, motivation, stress relief, deep mental/emotional understanding all play key roles. Although, success isn't predicated on all of these factors.

Some athletes have raw gifts but it's the teachers, trainers and coaches that help put together a winning formula. I know because my successes have been because of many key people that taught me how to achieve an elite level of athletic result. These key people include Tich Nhat Hanh, Tony Robbins, Napoleon Hill, Dr. Tudor Bompa, Dr. Max Testa, Dr. Jan Olbrecht, Dr. Phillip Skiba, Mike McCormack, Scott Molina, Arthur Lydiard, Jack Daniels, Andy Coggan, Verkhoshansky, Arkadi Prokov and Charles Polequin as well as many other writers of wisdom, sport history and human performance.

Often times, there is a disconnect between the talent and it's teachers.

For example, think about any icon to whom you feel most connected. The ones with the most poise and character reference the key people and moments that had the most impact on their success. Read any books, research articles or journals and you'll always see references. Post game interviews with sports figures always reference thanks to their sponsors and coaches that have been instrumental in their success.

Much of this "thanks" is due to  financial and contractual obligations. Penalties would ensue if there were any breach of these obligations. Yet, some athletes genuinely feel greatful for their successes.

Conversely, there are those who feel a sense of entitlement to their success and never genuinely thank and respect the people that have mostly impacted their success. This happens in the big 3 sports but the fines aren't steep enough to impact the players' professional and ethical decisions.

Furthermore, we all have experienced frustration and a sense of loss when things don't turn out the way we had planned. We have no way of truly knowing if any decisions are the right decisions to make at that time.

Although, we do have control over our values, thoughts and actions. I've learned some valuable lessons recently.I believe mindfulness and generosity free from expectation yet rooted in productive and genuine intentions will always honor one's spirt and purpose.

It's easy to be frustrated but more fruitful to be wise and with purpose.

Lastly, this blog entry is meant for those who need guidance to understand success and failure.

Be well 

PS. Class and dignity can be learned, it just takes the ability to accept criticism and humility to feed the mindset to accept the need to change.

Learning How to Walk-New York Times Article

Posted by Terry on 11/14/08

Contact us to speak about chronic pain and Gait pattern evaluation.

AFTER Lynne Wu moved to New York from Cincinnati, she realized her body wasn’t prepared for the sheer amount of pavement-pounding required in her adopted city.

“At the end of the day my lower back and ankles would hurt,” said Ms. Wu, 40, a development consultant for nonprofit organizations. “I just wasn’t used to walking that much.”

Ms. Wu discussed her problem with her former yogateacher in Ohio, who made an unusual suggestion: why not take walking lessons?

Many people would have been insulted by such advice — don’t we all master this skill as a 1-year-old? — but to Ms. Wu it made perfect sense. “I hate exercising,” she said. “So I thought, ‘What would happen if I could walk properly and get a relaxed, centered workout in a city like this?’ ”

Last January, Ms. Wu and her husband, Rob Gilson, signed up for private walking classes with Jonathan FitzGordon, a yoga teacher and owner of Yoga Center of Brooklyn.

During 10 sessions over about seven months, Mr. FitzGordon trained her to walk with her feet parallel, her weight evenly distributed and her body aligned.

Ten months later, Ms. Wu still had ankle issues — she was in the very late stages ofpregnancy — but her back pain was gone and her walk had changed drastically.

Few of us think we need a course in walking any more than we’d need a course in breathing, but Mr. FitzGordon insists that most Americans don’t have a clue how to step, a problem he first noticed among his yoga students. “People would enter with terrible posture,” he said. “Then they’d do beautiful yoga, and listen to everything I said about alignment. As soon as class ended, they went straight into the bad posture.”

To help students take their practice into the street, Mr. FitzGordon incorporated walking lessons into his yoga classes, as well as teaching small group and individual sessions. His clients are mostly people who have visited doctors, chiropractors and massage therapists in search of relief for muscle or joint pain.

Under Mr. FitzGordon’s instruction, the clients try to correct their entire movement system rather than address aching knees or shoulders in isolation. “The body is like a machine,” he said. “Each part has it’s own job, and everything is connected.”

But unlike a car, the body also has the ability to compensate if one part breaks. “If you get a flat tire, you’re not going anywhere,” Mr. FitzGordon said. “But if you hurt your foot, you can limp and keep going.” Thus, the entire machine is thrown out of whack.

Dr. Keith Kolber, a neonatologist in Los Angeles who was suffering from a herniated disc, was hoping to avoid surgery when he booked several private walking lessons with Sherry Brourman, a yoga instructor and physical therapist. As Ms. Brourman watched him walk barefoot and shirtless through her studio, she noticed that he was leaning away from the pain. Ms. Brourman helped him regain proper alignment, with his weight falling on all four corners of his feet.

“Over time my gait looked more natural, and it became more easy and more curative,” said Dr. Kolber, 46. “If I felt my back was acting up, I’d go for a mile or two walk, and I’d feel better at the end because I was making the right corrections.”

Ms. Brourman said most postural problems happen when the body’s muscles don’t perform their intended job. For example, people who don’t use their stomach muscles when they walk cause strain by forcing the back muscles to compensate.

The proper move is to make subtle realignments in the rest of the body, like pushing the inner thighs back and untucking the tailbone. Such adjustments may seem minor, but Ms. Brourman admits that not everyone likes being told how to walk.

“It hits them where it hurts,” said Ms. Brourman, who is also an author of “Walk Yourself Well” (Hyperion, 1999). “People want to feel like they know how to do this.”

Dr. Steven Haddad, an orthopedic surgeon with the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute in Chicago, said exercise could help relieve certain soft-tissue problems, but warned that it could not correct a bone misalignment or deformity.

“You can’t make your bones go in different direction than they want to go in,” he said.

FORCING the body to move against its natural patterns and bone structure could even lead to deeper problems, said Dr. Susan Lewis, associate director of Women’s Sports Medicine at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco.

“If you’re pushing yourself in a place that isn’t comfortable, I’d respect that,” she said. But both doctors agreed that if the focus was on strengthening the trunk, centering your weight and breaking bad habits like slouching, movement lessons could be helpful.

Of course, learning to walk properly is one thing. Breaking a 30- or 40-year habit is quite another.

Dr. Heidi Prather, associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said people with strong yoga practices who sign up for eight or more sessions will be somewhat self-selecting in their ability to maintain, but such discipline is rare in the general population.

“Sometimes I’ll tell patients that their issues are more cerebral than physical — they need to think about how they move,” she said. “Most people don’t want to do that. They want a quick fix.”

Two years after taking Mr. FitzGordon’s program, Sharon Goldman said she couldn’t go back to her old walk if she tried. Ms. Goldman, 39, injured herself during a midlife crisis; a painful divorce compelled her to throw herself into numerous physical activities — running, in-line skating, tennis — that her body wasn’t prepared for.

For more than a year, she visited a number of doctors and physical therapists to treat the pain that ran from her legs to her neck, but she didn’t experience long-term relief until she started working with Mr. FitzGordon — in part because he spoke in plain, everyday language.

“They were saying essentially the same things, but the physical therapist would say, ‘You need to get a sense of where you are in space,’ ” said Ms Goldman, the executive editor of a marketing trade magazine. “Jonathan would say, ‘Don’t tuck your tailbone.’ ”

Ms. Goldman does not think changing her gait alone prompted her recovery. She also credited intensive physical therapy, as well as yoga and Pilates, but learning to walk was the first step. 

Business and Personal Health

Posted by Terry on 11/13/08

Wow! Much time has past since the last blog entry. Aperion has been going through many changes in the recent months. Another city will be added to it's service list: Los Angeles

Success Note: Aperion's Athletes 

Joanna Zeiger's  2008 World Record and 70.3 World Championship 

Congrats to the 2008 Hawaii Ironman Competitors 

Luis De La Torre and Derrick Delmonico

  Let's switch gears now

Refer to the Totem Pole

It represents the human being and how it vibrantly survives. Breath, Eating, Sight, Hearing, Stability, Organ Health, Digestion, Strength and Work Capacity

I like to think that Mind-Thoughts and Spirit can also be added to the upper portion. 

This is a good way to express the foundation of human life. Can any of us ignore these biological facts?

Well, most of us are clueless and pay little attention to our health and biological needs in any way.

The next segment will get deeper into the specifics of Nutrition, Hygiene, Fitness, Restoration and Lifestyle

Commitment To Excellence

Posted by Terry on 12/01/07

As we approach the New Year, I always feel a bit of sentimental reflection as we learn that the year's end it the birth of a new beginning (in terms of chronological dating). Really, life remains quite similar except it gets damn cold in NYC in January.

The feeling is more based on not being able to relive all the wonderful experiences of the past. I wish that were possible. I always seem to meet inspiring people that leave a lasting impression.

The ironic feeling for me is how my life has become a constant exercise in self discipline and excellence.

As an adolescent, I couldn't have imagined my existence being so dynamic and yet so focused on a few important things.

This excellence has resulted in amassing a usable knowledge and experience base that helps others achieve there own personal excellence.

I'm fortunate to be a messenger/conduit of inspiration, motivation and guidance in the ares of health, life, wellness, nutrition and sport performance. What supercedes this are all the people that actually seek my advice.

The graph above is my training up to now during the last year 2007.

Total Training and Racing Hours in 2007

594 hrs +/-

738,000 meters swimming

13,143 kilometers cycling

1,844 kilometers running

800 kilometers racing

150 hrs in the gym

Very Proud of my Ironman Personal Record of 8:52:19

It isn't the most training (1100 hrs in 2005) but certainly the most rewarding to date. This is tangible evidence that I commit myself to a Process that I truly enjoy.

Triathlon and particularly Ironman racing has been by vehicle to self reliance, peace, truth, personal happiness, many friendships and athletic excellence.

Excitement fills me when thinking of the possibilities for 2008 .

Cheers,

Terry

Sponsorship Thanks and Client Success

Posted by Terry on 11/29/07

Man it's been a while since the previous entry. Aperion for Life, Inc. has been making progress in the area's of Sports Performance and Wellness.

My personal success in Ironman can't over shadow the support form sponsors, friends and my dear clients. 

Sponsors:

My Bike sponsor Peter Olson www.valdoracycles.com

Bike Shoes Alana Stewart www.lakecycling.com

Training Dr. Phil Skiba www.physfarm.com

Running Shoes Danny Abershire www.newtonrunning.com 

Race Suit Richard Debrot www.skinfit.at

Chain Rings http://www.rotorcranksusa.com/

 Wet suit  www.blueseventy.com

Anne at www.hedwheels.com

Nelson Gutierez www.strictlybicycles.com/ 

 Client Success:

Mari of Saugerties, NY -Overall Health and Female Health Restoration..now persuing high peformance triathlon 

John from Greenwich, CT - Health and Restoration..Triathlete and Hedgefund Big Wig

Kola from NYC, 1st Year success. Swimming back ground, 40+ yrs old and on track for some serious race results in 2008

Jordan of NJ, NYC Investment-Capital Management. 40+yrs old .Hawaii Ironman Success first time 11:20's. Motivated for a record breaking 2008

Bill of NYC, Hedge Fund Relations. progressing from injury and on track for a powerful 2008 triathlon seasonand return to Ironman. 

Paul of NYC. Banking and family present challenges but he manages to self motivate to very strong bike performances in triathlon.

Joanna Zeiger  of Boulder, CO Pro Triathlete, Olympian and Ironman Winner. Tough season Highs and Lows of World Cup racing, IM Arizona 2nd Place, Boulder Peak Win and IM  Worlds Kona Hawaii Heat Related struggle.

Dan of NYC, Government. Will attempt his first triathlon next summer. 49 yrs old and motivated to change his health and fitness.

Amy of NYC. PR Marketing Entrepreneur has massively improved her her health and fitness with hard work, rest and dedication to learning about her body.

Tim of NYC. Hedgefund manager that I've seen progress for 5 yrs now. Roger Federer look out

Derrick of Massachusetts. Met him at Ironman Coeur D'Alene. He's working hard on his swimming and seeks a Kona Slot for 08. Great guy.

Many other consultations for athletes and health enthusiasts.

Congrats to all and I look forward to seeing the continued progress. Great inspirations and personally very rewarding for me and Aperion for Life. 

Thanks Again 

Power Reserve

Posted by Terry on 09/29/07

Power Reserve

Terry Kerrigan and Dr. Philip Skiba

Introduction:

We should probably introduce ourselves, and let you know why we are writing this together.  Terry is an Ironman pro, and is the CEO of Aperion For Life, Inc. He coaches and trains athletes across a number of sports, and brings substantial personal experience to the table. Dr. Philip “The Other Dr. Phil” Skiba specializes in sports medicine and exercise science with a focus on endurance athletes. He is the CEO of PhysFarm Training Systems. Though he coaches a small number of athletes, he primarily works as a consultant and advisor to elite and professional athletes around the world, helping to direct their coaches and trainers to design better programs. PhysFarm then uses the data gathered to design new technologies to better prepare athletes for competition.

Terry and Dr. Phil work as a tag team to train a small number of highly motivated athletes. Terry provides much of the practical advice and training progressions, while Dr. Phil provides the science, analysis, and direction. This approach has been very successful. For example, we work together on Joanna Zeiger’s training. She went from a string of tough races to 15th at the Edmonton ITU race, to 1st at Boulder Peak and 2nd at 5430 Long Course.

We are often asked about our coaching “style” or “approach.” We encourage our athletes to stop thinking in the generic wastebasket terms of  “bottom-up” or “top-down” coaching. We treat each athlete as a unique individual with particular strengths and weaknesses to be exploited or improved. We believe in applying the art of coaching to the latest science to develop a logical, evidence-based strategy that yields results time after time.

The Concept of Power Reserve:

Before we can talk about the concept of “power reserve”, we should discuss a few definitions so that we are all on the same page.

Functional Threshold Power (FTP): Coined by Dr. Andrew Coggan, this is the best average power an athlete can maintain for an exercise task that takes about an hour. It is highly correlated to the Maximal Lactate Steady State, that is, the highest intensity of exercise an athlete can perform and still maintain a constant level of lactate in the blood, rather than a continual increase. It is primarily due to the metabolic fitness of the muscles, that is, the ability of the muscles to use fat for fuel, and spare carbohydrates (which are limited).

VO2max: The maximal amount of oxygen the athlete can use during exhaustive exercise. It is primarily due to the ability of the heart to deliver blood to working muscle, as well as the number of capillaries in the muscle. pVO2max refers to the power required to reach VO2max, and is usually quite close to the best average power an athlete can maintain for about 4 to 6 minutes.

Using these concepts, we can put together an organizational framework in our minds.  If you think of your fitness as a house, imagine that the foundation of the house is your “base training” or perhaps more appropriately, your overall ability to tolerate specific Ironman training. Let’s think of your absolute best sprint power output is the peak of the roof, your VO2max as the attic, and your FTP as the ceiling. Your performance ability (race power) is equal to your height, and you mark your height on the wall as you grow. Make sense?

First things first: You need to train before you can train. What we mean by this is that you need a period of months to years of general training so that you have a foundation that can support the house. What you are doing is allowing your body to build the appropriate infrastructure to support everything you want to make it do. Put another way, as Dr. Andrew Coggan has pointed out: the more you train, the more you will be able to train. We don’t just go out and try to race an Ironman. We spend years training and racing shorter distances before moving up to the ultra distance stuff.

Once we have a solid foundation and are sure the place won’t collapse, we can move into the house and begin to “grow up.”   By performing specific training, you begin to get taller. As you grow, your head gets closer and closer to the ceiling. Eventually, you need to raise the ceiling or you will bump your head, right? So, by training in certain ways, we can raise that ceiling. But now, you have another problem…your attic space is getting smaller. To make more space, you have to extend the attic higher. Yet, this eventually creates another problem…you can’t make the attic any taller than the roof.  At some point, you need to raise the roof.

When we say “Power Reserve”, we are referring to your “headroom.”  We are referring to the amount of power you have available to you above what you actually need to perform the way you would like in the race. Practically speaking, this Power Reserve also reflects an RPE reserve.  When the roof, attic, and ceiling are high enough, you have plenty of headroom and you don’t feel cramped/stressed at your chosen race power. The goal of good coaching is to figure out the best way to improve your headroom.

For example: Let’s consider power requirement for a task vs. an athlete’s maximal capacity developed in training. The task is a 180k bike leg in about 4h30m: 68 kg athlete, good aero position, appropriate equipment. Let’s say it takes 265 watts to accomplish this task. How stressful this is, and how well the athlete will run afterwards, depends on their Power Reserve.  In other words, if your maximal ability for 180k is 275 watts, and you rode 265 watts, you are going to be shelled and will likely run poorly.  However, if your maximal ability for 180k is 290 watts, 265 watts will feel much less taxing.

There are both smart ways and a silly ways to generate that 265 watt average. You could constantly vary your power, or ride steady. Both mathematical modeling and practical experience indicates that your best bet is riding steady, with plenty of reserve, and minimizing your forays into ceiling / attic / roof territory. (However, you should also note that in very variable terrain, a more variable power approach is more appropriate.)

Developing Your Height vs. Developing Your Headroom

The important thing to remember is that the division of exercise efforts into “zones” is a purely artificial, man-made process.  In other words, exercise is a continuum where riding done at FTP not only improves power at LT or MLSS, but also serves to improve pVO2max and fatigue resistance. Likewise, riding done at pVO2max will also serve to improve FTP.  However, we think in terms of zones so that we train in a time efficient manner and can focus in on particular aspects of fitness.

Traditional training theory would have you believe that the area between LSD training and threshold training is essentially a “no-man’s land.” We have found that, at least in ultra-distance athletes, there is significant gold to be mined here. We have found that while the athlete’s headroom increases with more intense training, increasing the athlete’s height (90k to 180k race power) is best achieved by what we call directed LSD riding. In other words, the athlete does not simply ride long and slow.  Rather, the athlete rides in a directed way with extended periods of time at a high LSD / low-end tempo pace. An increase of just 5-10% results in very significant gains in terms of Ironman race power over the long term.

Why Are We Talking About Power Instead of Heart Rate?

Exercise science tells us that  (at least below VO2max) HR is the effect of, not the cause of performance ability. You select an exercise level, and your heart simply tries to meet the demand. For instance, we regularly witness HR variations in a range of +/- 15bpm at the exact same power output in Terry’s training! If we had followed a strict heart rate protocol, we would have likely over or under-trained him in a variety of training blocks and circumstances.

The problem is that HR is affected by all kinds of stresses, whether that’s deconditioning, exercise duration, temperature, hydration status, or psychological state. Too many athletes micro-manage HR as if it’s the cause for adaptation when in fact it’s a result of many ongoing changes both chronic and acute. A power meter tells you exactly how hard you are working at any given time, and allows you to very carefully monitor and distribute your effort over the course of a race to make sure you do not push too hard and blow up

The idea of gauging effort in this way is nothing new. For example, look at swimmers and runners: HR monitoring has not really infiltrated the highest levels of these sports. The best athletes have trained on the basis of pace / split times (in other words, power) and duration. The oft-cited Dr. Jack Daniels (and if you don’t own a copy of his book, turn off your computer, go buy it, and don’t read anything else until you finish it) has managed many elite and professional athletes on this basis. Power monitoring will allow you to monitor your training similarly on your bike.

 Now, this does not mean that HR data is useless. However, to make it useful, you need to use in under very controlled conditions and keep the above caveats in mind.  For instance, it is possible to look at the ratio of HR:Watts in a controlled (indoor and cooled) environment. This is a bit beyond what we can cover in this rather general article, but the point is that there is a place for HR monitoring…just not what most athletes and coaches think it is.

As A Practical Matter, How Do I Apply These Concepts?

This is purely a coaching question, and will be different for every athlete.  However, we can give you some general guidelines about our approach to athletes.

1. Know what system you are training.

Set up appropriate zones a la those developed by Dr. Coggan. You can look around on the Internet for a .PDF he authored on the subject, or pick up the book he co-authored, “Training and Racing with a Power Meter”. Dr. Skiba’s book “Scientific Training for Triathletes” also has a short primer on this.

1. Build your foundation.

“Base Training” isn’t (or rather, shouldn’t) be about just going long and slow. LSD training is important in this context, but you must always address the other systems: Anaerobic capacity (<1-2 minute power) VO2 (4-6 minute power) and FT  (>20 minute power) to optimally prepare your body for everything you will ask of it later. Pure LSD training to the exclusion of all else prepares you to go long and slow. Is that how you want to race? We refer to LSD as Long Smart Distance Adaptation, very specific power per energy system and progressing the duration.

1. Go short and fast before you go long and fast.

This is also known as “reverse periodization” or “raise the left, fill the right”.  In other words, you increase how many watts you can make, then work on how long you can make them.  Early on this may mean working on your short term power (a couple of minutes) and extending that power out to 4-6 minutes.  This raises the roof and attic.  Then, you do the same thing for your FT and later race power. You start out with a directed long ride that includes a few 15-minute intervals at race power.  Later in the season, you will extend those intervals to 20 or 30 minutes.  As you reach peak training load, you gradually cut down the rest interval. You will come to a place where you can ride at your desired race power very steadily and without great variation for many hours.

1. Don’t do anything in the race you didn’t first do in training!

This might be the most important rule. Prove to yourself you can do it in training before you try to throw the smack down in a race. If the best you have ever done for 180k is 220 watts and you try to push 260 watts, you are asking for a 6 hour marathon that will leave you praying for death. You would be surprised at how many people do exactly this. Just because you feel like Superman at the end of your taper doesn’t mean you are faster than a speeding bullet. Stick to the plan.

The Big Picture:

As you apply these concepts to swimming and running, it is important to remember the big picture. The body adapts to stress according to some pretty well defined principles, the most important of which are specificity and progressive overload.

Specificity means just what you think it does: at the end of the day, you need to run to become a better runner and bike to be a better biker.  There is very little crossover between sports, and this has been proven scientifically. (To be strict about it, there is some minimal crossover, but this is of more importance to novice and/or severely detrained athletes). Progressive overload means that you slowly overload the body such that it adapts to the new stress level.  In mythology, Hercules became strong by carrying a small calf up a hill every day.  Each day, the calf grew a little, which made his “workout” a little harder. Hercules achieved great strength through a process of overload.  He didn’t carry the calf one week and then a bull the next week. Catch our drift? You can’t do it all at once…it needs to be gradual.

But, just how long is “gradual”? We are talking years. Seriously. More often than not, athletes “overshoot” mentally. They attempt an overly ambitious training program and expect a result that isn’t in keeping with the time periods of physiologic adaptation. They think in terms of weeks, months and race seasons, when in fact it takes years (as many as 10) to come to peak ability. The results of “overshooting” are often frustration, injury and health complications. In desperation, the frustrated athlete then begins investing too much energy in things that don’t provide any proven gains. They look to enhance results with supplements, swimming aids, or special running shoes, and become still more frustrated when they fail to meet expectations.

There is no easy way. Achieving your potential is about hard work, being honest with yourself, and having a deep level of commitment to becoming your best on your body’s terms, not your ego’s terms. There is no replacement for things like a healthy lifestyle, sleep, good nutrition, and above all, patience.

Conclusion:

Above all, the most important concept we can convey to you is that your training program must be based on evidence; that is, real data. How fast can you swim 4k on a day-to-day basis in training? How many watts can you put out and for how long can you put them out? How fast can you run from 20-40k?  How about after cycling for several hours? This is what you need to know to design your training program properly, and just as importantly, how to optimally plan and execute your race. Good Luck!

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Aperion For Life, Inc. bridges the gaps between sports performance, lifestyle development, and health and wellness, providing thoroughly planned and effective solutions to fitness related challenges. Read more at http://www.aperionforlife.com.

PhysFarm Training Systems, LLC is dedicated to helping clients in amateur and professional sports achieve excellence in athletic performance through the application of the latest science and state of the art technology. PhysFarm develops custom training strategies for clients interested in lifting performance through legal, scientifically validated means. More information is available at http://www.physfarm.com .

Look for us at the 2007 Hawaii  Ironman and check back for upcoming Ironman Camps in Hawaii and Europe.

Great Kids South of the Border

Posted by Terry on 09/06/07

The photo is from a recent coaching experience in Veracruz Mexico. The are the Tri Phenix kids. They're a group of fairly priveleged and under priveleged kids that are training and competing in triathlon.

5 Star Ironman Training Camp Maui

Posted by Terry on 08/20/07

Camp Announcement!

2007 Race Results and Upcoming Schedule(Joanna's2007 Boulder Peak Win)

Posted by Terry on 07/23/07

The 2007 season is at its’ midway point. There has been a lot of good news for several Aperion for Lifes’ athletes and health clients.

Special Thanks to the newest clients:

Radhika, Bill and Kola

Successes:

John M-health restoration 10 months

Mari F- health restoration 6 months

Jordan W- personal records 2 weeks in a row for Half Ironman and Olympic Distance triathlons

Joanna Z- Winning Boulder Peak 2007

2007 Triathlon Results and Schedule for Terry Kerrigan

February

Training Camp Yucatan Mexico

March

Ironman Brazil prep

April

1st Overall Bronx Duathlon (27mph in the wind for 20miles)

May

10th in a 40k bike TT (pro field)

DNF Ironman Brazil (Bike crash…sad)

June

1st Overall HVTC Club Sprint Triathlon #1-Course Record on a very hilly bike course 20k

14th Overall 70.3 Eagleman Half Ironman 4:06:39 (Big training prior, no taper)

12th Overall Ironman Coeur D’ Alene Idaho (Lost 8th place due to leg fatigue, way off my Taper for Brazil, not enough volume in the legs)

1st Overall Boulder Beer Mile..lot’s of fun..4 x 400m and 1 can of beer per lap. 6:59 was my time. 98 degrees and at altitude no less.

July-Heavy Run Volume

1st Overall HVTC Club Sprint #2- Course record by 2 min

4th Overall Musselman Half Ironman (Broke my 90k bike course record in 2:16:03) The slow shallow swim cost me the race.

August

8/15 HVTC Club Race #3

8/26 Mossman Olympic Triathlon

September

9/12 HVTC Club Race #4

9/23  70.3 Cancun Half Ironman

October

Hawaii-Recon for our Ironman Training Camp to be held in Hawaii in February.

In addition, I’ll be supporting my 2 athletes at the Hawaii Ironman World Championships and tapering for Ironman Florida

November

11/3 Ironman Florida