malmo wrote:
Bob Prichards nutty videos are ..
"It's just like .... a toilet, as big as the Great Pyramids of Egypt, covered with 6.8 million tons of Zebra poop. You can see that it really stinks."
OK your turn to try your hand at the Prichard goofy analogies:
"It's just like .... ???"
It's just like a 9/11 inside job convention, emceed by Randy Quaid, who's wearing a tin foil hat that's the shape of Area 51 and the size of Atlantis. You can see that it's really crazy.
LooneyBin wrote:
at 7:04 into the video what did he do to increase his range of flexibility?
It looks like ART, advanced release technique. Thats just my guess. In that case, assuming there is actually some validity to this, you could save a lot of that $240K by working with your local ART doctor. I did ART for a while and found it helpful but honestly I didnt do it long it to be sure.
I think Ritz really could easily break 2:00 in the marathon.
Assuming he's in a car.
smd wrote:
Pritchard is one of those guys who raises the eternal issue: Does he really believe this bullshit, or does he know he's full of shit, and which is worse?
There can't be too many deliberate scam artists in athletics. The internet has given too many committed athletes a chance to expose obvious fraudulence. Brooks Johnson might be a clever scammer, but my guess is he doesn't have the wherewithal to plan anything as elaborate as a scam. He's a JV clown who believes that having a physical paper called a "diploma" on the wall automatically confers an education (a la the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz) or that calling a cow's tail a leg makes it a leg. What he is is a talented BSer whose sole objective is to appear authoritative. Once in control, retention of the authority is the measure of productivity and other positive results. Brooks Johnson can sod off.
(Carefully hidden somewhere in there was a subtle hint that I like to bash Brooks Johnson. See if you can spot it.)
As for the "newfangled miracle cure" salesmen - Owen Anderson, Marshall Burt, Richard Gibbens, etc. - they don't seem like deliberate BSers or con men. Though exasperatingly intractable, they probably mean well at some level. They've investigated a (relatively puny) number of options and have hit upon an idea or two that have such effective short-term applications that some impish voice in their heads screams, "Herein must lie the Holy Grail." They support the ideas with science which isn't spurious but is of extremely narrow scope (as most lab science is by inherently restrictive parameters). Unfortunately, these poor, misguided souls have enough experience in the sport to believe their experience is extensive. In reality, their limited experience renders them too shortsighted to know they're shortsighted. Runners have been refining these principles by trial and error for decades and have pretty well narrowed down how and when to use them.
Like actual "miracle cures," some of which do have a few minor medicinal properties, the "do less, get faster" principle has some effective applications - but only if it's part of a well-balanced regimen. Look at it this way - if you get suckered by Kevin Trudeau's infomercials, you might start thinking you could live forever in perfect health if you replace your entire diet with oil of oregano capsules or ginseng root. But it doesn't work that way.
[quote]Tanya Skagle wrote:
As for the "newfangled miracle cure" salesmen - Owen Anderson/quote]
I kind of feel sorry for him. When your job depends on cranking out NEW, HOT, EXCITING TRAINING SECRETS every single month for about 20 years, it must get kind of frustrating. He is a journalist, not a researcher.
... Owen Anderson
former Peak Performance reader wrote:
I kind of feel sorry for him. When your job depends on cranking out NEW, HOT, EXCITING TRAINING SECRETS every single month for about 20 years, it must get kind of frustrating. He is a journalist, not a researcher.
Ah yes, there is that. The poor guy's often been just a mouthpiece for Horwil (misspelled name intentional since he couldn't bother to spell mine correctly back in 1998), who is so much of an arch-nutter in a class of his own that I deliberately couldn't allow myself to mention him in the same post with a few "ordinary" nutters.
smd wrote:
I'm going to say the one on the flood of Americans who could break 2:00 is the best of the lot. Nice shots of Ryan Hall running up and down the outside of the World Trade Center.
http://www.flotrack.org/video/403373-Sub-2-Hour-Marathon-An-American-Record
That doesn't look like the video I have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNkv9Ibnvhomalmo wrote:
smd wrote:I'm going to say the one on the flood of Americans who could break 2:00 is the best of the lot. Nice shots of Ryan Hall running up and down the outside of the World Trade Center.
http://www.flotrack.org/video/403373-Sub-2-Hour-Marathon-An-American-RecordThat doesn't look like the video I have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNkv9Ibnvho
Beauty.
Side note: Wouldn't it be swell if what made Prichard go away wasn't the universe calling BS on him, but the rights owners of all the videos and photos he's trying to profit from going after him?
Nate Osborne wrote:
Please don't criticize that which you don't understand. You guys can joke all you want but I have actually used his innovative microfiber reduction techniques. I increased 300 M hurdle time by 4 seconds, increased by stride angle by 30 degrees and increased by breathing range by 1". Now I no longer have asthma and everybody admires my miles long stride.
You can read my testimonial.
http://www.somaxsports.com/osborneN.htm
Did you really pay $30,000?