Here's our 1969 school cross country team. No fat, just lean teenagers with a load of talent and energy to burn. Any one of them, me exclu

Injuries are part and parcel for an athlete and not all injuries happen during training and competition.

I am aware of the use of steroids by a couple of schoolboy rugby players in the Wellington Region but that was a few years ago. I doubt the

"E" has sprained her foot really bad. Recommend treatment? That looks painful! The first thing that she needs to be doing is getting her l

Remember, folks, you are the ones who are paying for poor physical therapy by way of your ACC levies that taken out of your wages and

"When you say you need to drink heaps what’s the temperature there.. assume hot! Do you use electrolyte drinks in training at all?

After suffering a serious cervical spine injury the author outlines what he is doing to reduce the risk of further damage.

I've decided to defend my UCI Masters 65+ Mountain Bike World Championships title to be contested at Mount Saint Anne, in Quebec, Canada this August. The fl...

When you have done a whole lot of deep tissue massage on a whole lot of people, you know that the ability to handle pain varies enormously from one person to...

Well, I have had two goes at winning the UCI Masters Mountain Bike World Championships and come up short each time. The first was in Norway three years ago ...

A wonderful example of detoxification in action! Image: Charlie Smith and Grant (Axe) Rawlinson (foreground) struggling to haul in the anchor while rowing fr...

Photo: Digby Shaw My latest foray, on Sunday, into the New Zealand Cyclocross Championships, was a pleasing success. Hosted by the enthusiasts that make up C...

Im very proud of my son Kelvin. Here are some videos of him in action. His strength, skill, determination and the smart way he destroys his opponents is imp...

A great athlete is, first and foremost, a very healthy person Kayla wrote: I believe anyone competing at the elite level of sport cannot be deemed a “normal”...

Here is some motivating running nostalgia from the years when New Zealand was a running power house (released 1979). I get a little teary-eyed whenever I wat...

This is typical of what I eat for breakfast: Free Range Eggs from our neighbour's parents who live up the Coast Black Pudding from Island Bay Butchers Free R...

At least it was not a Trabant I was overcome by a mix of joy and sheer exhaustion as I crossed the finish line to take second place in the world championship...

Developing winning form and a winning attitude for the April 2017 World Masters Games Mountain Bike Championships and the June 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World C...

Image: For Lorraine Moller, four times Olympian, and winner of multiple international marathons, and other races, including the Boston, London and Osaka mara...

Image: Gary with another podium finish Most of our regular readers, customers and patients will know that I've set the goal of winning the UCI Mountain Bike ...