Learn new sports
CrossFit has a definition of fitness, called Fitness in 100 Words.
- Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.
- Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.
- Five or six days per week mix these ele- ments in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense.
- Regularly learn and play new sports.
This year, I’m going to try something I haven’t done before… racing bikes. You say, “but Eric, don’t you do triathlons and duathlons and stuff?” To that, I say, yeah, but it’s not really racing bikes. You can’t draft, there’s no paceline or peloton, it’s you and your bike, an individual effort. I want to try racing a road bike with other people around. It looks fun (until someone crashes).
So on November 1, I’m going to do a Team Time Trial at the Tour de Gruene, with my buddy Rich (who has no blog… so I can’t link anything to him. we’re working on that). Lance rode this last year, and I think he’s coming back this year, so it’ll be awesome to see that. I just hope we can maintain about 22mph average for the 27 mile distance… we’ll see!




