That’s especially the case after Zach Randolph turns in one of his better performances on the court that remind Grizzlies’ teammates, coaches, fans and opponents that nothing’s changed about his game. Now at age 35, there’s no denying that Randolph is entering the final stages of his career.
However, age has never defined Randolph’s effort. He’s had an ‘old-man’ game since he entered the league as a 19-year-old acquired by Portland in the 2001 NBA draft. But there have been days in recent weeks when Randolph would head off the court after games, dip into his locker, reach for his cell phone and thumb across the screen through multiple text messages.
The concoction isn’t listed on the menu, known only among fitness-conscious customers through word of mouth. About 10 years ago, at the request of a CrossFit partner, its creator plopped it down on a table and said, “Man, that’s a bowl of doom.” The name stuck.
It consists of sweet potato hash, half an avocado, two eggs and a choice of protein ranging from wild salmon to rib-eye steak. But Noah Syndergaard prefers his with applewood smoked bacon, venison and buffalo.
“That’s primarily what my diet consisted of this offseason,” the imposing righthander said Sunday, when pitchers and catchers reported to Mets camp.
Four months ago, Peter Budaj was schmoozing on the floor of Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif., scribbling autographs and snapping pictures for season-ticket holders. Dressed in his black No. 31 Reign jersey and dark-blue jeans, Budaj had posted up at a table near the penalty boxes. The line to meet him stretched along the boards, wrapped below the goal line, and then doubled back up the zone, some several hundred strong. No other player at the event, team officials remarked later, would attract a crowd even half that size.
They had good cause to flock. In 60 games for the Los Angeles Kings’ AHL affiliate last season, the bushy-bearded Budaj—pronounced BOO-DYE, abbreviated to Boods—led the league with 42 wins, nine shutouts and a .932 save percentage, ultimately earning the Baz Bastien Memorial Award for best goaltender. He backstopped the Reign into the conference finals, earning esteem from fans for his sturdy play and sociable personality alike. It is indeed telling that, upon learning the subject of a reporter’s inquiry, the receptionist at Ontario team headquarters practically squeals with glee. “Peter?” he says. “What a freakin’ boss.”
Recovery from exercise refers to the time period between the end of a bout of exercise and the subsequent return to a resting or recovered state. It also refers to specific physiological processes or states, occurring after exercise, which are distinct from the physiology of either the exercising or the resting states. In this context, recovery of the cardiovascular system after exercise occurs across a period of minutes to hours, during which many characteristics of the system, even how it is controlled, are changing over time. Some of these changes may be necessary for long-term adaptation to exercise training, yet some can lead to cardiovascular instability during recovery. Further, some of these changes may provide insight into when the cardiovascular system has recovered from prior training and is physiologically ready for additional training stress. This review focuses on the most consistently observed hemodynamic adjustments and the underlying causes that drive cardiovascular recovery and will highlight how they differ following resistance and aerobic exercise. Primary emphasis will be placed on the hypotensive effect of aerobic and resistance exercise and associated mechanisms that have clinical relevance, but if left unchecked, can progress to symptomatic hypotension and syncope. Finally, we will focus on the practical application of this information to strategies to maximize the benefits of cardiovascular recovery, or minimize the vulnerabilities of this state. We will explore appropriate field measures, and discuss to what extent these can guide an athlete’s training.
The key to working better, sleeping better, and feeling better could be rooted in the design, maintenance, and operation of the buildings where we spend the majority of our time, a new Harvard study has found.
The national study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE) and SUNY Upstate Medical, is the first to show that working in high-performing, green-certified buildings can improve employee decision-making using objective cognitive simulations.
Researchers looked at 10 high-performing buildings in five cities across the United States, including Harvard’s double LEED Platinum Blackstone South building. The team collaborated with the Office for Sustainability (OFS) and Harvard Real Estate to use Blackstone as a “living laboratory” to study the relationship between building conditions and occupants’ productivity and well-being.
WHEN ATHLETES COMPETE on the big stage for medals, the performance we see is the culmination of a detailed training programme.
We all accept that graft is required to succeed but the minutiae of their preparation remains something of an unknown to those of us outside the world of high performance sport.
Whether it’s a dash to the line in a 100-metre sprint, or an endurance run on a cross-country circuit, the work invested in every facet of their preparation is precisely tailored.
Baseball scouts are quick to point out that places with year-round warm weather — the Dominican Republic, Florida, Southern California and Texas — are hotbeds for Major League prospects. But that does not discourage young players in the dead of the New Jersey winter, where the fields of dreams are industrial hangars with fluorescent lighting, artificial turf and mesh netting to protect the windows.
Where New Jersey seems to have an edge is in the number of professional players and former pros willing to train alongside the kids. For example, advising the young batters of Toms River is Todd Frazier, a graduate of Toms River South High and current Chicago White Sox third baseman, who hit 40 home runs last year. (Mr. Frazier has two brothers, Charlie and Jeff, who also played pro ball, and they each have their own training facilities.) In a backyard shed in Forked River, the proper grip for a changeup is demonstrated by Mark Leiter, who pitched for 11 years in the majors. And every now and then this winter, high school prospects hoping to train like the pros can work out with Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout, a favorite son of Vineland and the reigning American League M.V.P., widely considered the game’s best player.
Gianluca Busio strolled into the Sporting Kansas City training facility late last summer, one of three planned stops in his search for a new team.
He was greeted by Sporting KC constituents, who ushered him around the premises, using the fields, locker rooms and dining hall as recruiting tools. In the ensuing hours, Busio concluded the visit with a dinner at a Kansas City restaurant and a tour of the city.
“The way they showed me around that day, I felt like I was a star,” he said.
Within a week after the visit, he spurned offers from two other Major League Soccer clubs in favor of settling in Kansas City. A Sporting KC staffer referred to the agreement as having the potential to be one of the club’s most significant moves in 2016. “It could be a game-changer,” he said.
In the beginning, it was a way to sweat out the poison.
The morning skate, which was created some time in the 1970s and might now be on its deathbed, was essentially a curfew. It forced players to reconsider whether they would stay up late the night before a game drinking at a bar. At the very least, it gave the night owls a chance to work off a hangover.
“If you knew you had to be at the rink in the morning and there was a coach you had to answer to, yeah it would certainly make you think twice before partying all night and having booze on your breath the next day,” said Hall of Fame forward Darryl Sittler. “I certainly wasn’t one of those guys.”
For three decades, Joseph Baker has been swimming, cycling and running in triathlons some would call punishing. Baker, 47, is also a professor of exercise sciences.
As he competed in races as a younger man, he would watch people of all ages alongside him, and he soon became fascinated with the parameters of human performance. Why could some 70-year-olds compete in triathlons and some got winded walking up a flight of stairs?
He wanted to know whether age decline is a result of simply getting older or being sedentary. In other words: Are we racing against time, or are we racing against ourselves?
Major League Baseball plans on testing a rule change in the lowest levels of the minor leagues this season that automatically would place a runner on second base at the start of extra innings, a distinct break from the game’s orthodoxy that nonetheless has wide-ranging support at the highest levels of the league, sources familiar with the plan told Yahoo Sports.
A derivation of the rule has been used in international baseball for nearly a decade and will be implemented in the World Baseball Classic this spring. MLB’s desire to test it in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League and Arizona League this summer is part of an effort to understand its wide in-game consequences – and whether its implementation at higher levels, and even the major leagues, may be warranted.
Long before he was a Baltimore Oriole, Dylan Bundy was one of the best high school pitchers scouts had ever seen. In 2010 as a high school junior with a low-to-mid-90s fastball, the then 17-year-old carried his Owasso (Okla.) High team to a state runner-up finish, throwing 293 pitches over three games in four days as the Tulsa (Okla.) World noted at the time.
It was completely legal by Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association rules. Those rules allowed a pitcher to pitch up to 10 innings in any single day or a complete game, no matter how many innings that game lasted (Dylan’s older brother Bobby pitched 13 innings in an extra-inning game in 2007 (also noted by the Tulsa World). While Dylan Bundy’s run with Owasso ended up one win short of a state title, fellow future big leaguer Dillon Overton was carrying Weatherford to a 4A state title by throwing 19 of the 22 innings Weatherford needed during the playoff run.
Coincidentally or not, both Bundy brothers and Overton have had Tommy John surgery since.
The 2016-17 NBA season has been entertaining one with the majority of teams in the league still fostering hopes for the postseason. As usual, injuries have influenced the standings as poor health has kept several contenders from solidifying their place in the standings and forced other would-be playoff teams closer to the lottery. Through 41 games the NBA has collectively lost a total of 2,052 games to injury or illness and over $189 million in salary. The total is slightly up from last year’s numbers at the halfway point but still lower than the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons.