{"id":3675,"date":"2009-04-24T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:17:36","slug":"proper-training-and-athletic-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"Proper training and athletic success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From yesterday&#8217;s <strong>NY Times<\/strong> Finess section &#8211; a good, short feature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/health\/nutrition\/23best.html?th&amp;emc=th\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Personal Best &#8211; Proper Training Is a Critical Element to Athletic Success &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Mr. Gordon found that training, if done right, is the ultimate performance enhancer, with effects that can dwarf those of illegal drugs, like the blood-boosting drug <a href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/test\/erythropoietin-test\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Erythropoietin test.\"><font color=\"#004276\">EPO<\/font><\/a>, as well as legal stimulants like caffeine. Still, it seems, too few amateur athletes take it seriously and fewer still do it right. Exercise physiologists and coaches say most people who want to run, swim, cycle or row faster or improve in almost any sport do not appreciate what can be accomplished with training nor how to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are training programs everywhere \u2014 in magazines, books, on the Internet. But eventually, exercise physiologists say, most people need guidance from a group with experienced coaches, like the one Mr. Gordon joined, or from personal coaches.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s NY Times Finess section &#8211; a good, short feature Personal Best &#8211; Proper Training Is a Critical Element to Athletic Success &#8211; NYTimes.com Mr. Gordon found that training, if done right, is the ultimate performance enhancer, with effects that can dwarf those of illegal drugs, like the blood-boosting drug EPO, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10084,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/10084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}