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C.R.A.S.H.-B. 2011 World Indoor Rowing Championships

I’m in! I will be competing in the 2011 C.R.A.S.H.-B. 2011 World Indoor Rowing Championships to be held Feb 20th in Agganis Arena at Boston University.
I have been rowing on a one of these machines for winter workouts for years. And a couple of years ago I got on the Charles River and rowed in [...]

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Anthony, Zach, Derek, Dan & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Ted Berg and his friends Anthony, Zach, Derek and Dan are off on an incredible adventure riding for 3 months across the southern tip of south america. Ted is a great guy, a former Americorps volunteer and now a highly valued employee at Healthcare for the Homeless Program (where my wife Carole is director of [...]

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Guest post: Art Boulet

This is a guest post written by Art Boulet. Art is married to my niece Liz Hohl Boulet. Art is a grad student at Princeton Seminary and is the coordinator of the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project, which works on translating and publishing all of the dead sea scrolls. He is (now!) an avid runner and [...]

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Winter workout routine

Many people ask me what my normal training routine is that sets me up to ski, bike and swim the amount I do at the level I do (with one leg and one lung of course). I am writing this for people who are either working out themselves and want to compare notes or for [...]

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PMC 2010

PMC 2010 is in the history books. It was #8 for me and #6 for my wife Carole. We worked hard again this year to train for this event. Getting physically ready for these events is a huge challenge. I have to get my one lung and arms and cardiovascular system in tune for the swim [...]

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Swimming is Fantastic for the Lungs

Lung Physiology — How the Lungs Work

The lungs are divided into lobes; the left lung is composed of the upper lobe, the lower lobe and the lingula (a small remnant next to the apex of the heart that doesn’t really count), the right lung is composed of the upper, the middle and the lower [...]