POSTED // Oct 28,2009 - For example, you really don't want to get shin splints, which make the front of your shins hurt like heck. Jim Walker, Ph.D., the sports science director at...

POSTED // Oct 21,2009 - Weather is iffy at this time of year—cold on some days, rainy on others...

POSTED // Oct 14,2009 - In tough times, there may be even some die-hard skiers who are reluctant to pay just for the chance to look at equipment.

POSTED // Oct 7,2009 - The early frost may have put a quick end to the prettiest part of fall, but there's still plenty of mountain biking left in the season...

POSTED // Sep 30,2009 - Want to see men and women getting really, really close to one another with all their clothes on?

POSTED // Sep 23,2009 - There are two kinds of training every athlete needs to do: concentric and eccentric. Concentric is the kind of muscle contraction that happens when muscle fibers shorten, as in lifting weights.

POSTED // Sep 16,2009 - Sometimes you've just got to drop the discipline—take a break from training and pushing your body at the gym and playing the games at work...

POSTED // Sep 9,2009 - Dusty Hanks still gets tons of mileage out of the time a woman tipped him a $20 with her phone number on the bill...

POSTED // Aug 26,2009 - Every mountain biker knows what it's like: You start up a steep knoll, only to lose it halfway up. Your bike slides backwards, you slide with it and land in ...

POSTED // Aug 19,2009 - Every athlete knows that cross training is an important part of conditioning...