HEALTH and NUTrition
By Jaclyn Boland
Ryan Halmer was on a backpacking trip when he ran out of water.
By Maryhelen Mackin Chadwick
If you exercise outside during the winter, can you get enough sun exposure to manufacture the vitamin D you need?
By Jaclyn Boland
Most first aid kits you can buy come premade, are convenient and take little work. But making a first aid kit homemade can have its advantages.
Rub your friends the right way with these basic techniques
By Mike Schiller
Instead of digging out the ibuprofen after your next outing, Kenn Howard wants you to consider Vitamin T.
Get out while avoiding heat-related illnesses
By Jaclyn Boland
When Krissy Moehl ran the Western States 100 in July, it was an especially hot day on top of the stress of an ultramarathon.
What's the deal with added sugars?
By Michelle Anderson
If you read ingredient labels on your trail food, you may see sugar used to sweeten your snacks.
Good shoes and socks, frequent foot checks should do the trick
By Mary Reed
We’ve all been there before: a blister so painful that one more step seems impossible.
If you do get it, it's very treatable
By Mary Reed
The only thing my friend Brian will do outside is golf. He calls golfing “outdoors lite” and attributes this affliction to an earlier one: he got Lyme disease
By Mary Reed
It’s the night before your big running/biking/climbing/whatever event – you need to get up before dawn and it’s already 10 p.m. and you’re way too excited to sleep.
By Mary Reed
You’ve honed your training regimen and you closely watch your diet. Now, what about dietary supplements – vitamins, minerals and amino acids?
By Mary Reed
You see it on many food products you buy – a nutrition facts panel. But when’s the last time you actually read one? More importantly, do you know what you’re reading?
So avoid it - here's how
By Mary Reed
I once went snorkeling on an 80-degree day; the water, however, was in the 70s, and when I came out, I just couldn’t warm up.
Resolve to develop routines and keep records
By Randy Edwards
Those extra pounds from cookies and eggnog may not be troubling you now, but come spring, they’ll feel like tons during the final stage of an off-road triathlon or on the steepest hills in a bike ra
By Mary Reed
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD – great acronym, BTW) is the clinical condition of wintertime depression – something that primarily affects people who live in dark, cold, winter climates.
What to sweat and what not to sweat
By Michelle Anderson
This year in Beijing, Olympic wrestler Daniel Cormier became so severely dehydrated he ended up in the hospital instead of on the mat during competition.