14th in the tough 35-39 AG, Brad Phillips finished...


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In the January 26-27 Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates wrote an article titled, "My Plan To Fix The World’s Biggest Problems – Measure Them!" The take home message was: without feedback from precise measurements, any progress is destined to be “rare and erratic.” Gates writes, “You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal.”
Over the years, I have come to appreciate a restful, meditative style of yoga called Yin Yoga. Yin is practiced “cold” without warming the muscles. This allows you to bypass giving the muscles a stretch, allowing you to target the deeper connective tissue - fascia, ligaments and tendons. 
As we wrap up the 2012 season, I wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who is part of the ECo family. I was very impressed with how hard the athletes worked this year, how open the athletes were to adapting to new training, and how well the athletes performed. ECo athletes are part of a group of incredible athletes who have chosen to train wisely, work hard, and redefine their limits. The results speak for themselves.
In the October 1996 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Izumi Tabata showed that a high-intensity intermittent exercise or High-intensity interval training (HIT) protocol had better aerobic and anaerobic improvements than long-duration endurance exercise (1).

