fitness

intellectual honesty is pretty rare, there is always a motive or agenda. when the topic is drugs the judgemental types always recoil and offer stupid platitudes. good journalism on the topic isn’t hard to find, but it’s still often shunned and almost never reflected in public policy. an honest effort by Sam Harris titled, Drugs…

so, we went climbing because the tv cameras came out. a crew from Belgium found the climbing blog via the “boosting” news stories. they chanced the weather for mid October but we got lucky, very lucky. that’s what I remember most about any of our big climbs, constantly checking the forecast leading up to the…

Winter has been pretty kind with sunshine thus far, but the rain is coming. Days where I can’t wheel on the seawall, I do more “pulls.” Getting ready for climbing the chief climbs I spent hours on this simulator at home. (see notes on performance boosting) After many versions, I’ve come up with the ideal…

Here is a short video of us testing the elevation wheelchair with the disk brakes we designed. This project has been both frustrating and rewarding. The tiny details add up quickly. The disk brakes require a bit of extra chair width, and this can be deal breaker for most users. It can make getting into…

So this happened.. I was interviewed on a topic other than climbing and/or boosting on Maureen McGrath’s radio show. I couldn’t help but talk about boosting and autonomic dysreflexia, but they are in fact, very much related. I chopped out the segment I’m in, following tips for premature ejaculation, and posted in here. I think…

I was recently interviewed here in Vancouver about the boosting that will be going on in the coming paralympic games. No one actually participating in these events would ever discus performance boosting obviously, so Sky News in London found my blog and got in touch. They wanted to know how it works and “is this…

About bloody time I say. Please no more of the warm and fuzzy videos of Paralympic games. They are just vomit inducing — like Michael Bolton singing kind of bad and don’t do the athletes justice. Finally the marketing people are getting it. These athletes are simply bad-ass. They work hard for years to get…

update: personal best for distance in a day with hills. I call this ‘red route four’, and going over the bridge this way is a brutal left arm workout. It’s finally summer and I am happy to trade in the computer screen radiation for sunshine. After all the rain I am loving the evenings on…

I’ve been paid to write about computers and sensors, make graphs etc.. But this is the first thing that has ever been peer reviewed.  Here I was given a chance to, “tell it like it is”, to some out of touch scientists! Joking aside, there is some things about science that I very much dislike….

These are a few videos we made with Dr. Elliott(sexual health doctor) discussing sperm retrieval and vibro-stimulation with Dr Ip (family doctor). This is basic information for quadriplegics that are going through rehab and want to avoid dangerous Autonomic Dysreflexia while being sexual. More here on TED

Candice explains how a paraplegic and a quadriplegic differ in exercise response.

As part of the Annual CSEP Conference, I was invited to give an hour talk on our rock climbing efforts. Presenter 2: Brad Zdavinsky (VerticalChallenge.org) •Overcoming Obstacles: The Story of a Tetraplegic’s Drive to Beat the Odds and Challenge Beliefs in His Pursuit to Climb (15:00-16:00) (not my title) My slides as a PDF (NOTE:…