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Friends, Today 17 runners participated in the Sweat Study at Heritage Park, Powai from the Strider group. Coach Nagesh was there and he was most helpful. The protocol had been already circulated and most the runners knew what was involved in it and were quite efficient about it....

ACSM’S Position Stands on Fluid Replacement The American College of Sports Medicine ( ACSM  ) is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. With more than 45,000 members and certified professionals worldwide, from around 90 countries around the...

Friends, I was in Bangalore yesterday the Sunday 13th of May to carry out the Sweat Rate study. This study was done along with Runners for Life ( http://www.runnerforlife.com  )  as part of the fortnightly runs they organise. Sunday morning saw me set the alarm at 2:45. But when...

Folks, Yesterday and today were a weekend of accomplishments for us doing the Sweat Rate study. Saturday 5th we did the sweat rate study at Sports Authority of India at Kandivili in Mumbai under the aegis of Nike Running Club a venture of Runners for Life. We had 12 of the most...

Last Saturday Savio, one of India’s most acknowledged International marathoners and a coach to so many seasoned veterans took the sweat rate study himself along with his many runners. He clocked in at 1.20 ltrs and in so many decades of running he had never known what his...

Friends, Today we did a study at Navi Mumbai where one of the runners had kindly consented to use of his flat for purposes of the study. Runners could weigh themselves in privacy and the study went off well. In all 14 runners participated in the study today taking our cumulative...

Friends, The next session of the SWEAT rate study is  being done at Nerul in Navi Mumbai. Organized by the Navi Mumbai Runners group, Mr Swaminathan has kindly consented to lend us use of his residence for the study. Time: 6 am Location: C 1411 Meridian Apts Nerul, Off Palm Beach...

On Sunday last, 25th March, we did a small test pilot of the protocol. It was intended to be a trial run. A full dress rehearsal so to speak. Everything went off well…the runners, the protocol, the logistics and the Research Assistants were all there. What was very...