(February 7, 2019) – Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN) SOLOS™ Smart Glasses and CTS are teaming up in 2019 with a new partnership that will provide CTS coaches, athletes, and training camp participants access to innovative, high-performance SOLOS Smart Glasses. This partnership will bring together a company at the leading edge of performance-enabled wearable technology with …
By Mara Abbott, Olympian and CTS Contributing Editor “Most of what I do, I don’t consider to be a ‘workout’, but more like the fun of the day,” my dad told me last week as we discussed his post-retirement athletic adventures. As an incurably goal-oriented competitor, and also his daughter, this carefree quip was both …
By Mara Abbott Olympian, CTS Contributing Editor Last week, a friend sent out a distress cry on Facebook. She had been scheduled to do a long run, but her body wasn’t having it. “I did not expect to feel like I wasn’t going to make it through the run. I did not expect …
I have always been a morning person, up with the sunrise or before and raring to go. My friend and longtime co-author, Jim Rutberg, is a night owl. He does his best work in the afternoon and at night, and we work best together when we honor each other’s chronotypes. Recent research suggests there could …
By Mara Abbott, Olympian and CTS Contributing Editor Beginning of a New Year? Goal setting time. This year, however, my goal stretches far beyond 2019. My goal is to be in it for the long haul. I’ve realized that I’m on the downward slope of performance in my athletic career. I may be younger than …
(December 12, 2018) – Boyd Cycling and CTS are pleased to announce a strategic partnership beginning in 2019 that will give CTS coaches, athletes, and camp participants an opportunity to train with Boyd Cycling’s high-quality, hand built wheels. This partnership brings together a leading endurance coaching company with an innovative craft wheel manufacturer to help …
By Mara Abbott Olympian and CTS Contributing Editor By now, I hope many of you are deep into your D40 challenge. If you missed out and haven’t started yet, it really isn’t too late – you could still either commit to a pro-rated version to boost your fitness before the New Year, or extend your own …
December is a terrible month for fitness, but we’re going to change that this year. Athletes miss more workouts in December than any other month. It’s not that surprising, really. There’s a lot going on between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. People are traveling, there are parties, the days are short, and the weather can get …
Athletes put a lot of stress on our bodies, to positive and negative effect. Training stress stimulates adaptation and increased performance, but physical trauma and prolonged wear and tear also lead to injuries and pain. Current methods of pain management are effective, but they’re also killing people. In search of improved sports recovery and safer …
By Andy Jones-Wilkins CTS Ultramarathon Coach Last week, at a meeting I attended with an experienced group of educational leaders, the topic of discussion eventually centered in on a very basic essential question: “What three things — skills, attributes, temperaments, whatever — do you want your students to graduate high school with?” The facilitator, knowing …