Podium sweeps for ⁦Nipissing Lakers⁩ Nordic in Open and U20 Men, 1st and 2nd place podiums for U20 Women. The team is just eating up this ski racing. #LakersPRIDE

More podium sweeps at today’s Muskoka Loppet for the ⁦Nipissing Lakers⁩ today, with the skiers going long in the 17 and 30km classic distances. #LakersPRIDE

Another weekend, another Loppet! Enjoying my Loppet era these days with just under two weeks now until the Canadian Birkie 55 km event.

Dose-response Relationship Between Dietary Nitrate Intake and Nitric Oxide Congeners in Various Blood Compartments and Skeletal Muscle: Differential Effects on Skeletal Muscle Torque and Velocity. New paper by ⁦chenguang wei⁩ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39864759/

12 Truths about Endurance Training that 30 years in labs and out with athletes have taught me: fasttalklabs.com/training/seile…

NORDIC SKIING: LAKERS BONDING AND PERFORMING WELL AT THE RIGHT TIME nulakers.ca/news/2025/2/3/…

Big congrats to ⁦Nipissing Lakers⁩ Nordic OUA All-Stars, top ten overall at this year’s Championships: Brooke Ailey, Mia Smith, and Japhy-Kai Crookham. #LakersPRIDE

What a team. These varsity student-athletes made ⁦Nipissing University⁩ ⁦Nipissing Lakers⁩ proud at these Canadian National Championships. #LakersPRIDE #GoCanada

“Eliud remains a big believer.” Beet juice was big. Then it faded away. A new meta-analysis pools the evidence and concludes that there's probably a real endurance boost if you get the dose and timing (~400g of nitrate for at least 3 days) right. outsideonline.com/health/trainin…

Join us Nipissing University June 20th-22nd to set objective fitness baselines and help personalize training with! #LakersPRIDE

Skiers aged U14-U20 are welcome to our upcoming dryland training camp, structured around the new provincial standardized testing protocol. Should be fun (in a challenging way)! It is fun to do hard things. #LakersPRIDE extendedlearning.nipissingu.ca/product/Nipiss…

The #Lakers 🎿 team is excited and proud to announce the addition of Ewan Pengra. He will join the program for the 2025-26 #OUA season -> tinyurl.com/3up9zzue. #GoLakers #LakersPRIDE #NortherNUprising Nipissing Trails

It is good to see part of the team training together alongside some talented juniors, because skiers are made in the summer. #NextGen

New in SJMSS "Consensus Statements—Optimizing Performance of the Elite Athlete" Nice approach with recommendations for the key "performance optimization" aspects summarized in 19 statements! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

What a team! #LakersPRIDE

40 years of studying the training process suggests to me that human performance develops at the fuzzy intersection of "oppositions":

Curious how cardiac output, leg blood flow, O₂ delivery & O₂ extraction differ between highly-trained females and males in limiting VO₂max? And impacts of normalizing for muscle mass? We examined this using thermodilution & blood gas analyses: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP… 1/8🧵

Calling all ski racers! Registration is open for rollerski races here in North Bay, October 4 and 5: zone4.ca/register.asp?i…