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The ultimate bike

  The ultimate bike is a hybird between your road bike and a tri bike setup Or your tri bike and a road setup ...............HUH? ................Cervélo was perhaps the first bike manufacturer to peg one of its bikes as having a dual personality: flip the seatpost in one direction for a more road bike-like geometry and general training, or rotate it the other way and install some clip-on aero bars when your local triathlon comes to town.  Redshift Sports Switch Aero system – first look  By James Huang    for Bike Radar  Published: June 3, 2013 Upstart company Redshift Sports promises to add that same capability to nearly any road bike with its new Switch Aero system, which makes the conversion much faster and easier with no tools required. Unlike reversible seatposts that need to be partially disassembled to make requisite setback changes, the Switch Aero post instead uses a clever parallelogram-like linkage.  In the rearward position the post provides a rather conventi
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A gold Star for your effort - Hello Fall 2020

 So  did you manage to get any fitter during Covid summer 2020?  Or were you like me- busy buying fitness equipment,watching a lot of movies  and soaking up enough sun to make it through winter? Oh and one more thing - since you brought fitness equipment are you eating smarter and getting more rest? Well, I have been working out - as a trainer I have to do something! Experimenting this summer with different workouts since there is no longer access to metal machines  and  pools. Body weight is a trend. Core never went out of style. Kicking and punching a double bag. Rollerblading!! Walking of course. Doing 16 minutes of step ups - not step class! Calisthenics - ie. push ups/ sit ups and hoping you can progress to the parallel bars at the Park. Class in the Park- Outdoors. TRX. Zoom meetings. Skyping.  Duo app phone calls. Remote working. Making instructional videos. etc.  Some of you finally  actually having time to  workout from home got a new perspective. I also heard about better sel
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Getting Beach Ready

The  plan for this semester is saving money and  Getting Beach Ready    by Margo Belton  Originally From  My column for the Brooklyn College Kingsman) October 9, 2009 Photo by  Samuel Silitonga  from  Pexels Guess what!??  You can eat nutritiously on campus. How do you ask? PLAN!!! No kidding! How much money do you think you spend on fast food at the Junction? A whole lot of money. Try this for a week instead: Don't buy anything you couldn't prepare at home. You say you're too busy, huh? What are you a Chemistry-Mandarin major? You only have time to study, to go class, study some more, and sleep? How will you feed yourself after you graduate and make the big bucks? I'm appalled by how many people don't know how to cook. You don't have to know how to cook to eat nutritiously on campus. Here is the experiment: 1.Make a list of your favorite foods on Sunday. 2.Go over the list on Monday and categorize your list as follows: meat, fresh vegetabl
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this is fun - Eliana Jalai 's Backyard Full Body Workout with Dynamic Warmup for COVID quarantine

when a trainer likes another trainers workout- you know its good! Eliana Jalali   on You Tube  Eliana Jalali 31.8K subscribers  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OylFN7Osl5GoIE-HKE2cg2X-Usar3Yrj/view?usp=sharing
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What is safe or Organic and good for you? (From My Columns at Brooklyn College Kingsman)

By Margo Belton originally for Brooklyn College Paper The Kingsman September 25, 2009 What is safe or Organic and good for you?  Knowing something about the source will enable your decision on how to proceed...or not. It all started when a Psychology and advertising student at one of my lectures started yelling me “It is all a government plot!!” (She feels that we are being poisoned.) I told her it is not that bad yet. There are studies,   valid and verifiable studies being conducted on food as medicine, super foods and cancer, brain plaque formation and sugar intake, etc. Many of those studies are being conducted in countries where they still do things the old-fashioned way- grow food in the front yard garden. The science about our food sources are still in the infancy stage and more are needed. The funding in the United States may not emerge until after this recession. In any case, that does not stop you, dear reader from doing a little research on your own. I
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