To get to know our own body leads through trials and errors to finally materialize in experience
Entrepreneur Rinalds was looking for a new challenge in his life. On a trip to Portugal he saw a triathlon race poster. “I’m going to do this!” he said.” 5 years later...
Being sick or just feeling depleted?
In this text I want to look behind the symptoms of depletion that can so easily be misinterpreted as virus infection. To underscore it right from the beginning both conditions need first...
Stress is a part of our lives – who doesn’t know the feeling?
Stress is a transitional state on the edge where border physiology and pathophysiology turns into a fuzzy line, in other words it's distinction between well-being and illness becomes blurred, a familiar condition...
The response to stress is a tightly coordinated biological process
What is happening, what is going wrong? A short reflection on stress from a biological point of view. Influences on our body that threaten its balance are stress factors activating a stress...
Immune cells repair muscles
This is a short very comment on an exciting but neglected topic. The title of this paragraph I copied from the German triathlon magazine, edition "Training". I am again and again surprised...
HULA very personal beyond the exploitation of cultural values
thanks to Noelani Kalili Canon, Tis'a Moana Kalili-Wenzel & Ka’imi 'Aina Holualoa, Big Island, 2016 2016, my 13th time on the Big Island, was a very special year. After so long Kjell...
The Muscle Recruiting – Muscle Strength Model
Every muscle requires an impulse from the central nervous system for contraction. These stimuli determine how many muscle fibers are activated. You will be surprised to hear that the current state-of-knowledge has...
The acidic muscles – do they set our performance limit?
Anybody who has to do with sports is familiar with the story of acidic muscles terminating exercise. Once the muscle has gone acidic – meaning it has slipped into an oxygen deficit...







