Slightly off topic, but thanks to Zippy for this story. Please note that this"Sumo" was a poodle from France and not a poodle from Japan. "It is worth remembering when you feel like mauling someone, go for a run. You always feel better after a run than before!" Coach Prince Quote.
Former French president Jacques Chirac was rushed to hospital after being mauled by his own 'clinically depressed' pet dog.The 76-year-old statesman was savaged by his white Maltese dog - which suffers from frenzied fits and is being treated with anti-depressants.The animal, named Sumo, had become increasingly violent over the past years and was prone to making 'vicious, unprovoked attacks', Chirac's wife Bernadette said.
As a Coach I discovered that red wine is very important to distance runners in 5k events, but increasing in importance up to marathon. As a poodle from Sapporo I do not drink red wine, but do indulge in my local beer. Anyhow my opinions are backed by science as well as my own empirical observations as a coach:
“High doses of a compound found naturally in grape skins and red wine can improve muscle endurance in mice, and the compound also keeps them slim, a new study shows.
The effects of resveratrol are so pronounced that endurance athletes may one day take it as a performance enhancer, experts speculate.
Johan Auwerx at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology in Illkirch, France, and colleagues placed mice on a high-fat diet. Half of those mice received daily amounts of up to 400 milligrams of resveratrol per kilogram of body weight. A person would have to drink about 100 glasses of wine in just one day to obtain a similar dose of resveratrol, Auwerx says.
After three weeks, the mice on the resveratrol supplements weighed only about 20% more than mice on a standard diet. But those on the high-fat diet that did not receive the supplement weighed 60% more than the control mice. The resveratrol also improved the rodents endurance in fitness tests, and seemed to have no toxic side effects.
Mice on the high-fat diet that also took resveratrol were able to run twice as far on a treadmill as those on the same diet but without the supplement, even after the animals' weight differences were taken into account.”
Coach Prince’s tips from working with my Master are:
· If using red wine for performance, drink the same heavy quantity every night, otherwise one risks the downside benefits of binge drinking.
· How much should the athlete drink. This depends on the weight, genetics, experience with alcohol. I have trailed my athlete between a half bottle and two bottles a day. His personal bests have been achieved on one bottle a day, including on day before race.
· If upping your uptake of red wine, always adhere to the 10% rule which is capping your increase by only 10% in any one week.
· The downside in this is that if one is training in the morning, or morning and evening as many elite athletes do, extreme care has to be taken. It takes 12 hours and extra sleep to recover from the red wine tonic. It requires runs to be performed at lunch and in the evenings if as assumed, one drinks in the evening.
I am a genius toy poodle from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. I am a bad boy rebel renegade running and triathlon coach. My personal running distance as a runner myself is 217M which is 1 x Ebisu Park, Tokyo. I hold the world record. I am a devotee of myself, and sometimes the great Coach Romanov and his POSE running. I am founder of my own triathlon technique called the Prince Method®. Above is my pupil running in Argentina. This blog is written to counter all the other books on Tri and marathon that say the same things. I hate Crufts.
My name is Prince. I am a Tri coach, a poodle dog, a living demigod and very handsome. This site gives tips on running, swimming and biking as well as news and true race reports for my coached athletes. 90% of this site is true and serious, but sometimes my dog narcissistic imagination runs a little amok. I am world famous for being the first coach to advocate red wine as a legal performance enhancing drug.
