Day 8 - Dorm life with Ian Dobson : Speakers & Interviews

come on now and lets not be dumb about this....

A) If someone was on something do you think it would be broadcasted over the internet....doubtful
and
B) you're on the internet, stop being lazy and google what they are
You're the man ian! keep doing what you do

This guy is class personified. Hanging with Jen Rhines and Sara Hall might not be the worst thing in the world. And he always has the CA red wine for the lonely moments.

This is such a cool video. I love seeing the houses of elite runners and getting to see what they eat and drink. It would be awesome to be able to see other runner's houses as well.

He makes the most of what he has in that tiny dorm room and he's doing fine.This just goes to show material things are just that. Material. And i'm sure he has a lot of time to focus because of that.
Good luck the rest of the summer Ian!

should i take testoboost and im 16

link to all his supplements and stuff... testoboost (increases testorone) he uses some growth hormone thingy.. weird stuff, iunno how 1 can take all this in 1 day.

https://www.mdplusstore.com/listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=55

nice video

Gaz de France meet is on espn classic right now.

Anthony...great name. And right on about the vitamins.

Now, onto the supplements. There is some scientific literature out there in really crappy journals from about 30 years ago, that shows if you take a leucine amino acid tablet, that your GH increases. You can, in fact, infuse a few different amino acids into the blood and see a transient increase in GH. You can do the same thing with several other amino acids to get a small transient increase in testosterone. Having said that, "testo boost" and "gh boost" are likely just amino acid pills, which probably cite those old articles but do not contain enough of any amino acid (or likely, wont get the amino acids into the bloodstream quickly enough) to increase circulating GH or Test levels. Supplement labels are NOT REGULATED in their claims of action or potency, except they may NOT indicated that they can cure or treat a specific disease.

Anthony is right in his analysis. People need to do some reading up on exercise physiology and it will reaffirm what he wrote.

It's ok Layne, c'mon out of the "pre lives" closet.

I guess I shouldn't assume that Ryan, Sara, Jen, and Deena take the supplements too but he does say "we take a bunch of stuff from this company called MD+" so by him saying we, I assume he means his training group.

I actually want to find out more about these supplements if they are legal, which I assume they are at this point. I agree, I don't think Ian would show them to just anyone if there was any doubt. It does appear that their group takes these so I guess we can assume that mean Ryan, Sara, Jen, and Deena as well. The MD+ website claims they are legal through WADA and also lists those that are fine for NCAA. Of course, you can say whatever you want on supplements.

It is good for those regular runners and those of us not necessarily working with the elite to see what the elites are doing beyond their running that may also be contributing to higher performance. I assume "boosting" what you have naturally, both GH and Testosterone, is Ok as opposed to adding additional by taking HGH. The prices for those supplements are a bit out of the range for your ordinary runner, at least for my wallet.
How did you know I wear shoes made of tire rubber and newspaper? Never had a Pre t-shirt though.

Anthony, how dare you come in here and challenge ill informed opinions with well thought, well written, facts? This just won't do!

Thanks for the reply!

Andrew-Taking an average multi-vitamin a day on top of eating a proper diet would be hardly detrimental. Most multi-vitamins only contain 100% of your daily needed doses (based on a 2,000 calorie diet, which, for an athlete such as ian dobson is a very inadequate amount of calories) of your water-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin C, B12, ect.). Any excess of water soluble vitamins your body will urinate/sweat out. They're harmless except in EXTREME amounts. The fat soluble vitamins, such as Vitamin K and Vitamin D, often aren't 100% Daily Values; they're less in a vitamin. Excess of these vitamins are stored in fat, and can become toxic if in excess, although it would still take a lot of them. More to the point, 100% Daily Value for an average person isn't 100% Daily Value for an olympian.

It's awesome that he would let Flotrack in to see all of that. How many of you would let Mark just take a camera right up to your room? Good-luck in that 3k Ian!!

Andrew - Great point. Where did you get your nutritional information from? Sadly many athletes either don't, can't or won't eat a balanced meal. However, he was taking one multi, a veggie powder, and then a couple of supplements. I also think it's common knowledge that one of the challenges of racing in Europe (have you ever done so? I have) is maintaining or finding the proper diet.

Wow way too many supplements. If you have any sort of a respectable diet and you take a multivitamin then there is a pretty good chance that you are getting a toxic amount of some vitamins. A lot of athletes have the "more is better" attitude when it comes to vitamins and minerals but it can be detrimental.

good luck out in beijing ian, you deserve it!

Mark, C'mon, you know heroes like Layne and Josh only drink water and struggle with a 'balanced' diet. That's all tough guys like them need. They wave off sports drinks and have their own mixture of water, some table salt and the tried and true chocolate milk for recovery. They feel that any supplements are suspect. Hell they even make their own shoes out of used tires and recycled newspapers. They are pure runners. The only 'fake thing' they wear is their "pre lives" shirts!

That being said - in seriousness I can see where the eyebrows could be raised regarding the names of the supplements. However, I highly doubt Ian would be taking any natural supplement without checking to make sure they are legal.

Missed it the first time but he also mentioned GH boost. Growth Hormone Boost? I am guessing that there is a difference between boosting/enhancing your natural GH and Testosterone and supplementing with additional GH and Testosterone? Is that what these Boost products are doing.....supposedly?

This website is one of the best things to happen to the sport.

Hell yeah caffeine before a workout.....what's your point?

Now the Testo Boost.....a sure sign that this will wind up on Letsrun!

and he acted a little sketch bout those pills.

caffine before workout? hmmmmmmm.

is someone chewing gum? that's really annoying

Testo Boost?

Dang, thats a lot of pills

Think about it average shoe lasts 400 miles for the average person. That is about a month per shoe for some of these guys, perhaps even less. Now with anyone doing consistent mileage that number drops closer to 350 and is aided by alternating shoes every other day to let the foam reset. So if you are someone like Ian or Craig running say 15+ miles per day, and maybe not alternating shoes, you maybe get a 250-300 life span (also because he can with his sponsorship) well there you have it 25 or more trainers in a year easy. Now imagine the non-sponsored runners out there, doing that kind of mileage, thats 2500 a year just on the trainers.

Video of Day 6?

Do you just leave the building to go out on steady runs? Like running downtown Leeuven?

If you've every seen the Big Mazungo vid of Craig Mottram on youtube, it says he goes through something like 83 pairs of shoes in one year.

He can't run in the same pair of shoes for over a month? Does that mean trainers? Wow, must be nice to have a sponsorship and run in brand new shoes every month.

that was cool and interesting

That vitamin part was actually very helpful.

Let's see a tour of Sara's pad!

nice