Season in Review: Part 2

We continue looking through the training log for the 2019-2020 ski season to give you an in depth look at what it was like. If you want to see the overall numbers and data, you can below: Week 5 Sunday – AM – 1hr45 min CL ski along the Mining Roads – deep snow PM […]

Seder-Skier Podcast Episode 5 – Donald Trump vs. Pelosi vs. Randy Moss.. in his prime –

Who would win in a 5k race on the track between Trump, AOC, Pelosi, Ben Shapiro, James R White, Randy Moss in his prime, and Eminem now? We let you know what the race would look like….how much would you pay for that race to happen? Also, we talk some other hypotheticals that might interest […]

Seder-Skier Podcast – Ep. 4 – Zach Caldwell joins!

Zach Caldwell of Caldwell Sport joins us on this edition of the Seder-Skier podcast. If you want to better understand what goes into making a ski fast and how you can find the right ski for you, then you NEED to listen! If you enjoy learning about the science of ski construction, the history of […]

Seder-Skier Podcast Episode 3

Ryan Sederquist gets confused trying to interpret a couple of scientific studies, plus we reveal the sports which made it into the 64-team bracket, “The Hardest Sport in the World.” Relationships between body composition, body dimensions, and peak speed in cross country sprint skiing (2010) – Stoggl, Enqvist, Muller, Holmberg Control of Speed during the […]

Season in review: Part 1 – Fall

I originally intended on posting all of the contents of my journal and training journal. I’ve decided however, to give some of the training details as well as some “brief” thoughts and reflections. Hopefully, for those who enjoy an inside look at a serious athlete’s day-to-day life, this will prove to be edifying. In that […]

What is the Hardest Sport OFFICIAL BRACKET RELEASED

hardest sport bracket Did the selection committee do a great job? Are they just trying to create controversy with matchups? Will it matter? Shovel Lake resident and rational thinker Tom Sederquist will be on Ep. 3 of our podcast to give a break down and help you fill out your bracket.

Study guide for our last podcast….Where are we at in the present research relating to strength/weight and power/weight relationships in skiing and cycling? Read on!

These pages provide the backdrop of scientific research relating to strength and power measurements as they relate to specific biological processes and measurements (i.e. Vo2 Max, body mass, surface area, etc.). Through reading it, you will discover the need for future research in the sport of nordic skiing in using allometric scaling in measurements of […]

SederSkier Podcast Ep. 2 – We read fan mail, answer a couple of questions, and then talk about my thesis

Here it is – episode 2 of our Sederskier podcast. We promised we would get into discussing some hardcore scientific literature and we followed through by tiptoeing around the subject of strength/weight relationships and double pole performance. More specifically, what is the correlation between upperbody strength/body mass scaled allometrically and double pole performance on flats […]

Who are your Thessalonians? Part 2

Please read part 1 of this 3-part message before reading this section. So, you are convinced now to invest fully in the people around you, and you desire to bring them to a saving faith and relationship with Christ. … now what? How do you do this? Point number two of this three part series […]

What is the hardest sport?

Dan Cole, sports talk show personality on the Minneapolis based KFAN radio station, often reminds his listeners that he has “not only 4 years of college eligibility left, but 2 of high school as well.” Considering his own admission of a lack of intellectual prowess, I should not be bothered by some of his opinions. […]