How Fast Can the Human Body Go?

I found an interesting piece about sprinter Usain Bolt over on the London Times site. It talks about how humans might just be approaching the limit of what we are physically able to do. The Olympic 100-meeter champion lowered his record-setting time by taking 0.11 seconds from the mark that got him the gold in Beijing in 2008 with a new world-record time of 9.58 seconds this year.
“I think it will stop at 9.4 but you never know,” Bolt told the Times.
To give a little perspective about how far we've come, the world record in 1912 was 10.6 seconds.
Greg Whyte a Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moores University was quoted in the story as saying that he believes humans will reach their athletic potential in 2060. Can that be?
With the wide spread use of supplements, and even illegal drugs, are there really any limits to what the human body can achieve? At some point, there has to be a line that the human body just won't be able to cross. When that will actually come, who knows.

Check out Bolt setting the record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbjhpcZ9_g

India Cricket Coach Encourages Sex Before Games

The India national Cricket team coach tells his players to have sex before matches because it increases testosterone and leads to more aggressive play. The England team dissagrees.
Tim Noakes, a professor and sports scientist at the University of Cape Town, was quoted in the article as saying: “Sex was not a problem, but being up till 2am, probably having a few drinks at a bar while trying to pick someone up, on the eve of a game, almost always was.”
I have to agree with Noakes. Sex isnt the problem. The late nights and drinking was.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6846693.ece

Immortality 20 years away?

Interesting article in the London Telegraph. An American scientist says that humans might be able to reach imortality through nanotechnology. Talks about the use of mechanical hearts and how nanobots will replace blood cells. Its a very interesting read. I don't know if immortality is such a good thing though (but that's a whole other debate). I guess anything is possible.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6217676/Immortality-only-20-years-away-says-scientist.html

Flu and football

The Florida football team has been hit hard with the flu this week. My colleague Mike McCall wrote a nice notebook about for the Alligator (shameless self promotion). Check it out:
http://alligator.org/articles/2009/09/23/sports/football/090923_notes.txt

Cool Blog

Some of you guys might know Adam Bornstein . He use to be a student here and he even taught some of us. He works for MH now and has a great blog. Check it out: http://workingout.menshealth.com/

Hey guys,

Looks like I've been blogging just as much as I've been working out lately. Hopefully I can change that.

Here is a lik to a great Men's Health piece on how comfort food can be healthy: http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/diet_tips_for_comfort_food/index.php

Some of the stuff looks pretty good.