Wholistic Fitness

Here i am, nearly dead on my bike, after another year-of-my-life-subtracting-effort in Death Valley while setting a new Course Record at the 500+mile race. the only drugs i used: SUNRIDER WHOLE FOOD HERBS, just like always! i race natural cuz i need to know that my podiums were gained by ME, not some chemical!

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I have done my best throughout the years to produce visible results across the widest physiologic spectrum of National and World Class Sports one human can possibly achieve – without drugs. yet, my unmatched results and Balanced, Healthy Approach goes largely unheard at the world level of sports. Instead, many pro athletes succumb to Outer Directed Worldly Pressures and take all sorts of chemicals to produce podium results.

When i was an editor for Rocky Mountain Sports & Fitness Magazine, i would write publicly and often about alternatives to taking steroids or other performance or recovery enhancing drugs. Today, a huge Drug Scandal ripped out cycling’s two greatest stars; Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich the day before the start of the Tour de France; cycling’s shiniest event.

why does cycling always gotta take the black eye of drug abuse while other international sportspeople that compete in sports like bodybuilding, tennis, strongman competitions, football, basketball, and baseball just get their hands slapped?

i mean, it’s a sad, sad thing when BASEBALL players feel so impotent about hitting a dang ball that they have to shrink their nuts in order to look like Big Man on the Diamond.

i mean, how go(o)d does it REALLY FEEL to look at a trophy that you “won” while knowing it was not your NATURAL INNER SPIRIT that achieved the Podium, but rather the drugs within you?

photo by Heidi Snell Photography
{Coach Ilg crosses the Finish Line at the top of the 40+ Podium last month; the only performance enhancing matter in his body? SUNRIDER HERBS and BioBuilde® Amino Acids!}

the very moment an athlete takes a performance enhancing drug, all spiritual merit is lost.
you didn’t win SHIT.
you wussed out and took drugs.
all Bardo Training; wiped out.
there ain’t no EPO allowed in the Bardo, baby.
you gonna come back as a fucking syringe needle and be jabbed into someone else’s ass.
serves you right.

Having said that…
if the Governing Body of International Professional Cycling don’t have the Tests to positively ‘convict’ the individual riders…
then let the motherfucking cyclists RACE!!?!?!  
why yank the sports two biggest stars out of the biggest event the DAY BEFORE THE TOUR DE FRANCE!?!

jesus.

you know, Arnold once told me after i asked the King Of Bodybuilders about drug use in Bodybuilding,
“If all the drugs went away,
the guys on top of the podium would still be there…just smaller.”

true story…as many of you know, i was a Bodybuilder, Bodybuilding Judge, and emcee of contests. i know ALL about what goes on backstage of not just bodybuilding competitions but all sorts of sports.

Arnold has a great point.

If drugs were wiped out of pro cycling, the Lances and Jans would still be on top of the podium…their average speeds would be lower.

personally, i know from Direct Experience that those 3-Week GRAND TOURS (Tour de France, Tour of Italy, Tour of Spain) are essentially superhuman feats. there are tons of guys druggin’ just to stay in the race, not win it. why not shorten the stages to something REASONABLE;
instead of 130 miles every day…
cut it in half; race 60-80 miles each day.
keep the Time Trials.
add another Rest Day or two.
make the Event more human
and perhaps,
more HUMANS would not feel so pressured to take drugs to win or compete in it.

then again,
that would force sponsors and the economic drivers of the sport to actually honor the athlete’s…HA!
now THAT’s FUNNY!

i cranked off a 1 1/2 hour bike ride with my local bros; Chris and “Sensei” Bob. we climbed 1,200′ in 13 miles and averaged 19.4 mph…lemme tell you, that was PUH-LENTY fast for me! Chris came up with a conspiracy theory; The French Connection; he thinks that the French are so goddammned sick and tired of NOT WINNING their own race that they are just like, “Fuck it, kick out the foreign winners…let’s return this race to France!” gotta love Chris.

basically, it all comes down to the WF Philosophy and my quote which i first uttered back in the late seventies:

“Racing is not about winning, it’s about ourselves.”

so,
let’s spin to win; WITHIN!

love you guys for choosing the Wholistic Way…it’s gonna pay off in the Bardo…what else really matters!??!

namaste,
coach ilg

winner/TOUR de GILA
winner/Sandia HillClimb
winner/Furnace Creek 508
New Mexico State Road Racing Champion