August 2010:When triathlete James Lawrence first tried ASEA, it was a true test—he was already in great physical shape. “It’s a little different going into it in peak condition. Of course, an unhealthy person is going to feel a change. But for me, it’s hard to tell slight differences,” James says.
In fact, at first James didn’t believe a word of what he was being told about ASEA. So he didn’t just rely on waiting to feel a difference. He went over to the local university to do a VO2 Max test. Then he used ASEA for six weeks and went back. “I went at a steeper incline and a faster pace, and did it with a lower heart rate,” he marvels.
It was just the kind of benefit that appealed to James. He’s not your
average triathlete who trains for one event and accomplishes it. James is going for a world record: completing more Ironman 70.3 competitions in one calendar year than anyone in history, and he’s doing it to raise awareness and funds to build water retention dams in Kenya.
Right now, the world record stands at 20, and James is closing in on it. Guinness is tracking him; he’s already completed 12 this year. “I’ll break the record at the world championships in November,” he states. His total for 2010 will be 22.
Breaking that world record is something James has been told time and again that he can’t do. “I’m taking on the hardest endurance discipline, and doing it over and over again,” he explains. “I’ve been told I can’t, that I won’t recover, that I’ll get injured.”
But in July, after James had just completed his tenth event of the year with ASEA a part of his regimen, he observed, “I posted my fastest time, 10 events into my season. Explain to me how that happened. Something is there.”
Now he doesn’t dare stop taking ASEA. “It’s definitely worth it,” he says. “I don’t want to chance going off it.”
Source: ASEA Connect, August 2010.
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