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Boulder Center For Sports Medicine

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Boulder Center for Sports Medicine

BCSM has been providing World Class Sports Medicine services since 1998. With a staff of nearly seventy, the center provides Physician Clinics, Medical Evaluations, Physical Therapists, Fitness Evaluations, Sports Massage, Fitness Classes, Coaching, Sports Science Services and Testing, and advanced 3D bike fits. Known for working with the best Athletes in the world, BCSM believes “If You’re Active, You’re An Athlete” and it is their mission to provide world-class sports medicine to everyone who seeks it. They are well known for helping athletes prevent injuries, rehabilitate current injuries, improve performance and help maximize athletic potential. Most BMCT members enthusiastically receive various services. Founder Andy Pruitt Ed.D., PA, is a current Vic's Espresso BMCT team member, along with teammate Neal Henderson who is the Director of Sports Science at the Center.

Boulder Community Hospital
Boulder Center for Sports Medicine
The Mapleton Center
311 Mapleton Avenue
Boulder CO 80304
Phone: 303-544-5700

The Centennial Professional Building
400 S. McCaslin Boulevard, Suite 210
Louisville CO 80027
Phone: 303-926-2665

more on Andy Pruitt

Fit specialist Andy Pruitt recently featured on CyclingNews.com

The right fit: Shaping Saxo Bank

excerpts from CyclingNews.com article: Tech feature, February 3, 2009

". . . Comfort, efficiency and performance all matter when it comes to joining rider to bike. The Specialized BG FIT system is being used by the entire Saxo Bank team this season, and represents a significant undertaking by the ProTour squad. Cyclingnews' Shane Stokes watched several key riders undergo the sessions at the team training camp in Portugal.

" . . . The Specialized BG FIT (Body Geometry Fit Integration Technology) process is part of what its exponents would say is a more holistic approach. Led by Dr Andy Pruitt of the Boulder Centre for Sports Medicine, the methods comprise a biomechanical assessment, on-bike analysis and modification of equipment and position to arrive at what they feel is the best possible balance. It utilises video cameras, computer software, limb-mounted sensors plus the expertise of people like Pruitt, a sports physician for 35 years

read the full article here cyclingnews.com - really interesting

To arrange a bike fit from the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine in Boulder, Colorado - call and speak with Avery Marzulla to arrange a fit from Andy Pruitt or Sean Madsen.

VO2 Maxing to the Max

Making pain is the name of the game: a morning at the Boulder Center For Sports Medicine in Boulder, Colorado.

Usually we push ourselves into that zone, for whatever reason, to tag onto a passing wheel, to bridge the gap, to reach the city limit sign first, to crest the summit ahead of the pack. But to do it because someone tells you to – well that’s just plain craziness. Yet here is Vic’s Espresso teammate Christy Orris voluntarily getting ready to follow instructions to go into the pain zone. Christy is at the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine having her LT/VO2 max levels tested.

Why you ask, to place a numerical value on pain. To make it real and measurable. To gain knowledge and become a better cyclist. To create a history and aid in creating a detailed training plan for her cycling year ahead. We are lucky enough as cyclists to have expert physiology testing available to us nearby at the well known Boulder Center for Sports Medicine. The staff at BCSM are highly trained, the equipment state of the art, and the facility professional.

I dropped in this morning as Christy was receiving a Lactate Threshold (LT) test, a measure of a maintainable “hour of power” as our teammate Neal Henderson, who is also the Sports Science Manager at the Center, had taught us to think of it. Tagged onto that test was the daunting VO2 max (maximum oxygen uptake) test, both were administered by Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Paul Kammermeier who offered guidance and monitoring throughout the tests.

Christy offered these comments after the testing, “just did my lactate/VO2Max test today. I did not meet with Neal yet so I have no idea how I did. I do know my finger hurts after getting pricked 10 times. It was hard to be motivated for the VO2 Max. You can bring your own music to play. I recommend putting in a song that pumps you up for the test. I think it would have helped me.”

Goes to show you a rider can enter that zone when personally motivated or by happenstance when going too hard, but getting there when someone tells you to – well that’s just plain craziness.

For more information on LT/VO2 testing from the best visit the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine it will make you a better cyclist. Read more about LT/VO2 Tests and Sports Physiology.