As a “pusher” on the U.S. four-man bobsled team, Shaklee Pure Performance Team member and elite athlete Curt Tomasevicz knows how to expend tremendous amounts of energy in a short time—very short. “My job is 95% complete after the first five explosive seconds out of the gate,” said the 2010 Vancouver Games gold medalist. “But for those five seconds I need to pack in all the energy, focus, power, and agility I can muster.
Preparing for those crucial five seconds is now Curt’s full-time obsession. “Our routine includes six to eight hours a day of training: sled runs, squatting up to 600 pounds, bursts of sprints and pushing, and, of course, wedging into the sled thousands of times.” He added, “It takes a long time to ‘feel’ a good run, but when it all comes together, it’s definitely worth the years of hard work.”
Curt and his teammates are gearing up for the 2014 Sochi Games in February, where they will sidle up to their missile-like sled, a sleek blend of aluminum, carbon-fiber, hard rubber, and steel skids. They’ll surge through the mile-long ice chute in less than a minute, attaining speeds up to 95 miles per hour, where three of the four team members simply can’t see what’s happening—a phenomenon fairly unique in the sports world.
But what they can’t see for about 55 seconds they certainly can hear. “It’s loud!” Curt exclaimed, “Especially when all your senses are attuned to every little detail of the run. The wind noise, the gasping of the pushers, and the skids on the ice are nearly deafening. There are no Zamboni machines to smooth the track, so the knifing on the bumpy ice goes right into our helmets.”
When Curt and his teammates won gold at Vancouver in 2010, it was the first time an American bobsled team claimed the top honors since 1948. That was way too long for the American team members, who want to rule the winner’s podium not for a short burst but for the long haul.
“I have complete confidence in all of Shaklee’s products and the purity of their ingredients,” says Curt. “Shaklee allows me to stress over the competitions, instead of what I consume.”
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