BG: You’ve talked about your work after a jump session. What about your preparations before a competition? Are there specific things that you’re doing to prepare for competition through your medical and nutritional approaches?
BW: Yep. My body is really sensitive to food. From an Eastern philosophy approach, different foods create warmth and cooling in the body. I like to try and warm the body up for a competition. So, I eat foods accordingly. For example, lamb is a really warming meat so I’ll make lamb jerky often. When I eat lamb, I notice that my body feels a little bit looser, a bit more warm—more internal heat. From a dietary standpoint, I like to eat a lot of calories and make sure I am well-fueled. I want to make sure my fuel is topped off and stay with foods that don’t cool me down. I couple my nutrition with therapy. I don’t like ice anymore—my body doesn’t like it. I used to do a lot of cold baths. I understand the theory about how ice creates constriction and then it creates a pump. If I use cold at all, it is in contrast with heat. A lot of times before I go to a meet, I’ll take a really warm bath trying to open up all the tissues in my leg and lower back. I’ll try and sleep through the night making sure all of those tissues are opened up. Then, the day of the competition, I just try to stay warm, stretch, and stay limber. more
In Monday action at the U.S. Olympic Trials, UCLA alumnus Dustin DeLeo and rising junior Mike Woepseboth qualified for the June 28 final in the pole vault. DeLeo tied for eighth (17-4 .50/5.30m), and Woepse tied for 10th with the same height clearance. At 17-4.50, DeLeo was unsuccessful on his first attempt but was successful on his second. At 17-8.50, DeLeo could not clear on his first attempt and then took two passes. Woepse cleared 17-4.50 on his third attempt, then at 17-8.50 he was unsuccessful on his first attempt and also took two passes
Pole vaulting: Olympic event since 1896. Pole dancing: Olympic event starting in 2016? It’s not out of the question. Last year, the Pole Fitness Association circulated petitions to get the dance form into the 2012 Summer Games. Alas, the IOC must have deemed pole dancing more Las Vegas than London because it did not make the cut. But the campaign goes on. Pole dancing may still conjure images of strip clubs for many, but these days it’s actually more about health clubs. The sensual dance is commonly called “pole fitness” or “vertical dance,” and there are more than 500 pole dancing fitness studios across the United States. “Nowadays there are very few who are training to perform in a strip club,” Anjel Dust, an organizer at the California Pole Dance Championships, told LA Weekly last year. “It’s all about fitness or competitions. There is no longer the stigma. I think pole dancing is being seen more as an art form.” That may well be true for Anjel Dust, but for now the IOC is standing firm. Pole dancing — with its connotations of seedy night clubs and half-naked women – has been lobbying to be accepted into the Games for a few years now. Other than a name change, pole fitness (or vertical dancing) may have more work ahead to tone down its sexy past to make the Games 
