Health - Arnold Method

My Legs Could Always Rest Between Sports. My Mind Never Got a Turn.

by Arnold | Jul 29, 2026 | Sleep, Health, Training

A nervous system rest day looks nothing like an ordinary rest day, and for most of the last two decades as an amateur endurance athlete, I didn’t know there was a difference to look for. Even after I became a cycling trainer myself, I still thought of training...

The Thousand-Year-Old Cooling Trick I’d Already Rebuilt Without Knowing It

by Arnold | Jul 26, 2026 | Health, Sleep

Cross ventilation for sleeping sounds technical. It’s really just two open gaps, one high and one low. On a hot night in the van, I don’t seal it up the way instinct says to for bugs or security. I crack the roof vents — mosquito-netted, so bugs stay out —...

The Noise Outside My Camper That Wasn’t a Bear

by Arnold | Jul 23, 2026 | Sleep, Health

Trouble sleeping in a new place isn’t really about the place. I’d found an empty parking spot in a limestone canyon in Slovakia, right next to the stream that carves it — a short drive, an easy training day, nothing that should have cost me any sleep. Then...

Everything Bends Except the Clock

by Arnold | Jul 20, 2026 | Health, Sleep

Every plan for a solo trip is provisional except one: a consistent wake up time, and the bedtime that goes with it. I check the forecast the night before I leave, aim for somewhere within about a thousand kilometers where the temperature sits near twenty degrees, and...

The World Championship Night I Was Sure Was Already Lost

by Arnold | Jul 14, 2026 | Sleep, Health, Training

There was no parking near the hotel, so I carried everything I owned for the next three days up a wet street by hand, in rain that hadn’t yet decided whether it was going to be the storm or just the warning for it. Every decent hotel near the start line in...

Cooling down before a hot night

by Arnold | Jul 5, 2026 | Sleep, Health

Sleeping in 28°C: What Heat Actually Does to Your Sleep Ten years ago, a night on the Danube that didn’t drop below 20°C by sunrise was rare enough to mention. Air conditioning belonged to city apartments, mostly the higher floors. This year some nights...