Welcome to the website

 

This website provides you with ready access to work that I have done over the past 35-plus years in the realms of health and wellness in general, and exercise promotion and the sport of triathlon in particular.  This work has been addressed to both academic and public audiences.  On this page, below you will find a direct link to the "Ordinary Mortals Guide to Triathlon,” available for purchase as a download, and a direct link to my most recent column for the USA-Triathlon Blog.  Above there are four links: to my biography (by clicking on “Steven Jonas”); to brief descriptions of a number of my books, with direct links for purchasing them; to a set of articles of mine, separated into four groups, by place of publication (they are primarily regular columns of mine on regular exercise, the sports of triathlon and duathlon, and more generally on health, wellness, and preventive medicine); and finally “Presentation Notes” for talks/seminars on several different subjects that I have offered at a variety of conferences over the years.  Clicking on a particular article title will take you to a PDF of it. 

I hope that you will find the site to be of interest and use.   Go well, “the other” Dr. J.

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Books


Health, Wellness & Fitness

Multi-sport Racing

 
 

The Ordinary Mortals ® Guide for Getting Started in Triathlon and Duathlon

$2.99

You're thinking about doing your first triathlon or duathlon, or you’ve done a couple on a lark and now want to get more organized in the way you are going about it. But you've heard that it's really tough to train to get into and stay in multi-sport racing, that it takes a lot of time, effort, and energy. Well, this inexpensive Guide shows you just how you can get into and stay with the sport, while dis-spelling all those rumors about how tough doing so is.

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Articles

 

 

In this section I offer a selection of published articles. The sub-sections are organized according to where the articles have been published, followed by the all-encompassing “Academic + Other.”  I write a regular column for the USA-Triathlon Blog.  From 2006 through 2012 I published a regular column for USA-Triathlon Life, the quarterly magazine of USA-Triathlon.  My columns appeared under the heading “Ordinary Mortals®: Talking Triathlon with Steve Jonas.”  That series came to an end when the magazine was down-sized at the end of 2012.  They are to be found in the “USA-Triathlon Magazine” section.  It was replaced by the aforementioned monthly column for the USA-T Blog in 2013.   I was Editor-in-Chief of the American Medical Athletics Association Journal from 2002 through 2015.  For the AMAAJ, I wrote both a “Message from the Editor” feature (they were editorial comments) and an occasional series entitled “Talking About Training.”  They are both listed below under “AMAAJ” For each selection there is a link to the published article/column.

 

From USA-Triathlon Magazine: Ordinary Mortals®:
Talking Triathlon with Steve Jonas

In this section you will find all of the columns that I published in the quarterly magazine of the national governing body for multi-sport racing, USA-Triathlon, USA-Triathlon Life. They ran from 2006 through 2012, when the magazine was downsized and most of the columns were eliminated. Each column is downloadable from the website in the PDF format

From the American Medical Athletics Association Journal

In this section you will find a selection of the columns that I published in the American Medical Athletics Association Journal, going back to 2000. I was its Editor-in-Chief from 2002 to 2015. In most issues, I published an editorial on a topic of current interest in sports medicine/athletics or in the broader arena of health promotion and disease prevention, under the heading “Message from the Editor.” Also, intermittently I published a regular column entitled “Talking About Training,” in which I did just that. Again, each column is downloadable from the website in the PDF format.

Academic + Other

This section contains a selection of academic and popular articles on health, wellness, sport and regular exercise that I have published in other journals and magazines.  There are also my two published articles on the pathogenesis and natural history of HIV/AIDS. Again, each one is downloadable from the website in the PDF format.